I don’t know. Is there a country of Shreks out there somewhere? They might want to buy the thing.

Quantity has a quality all its own.

Why doesn’t Europe do psyops on Americans like Russia?

What makes you think they don’t?

Well…umm…we’ll retaliate by making it so champagne not produced in the Champagne region of France can still be labeled as “champagne!” T_T

Quit trying to divide the left. At this point, I’m going to have to assume you’re a Republican if you’re still doing this shit a year after the election.

I can’t build a guitar. I can build a guitar-shaped object. But I cannot build a guitar.

Tactical urbanism ftw!

Who says it has to be evil or cruel? I make a mean dish. It’s about average.

I mean, honestly, like, if you’re going to try and buy someone’s country out from under them, at least make the offer remotely fair. You know what Greenlanders don’t have to pay for? Health insurance. You’ll burn through $100k easily in ten years in health insurance premiums, copays, etc. Realistically you should be talking millions per person, or some ongoing inflation-adjusted six-figure annuity payment. The US is only a nice place to be in if you’re wealthy. If you actually wanted to convince Greenlanders to sell their country, even if we completely ignore the desire for self-determination and independence, you should be talking about making every Greenlander wealthy by US standards.

See that’s the kind of thing we should be making mass AI propaganda for. You simply must invade a country of brown people to appease the bloodlust of your base? Use AI to create an entirely fake country and fake an entire invasion and brutal occupation of that country. Blame a nonexistent ethnic group for all of society’s problems. Get all the propaganda benefits of imperialist wars without all the expense and blood shed.

This is the kind of innovation we could be having right now!

I’m god times infinity! (Infinity factorial.)

Well I declare myself One-above-god + 1! You are inferior deity!

The US has given up captured territories before. Including the Panama Canal Zone, the Philippines, Cuba, and others.

If you’re looking to get into the scrap metal business, I could sell you the Eiffel Tower.

Is it? That’s not why we built the land-grant university system, for instance.

Seriously. This CEO just wants cheaper contractors and hotel stays.

If history is any guide, now would be the perfect time to pursue a career that requires office work. Whenever corporate forces start encouraging people to go into a path, it’s because they want to increase the supply of labor in that field and to drive down wages. And the herd does follow along. We’re going to have tons of people skipping college to go to trade school. The result? Carpenters and plumbers earning pennies.

The CEOs job is to serve as a shiny object and to fart out mountains of inspirational drivel. They’re human LLMs.

How many children in the 1980s were acutely aware of Trump? I imagine very few. You’re talking about people who were in their twenties and older in the 1980s. And if you were 25 in 1984, you were 65 in 2024. A lot of the electorate is simply too young to remember Trump in his 1980s incarnation. And while older voters do vote at higher rates, the difference is massively overblown.

Abduct him and put him on trial in a European country. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.