Exactly. People doing hakas in the wrong places makes it all look stupid and ruins it for the ancestors.
https://www.juventuz.com/threads/what-are-you-doing-right-now.25092/post-6840664
It is. I thought it was just a tourist trap for 7 years. Turns out all the well-heeled Portuguese go there...
Foreign Policy pretty much framed the U.S. sliding into not a classic dictatorship but competitive authoritarianism now:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/path-american-authoritarianism-trump
Basically, Biden would need to up his lawfare game to compete.
The headline is a bit click-baity, but this was a different complementary take on the same concerns:
https://unherd.com/2025/02/doge-is-not-radical-enough/
So you're saying Musk could be replaced with a generative AI that hallucinates. :think:
No, the first thing you need to learn is how to keep your head in the game and not make mental farts that lead to opponent goal opportunities.
The second thing you need to learn is how to close down the ample space you give your marks as they dribble towards your goal, giving them open looks...
I think America needs a monument to all the people who got played while their “rebel” leaders stuffed their pockets with unbridled fraud with no oversight.
I am definitely seeing a pattern where tech cos are in their post-growth stages and paring back tech hires. It's not Covid so much as moat-defending bureaucratic bloat in Big Tech: people are playing more defense than offense these days, to be honest.
And the idea that AI is replacing software...
I hear Rod Blagojevich is free from prison and is looking for a new job.
And yet all of Trump's moves have been towards increasing inflation rather than reducing it. There should be some questions about actual priorities. Just as an audit, say. :)
So lemme get this straight. A 23-year-old who...
He's 22 now, but still. He may not have any room left to grow in height, but he can grow in skills. He already has a skill or two that the rest of the squad doesn't have.
Damn, son. I envy some of those numbers.
The acute hemolytic anemia I got from my leukemia just over a year ago put me in the hospital for 9 days because my hemoglobin was a 5.4 when I checked into the ER. My heart was practically leaping out of my chest to do all the normal work. My...
Why have DEI when you can have DIE, baby!
As Vince Neil once put it about Trump, "He's got crooks that kill."
In fact, here's a future video from the U.S. 2029 presidential inauguration ceremony:
Everything accurate except for Vince's waistline.
Great reminder of my favorite Zimbabwe joke of all time. Told to me in South Africa at my company office by an immigrant from Zimbabwe.
Q: How do you make a white wine?
Gentrification and geonocide just got linguistically closer. :klin: