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  • theneverfoxtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldOnly the best
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    45 minutes ago

    Yup. I had the exact same reaction - there’s no way they come out of there and say anything other than “some amount of the gold is missing”

    The only question is are they going to follow that up with “and so we’re moving it to the Whitehouse for safekeeping” or are they going to walk out of there with $ print sacks

    And the insane part is I can say the first part, and most people will agree. Everyone knows on some level that Trump will “find” any problem he goes looking for, reality be damned.

    But say “he’s totally going to steal the gold” and suddenly it’s a bridge to far. He’s a billionaire, why does he need it? That’s absurd, the president wouldn’t rob fort Knox. He’s just auditing for corruption.

    And honestly, solid chance a lot of the gold is missing already. But either way, in a few months we’re going to see him using a gold brick as a paperweight and a lot of people will still try to explain it away


  • theneverfoxtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldOnly the best
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    18 hours ago

    I feel like this isn’t visceral enough.

    It’s so insanely true, but people don’t understand… When they accuse someone of something, they’re about to do it, if they aren’t doing it already

    I think this is why I found myself sobbing when my personal AI assistant called me human too many times…


  • I agree, but I don’t think we have 4 years. It took like 2 weeks for things to start falling apart, a month to dismantle all of our global soft power, and probably like 6 months for people to start dying in the streets. Our economy is collapsing, and with it the global economy

    Bird flu could make the jump at any point too… Cutting regulations and public health funding is basically breeding another pandemic. Hell, honestly we might not even know it’s happening until we have a whistleblower

    On the plus side, we’ve got constant protests, Europe is stepping up in a big way, and Trump has hurt right wing causes across the globe. We’ve got maga people screaming to get Musk out of the white house, Republicans and Democrats alike are booing their representatives for not doing something, and Trump looks like he’s rapidly aging. Billionaires who handed Trump the presidency control the media, and you know what most people aren’t seeing? The daily speeches trump is making, weirdly turning everything into something about real estate development. People hate Vance - Trump seems to be setting musk or his son up to be his successor, but they’re pretty universally hated too

    We’re over the cliff - the pax America is over, there’s no going back. Things are going to get rough, things are going to get complicated, but an end is a new beginning. Maybe we can start building something better. I think we will. To me, the only question is how many people will die along the way, how long will we have to endure this slow (but now pretty fast) decline before we get past this

    Or maybe this is just the end for our species. Either way, I don’t think there’s a “next time” in 4 years… There’s no going back. Only forward, into the unknown





  • That’s so wholesome. I’ve just told everyone I’ve ever worked for “I have to write and doodle to process information”, and after a few well timed comments they accepted it. I’ve been late because I had to grab a notepad, I’ve been questioned why I was taking notes when they were already writing down the tasks for everyone… Eventually they just all accepted I doodle and take incomprehensible notes during meetings

    If I had a boss who just recognized why I do all that, I’d instantly feel more loyal to them. I mean, assuming they’re a good boss otherwise


  • Not really… Space travel is doing things without room to cut corners, it’s an enormous money hose in the short term due to government funding

    In the longer term, the first group to set up full manufacturing outside the gravity well wins capitalism forever. Oxygen is corrosive, gravity and air pressure are constraining. You can make whatever you want in insane quantities, no risk of pollution, dirt cheap resources (if you can make it work)

    The fact that billionaires aren’t putting more towards space flight exposes the lie of capitalism. Spaceflight would force us to learn how to live in our world without destroying it… It’s not the problem

    The problem is they want to do it and be paid for every step of the way. They don’t want to risk their fortunes to gain even more… They want us to do the work for them, to make them richer in comparison to the rest of us


  • I used to have this pet theory that Elon was doing a zero’s requiem - to be such an oppressive billionaire that after he destroys everything, we’ll be able to rebuild fresh with a deep seated hatred towards billionaires and the systems that let them come to be

    The idea is he goes from the “hero billionaire” that brings us the tech we need to fix the world and move forward, then shows his total ineptitude as he destroys the global economy, and finally dies or fakes his death so we can build a better world

    But between the Nazi shit and the reckless destruction of things we need to handle climate change, the thought doesn’t come to my mind often anymore



  • I really hate this tendency to call everything AI. Especially this - my writing is very stream of consciousness if I don’t edit it, and I get accused of being so AI

    Which is crazy because AI doesn’t do stream of consciousness. It usually is overly structured, or it’s nonsense. AI writing has low information density per word, where stream of consciousness is high (if harder to understand)



  • theneverfoxtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldTherapy
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    Lol, the first thing I was taught was to float over your floaty to distract them (if you have one) and approach them from behind, grabbing them over the shoulder and across their neck to their other arm pit

    Then you pull them onto their back, so if they pull or cling to your arm no big deal, they have no leverage. And if they’re still flailing, you can pin their arms or even choke them out. You just have to be careful going in to avoid a head butt, but once you’ve subdued them you can focus on swimming them out, if they’ve calmed down they can even help by kicking

    I’m really curious about the timeline of this progression, from “you might have to punch them” to “here’s an efficient way to fight them” to “let’s just take a few more seconds to subdue them gently every time”







  • Orders of magnitude more competent. He could’ve come in there with his own accounting system and used bugs as an excuse for why the money wasn’t going where it was meant to. He could just deny and delay until people stop caring

    Or if he was really competent, he could’ve gotten a list of all funding and put together his own teams to take over the contracts. Trump could’ve awarded contracts to musk left and right in the name of savings, and if he failed to deliver, oops.

    The public wouldn’t even know he’s skimming off the top of government spending until it’s too late - he could build a business empire like that, even force through the payment platform he wants so bad by making everyone submit taxes through it

    The game is rigged, and right now he’s sitting at the controls… He could’ve slowly entrenched himself while manufacturing problems to sell the solution, he could’ve created opportunities to stealthily invade every corner of our lives for power… Instead he’s basically just smashing the panel for the copper