I’m genuinely asking, would getting the fuck out be enough?
He would need to capitulate. He would need to acknowledge his fuckup, to the satisfaction of Iran. I don’t think he’s capable of that. Not simply that he doesn’t want to, although that’s also true. I mean he’s not equipped to negotiate an end to this hostility.
Because theyre not idle threats he really will tariff the fuck out of you if you don’t comply.
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Oil producers are wealthy donors. Farmers are not.
If I understand correctly, this would really cut into the profits of US oil producers.
He’s not gonna do that.
… but they’re in the bible, and Christians are in the Bible, and Christians are like Jesus, and Jesus is good, so they must be good, right?
Firstly, I abhor rowling.
However, I don’t agree that piracy demonstrates potential earnings to producers.
Perhaps another way to say the same thing … other sane governments are reliable partners, and it’s worth upholding the agreements we have made for the moment, while we make other plans.
It happens more slowly than you might think.
Here in Australia the US has been our major ally since WWII and is generally seen as the enforcer holding off Chinese expansion in our region.
When the tariffs were announced ours were minimal and largely to our benefit anyway.
The general feeling was, the Americans are having a bad day, but we can weather that to maintain our long term relationship.
We have an agreement with the UK and US to build nuclear submarines, which would be helpful in maintaining control in south east Asia. This is a long term strategy with many billions involved, likely to stimulate entire regions in Australia. However, the arrangement is looking very unappealing presently and no one actually believes the US will deliver on their end.
I think the summary is, everyone knows that Trump is not a reliable partner but he will be dead soon, and these relationships run pretty deep.
Comically, it doesn’t say anything about tariffs. Obviously Don not too invested in this one.
We consider the issue at that time.
Other things will also change.
Maybe I will have thrown my computer gear in the river.
Maybe there will be other communities who reject AI content, or others who embrace it.
Maybe the zombie apocalypse will have arrived.
Seriously though, it’s about the quality of the content. IMO we want to avoid unsustainable projects where someone has vibe-coded some unmaintainable mess. Other long lived projects with responsible AI use are less problematic.
Hello Americans! It’s totally normal for innocent people to avoid their day in court. No red flags at all.
I’m team “no slop allowed”, but you have to define what slop is somehow.
I think there’s a bunch of metrics to consider, but it might be difficult to assess as a mod.
LOL. If there was a big decision he wouldn’t need to announce that it was coming.
Exactly. I was trying to be polite I guess.
HIV contaminated baby food?
Nestle did some shady shit that’s responsible for harm, suffering, and deaths of infants… but distributing HIV contaminated baby food is not one that I’m aware of. Do you have a source for that?
What bridges has he built, I wonder.
“Oh well this one time I built a bridge between my accountant, and my finance guy, and this stadium I wanted to buy”
Hanson is a one trick pony and shameless racist stunts like this are her one trick.
The projects were halted to give officials time to develop new industry regulations, expected to be announced in a month, Danucha Pichayanan, secretary-general of the National Economic and Social Development Council, said at a news briefing on Sept 4.
I think this just means the right people have not yet been paid enough.
Yes, but what the law says and what is going on in practice are often (or usually) two different things.
In your own example, a forensic psychiatrist might have interrogated you when you were 17 and concluded that you were of sound mind and had the requisite emotional and logical faculty to “consent” in every reasonable definition of the term.
However, the law says that your consent in this case has no legal baring. This is not to undermine your own agency as a 17 year old, but to protect those 17 year olds who were not as well developed as you, or who might be manipulated some how, and so on.
The trade-off is that there usually has to be a complainant. In your own example you or your parents would (in most jurisdictions), need to ask the police to press charges.
Of course, the age of consent varies between jurisdictions. Here I think it’s 16. I went to school with someone who got married when she was 16 because she had become pregnant when she was 15. I didn’t realise at the time how messed up that was.
I’m reminded of the fascinating and macabre history of Pitcairn Island. The abridged version is that in the 1700’s (?) a sailing ship named the Bounty visited Tahiti for several months where many of the crew became involved with Tahitian ladies. Rather than return to their lives they mutinied, and absconded to an uninhabited island with their brides. Much violence and depravity, and later fanatical religious stuff ensued, but ultimately a tiny community of several dozen people survived to the 1990’s. At that time it emerged that underage sex / rape was a common and even celebrated practice. It’s a truly incredible story for a variety of reasons.
I thought it was well established that bot traffic declined since the yanked data centre stuff.
Is that not the case?