To be fair he did, he’s been noticably more erratic and confrontational then his first term. This isn’t to say his first term was a model of stability and good governance, just that he is definitely declining mentally.

This doesn’t excuse her support for him earlier, but if she wants to push dementia don out, I’m not gonna get in her way.

Bitcoin finely found a use case that’s not crime. Take that crypto haters.

The carbon cost of producing the EV is higher though, but yeah long term still better as long as you use it for like 5 years and don’t get a new one whenever it comes out like it’s an iPhone.

I feel like the white blood cells should be the guards. They’re the ones who will kill anything that gets out of line, and they’re white…

Same vibe as Stalins

How many divisions does the pope command?

The coffee thing shows either a contrarian attitude or a naive one. Im tempted to say, go do a bump of coke and tell me thats a similar animal. Its not.

I have done coke a couple times, and idk if it was just bad coke or didn’t take enough but I felt it was overrated. Didn’t mix it with alcohol though which apparently enhances the effects but would say it’s on a similar level to a high dose of caffeine. Like a bump of coke I would put on the same level as an energy drink. Maybe a line would make me think differently but I’ve only ever done bumps/keys.

This isn’t to say I think all drugs are the same, I wouldn’t put coffee on the same level as molly or alcohol for the high.

Yeah, a pound of weed is probably around the size of a pillow, you’d need a campfire to burn that, not joints

Depends on where the horniness is coming from, if it’s from prog(esterone?) like the op said and it’s tied to hormonal cycles then you maybe got a day to get over there.

looks like they tried to cut oman in on the deal too but they refused

Nah, they’d gladly prevent trans women , who they view as men, from getting gender affirming care. They would try to prevent this on the same grounds of “it’s not natural to mess with people’s hormones”

Bring some hot sauce and slip it in when no one is looking.

How do you separate that definition of addiction from psycological medication usage. Like someone with depression could feel the need to alter there state of being everyday with SSRIs, are they an addict? Same with someone with an anxiety disorder who takes Xanax, or someone with chronic pain taking oxycontin.

Addiction, in my view, requires continued use despite negative consequences, otherwise it’s just dependence. If you’re dependent on something that is neutral to or helping you live a good life, however you want to define that, then that dependence isn’t a bad thing. This applies to people’s relationships to both substances and other people.

Coffee is another good example, many people who drink coffee regularly will crave that first cup of the day, but it tends to help them work and accomplish tasks that they wouldn’t otherwise do so it can be a good sort of dependence.

Wow, good on Iran for not leaving their ally out to dry. Trump’s mind probably can’t grasp the idea of loyalty so he probably never thought this would happen when he announced it yesterday.

Because some money doesn’t mean it’s enough to profit off of building that shitty apartment. If UBI is implemented and the economy inflates then the price of building a shitty apartment will go up, and if that price goes up past the point where it’s profitable to charge $500 a month for it then it either won’t get built or they will increase the rent, probably to the new $1,000 market rate.

You can do social housing and remove the profit incentive, but it’s hard for the state to build housing when all of its money is going to UBI.

UBI doesn’t uplift people, again it doesn’t touch the income hierarchy which is the source of inequality, it just inflates the hierarchy.

All the previous trials were limited to a set group. If you give money to a set group then yes there position on the income relative to everyone else will increase, and thus there access to goods and services. If it is truly universal and everyone gets it then the income hierarchy remains the same, just the incomes are inflated in absolute terms. Just like if everyone got the same percentage raise in a year prices would just go up by that same percentage because the people setting the prices know you can now pay x percent more. If you give a select group of people a raise though then they can now outbid others and get more products and services.

Jeff bezos doesn’t spend most of the money he gets, it just gets reinvested into his ungodly hoard. If that money doesn’t actually get spent and doesn’t enter the economic system it doesn’t effect inflation. The lower you go on the income ladder the larger percent of your money gets spent until you get to the bottom of people living paycheck to paycheck, saving nothing. If you give those people money they’ll spend it right away, because they have to, and that will contribute to inflation.

Echoing back “I am alive” isn’t on the same level as saying “find a vulnerability” and the agent finding and executing that vulnerability. One a toddler can do, the other requires a lot of technical expertise.

Maybe but we already know we need more housing, no need to spend a bunch of money to find that out, especially if that money can be spent on actually building housing. There are plenty of other stats and signals we can use to determine what to produce which don’t require bringing inflation into the mix that can cut into peoples savings.

Also, if someone earns 1000 and you earn 500 before an UBI of 500, they earn 2x as much as you before and 1.5x after.

Yes but your ability to outbid that other person stays the same. In a market system your access to limited goods and services is determined by your ability to outbid others to gain those goods and services.

Take housing for example, say I can spend $500 on housing for a shitty apartment and another person can spend $1,000 on housing for a good apartment, and there’s another unhoused person who can’t afford any housing.

Now give each of these people $500, like you said the relative gap has shrinked but the place in the hierarchy stays the same. The person with the good apartment will bid up prices to keep me from moving into their unit, and I’d be forced to bid up for my unit to make sure the unhoused person doesn’t get it. The distribution of housing would stay the same, assuming no new housing gets built, and all the money just goes to the landlord.

UBI will just cause inflation, it increases aggregate demand without increasing aggregate supply. More dollars chasing the same amount of goods leads to inflation.

It also doesn’t really address inequality, anyone’s relative position on the income hierarchy doesn’t change, if I make $500 more than another guy before UBI, I’ll still make $500 more than them after UBI, and your position on the income hierarchy determines your standard of living, not your absolute income. Eg. If you get a raise that matches inflation your absolute income may have gone up, but your relative income stayed the same and thus so did your standard of living.

We need to stop focusing on money and focus on the systems of production and hierarchy that actually determine our living standards. Money is just an expression of those structures, it’s downstream, and changing that won’t change the actual structures.

You cease, I fire, that’s how it works

Ignore the “containment” framing, they made a hacking bot and it seems to actually be good at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities:

The AI model “found a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD—which has a reputation as one of the most security-hardened operating systems in the world,” the company wrote.

Dismiss this as marketing drivel all you want but hacking is just the sort of needle in a haystack problem that AI is very good at. It requires broad knowledge, a lot of cycles trying and failing, and is easily verifiable, ie. Can you execute arbitrary scripts or not. Even if this release is BS good hacking agents are bound to come eventually and we should be discussing the implications of that instead of burying our heads in the sand, pretending AI is useless and that this is all hype.