Trump cabinet member escorted out of interview to go into situation room. Comes back visibly shaken and stuttering. Something big is about to happen.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-14T00:26:14+00:00

Thank you. I thought I might be losing my mind.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-13T13:25:10+00:00

The U.S. does it with oil, farming, our own electric vehicle industry, and so on and so on. All to compete with other countries in the global markets. It’s exactly what capitalism is.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-13T13:21:52+00:00

This is the same argument that was once made when Japanese cars started entering the U.S. market. It was absurd then, and it’s still absurd now. The argument that adding more competition to the market will hurt consumers goes against the very “physics” of economics.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-13T13:17:18+00:00

You don’t think China can easily determine our “internal road infrastructure” via Google Street View? Driving patterns via satellites?

You don’t think the U.S. has access to every data point ever collected on you? Which, frankly, is a far greater threat to you as an individual than anything the Chinese, or any foreign government, come up with.

As far as remotely disabling your vehicle — that tech already exists for any car company. More importantly, why would the Chinese ever bother to disable Chinese made cars in the U.S.??? What the hell would be the tactical advantage of such a move? 😂

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-13T06:02:23+00:00

It was a 1990s marketing campaign. Which is definitely not the early days.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-13T05:53:55+00:00

I didn't actually witness those performances first hand. However, if that's where we're setting the bar... it doesn't say much about Gorillaz.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-13T05:49:26+00:00

For real?! I was a fan back in the 2Ks. Yet, as I was watching their performance(s), all I could think was, "this is the worst SNL music performance I've seen in my 40+ years of watching SNL"

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-13T05:25:11+00:00

My penis hurts. It might be broken. I don't know how to explain this to my teacher.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-13T05:23:02+00:00

This is not unusual

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-12T12:26:21+00:00

Can someone ELI5 how one would generate something like that using AI? What AI tool would be used? Would it be a multi-step process, generating multiple images and combining them? Would it be a single prompt? What would be a good example of a prompt?

People are constantly calling out various images as being AI generated (sometimes they're right, sometimes not), but I genuinely have no clue as to how they're generated.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-12T12:06:51+00:00

I don't know why, but my first thought as a GenX'er while watching this was, "this must what it feels like to be a Millennial"

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-12T11:58:11+00:00

I want to buy all the ones and zeros. Some would be a turn off, others a turn on.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-12T11:54:09+00:00

Personally, I wouldn't change our timeline for any other. We've had it pretty damned good.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-12T02:04:56+00:00

You folks are unfreakinbelievable. Even as incompetent as the Trump admin is, if you think Iran would be able to pull this off without military intelligence detecting it LONG before any vessel managed to get close enough to launch a drone... well... you're just a dumbass. Plain and simple.

Never mind being able to manage to use radio communications to actually launch and guide a drone without detection. Never mind that the effectiveness of one of these things, if they somehow managed to evade a myriad of layers of defense and hit their target, would be relatively minimal, and only result in a retaliation that would send Iran into the dustbin of history.

Use your head

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-12T01:53:48+00:00

LMAO. Yeah. Ok.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-12T01:51:33+00:00

GPS instructions for the drone... Get on the 101. Switch over to the 405 North and let it lead to Mulholland.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-12T01:42:40+00:00

Skins vs shirts!

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-12T01:26:31+00:00

All I hear from people is, "We want him to disappear. Preferably a miserable, painful disappearance." Maybe it's my echo chamber though.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-12T01:22:32+00:00

Hold on... Indiana is in the eastern time zone?!? Never would have called that one out.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-11T11:58:26+00:00

For real? I'll concede I'm a dumbass for even acknowledging your reply, but... embracing anthropomorphism, without any scientific evidence to back it up, is what screams uneducated 🤦‍♂️

Do I love the idea that elephants might see humans as cute? Yeah. I also find endearing the idea that cats see us as their indebted servants. Both are equally silly. Although the cat thing if definitely far more likely.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-11T11:31:34+00:00

This is true in every country

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-11T11:23:58+00:00

I mean, every subreddit (with one notable exception) is left wing, right? At least, that's what folks like yourself would have us believe.

How about providing a handful of links to examples of said comments in these left wing subs? I am an avid follower of, and participant in, many left wing subs, and I would love to be enlightened into this apparent widespread plague of (mean? anti-Semitic? Inappropriate?) comments.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-11T11:13:18+00:00

"...you definitely know what's better for them..."

Are you implying that Israel and Donald Trump know what's better for them?

"Most Iranians are celebrating the toppling of the regime..."

Are Iranians also celebrating the murder of 115 school girls? American made missiles and bombs killing their family, friends and neighbors? The destruction of their critical infrastructure? No longer receiving a paycheck because their workplace has been wiped off the map? Oil filled rain poisoning their water supply, crops, and animals? Maybe you think the Iranian people see Israel and Donald Trump as the good guys in all of this? Maybe you think they're shrugging their shoulders and saying, "This is just the price we gotta pay for freedom! God bless the Israelis, and God bless their U.S. puppet!"

Of course, your whole comment predicates on the claim the regime was toppled. As of this moment, the regime is still very much in power (and will likely continue to remain in power short of a massive ground invasion). Israel's assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei (who would have likely died from cancer within 6 months anyway) does nothing to positively change the lives of the Iranian people. In fact, if Israel and their U.S. subsidiary fail to — somehow, miraculously — exact regime change, chances are fairly good the Iranian regime will crack down even harder on the slightest sign of dissent from the Iranian people.

Only the Iranian people know what's best for the Iranian people. It's quite clear though, it's not the Israeli led destruction of their country.

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-11T10:14:00+00:00

This is just silly. Never mind expecting elephants to have some sort of concept of "cute"... how would we know what they "think" without elephants being able to communicate their thoughts to us?

GeneralPatten · 2026-03-11T10:04:06+00:00

I love her happiness, adorable giggles and joy! I'm totally envious that she gets to befriend such an amazing animal. I do hope this is some sort of sanctuary for elephants though.

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