UK seems to be in an all out race to beat the US to full-on Orwellian dystopia. They’ve consistently been about 5-10 years ahead of the US when it comes to spying on citizens for decades now, but that gap does seem to be narrowing a bit.
Banning Israel’s political enemies from travel does put them squarely in the lead, but don’t count out the USians yet! Palantir’s Flock is spreading its wings, after all.
Just normal terrorist things. Israelis are monsters.
Only the best people
We shouldn’t just hand over credentials of course.
But, the way I see it, this ship already sailed. DOGE stole all our financial info by accessing the treasury databases, in fact that seemed to be one of their top priorities last year. If you don’t think Elon turned around and sold that data to any willing buyers, well…I’ve got a bridge to sell ya. And this is on top of the myriad credit agency hacks, which there seems to be at least 1-2 every year now.
All this data is being sold to people like Altman.
And, I’m starting to think they’re using it to apply pressure to municipalities where they want to build new data centers, but I’m still working out that particular theory…
E Pluribus Unum
Privatize the gains, Socialize the losses.
Neat, he should try it on
Agreed. Hate the data centers and corporate obsession with extreme waste for total value capture. Not the tech, especially on a local scale.
A 128GB amd strix halo runs at 120W and can host large LLMs at home. If you ran it full time for inference it would still be under $20/mo in electricity costs.
Is it really illegal if it’s intentionally never prosecuted?
One of his many word salads involved an offer to split the tolls between us and Iran, so yeah, that’s what he wants. The dummy simply didn’t realize access to the strait was so valuable until after the bombs started dropping.
Good point, and yeah no, they were murdered.
The state leadership did seem to have politically outmaneuvered the US and Israel, however. I think that was OP’s point. They definitely won the culture war and controlling the narrative…not hard considering they were not the aggressors.
Netanyahu is on video making these claims in attempt to pull the US into war with Iran as far back as the 90s…!
Good analysis, agreed on all points.
In terms of american choice of EVs, nothing, because our government is bought and doesn’t represent the people at all.
In terms of elongated muskrat lib palatability, he did the thing and took the mask off.
At this point if you’re still driving a swasticar, you deserve it.
Not just ceasefires - fake pretexts of peace negotiations. Literal cartoon villain shit.
2 double espressos to start the day, 3-4 more singles throughout the day. Cutoff for coffee is 7pm, and I usually have 1-2 hot green teas in the evening to wind down.
It’s one of my last remaining vices of significance, very tough for me to get going without caffeine and I get a headache by mid afternoon if I don’t get me some by then.
I’m surprised at most of the people in this thread with their minimal intake. Good for you I guess. To the boofers: I get it, but just not for me.
Terrifying once you realize what they really mean by “think of the children”
Sadly I believe this is because a blanket insider trading ban for Congress would be a non starter. Most of them are there for that exact reason imo, the corpo pac bribes are just a bonus that is helpful in guiding policy when they have to do actual “work”
To be fair, Israel fired the first shots when they learned about a gathering of high profile diplomats who could all be murdered together. They did the schoolgirls at the same time just because that’s how Israelis roll.
It seems like the US didn’t anticipate things popping off at this somewhat earlier than expected juncture. But also, that US leadership doesn’t really give a shit how many American lives are lost fighting Israel’s wars for them, so there’s that too.
You kind of answered your own question. But yeah, the job of the FCC under the Trump Regime is to help corporations / the rich grift and steal as much from American citizens as possible. This change furthers the ability of both Trump and the ruling class of oligarchs to do just that.
If the FCC members play along, they might benefit from some of the corruption personally. If not, they will be publicly bullied and/or replaced. Trump operates as if he is a mob boss.
This concerted effort to rob our people is a large part of what the DOGE firings aimed to achieve in the beginning of the regime’s 2nd term - get rid of anyone who would protest, and definitely get rid of all the watchdogs (inspectors general) whose job it was to ensure this doesn’t happen. It is no coincidence that at the same time the press is manufacturing consent for this repeal, Starlink is preparing to tack on massive amounts of fees for its users.