cosmicgadget

> Against all expectations, the T1 is actually well priced when compared to the equivalently specced 512GB U24 Pro, and the only things you give up are the 60W fast charging and your dignity.

The Persona game series.

No, her argument makes her argument incorrect. Her bias makes her argument not worth the time.

Seems like a great way to get conned. I'll pass.

I have no words for what I just read.

Technically true but it's also a hard sell to normal people who don't like wars of aggression, poisoning political opponents, and shooting down airliners.

Ammon McNeff

As with any collectible, people on either side will choose the number that suits their goals. People with no skin in the game will probably use the more impressive number and understand that's the top end. I think you are interpreting the latter as "accepted as fact".

Interestingly, the total dollar value of the controversy has blown way past both numbers.

The "stupid and woke" thing is just marketing, they know exactly what they're doing.

Noise is a lot better when it's centered around 0.

Huh? When were we talking about Americans who voted against him?

Sure they did. They voted for the guy who airstriked an Iranian general in his first term. You might have caught the rampant social media commentary about how people were certain they'd be drafted soon. Of course, we didn't follow up with an invasion but it's a clear acknowledgement that acts of war are absolutely on the table.

His relationship with Netanyahu didn't start Jan 2025, nor did the eventual showdown over nuclear weapons precipitated by our withdrawal from the arms treaty.

I know that is a lot of thinking to ask of his voters so here's an easy one - it's very obvious when the dude is lying. Anyone hearing him talk about being the president of peace should have instantly known it was no different from claiming we'd all soon be rich beyond our imagination. Or that covid would be over in a week. Or that any election he lost was 'stolen'. Anytime he describes himself as being the "most/greatest anything in history". Whenever someone asks a critical question and he freaks out (sadly for Trump voters, Joe Rogan isn't capable of this).

No doubt, policy was completely absent in his campaign. His normal shtick does deal a lot in outcomes that are backed into policylike promises, "[literally anything] will make us/you the richest person/country in history, probably ever".

And you point out the single-issue voters that the GOP has farmed for decades. The culture war was there but since he protrays himself as elite, he couldn't do the blue collar charade. Instead it was a really half-assed demonization of trans athletes and, of course, immigrants.

The thing I think has to be mentioned is that he seems to have manipulated people's need to feel like they are on a team that is winning. I think that's why you see the cult of personality stuff like flags and tattoos - he's more of a college football team than an administrator.

Is there a reason you left out Eric Adams?

On par with publicly embarrassing someone's birtherism at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

That blowback though.

Certainly there is very little granularity in both election outcomes and yea/nay approval rating.

That said, if people voted based on values or alignment for a candidate that said he would overturn civil service reform and conduct the bigliest deportation campaign in history, it'd be silly to think they'd reject the outcomes they voted for.

Jared or some of the other White House insiders trying to offshore their recent financial gains.

Weird to equate "American culture" and being able to understand democracy.

Which is weird because this is pretty much what they voted/abstained for. I think we have to trust the ballot box more than opinion polls.

Yuppie skateboarding videography was also a classic.

> not going well

Maybe working as intended, these are high level HR and IT people being reassigned to grunt work. Probably just another way to get people to resign.

You can call Trump "America's Hitler" and end up the VP pick. All that matters is bending the knee.

"Get out of debt" is funny because his whole shtick is always being in debt. But yes, his creditors are probably asking to be paid out so he needs to milk SpaceX. Luckily, he can take the company public with a tiny float so that index inclusion drives the share price through the roof, allowing him to borrow against considerably greater assets.

Constitutional law is pretty engaging actually. You are welcome to feel otherwise.

> Trump is not authoritarian

The better discussion is:

1. Does he aspire to be authoritarian or does he prefer to do work with congress, scotus, and independent agencies?

2. Has he expanded presidential power, formally or informally?

133 points, 66 comments. Maybe people want to discuss fascism.

Perhaps attempted fascism is also bad.

I was referring to Twitter though.

You may have noticed Zuck is continually trying to make or buy the Next Big Thing. Elon mostly just wants to keep the lights on and shape content to his personal interests.