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Should be a wild four years.

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people in California are freaking out about ICE in San Fransisco

but im just blown away at any momvemnt that is so comically inept that they look at this person and go

"Yes! you! you are the one we need to put on the stage and in front of all the people and their cameras, this look makes us look like we are a highly competent organization who values self control, healthy living, and long term stability!"
 
Are we supposed to accept that the FAA and military are so inept that they couldn't communicate and quickly figure out that they were our own approved research drones?
When I heard "research" I assumed "military research" and thus the meetings were to figure out what to tell people, stalling, figuring out if they should say it's military at all, arguing they don't want to give anything away at all... etc. But that's a gut feeling nothing more.
 
"values self control, healthy living, and long term stability!"
since when do liberal groups in san francisco claim they want this? they always espouse the values of living however you want, living for only this moment, and fat acceptance, among many other things.

if anything, this woman is the perfect representation of san francisco. a useless, retarded, fat, ambiguously brown old woman terrified that someone might make her expend effort at something other than a grift.
 
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Police say English indicated that he had intended to target Bessent, the newly confirmed Treasury secretary, and Hegseth, the new Defense secretary. He told authorities he had left his Massachusetts home on Sunday intending to target Johnson and Hegseth but learned that Bessent’s confirmation vote was slated for Monday.

what a retard
 
I feel like we don't really know each other that well in this thread.

Let's have an ice breaker, shall we?

Actually, no, let's have 40 brand new icebreakers. YUGE ones.

Actual infrastructure and problems being planned for, instead of reacted to? Mister Trump, what are you doing? It's like you want to make a functional government people won't mind paying for!
 
This is my rock.
I am a highly respected rock breeder and would like to know of you would be interested in allowing me to breed your rock with one of my own stock.

Also in the property tax increasing for the elderly, my county freezes school taxes after 65 I think. I don't know if this is a state thing, a country thing, or a just my county thing. But do any limit increases to property taxes based on appraisals after a certain age?
 
When I heard "research" I assumed "military research" and thus the meetings were to figure out what to tell people, stalling, figuring out if they should say it's military at all, arguing they don't want to give anything away at all... etc. But that's a gut feeling nothing more.
I considered that but I directly remember officials saying that didn't know who they belonged to and there were concerns that drones were going over military bases. Not only that, but if they were our own drones conducting "research" then why did they go about it in the worst way possible? Everyone saw them and were scared and asking questions. If your goal is to do some secret research then they failed big time.

But even if we assume they're telling the truth and that they were conducting military research, why aren't people demanding to know what this "research" is? I find this answer very dismissive and not transparent at all, which is very disappointing.
 
Has Musk actually bought into the AGI bandwagon? I'm not sure if even he thinks he's creating the singularity aka techno god. That's the court of AI cultists like Altman who also don't understand their own industry. Elon invested in AI, cause it means more research on how to make his self driving cars not bowl straight over jaywalkers.

IIRC Musk was beefing with Altman calling him a hack, so I think Musk's brand of Transhumanism is that AI is still too far away. Probably why he is big on his Neuralink.
 
[On stealing to avoid Sales Tax] So, commit a crime?
Yes. Unironically yes.
Nice, easy to collect tax, you got there.
Occasionally I will partner with other people and even reimburse them to do what I would otherwise have to do to ensure that other other people don't take MY ROCK,
Call the partnership a nation and you're paying for national defense. Are you going to defend property not owned by you if the owner doesn't pay into this national defense?
A Land Tax
No it doesn't. Just about every property tax
Land Tax. You are ignorant of what a Land Tax is.
A kind of "reverse mortgage" or lean that doesn't throw out grannies is a good idea.
You have no recourse when your property increases in value!
You are responding to an example of a recourse.
tax on the mere act of existing
All taxes do this. Sales Tax taxes the items you depend on for survival.
 
Actual infrastructure and problems being planned for, instead of reacted to? Mister Trump, what are you doing? It's like you want to make a functional government people won't mind paying for!
It's almost like when you get a guy who actually loves his country and wants to see it succeed in the big chair instead of people who see it as a means to an end at best, you get results!
 
I feel like we don't really know each other that well in this thread.

Let's have an ice breaker, shall we?

Actually, no, let's have 40 brand new icebreakers. YUGE ones.

Actual infrastructure and problems being planned for, instead of reacted to? Mister Trump, what are you doing? It's like you want to make a functional government people won't mind paying for!
Trump: “we’re going to order about 40 big icebreakers.”
Trump curse, example #193:
The statement, widely dismissed by industry experts as a gaffe, was well-timed. Just as the President was committing America to a massive, as-yet un-funded 40-icebreaker buildup, a raggedy set of aged American icebreaking tugs were struggling to free a 663-ft transport ship, the Canadian-flagged Manitoulin, trapped by wind-blown lake ice.
 
I feel like we don't really know each other that well in this thread.

Let's have an ice breaker, shall we?

Actually, no, let's have 40 brand new icebreakers. YUGE ones.

Actual infrastructure and problems being planned for, instead of reacted to? Mister Trump, what are you doing? It's like you want to make a functional government people won't mind paying for!
holy fuck this man is doing things that are making me feel like other countries people are going to start looking at their government like "what the fuck are we even doing over here"

your post says it so much better than I can but my god its such a breath of fresh air to see my fucking leaders making intelligent decsions about shit I havent even BEGUN to think about but its genius!

For all of you fags who dont own 50 globes I want to explain why Trump wants both Greenland and Canada

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alright this is google maps but we are looking at the very top of the world, you see that passage? it looks navigable on the map but its not that whole area is just socked in with ice and shit, hence the icebreakers, But as the ice keeps melting that passage way will open up and it will become the fastest way to get from Europe or the east coast to East Asia via navigable waterways.

If that's confusing please just grab a globe and trace the line with your finger, its hard to grasp in 2d


anyway, control over Greenland will allow that trade to be proceed and also in the future not able to be used by China or another group as a very quick way to move large amounts of military hardware into the western hemisphere
 
I considered that but I directly remember officials saying that didn't know who they belonged to and there were concerns that drones were going over military bases. Not only that, but if they were our own drones conducting "research" then why did they go about it in the worst way possible? Everyone saw them and were scared and asking questions. If your goal is to do some secret research then they failed big time.

But even if we assume they're telling the truth and that they were conducting military research, why aren't people demanding to know what this "research" is? I find this answer very dismissive and not transparent at all, which is very disappointing.
It's still a bullshit story. The public is warned before classified satellite launches from Vandenberg and various military overflights all the time so they don't cause exactly the kind of panic they triggered over NJ. My guess is this BS cover story is to bait someone from the previous admin to call them liars.
 
That's why the book ends with John killing himself after giving in.
I interpreted that a bit differently. John was horrified by modern society, and attempted to withdraw from it by hiding. Modern society found him, and he killed himself. It was a subtle call to action from Orwell, that you can't ignore or escape the technology and societal changes of the future, you must work to mold and change the direction of technology and society lest you wind up with the bad ending.
Remember in 2021 China outlawed "effeminate men" from their media which basically ends any lispy queers from any form of representation. Fun addon: There's a Troon loophole, so if you have a lispy queer in your work, just claim he's trans and it's suddenly A-OK. Since they have de-facto control over our pop culture -- Hollywood and Vidya need Chinese sales so they make content that will at least be allowed to be consumed in country -- that's intentionally forcing some really stupid behavior.
I had noticed that a lot of newer woke shit would have a character give a long LGBTQWTFBBQ speech in the middle of the show that seemed out of place and apropos of nothing. Usually the character would come out of the closet, cry about how hard it is, get head pats from another character, and the story would resume with no further reference to this odd and out of context scene.

I found out later that they had adopted this format for the Chinese. They would concentrate all the gay into one virtue-signalling scene for American audiences. Then it would be easy to chop it out and sell the product to the Chinese without disturbing the plot or main storyline.
They do so because they want to emotionally manipulate those that believe in Christ to surrendering to whatever bullshit they're trying to push. "Jesus was a refugee" is one of their more common lies. Jesus lived when the Romans ruled Judea and Egypt. Going from one to the other was the equivalent of going from Ohio to Alabama.
Consider this: Joseph and Mary went to Jerusalem in order to register Joseph's citizenship by registering with Caesar Augustus' census. The Roman Empire required citizens to register in their city of origin. Joseph was a relative of King David, and Bethlehem was King David's city, so they had to do it there. Mary and Jesus' citizenship was based on Joseph's citizenship as head of the family. They made the long, difficult journey in order to preserve their legal citizenship status and obey the law.
 
It’s grants and loans as far as I’m aware. Trump has decided to shut down effectively all government spending. While I know some people are giddy at the concept of no more government spending, it’s also an immediate halt on a chunk of the economy. This is going to be a hit to not just economic spending, but unemployment levels, as Trump learns that the vast majority of government spending is not spent on the WOKE.
Don't care, it needs to be audited.
 
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