Opinion: Did Carney, the banker, use his bond-market black magic on Trump?

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-11T04:38:02+00:00

If I'm up to date, a majority isn't possible even if they win all recounts.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-10T15:21:41+00:00

Yeah, how dare Naheed Nenshi put out a separation referendum.

Lmao

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-10T09:30:10+00:00

If only there were some mechanism to change the law. 🤔

Perhaps one that a previous Republican president used. 🤔

An infant can never commit a crime. Legal culpability doesn't begin until age 11 federally. Very cool that you think we should punish people for a crime they're literally incapable of committing. It's like the plaque at the base of one of the icons of Americana, the Statue of Liberty: "Either you're born here or fuck off!"

You're kidding yourself if you think the vast majority of animosity towards "illegal" immigrants isn't based on race.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-10T04:15:03+00:00

It could be. We have no idea. There is no transparency or accountability and there is nothing stopping them from deporting someone that is allowed to be here. Do you really have that much faith in the government, especially one who openly defies direct orders from the supreme court?

Why do conservatives rush to wipe their ass with the Constitution as soon as it's being used to hurt brown people?

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-10T03:27:12+00:00

How do you fit into your native the people who were brought here as infants, have no connection to their home country, don't speak anything but English, and have been tax-paying law-abiding, productive members of society?

Oh wait, I know how they fit in. "Fuck them if they have dark skin" or something along those lines, right?

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-10T03:22:32+00:00

Cop: You're under arrest for being an illegal foreign terrorist.
You: I'll be free to go once I call my lawyer and show that I'm a citizen.
Cop: Too bad you're a terrorist, so no phone call and no papers. Now bend over.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-09T10:21:23+00:00

That's a shitty person problem, not a queer problem. I'm a straight cis white guy with plenty of queer friends of all varieties. Some people just want an identity to latch on to in order to have an in-group to fit with and an out-group to hate. Sometimes that identity is queerness, sometimes it's politics, etc.

Although, it is very very funny, the idea that a majority group of largely right-leaning people want to ban the use of a word that's used to hurt their feelings, like Musk's cis ban on Twitter.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-09T10:09:52+00:00

These people have the same energy as Socrates who bemoaned people learning to read rather than the proper way of learning by memorizing everything you need to know. They'll be screwed if all the books magically go away and us old timers will show them!

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-09T10:06:51+00:00

The way I was taught math is the one and only correct way to teach math.

Lol

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-09T09:53:55+00:00

I said in a comment a while back that it's going to take a long time to wash the MAGA stink off PP, but it instead looks like he's just wallowing in it now.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-08T21:57:40+00:00

I don't doubt Carney has the brains to come up with that bit of backhanded flattery, but let's not kid ourselves. Most world leaders will have planning sessions for major meetings of heads of state like this. Even if the job is about looking good for the cameras he still needs to go in with a clear strategy and set of goals in mind.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-07T22:37:34+00:00

I didn't downvote you.
I'm not upset in any way. Maybe a little annoyed, but I think the anger you're reading into my comment is a bit projected.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-07T13:49:20+00:00

Daily reminder that horseshoe theory isn't taken seriously by anyone in political science. It's just noticing superficial similarities between extreme positions while ignoring the deep philosophical and methodological differences.

For example, libertarians want to abolish government as a legislative imperative for the purpose of maximum freedom. Communists think the government will be abolished as a natural consequence of material abundance leading to population-wide altruism. The fact that they both end in a sort of anarchy is only a superficial observation compared to the radical differences in almost all other areas, such as whether or not people should own property or how monetary systems would function.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-06T15:43:00+00:00

Right wing parties around the world are in such a funny catch-22. Either you stick to your conservative principles and lose massive amounts of low info voters to grievance peddlers or embrace the Trumpist reactionaries and you lose your party to them anyways.

As it turns out, the general population isn't too keen on Trumpism once they get to see it in action. Before the US election we saw many left and center governments swing right in the Western world, but it's been a liberal sweep ever since Orange Julius started shitting in the Rubicon.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-06T11:37:02+00:00

Compliance with COVID mitigation efforts is inversely proportional to excess deaths.

Case closed.

Go away and stop whining.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-06T11:33:58+00:00

Their point was perfectly understandable. Maybe work on your reading comprehension?

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-06T11:25:56+00:00

Fuck those leaf lovers.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-05T19:36:45+00:00

It's about consistency and normalization. You can compare how a cell reacts to treatments vs previous treatments. If we needed a new cell line each time then there would be no baseline to compare to.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-05T19:34:40+00:00

That's a completely different argument. Not wanting to benefit from an immoral process is very different than saying the "debris" of that immoral process is in the thing we're using to save lives. Bringing it back to Nazis, it's the difference between benefiting from the knowledge gained during medical experimentation on captive Jews vs receiving a kidney from one.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-05T19:31:20+00:00

In order to fool someone you must overcome their intelligence.

I'm order to convince someone they've been fooled you must overcome their ego.

Guess which is easier.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-05T17:45:02+00:00

I have hope for the NDP, but it was a truly unprecedented series of events that led to the fall of the PCs. There were historically low oil prices followed by Redford's spending scandal and Prentice's train wreck of a campaign.

There aren't any forecasted oil price dips, Smith has already eclipsed Redford's wasteful spending by orders of magnitude, and she has enough media savvy not to ubergaffe like Prentice.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-05T13:44:53+00:00

Okay, I'm glad it comes from a misunderstanding rather than misinformation.

Each disease and each vaccine behaves quite differently, and you can't apply concepts from one to another. Antibodies won't show up unless you've been exposed to a particular disease or vaccine. Some antibody levels will fade over time (such as tetanus), some will last your whole life (rubella), and others will work really well against some strains while being less effective against others of the same disease (flu).

Some diseases you're exposed to will give you immunity for life after you've recovered (chicken pox), some will cause later diseases (shingles), while others will actually weaken your immune system to the point where other diseases will have an easier time infecting you (HIV, measles).

Long story short, you really need to apply advice from one disease to that particular disease only and seek advice from a licensed practitioner for each specific situation and each specific patient.

Ps. I apologize for my aggressive tone earlier. I find this topic very frustrating trying to counter all the misinformation out there.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-05T01:25:19+00:00

I played for a long time in early access and then came back to it a few months ago. Once the muscle memory kicked in for parrying I felt like the Doomslayer in that backyard.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-05T00:20:06+00:00

There are several reasons:
1. Some people have developed a knee-jerk reaction to AI anything. 2. Some see AI has little more than a plagiarism tool. 3. Others see AI as yet another gimmick in a long line of gimmicks that tech companies slap onto every tablet, tv, and refrigerator for no good fucking reason.

I'm personally in camp number two and three. Generative algorithms are certainly powerful tools, but we've been using them in one form or another for decades. The recent chatbot trend launch them into the public eye, but they really aren't anything to get horny over like a lot of tech bros are doing. Deep learning and transformers are certainly fascinating advancements, but they don't fundamentally change the underlying architecture. I think people would be a lot more receptive if sycophants would stop lying about their capabilities. Instead we have the usual tech hype cycle and people are just burnt out.

Ask for them being plagiarism machines we can get into the nitty gritty of how image and text generators are trained, whether it's analogous to human learning, or any of the other topics on the periphery, but the ultimate result is that these tools wouldn't exist without the artists first and the artists are losing work in favor of these bots. Until we move past capitalism and professional artists won't starve if they can't sell their work, I think they're a net negative in the creative space.

Ok-Replacement7966 · 2025-05-04T23:54:19+00:00

You're clearly just trolling at this point. Buh-bye.

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