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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

The Commerce secretary was also asked about the idea of a sovereign wealth fund — which Trump pitched earlier this year — and whether it could be a balance sheet for Social Security, as its trust funds are projected to be depleted in about a decade.

“We have a budget deficit of $2 trillion. So, Donald Trump wants to knock down the $2 trillion, and then he’s focused about the 36 trillion, which the Social Security is part of it,” Lutnick said this week, referring to the nation’s $36 trillion-plus debt

So invest in bitcoin apparently, because the entire social security trust is now an NFT.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Needs more zeroes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Yes, but the Palantir model says exactly where that line is, which is why he's able to be so aggressive with so little pushback.

There have been times Trump overruled the model and started getting pushback but that's when he reversed a day or two later.

It's weird, he's using a massive Ai threat model as basically a poker odds computer, and badly, surely nothing could possibly go wrong here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's for rich people, basically trying to be the new hbo.

The problem is the content is really, really not there yet, and Amazon can outapend you anyway becausw they have the infinite money glitch even if they lack all taste.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

You didn't swallow the onion.

Reality did.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Nah there are always rich oligarchs looking for lawyers, no shortage of clients even in peacetime.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Measure of a man and it's not close.

They spend the whole episode debating the nature of humanity and fundamental rights, and how they must all be defended, even for those who seem like they could be ignored for convenience.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

Basically the motto of the south since the founding.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The point was that increasing voltage allows more carrying capacity with a square root of the increase in dissipation as increasing current directly.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Firstly, many of them aren't casual racists, they take it very seriously and train constantly, you need to respect their dedication.

Secondly, yes it broke them.

From their point of view we did it just to hurt and insult them, it was a declaration of total war and that's basically how we ended up here.

 
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The script is nothing to write home about, largely adapted from the meeting transcripts.

The setting is fixed and fairly limited, painting a backdrop but only just, powerful men desiring comfort besieged by winter.

The acting is art beyond anything I've seen elsewhere, each character responds to the next, you see and are absorbed by the mundanity of the interactions, the basic dynamics of a corporate meeting, while the underlying impact screams in your brain.

They took the dry meeting notes (https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/news/uploads/WanseeProtocols.pdf) and made a drama that shocks you with the ultimate banality of evil, exactly as imagined by Hannah Arendt.

This just came to me today, we all write our own narratives for what we do, and watching Heydrich, the ambitious patriot trying to clear the way for his country's deserved greatness, the bureaucrats trying to slither amongst the politics, the soldiers merely looking for leadership, and the diplomats and lawyers merely trying to keep the blood off their cuffs.

Meanwhile, Eichmann takes his orders and follows them with the obedience and competence of a well-disciplined soldier...

 

I'm sure this won't end up just like the GOP immigrant caravans of ms-13 and disappear right after the election.

 

I mean, sure, at this point why not?

 

Your honor, I would like the opportunity to interview the underaged girl accusing me of rape, privately in my basement, so we can try to reenact the crime and confirm her testamony.

 

Barr, who was appointed by Trump, responded “of course” when asked on CBS’s “Face the Nation” if he would be willing to appear as a witness in Trump’s trial over federal charges related to alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

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