If you flip the perspective and each time consider for whom this and everything else he has done have been great successes I think you will begin to see a pattern.

My guess is that none of that is the point. The point is likely that he somehow manages to easily funnel all this tariff income to be under his control to be spent on what he wants or redirected to his personal wealth. Both its source and where it is 'promised' to be spent are immaterial.

@scripting.com you might want to try Simon Willison's "llm" tool for interacting with LLMs from the command line datasette.io/tools/llm

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It looks as though, ironically, population density is largely inversely correlated with how dense the population is.

Here's the first reference I can find in my own blog, referencing Doc's coining of the term: ashleyit.com/blogs/brenta...

I don't have that problem with Perplexity. I find it to be very good as a summarizing search engine and it never acts chummy like ChatGPT. You may find it worth a try.

And they're technically naked because Hi-Viz and Camo cancel each other out.

(Don't Fear) The Reaper was just on the radio, and it's always a disappointment now straining for the whole song to hear the cowbell that isn't there. They really need to rerelease it with strong cowbell in the mix.

It's looking like it's only a matter of time before Americans will require exit visas to travel.

Sorry, I came here late and missed the setup. So these three guys walk into a bar, and then what...?

Even better, set it permanently in the site settings for that site and it will continue to work without affecting other sites

Just turn off Javascript temporarily and load up the page. It loads the whole article but then hides it, so without javascript you will see it all.

Something I found interesting about reading this thread is that it made me wonder how many people think of ChatGPT as primarily a tool for writing things for you

I use ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini possibly 100+ times a day and NONE of those uses are to produce writing that I then share with other people

I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.

For me it's Concord Grape Kidney Stones, and the former causes the latter!

If he is still describing all of Trump's actions as failures then he hasn't yet shifted his perspective to realize for which agenda they are all resounding successes. He's not a failure at all for those whose goal is the disintegration of American society and its world power and trustworthiness.

“Stay the course. Follow the plan.”

How long before you need an exit visa?

It’s only a War Plan™ if it comes from the War Room region of the Pentagon. Otherwise it’s just sparkling unclassified policy discussion.

Not only survive but thrive I believe.

If our leadership really captures the opportunity here - we have the chance to truly lead in “what’s next” while the US is distracted trying to piece their government and supply chain back together.

Why do the Romanians have a large sign with a photo of the Governor of Russia's Amerika Oblast on it?

It's only proper to start referring to Trump by his earned title: Governor, Amerika Oblast.

sorry for the stinky link but it's the only one I have:

x.com/airmainengin...

There is a good video of the landing. Came down hard on the rear wheels, had rolled a bit to the right, looks like the right gear collapsed and the ensuing flameout accelerated the roll.

Build Kubernetes (K8s) Framework - part 1 Do you want to dig a little deeper into how to build a Kubernetes cluster? Maybe learn the what it takes to manage a full K8s framework? Well, let's dive in..

Lots of good advice here on building a production-grade high availability Kubernetes framework. Looking forward to the followup articles.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/build-...

I'm soooo glad that Elon was able to find 19-25 yr olds with deep COBOL chops to perform precision updates to Treasury code.

I've been told I have a self-sunsetting sense of humour.

Nerdy escape room: a single keyboard.

Solution: <esc>:q!<enter>

While I agree that the logistics of almost realtime targeted advertising beyond reasonable reach, I do feel there is some use of recent transient conversation context used for searches on the same device. I've been noticing this for at least 10 years now: ashleyit.com/blogs/brenta...