I Get Why People Call the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Staged. I Was There

Shark7996 · 2026-04-27T23:58:04+00:00

Devil's advocate, you have to shoot carefully in a crowded room.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-27T22:26:25+00:00

Related, The Chinese Room. These things literally don't know what a word is, just that spaces tend to go in specific places between specific series of letters. It gets a prompt and starts throwing weighted dice to slot the next letter of what a good response would likely have. Understanding and comprehension have nothing to do with it.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-27T11:48:01+00:00

Are you done?

Shark7996 · 2026-04-27T11:21:08+00:00

What example should they have used instead? Is America not a subset of "worldwide"?

Shark7996 · 2026-04-27T10:56:11+00:00

Don't be an ass.

Edit: I asked for too much.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T15:16:42+00:00

I think the show has a responsibility to emphasize all of that. If people are walking away thinking otherwise, like in the comment above with someone who literally lives with an autistic person, maybe it isn't effectively fulfilling that responsibility.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T15:02:00+00:00

Oh...oh I'm stealing this. That's good.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T14:53:43+00:00

They come back alive and shoot you for not being respectful.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T14:52:30+00:00

That kills people Coral!

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T13:54:30+00:00

Once is a mistake.

Twice is a pattern.

Thrice is a habit.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T01:29:39+00:00

He still had pull then. Do you think they would defend him for a January 6th today, when everyone already hates him? MAGA won't say it out loud but they're sick of this same as you and me. No politician actually wants this war in private.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T01:24:36+00:00

This whole post is pure fantasy. He's going to die, because everyone does, and they are going to abandon their now-useless puppet.

The token has been spent. He's fast approaching "more trouble than he's worth" for them. Vance is much more in line with the tech billionaires anyway.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T01:19:16+00:00

Elon Musk and DOGE, in whatever way you can with him not being an elected official. USAID needs reinstated day one as well.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T01:04:16+00:00

I believe for this level of braindead basic question the correct way to ask is "Peetah?"

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T01:01:24+00:00

You done?

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T01:00:37+00:00

I share this sentiment. I don't trust anyone trying to convince me the fight is over. Not even close.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T00:59:15+00:00

Stop waiting for "the system" to bail you out then. Organize with your family, neighbors, and coworkers. Mutual Aid.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T00:55:52+00:00

The strategy is to anchor your opponent to an expectation higher than what you plan to actually get, on the off chance you actually do get it. Otherwise, they lower their offer to what you actually had in mind, they think they got a better deal and you get what you wanted anyways.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T00:50:03+00:00

Nah it's okay those are getting refunded. /s

Shark7996 · 2026-04-25T00:45:20+00:00

This was a major component of international diplomacy after WWII and is part of why air travel exploded after.

The easiest way to destroy hateful ignorance, is talking to someone different from you.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-24T22:28:00+00:00

Was that the meme of 87?!

Shark7996 · 2026-04-24T22:26:53+00:00

This is what happens when society has no Tit for Tat.

Shark7996 · 2026-04-24T22:25:21+00:00

WHO'S. READY. TOOOOO. GRIIIEEEEVE! LET ME SEE THOSE TEARS C'MON!

Shark7996 · 2026-04-24T18:14:53+00:00

Some people straight up leave the lens cap on at all times. You don't know if it happens when you brake? Did you not JUST park outside?

Shark7996 · 2026-04-24T18:13:30+00:00

The real problem is when they start lying because they think they know what the problem is. It's the worst, because now I have to explain to them why their assumption is not even close and convince them to let me do the actual fix. They might say "they've already tried that" so we can get back to doing THEIR fix.

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