structural features of melting polar ice.

Nope, it’s R’lyeh

Enshitification barely allowed these tools to function as advertised for more than a few years.

They’re already getting siloed behind paywalls, tranched into “unusable trash $TooMuch/mo” and “barely working as intended $WayTooMuch/year”, and porked up with useless ephemeral. The cutting edge stuff - Sora, for instance - gets trashed almost as soon as it is released. The OpenClaw shit just fucks your shit up if you’re not babysitting it constantly. Mythos isn’t even for public consumption. Grok is entirely for CSAM. A bunch of these models are just being turned over to the military, because Pentagon officials know to keep eating that bullshit and never complain.

What’s the draw anymore? Come use this garbage application that is going to render your job obsolete largely by tanking the overall economy.

CIA handles foreign shit. FBI handles domestic shit.

The DHS makes this distinction moot. We’ve been crossing the streams publicly since it was officially instantiated via Bush through the creation of the OHS and then the HSA Act of 2002. The two agencies have been operating hand-in-glove behind the scenes since the CIA’s precursor - the OSS - was incorporated during WW2. Even then, much of the modern CIA is merely an extension of the functions of the FBI on an international scale. They employ all the same strategies, employ the same leadership structure, and serve the same socio-economic purpose.

John Brennan and Robert Mueller / James Comey even filled the same political role under Obama. They promoted reactionary political views from within the liberal government, distributed misinformation to undermine peaceful coexistence with historic geopolitical adversaries, and continued the Bush Era practice of illegal arrests, extraditions, torture, and assassination while draping themselves in liberal language to justify it.

Brennan and Comey both publicly advanced accusations against the Obama administration that gave Donald Trump a path to the presidency.

John Brennan served as Obama’s CIA Director for four years. During that time - I’ve been told - foreign governments infiltrated our media and party establishment and legislature, corrupted our democratic process, and handed a known agent of a foreign government the position of Chief Executive.

This known agent was a co-conspirator of another well-known blackmailer and professional pedophile, serving as an agent of a foreign intelligence service within the United States for over four decades.

The CIA response to this infiltration was to… do nothing.

Meanwhile, agents within the CIA have manufactured consent for wars against Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea for as long as our current president has been a known fence for the Russian mob. They have collaborated with the known blackmailer/pedophile for just as long. And - upon taking office - they faithfully continued to fulfill their duty as agents of a corrupt and despotic president, including through illegal arrests, extraditions, torture, arms sales, drug trafficking, and sabotage.

Why the fuck does the CIA still exist again?

Real Lysander Spooner hours

Is that backed up by statistics or just vibes?

COVID saw unemployment peak at 15%. I haven’t seen anything remotely that bad.

forced rewrite of the constitution

Military dictatorships, famous for their commitment to balance, fairness, and term limits

you need 2/3rds of the senate to remove him

Caeser was removed with far less

When will this idea die?

The same day “leftists never vote” does, presumably.

Stop wasting time on idiots and people happily guzzling propaganda.

Politicians chase the voters they want.

Start planning a campaign with SIMPLE SLOGANS

Wow, brilliant. Have you considered doing this for a living?

Plenty of short sellers (myself included) have been burned, thinking we could predict short term business cycles in advance.

Forcing students to read the Bible will create a loooooot more Atheists.

Forcing students to pretend to be Christian in order to get educational perks and avoid harsh discipline will create a lot more implicit segregation and cliches of Mean Girls who can harass non-confirming students with impunity.

Check out The Third Wave

It’s the same stupid “If you just inform people, they’ll agree with you” liberal magical thinking that gave us Earth Day and Black History Month. Just turned on its head.

If Texas legislators want to do a Jesus Day in school, they’re going to get the same bucket of contrarian assholes doing “Jesus Isn’t Real: Prove Me Wrong” stunts on the schoolyard lawn. Influence culture is going to twist these efforts in knots, especially when they double down and start making martyrs of smart-aleck tweenagers mogging on the course material out of the reflexive need to push boundaries.

That’s not to say this doesn’t have a secondary agenda. Someone in the classroom supply business is going to absolutely clean up, selling schools $.10 laminated copies of the Ten Commandments for $50/ea. And we’re inevitably going to see the kind of in-group / out-group clustering among privileged families with Christian ideology, resulting in more harsh discipline for non-Christian students and more non-Christian kids getting pushed out of schools for failing to prove their piety.

It’s the fundamental flaw of Protestant theology. Hand out ten bibles, absent any further religious instructions, and you get ten different religions. Leave people to stew too long and they just start making up their own Apocrypha - a la Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Texas is already a melting pot of faiths, quite a few of which aren’t even Christian. You’re going to be demanding teachers read from the Bible to such a wide range of denominations, all with their own priors as to what any of this stuff means.

Like, as a kid, I remember my dad explaining to me that the Sermon on the Mount and the Loaves and Fishes miracle was a lesson on the power of sharing. Jesus took a bit of bread and fish, passed it among the crowd, and then everyone in the crowd helped to pitch in with what they’d brought for themselves. And in the end they had more than what they began with. I’ve sat in class with people who seriously believe “No, Jesus just magicked up more fish and bread, because DUH it was a miracle”. And that’s firmly within the Christian spectrum. We’re not dragging in Muslims or Hindus or outright born-and-raised Atheists to weigh in.

Liberation Theology is cool and good.

Western Protestantism is a psychological cancer.

trump wants this to be “his war” but the truth is Bibi just dragged him

Nobody dragged the US in. We’ve had civilian leadership itching to attack Iran since '79.

Netanyahu simply threw the first punch, convinced their Iron Dome made them impervious to consequences. Americans piled in fully of their own accord.

Everyone who trusted Americans has been assassinated already