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that's not what is said here. The Federal government is prosecuting him and the States of New York and Pennsylvania are prosecuting him too. The lawyer is arguing that's too many prosecutions for the same alleged crime.

when your only skills are being angry and stupid you have to get creative

true! Plus, there are already a bunch of really bad popes in the history of Christianity that would give Trump a run for his money

But on my personal list of "thoughts that make me shit my pants" living in a real-world Handsmaid's tale ranks pretty high, though.

Most kings, dictators, emperors in history claimed to be gods themselves or at least to have been chosen by whatever gods were popular in their territories.

Generally none of these guys were big on following the moral teachings of "their" religion, more to claim that what they want is a direct emanation of the will of the gods, so it must just be accepted.

That's why separation of Church and State is a thing in a working democracy and that's (of f-ing course) why it's now being targeted

and he would have done it too! If only that Biden stopped interfering and ruining the economy. /s

nah, Trump is a rage-powered sack of IOUs badly arranged to resemble a real human being. If you want to get rid of Trump, you have to try to delight him and remove his power source. All of his cabinet and several world leaders are trying more an more openly to kill him this way. The true unsung heroes of our time!

I think that's already uncomfortably close to reality.

A fully AI company was already tried as an experiment. There is also a company that appointed an AI CEO but I suspect this one is a publicity stunt. The experiment was a "failure" by the way, with AI agents only completing less than 20% of the tasks in the fake company and with some hilarious mishaps. But 20% of a company tasks being done in full autonomy by (not specifically trained) AI is scary.

Right now, various socials are full of AI generated fake engagement, images and videos. Meta is offering AI-powered ads. The obvious question I see asked every time, also here on Lemmy, is: if most of Facebook becomes a zombie world where comments and fake engagement is all LLMs, who would buy those Meta ads? That question was actually what inspired this wildly successful (-27 votes and counting!) showerthought of mine: this fake engagement only makes sense if Meta thinks we'll give AI more and more agency to choose the products we buy and (eventually) buy them on our behalf. So it's going to be AI convincing other AIs to buy. Our money becomes sentient, so to speak,

Crazy talk, right? Well....

Thanks! I'll try longer showers.

If Utilitarianism is about maximizing overall benefit and minimizing harm, Trump is an Inutilitarian

but wait until he can't find a good inflatable doll any longer...

I like the comparison. We used to think of the Economy like this hard-to-control, vital but occasionally dangerous natural force, like Gravity. The showerthought was that with the advent of machine models, money has started becoming sentient and making decisions without us.