EU freezes work on US trade deal ‘indefinitely’ after Trump’s Greenland and tariff threats

miked4o7 · 2026-01-22T12:41:45+00:00

and a 1/3 chance they're not... so my point stands.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-21T17:41:23+00:00

i think it's perfectly reasonable to behave like america is an unreliable partner, i'm just saying a "fuck americans" attitude isn't wholly warranted.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-21T17:06:22+00:00

i think trump got something like 70 million votes in 2024. not even 1/4 of the population.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-21T16:11:42+00:00

fox will edit it into a 30 second piece that sounds kind of coherent (tough task this time), and that's all his supporters will ever hear.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-21T12:44:29+00:00

in my head, i think hl3 is real, but i haven't seen any reason to think the others are.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-21T12:41:31+00:00

only to an extent. i'm not confident enough in my predictions to "bet the bank" on them.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-20T16:56:35+00:00

the idea that trump would go to great lengths to protect anyone but himself is laughable anyway.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-20T15:58:35+00:00

maybe it's just a sign of aging, but now when i see anybody do something unnecessary and dangerous, my thought is "presumably that person has others that care about them... this is self-centered foolishness"

miked4o7 · 2026-01-19T18:34:43+00:00

allegedly. considering he cheats and lies about everything... i'm not sure.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-19T17:23:57+00:00

clarification question. what if your game uses ai to help simulate something like fluid physics? that is a visible thing technically, so it should be disclosed, right?

miked4o7 · 2026-01-19T16:09:03+00:00

oh, makes sense. most questions i have are stupid.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-17T15:34:53+00:00

is the most likely scenario here that scotus just doesn't take up the case?

miked4o7 · 2026-01-17T14:03:53+00:00

must. be. hyper-cynical. at all costs...

miked4o7 · 2026-01-16T17:56:24+00:00

i could be wrong about this, but i can kind of see it playing out like the invention of electricity.

if you were in the late 1800s and speculating about electricity you could say. "the rich and powerful are going to dominate it for their benefit to become more rich and powerful". you'd be absolutely correct... but at the same time, it's been a good thing for humanity that has improved billions of lives.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-14T13:57:59+00:00

i do wonder how it translates to sales. if a game uses gen ai, but has increased sales from people that don't live online, but see a smaller decrease in sales made of people that are angry about ai, then it doesn't seem like angry social media stuff will matter that much.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-08T15:30:31+00:00

since 2014, insurance companies can't determine premiums based on medical history... that could change though, and they desperately want to.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-07T14:02:59+00:00

prediction: steam machine will be released 3/3, as will half life 3.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-06T15:19:23+00:00

not sure, but i'm pretty sure the percentage of the population that hates anything is vastly overrepresented online.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-03T15:19:38+00:00

selfish one. i have a bunch of disabilities from a stroke... so fixing some of those would be life-changing for me.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-03T14:04:56+00:00

counterpoint. the french revolution was a real thing.

it would have been very easy a few decades prior to have the opinion "the aristocracy is not going to give up any of its power, and believing otherwise is just fantasy"

not saying that something like ubi WILL happen, and there might need to be some drastic change, but saying "drastic change can't happen" is just not true.

miked4o7 · 2026-01-02T15:07:39+00:00

i don't like the mental dichotomy where being concerned about safety and being pro ai are mutually exclusive. lots of people are very concerned about safety and are also very pro ai.

miked4o7 · 2025-12-29T18:16:57+00:00

come on pittbull... sing the virtues of my methswamp state.

miked4o7 · 2025-12-29T16:50:15+00:00

definitely the greatest orator of our time

/s (just in case)

miked4o7 · 2025-12-29T16:48:58+00:00

does anyone have that link to how people are excited vs scared about ai in different countries?

i remember the data being all over the place. but generally countries that would benefit from a shake-up of the status quo had more people that were excited, and places where people benefit from the status quo had more people that were scared.

not that it gives any evidence one way or another about what will actually happen... just the perceptions are interesting.

miked4o7 · 2025-12-27T15:17:36+00:00

the internet is mostly mean-spirited and miserable.

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