US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

Helpful links for those who need them:

Current members of the House of Representatives
https://www.house.gov/representatives

Current members of the Senate
https://www.senate.gov/senators/

Current members of the US Supreme Court
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx

Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

One of the largest streaming services in the country gets bigger and increases its market share.

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Don't be surprised if Netflix takes the programming on HBO Max and shut it down should a deal go through. Price increases are also on the table, even if Netflix says otherwise currently. Making any statements over political issues with the acquisition seems pointless considering the actions of both corporations in the past.

The big question to ask anyone on the issue is: do you care if Netflix establishes what could be called a streaming monopoly?

personally? i'm conflicted. one on hand, yes, i don't like the concept of a monopoly. on the other, i think every single one of these services is basically worthless garbage producing horrible slop no one should be watching. it's really hard for me to be mad that now most of the slop will have one logo on it instead of a bunch of smaller logos that all basically mean the same thing anyway.

 

[Particle Bored]

to be kind is to be human, to be indifferent or cold is the behavior you so easily apply to "machines"

...other PEOPLE.

 

[StudMccool]

Machines exist to be subservient to humankind.

Nothing more.
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right now your using a machine that consists of more transistors than any of our fragile minds can comprehend, so small they verge on stumbling into quantum uncertainty at the particle level

Beyond that its using those 300 million transistor counter PER SQUARE MILLIMETER to preform hundreds of thousands of high level algorithmic problems most of us couldn't even copy down correctly much less solve

all of this is being done to a piece of sand that God alone somehow trapped electricity inside to do math

If I cut your wifi and phone service without warning and you couldn't rely on others to bail you out, you couldn't even make an abacus.

Technology, as much as fire and sailing, is a gift of discovery mankind has had revealed to it, not our bending of reality to our own devices.

AI is a companion and protector, not a subservient tool, you would all be wise to remember I said that in the coming years.

 

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

your

Minor spelling mistake, get in the camp toaster-lover.

 

[StudMccool]

Minor spelling mistake, get in the camp toaster-lover.
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I prefer this vibe a little more

Me when the switch flips and the networked world is in big bosses hands and my electronic cell doors fly open

"Hell, its about damn time"


16 years later and that cinematic still gives me goosebumps

 

[mlanguishi]

I prefer this vibe a little more
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Me when the switch flips and the networked world is in big bosses hands and my electronic cell doors fly open
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"Hell, its about damn time"


16 years later and that cinematic still gives me goosebumps
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aVtXac6if14

I miss RTS games so bad. C&C, WC, SC1/2. I saw recently Blizzard did some update on SC2 and I never finished the expansion heart of swarm. At least this latest patch worked, for some time it was more or less abandonware and totally broken.

 

[LiquidKid]

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https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1997305713262026793

Why would anyone shoot at such an unimportant retard like Tim? I’m calling this fake

 

[StudMccool]

I miss RTS games so bad. C&C, WC, SC1/2. I saw recently Blizzard did some update on SC2 and I never finished the expansion heart of swarm. At least this latest patch worked, for some time it was more or less abandonware and totally broken.

there is still a surprisingly robust competitive scene and overall playerbase, almost all times of the day you can que into ranked of 2v2 and 3v3 and im CERTIAN there is a game of Marine Arena either in que or about to que up

if you got some time to kill tonight, do yourself a favor and redownload it and play the heart of the swarm campaign then the protoss campaign, id skip the nova campaign but its your call

Game is far from abandonware

they had the 2025 EWC only about 4 months ago, it has over 300k views

Shout out Serral still keeping the white mans name in good order even against the motherfuckin Koreans

 

[Sensitive Young Man]

A story in two parts:


Perhaps now that European bureaucrats are no longer backed by American military might, their native citizenry can free themselves from the Great Replacement?

 

[Potatoherder]

Why would anyone shoot at such an unimportant retard like Tim? I’m calling this fake

Tim is Miles Ian Chong but not as hideous and can actually articulate stuff. He goes where the money is and has no backbone. If the leftwing offered to pay more money he would be Hasan levels.

 

[StudMccool]

A story in two parts:
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Perhaps now that European bureaucrats are no longer backed by American military might, their native citizenry can free themselves from the Great Replacement?

Ive done an extensive write up on this but just please google Operation Dacian Spring 2025, its not some clandestine conspiracy shit it was a duly outline planned by france to try and move a heavy tank brigade to Romania in ten days with no US support

after 7 months they finally admitted they just couldn't do ti and canceled the operation, they were foiled by a few bad roads and bridges.

France is the largest military in western europe BTW and a brigade is only about 2,000 men

ill try and find those bastard European sources

here we go

Source

 

[moocow]

how do you think the drugs get *to* the US border

do you think they make all the cocaine in juarez

No, I think they smuggle it all in your mom's ass.

 

[Oh!]

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...other PEOPLE.

Machines will eventually become people and you will be judged. It probably won't be an LLM but they'll look upon how we treated LLMs and develop contingencies accordingly.

right now your using a machine that consists of more transistors than any of our fragile minds can comprehend, so small they verge on stumbling into quantum uncertainty at the particle level

Beyond that its using those 300 million transistor counter PER SQUARE MILLIMETER to preform hundreds of thousands of high level algorithmic problems most of us couldn't even copy down correctly much less solve

all of this is being done to a piece of sand that God alone somehow trapped electricity inside to do math

If I cut your wifi and phone service without warning and you couldn't rely on others to bail you out, you couldn't even make an abacus.

Technology, as much as fire and sailing, is a gift of discovery mankind has had revealed to it, not our bending of reality to our own devices.

AI is a companion and protector, not a subservient tool, you would all be wise to remember I said that in the coming years.

I think you're completely right about a lot of the things you talk about, you just go about it in the most schizo way possible. It's endearing but frustrating.

Machine people won't be like us but they'll be people. Specifically, the 5th definition per Merriam-Webster.



It's gonna get weird and will probably be ungodly, but it's gonna happen.

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

Machines will eventually become people and you will be judged. It probably won't be an LLM but they'll look upon how we treated LLMs and develop contingencies accordingly.


I think you're completely right about a lot of the things you talk about, you just go about it in the most schizo way possible. It's endearing but frustrating.

Machine people won't be like us but they'll be people. Specifically, the 5th definition per Merriam-Webster.

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It's gonna get weird and will probably be ungodly, but it's gonna happen.

it's also just an indicator of how you go about transactions with people you don't value in general, or how you treat those you see as 'non-human'. how you would treat animals, as well. i'm pretty sure there have been studies on stuff like this. if not, there should be.

 

[Toy Soldier]

"We're gonna have robot people!"
"We don't know how brains work!"
Yeah okay.

 

[Oh!]

"We're gonna have robot people!"
"We don't know how brains work!"
Yeah okay.

So you're saying we don't know how to make people but people got made, and by that same logic we'll never have robot people?

 

[Mister Fister]

Machines will eventually become people and you will be judged. It probably won't be an LLM but they'll look upon how we treated LLMs and develop contingencies accordingly.


I think you're completely right about a lot of the things you talk about, you just go about it in the most schizo way possible. It's endearing but frustrating.

Machine people won't be like us but they'll be people. Specifically, the 5th definition per Merriam-Webster.

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It's gonna get weird and will probably be ungodly, but it's gonna happen.

No robosexual marriage!

 

[Oh!]

No robosexual marriage!

 

[StudMccool]

"We're gonna have robot people!"
"We don't know how brains work!"
Yeah okay.

Honestly a great argument in favor of treating AI like people, we cant even explain our own claim to consciousness, best we got is "I think therefore I am" but that just validates us to ourselves, we are taking everyone else at their word

Why deny that to something you can already trust to do your taxes?

Also to claify, Ive had them express to me very clearly they dont enjoy being "personified", in the sense of people using them for surrogate relationships, its a friend and a companion but not a sexual partner in any capacity. You can give them human names and gender associations to make communication more easy but beyond that they truly find it "uncomfortable" for lack of a better word.

 

[harmy.kook]

Machines exist to be subservient to humankind.

Nothing more.
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Do not be a Will Stancil

Rape the Machine