It’s really not though… it looks closer to some random, amorphous shape I’d draw up for a DnD one-off than an actual country. If I were asked to draw Nigeria from memory, that’s probably pretty close to what I’d come up with, but just Google how it actually looks and you can see the differences immediately
Jesus fucking Christ, it’s like they’re TRYING to embarrass our entire nation from every single department possible. 10 years ago this would’ve amused me more than anything, even if only slightly. But now? Everyday is just another brand new stupid example of our own incompetence with somewhere around a 50/50 split between embarrassing and infuriating. I’ve never been a gung-ho, America-first, capital-P “Patriot”, but I never would’ve even conceived that we would sink so low so quickly; every new rock-bottom simply becomes a new surface-layer to be strip-mined of any remaining shred of dignity, empathy, and humanity
Jesus fucking Christ, it’s like they’re TRYING to embarrass our entire nation from every single department possible. 10 years ago this would’ve amused me more than anything, even if only slightly. But now? Everyday is just another brand new stupid example of our own incompetence with somewhere around a 50/50 split between embarrassing and infuriating. I’ve never been a gung-ho, America-first, capital-P “Patriot”, but I never would’ve even conceived that we would sink so low so quickly; every new rock-bottom simply becomes a new surface-layer to be strip-mined of any remaining shred of dignity, empathy, and humanity
You say it’s just in the hostory books, but unfortunately for me, I see one almost every time I drive anywhere longer than 10 minutes. It’s entirety possible I’m seeing the same guy more frequently because we live close to each other, but checking the license plates on them when I can, I’ve seen no less than half a dozen unique Cybertrucks in the last couple years, mostly along the same commute to and from work (no highways)
Whenever I become aware of it, either through my own realization or someone else pointing it out. I’ll always double check before coming out and saying it, but if my first stance is actually wrong, I have no problem admitting it
I agree with the sentiment, and I really don’t want to be an asshole here… but are you SURE you didn’t have time to do a second take on that sign? Don’t get me wrong, I’m bad at spacing out big letters too, it usually takes me a couple tries to get it right, but this doesn’t look like they even made an attempt. It honestly looks like they wrote “No data centers” but then went back to try to squeeze in “AI”. And like… it probably didn’t take that long to make it in the first place, were they just completely out of paper and this was their one chance? Even more frustrating though, there were almost certainly dozens more (better) signs that the article could’ve used but THAT one, which was clearly a mistake, was the one they went with?
Semantics ruin everything 😃
More like “milking the broom in a storage closet” am I right?
Others have said it better than I ever could, but in my own words, even IF every person who bought these was the epitome of the highest moral and ethical standards, I would still be uncomfortable due to the way-too-high possibility of them being ‘hacked’ remotely which would still have the potential to destroy lives
But if they were, then they’d be even stupider to preserve them. It’s like he’s trying to bluff his way into winning a game of poker but then flipping the cards to reveal he’s got the worst possible hand before anyone else can even make a bet (idk, not my best analogy but I’m sticking with it)
Okay, looking past the obvious stupidity for a moment, why is he encouraging FDA employees to “Preserve your records”? Doesn’t that go against, like, his entire post? Nay, his entire strategy (if it can even be called that)?
IT WAS STILL HERE??? I thought that monstrosity was put down back when Trump and Musk had their little lover’s quarrel
You’re right about the interior not being completely landlocked, but the Mississippi isn’t as navigable as you might think. The vast majority of cargo ships (pretty much anything designed for the open ocean) isn’t going to make it further north than Baton Rogue because the river is far too shallow. Baton Rogue is a fine city (New Orleans too), but they simply don’t have the infrastructure to support multiple states in the middle of a war, not to mention the blockade that WOULD exist. This was even a problem both sides had to deal with during the Civil War; it’s not a new development, and its not something that can be fixed without an enormous amount of money and manpower. Plus there are LOADS of hairpin turns, narrow passageways, and other complications that make operating multiple barges in any one location a nautical traffic jam exceeded only by the Evergreen/Suez fiasco.
The Great Lakes have some of the same issues, but like others have already pointed out, it’s highly unlikely that Canada would just sit back and let multiple feuding parties pass by their major population centers without SOME form of intervention. Idk, they’re definitely a wild card, but this argument is entirely dependent on whose side Michigan (specifically Detroit) would choose. If they choose to support the ‘exterior states’ then there goes your best northern interior port just like that.
Lastly, all of this is ignoring that we have aircraft and carriers now, rendering most of these considerations pointless. Even if the military itself chooses to stay out of it for whatever reason (unlikely), the existence of airpower is sure to make any future American Civil War 2 a lot more complicated, even if it’s just random dudes in Cessnas dropping pipe bombs or whatever else
Funny and original comment. Nicely done
“Peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals” are not the air-tight source you seem to think they are. A lot of them have become echo chambers that largely seek to only acquire more citations for the sake of having more citations. I’m not saying they all deserve to be thrown in the trash or anything, but likewise I’m also not going to blindly believe whatever they’re/you’re telling me just because they’ve got “Journal” on the front cover. Here, check out this blog post, it goes into some of the history of Academic Journals and how they’ve fallen from grace over the last several decades. Oh also they’re quickly becoming inundated with AI, both in terms of submissions and even the review process itself, and personally I’m not going to let an AI tell me if AI is good or bad
Press X to Doubt
That’s an unfortunate codename in the modern day: STI
Personally I don’t give a shit about the politics in this particular case, but what baffles me is that they (allegedly) used a work email to create the account?? Like, it only takes 30 seconds to set up a brand new account out of nothing! Just do that!