I’m not making the connection between what you are discussing and the story here.

I’m not sure you read what that person wrote correctly.

Trump has already directed the removal of language saying Taiwan is NOT independent (pissing off the Chinese) and is trying to scale back the CHIPS Act (making us more dependent on Taiwan). Putting those two things together with this “deal” for Ukraine, it feels to me like he is setting us up for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan where he can make a similar “deal” with Taiwan where we protect them in exchange for 50% of their chip making profits.

getting the marriage license took about five months, and it was only valid for six weeks.

That sounds about right for government efficiency.

they should’ve used Alibaba/Qwen for their other markets, too.

Which would get them banned from all government use. Smart call.

Man, I had almost forgotten about that bit of absolute lunacy. I had just switched from working F9 certification to Vulcan cert when that happened, and I’ll just say nobody I worked with was surprised they blew up another one.

I absolutely do not believe this. It sounds to me like they are trying to act like they are enemies again while they work in the background to take control of everything.

His voters wouldn’t care.

It took me a few reads of the headline to understand it.

His post was emulating the excuse people use when they are trying to deflect away from something obviously bad. The state of Israel will refuse to say that what Elon did was antisemitic or an actual Nazi salute. They will talk around the subject and say it wasn’t ACTUALLY the Nazi salute, just him being exuberant in the moment. Or they will point out that the salute was around in Roman times and isn’t actually an antisemitic salute even though Hitler used it, just like people will point out that the swastika is an ancient symbol from Hinduism so it also isn’t antisemitic.

He was agreeing with you, basically.

I’m pretty sure they understood your point… not sure you got theirs.

They make very good donuts, too.

And those voters would still vote for Trump. They will claim their hardships weren’t due to Canada’s tariffs but due to California having too high of taxes and not giving them enough water.

They released info to shareholders last week that showed an 8% drop in year over year sales… and yet the stock went up. Maybe people expected the drop to be even higher, so the drop was already priced in?? But it just feels like there is market manipulation going on.

The people in the blue states already do speak up and rally against Trump. It hasn’t helped in the past and won’t help in the future, partly because they don’t have any power under the Electoral College, partly because it makes Trump voters double down, and partly because red states see it as a good thing to be doing something that makes blue states angry. They will happily harm themselves if it also harms liberals.

Your last point is true, though. There are more Trump voters in CA than there are in some large number of red states combined.

And don’t you dare jerk off while out backpacking.

Congrats! We’re not dual citizens, so it’ll be tougher for us; but we are looking at ways to possibly move there or France.

Did you finally make the big move? I know you weren’t sure about being able to afford it.

That sounds high.

Regardless of how OpenAI procured their data, I’m absolutely shocked that a company from China would obtain data unauthorized from a company in another country.