TheFogan

am I missing this article, last I heard, trump was talking about extending the cuts... followed by Mike Johnson saying no we aren't interested in that at all.

Which then I guess further follows up the question, does Mike Johnson even need to bring it up to a vote at all? Like hypothetically even if they whip the votes and get 10 republicans to defect... would anything actually force johnson to bring it to a vote at all?

The political consiquences of this are unknown. Could mandami be a snake, absolutely, is it possible that behind closed doors he said to trump "I don't actually believe anything I said, go ahead and send ice in and do whatever you want"... can't rule it out, wouldn't be the first time we've been screwed (cough fetterman).

But at the same time... it's also possible they just said a bunch of platitudes. He just stuck up some charm, redirected his ideas in a way that trump thought they were his own.

Point is trump is going to have impact, and getting trump to moderately like you, is a good thing and will make enacting your goals easier, even when your goals are directly going to go head to head against trump. Mandami has a lot of goals, and he cannot get them all passed unilaterally. When he actually changes his rhetoric, or doesn't push for any of the things he said he would, that's when we call him out. Talking with other leaders, is kind of what politicians are supposed to do.

I mean if it's based on the time of creation it would to me that's the idea of it though. IE the troll accounts that have spent 5 years building up a following, the only way to salvage them if their creation location was bad, is to delete them and start a new one from a VPN in the country they are supposed to be from. At which point smart people are going to note "the wave of accounts made in 2025-2026 and note that timing".

Course unless Elon works to change that rule, not tie in the original country etc, or make a blue checkmark feature "anti-doxing" to protect your private information like country.

I mean it's so obvious... is anyone else unaware that raising the goal for quantity is how you lower quality. Organized criminals are... well organized and hard to find. Finding one big cartel leader is considerably harder than scooping up 100 people showing up for their scheduled appointment with immigration court.

I mean does he have a chance, if I'm not mistaken didn't he win against a pedophile by the skin of his teeth. and now at this rate I'm wondering if pedophilia is less unpopular than it was back then.

Well I mean in this case, her lack of competency and credentials were a per-requisite. No one with skills in law would have even considered attempting these cases.

Reminds me the most of when discussing corporal punishment with a friend of mine with regards to raising kids. He was up and down talking about how his dad had to beat the crap out of him to keep him in line, and of course with a few examples, I'd follow up with "did you do that again?", "well yeah, I got beat for doing that over and over".

and of course that's ignoring the bigger part. Even giving the "punishment deters"... really it only goes in 2 forms.

It's often ineffective because it hasn't hit yet. AKA you haven't got punished, therefore you know the punishment doesn't apply to you.

Or you have been punished, and well you can handle it again.

Course death penalty is a one time issue obviously. But obviously also has the follow up where, it can be even worse because people are more hesetant to charge in the less obviously wrong scenerios. IE anyone with half a heart or a concern to protect kids will throw the book at a 50 year old diddling a 10 year old.

Laws generally have exceptions when a 19 year old has sex with a 17 year old. Somewhere out there though is greyer areas where most people would say it's wrong, but it's on the fence.

Hulamania is getting

I hate hulk hogan, I hate AI videos....

but now I'm feeling a strong desire to see hulk hogan talking tough about his insane hula hoop skills.

Only problem is when dealing with things like, what happens when a cop demands to bury all videos of his police brutality scandal etc... Bottom line 90% of time when the pressure hits enough, the words don't do it justice. Especially when the cops release the report using past exonorative tense etc... to describe things in way that downplay and obfuscate what happened.

I've long since switched to foundry, but I used to use

https://www.rptools.net/toolbox/maptool/

It's not web based, but the clients are available for linux mac and windows,

So... did this scientists great grandchildren invent reality TV?

that's true, but I think it's in the phrasing, they describe it as a shortage of human made content. the bigger issue to note is the lack of ability to identify human made content. IE you give it reddit and our e-mails, there's plenty of human made content on there... but nobody knows what percentage of it is actually bots or AIs.