Huh, I haven’t played Prince of Persia since the original on an Apple IIe. Color me curious.

Trump couldn’t arrange a beer run in a goddamned frat house. The reverse is far more likely to be true.

He’s on Musk’s payroll, conflicts of interest that benefit Musk do benefit Trump, so I think it’s rather that he only cares when they make him look bad.

Because he said that he wouldn’t be in order to establish that he was in control, so when it comes out that he’s not (which we all knew anyway) he looks weak and stupid. So he’s issuing excuses, only he’s a moron so the excuses make him look even less in control. But it’s okay, he’ll have nappy time in 5 minutes and forget about this and the American media will conveniently forget along with him.

Yeah, but ‘lying liar lies some more’ is not much of a headline, either. :P This really souldn’t be surprising media organizations anymore.

I hope this is not news to anyone, but Trump does not give a fuck about conflicts of interest as was made abundantly clear by his first term. What he cares about is looking good; specifically in making sure that everyone remembers he is king dick of the universe and Musk is subordinate.

• He said he wouldn’t include Musk in the briefing to establish that impression.
• Obviously he was lying and was going to include him anyway; oligarchs don’t spend that kind of money without making sure they’re getting value for it.
• Now he’s making excuses for having done what he always intended to do so he can maintain the illusion that he is in control.
• But also he’s a moron, so this excuse makes it look like he’s not keeping his house in order, and any remotely media-literate adult can see through this shit clear as day.

‘AI is making us dumb!’ -2025

‘Social media is making us dumb!’ -2020

‘Smartphones are making us dumb!’ -2010s

‘The internet is making us dumb!’ -1990s

‘Television is making us dumb!’ -1970s

‘Books are making us dumb!’ -1500s

You’d think we’d know by know that that’s just how technology works - it makes us ‘dumb’ because we don’t need to spend the effort to do things we’ve automated away with technology and thus can focus on shit that is more important to us. If I don’t have to sit around thinking about math because someone invented a calculator, that’s more time that I can spend doing the thing I want to use the math for. The math is a tool, not the point itself.

But he had a journalist’s number in his phone, so he was talking to him before this. What’s more likely: he accidentally saved it under someone else’s name and then never called them to find out it was the wrong person, or he put it under another name to hide the fact that he was talking to a journalist? I’m putting my money on door #2.

He’s here, he’s there, he’s every-fucking-where, Roy Kent!

And you’re saying the lessons from one thing aren’t directly applicable to the other when they are. It’s like saying no one who was ever physically abused as a child can ever talk about why hitting a child is bad because they’re just giving survivorship bias for two completely different situations. The lack of belief still hurts whether it’s an isolated incident or a pattern, and OP needs to know that.

I don’t think you’re a jerk, but I think you’ve handled this badly and you’re using ‘objective and realistic’ to justify it, but that’s just code for not believing in him. Were you great at 16? Or were you merely good enough to get signed and thus benefit from decades of training and coaching that improved you? Do you not believe he will also improve? That’s literally what not believing in him means.

It’s one thing to inject some realism, to manage expectations, to encourage him to have a fallback, etc, and quite another to effectively say ‘You’re shit at this so you should just go get a job’ or whatever.

They sorta did… they called it ProPublica. Although they focus on investigative journalism and publish their work through other outlets rather than publishing the news themselves.

Yeah, they object to us hearing those opinions, for much the same reason that the US the better part of a century crushing any even vaguely socialist movement or government within its sphere of influence: they don’t want ‘the poors’ getting any bright ideas.

This is what happens when insecure oligarchs own all of the things. Soon there will be no dissenting opinions at all.

Listen, there are assholes everywhere, and even mild centrists can be dicks and break the rules. We can speak about tendencies and generalizations if you like, but there are plenty of people who aren’t bigots who are giant flaming assholes on social media.

It isn’t a purity test, it’s a necessary accommodation of the fact that people in the US (and I say this as an American) think that the left ends at progressive liberalism, while everyone else in the world sees progressive liberalism as center-left at best because they acknowledge that ‘the left’ extends quite far past the bounds of Liberalism (the philosophy, not the political leaning), because Liberalism is about individualism and property rights but most people to the left of that are collectivist in some way shape or form.

Good point, many think left = liberal = US democrats who are centrists at best from the international perspective. So no, most people on here probably aren’t actual leftists, but I’m guessing when they say they ‘lean left’ they mean US-liberal-not-conservative, not socialist or whatever.

Not me, I’ve only been a person for the past couple years. Prior to that I was a caffeine-powered AI.

Like everything on the right, decentralization is a means to an end, not a value in itself. They only care about it when it’s useful for helping them get ahead. Just like they only care about free speech when it’s them speaking to people who don’t want to hear their bullshit.

I am extremely left-wing, so probably skew the average all by myself. :P