It’s the way the world works. Not every decision can go through a plenary session. Nothing would get done that way.

The latter is obviously not specific to lobbying, but it is the way they get their plans across. Not everyone in the parliament can be as well informed about every issue they vote on. If everyone had to read in to every detail of every single issue that they vote on, again nothing would get done.

So if we want to get things done we need to accept that the system isn’t flawless. That doesn’t mean we can’t curb lobbying though. We need to improve the regulations on that. But of course, it is strongly opposed by lobbyists who hold a lot of power.

Not everything is voted on of course, some things are just decided by smaller committees.

And for things that are voted on they “buy” few vocal debaters who convince the rest with bad reasoning that sounds legit.

It’s supposed to be a way (groups of) people can make their case to the legislative branch to inform them about their issues and propose ways to resolve them.

In reality it’s just legal corruption used by magacorporations to screw over the aforementioned people.

No, no she’s on to something. If they don’t touch down on land why is it called a landing and not a sea-ing.

Checkmate atheists

No no haven’t you heard? Melania did a speech

I just learned about double-tap strikes and now we have triple ones?? Man, what a time to be alive…

Those are all arguments against AI lol, or actually mainly LLM’s which are simply a complicated word prediction algorithms that make stuff up if they can’t find the appropriate word in their database. You don’t really know much about the thing you’re advocating for.

I know about the ice cream, I’ve had it before. I never really saw it as raw, just as another ingredient or flavor, but I guess it makes sense.

Explain the cookie dough to me please. That one doesn’t make sense to me

Spreading packs out in the open air helps avoid the need for active refrigeration, and stripping away moving parts like fans and filters minimizes potential reliability failures.

Hasn’t Ms. Sun ever heard about that other thing that is out in the open? The sun?

No if they say it’s full self driving it should be full self driving and Tesla should stand behind that by taking responsibility of any claims for accidents that occur while FSD is engaged.

Of course it is the only thing that will change their minds… These people can’t think further than their own wallet at this exact moment in time and maybe a few months in advance.

Sadly a lot of them will endure this shit because they can’t admit to themselves that they were wrong about Trump. They will keep thinking of ways to ease their feelings of cognitive dissonance, like “Iran was a huge danger and something needed to be done!” or “it’s good for the US since we export oil and LNG”.

That’s not a bug, but a feature. It means more money flows from poor Americans – often POC or immigrants, who Trump despises – to his already filthy rich friends in the oil biz.

That doesn’t make it an ad. It’s a white paper. Of course they are advocating for their cause, that’s what a white paper is. That too is basic public knowledge. It still doesn’t mean it’s an ad.

Not being Orban with different ideas on key points is certainly a big part of it. He does have political experience, says he wants to tackle corruption, is more pro-EU and perhaps Ukraine as well

Wait, so let me get this strait (p.i.): first he wanted help keeping the strait open and now he wants help closing it? Does he even know what he wants?

Is it an ad? Their product (Le Chat) isn’t mentioned once. And it’s something European that we can “buy” so I don’t see how it wouldn’t fit the description.

He’s not perfect, but perfect is the enemy of good. Sometimes a small w is all you’re going to get.

An older one

So let me get this strait: the “open the fucking strait you crazy bastards!” Tweet was directed towards his future self?

Yeah, that tracks