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AI dementia

THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE.

Betting the house with other people’s money, and then profiting when everyone else loses. Where have I seen this before?

But if I have to pick one, definitely China

After he’s done blaming Musk, he’ll blame everyone else

When the economy tanks, and he’s done blaming Musk, he’ll blame everyone else

The Trump Playbook

Blame:
1. Immigrants
2. Media
3. Woke Agenda
4. Biden or Obama or any Democratic leader
5. Liberal Elite
6. Muslims
7. China
8. Mexico
9. Victim
10. Republican Party

*Important: change target whenever marks catch on. Always double down.

Odds that Schumer et al made the right move? I mean, didn’t it seem like they wanted a shutdown, and were salivating at the prospect of inflicting more pain on the federal workforce? Wouldn’t the courts have been hobbled as well?

What DOGE is doing is the opposite of governing.

Tragedy of the commons, writ large. But, in Hardin’s parable of sheep grazing in the meadow, they’re regulating access by selling the land and killing the farmers.

When did great become the opposite of good?

I think the paper demonstrates the existence of DK while also applying a simple boundary model (note the s-curve). Of course, “more research is required” to figure out the cause…

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Emoji poll!

If you feel hesitant to speak out about politics/science, what is stopping you?

🦋 = I feel like I don’t know enough about how social media works

⌚️ = I don’t have time

🏫 = I worry my institution won’t stand by me

🎓 = I worry about my credibility/being viewed as “having an agenda”

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And apparently 80% means “nearly unanimously”

“It takes,” says Thoreau, in the noblest and most useful passage I remember to have read in any modern author, “two to speak truth—one to speak and another to hear.”

Thanks

Thank you!

I honestly have no idea how this works, or if it works, or what it means, but I’m going to use it everyday, say a lot of stupid things that will be misinterpreted, and then hate myself for it.

“It takes,” says Thoreau, in the noblest and most useful passage I remember to have read in any modern author, “two to speak truth—one to speak and another to hear.”

“Discourse”. Hahahaha

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Paying my tax now.

Sorry, but in the Venn diagram of all possible replies, it seems like guys shouldn’t even bother.

Narrator: that was the point, reply guy.

Agreed. Except for Molly Ivins, an exception that no longer applies :(