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I mean, I'll say it's not better than google search, if only because it's being used to make google search actively worse. It might not be fundamentally useless, but so far all the examples I'm seeing are "does a thing we can already do at best about as well as our tools already can" which is... pretty fucking underwhelming. Until you remember dipshits like Elon Musk are in charge of the US government now and think it can be used to replace people and the idea of competition in the field dropped a companies stock by $600 billion. Then it becomes kind of terrifying.

The weird split between Jan 6er's either being immediately doing another crime or rejecting the pardon is nuts. Like that's not the only case of this happening: https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-01-24/keene-man-arrested-for-storming-the-capitol-on-jan-6-rejects-trumps-pardon Anyway, good for the people who managed to break away from the cult.

This is like how people were going around "Trump declares there's only female." And like. No. "All humans start as female" is bioessentialist bullshit. Human's start out as neither and differentiate over time (usually) and the secondary sex characteristics people point out (things like nipples usually) are not female traits. They're mammalian traits. Sure people will point out that chromosomes give you good odds of knowing which it will become, but good odds isn't actually proof of something. Gonna be honest, only really familiar with Dawkins here, but I am familiar with the "sex is about large vs small gametes" and that's 100% something that's been popularized simply because all the other definitions have been pushed back. You can tell this because when pushed they often fall back on something like "people have known what male and female are for thousands of years!" you know, before we knew what gametes, hormones, and chromosomes were. It's very much the "created kinds" of TERFism. (If you're familiar with creationist history that's a fucking deep cut.)

US agree to do the thing that Colombia wants them to do to continue the flights US Media: "Trump Wins!" Fucking nonsense. No, soldiers should not be rewarded for refusing to follow lawful orders. Well the previous SecDef was a Four Star General and highly decorated. The new one was an OF3 and... not. DEI may not have worked, but no DEI sure as fuck doesn't if a completely unqualified motherfucker can get the job based on being on Fox News. Like I don't know guys, but it sure looks like from where I'm standing that the biggest reason people are mad at DEI is it made it harder for incompetent white people to get jobs because of their skin colour. Nor would the fact that non-white cops are as likely to shoot minority civilians actually prove there's no racism as play. This is like when people try to "disprove" the wage gap by pointing to things like career choice. As though there's no sexist reasons women might be pushed into certain careers.

If you're a dork that pays attention to thing like GPU releases you'll know they're not doing great. AI relies on significant spec vs power increases that just aren't happening. IE the RTX 5090 has a 27% increase in performance over the 4090... and a 30% power draw increase. That's not even getting into all the other shit they had to do to get that performance increase which makes the 5090 fucking terrifying. Now this was a known problem, Anyone with any idea of the industry was predicting a performance drop off as we hit the limits of GPUs barring a significant innovation, but venture capitalists don't care about reality and expect exponential increase in perpetuity. But hey, at least you can use ChatGPT as a search engine instead of wasting time making sure the information you look up is actually accurate.

So recent polls have been interesting, the Liberals have shot up and the CPC lead has nearly vanished (NDP basically still static like they've been for years) It's times like this I curse the lack of ability to control for certain variables. What I wouldn't give to be able to look into a universe where Trudeau didn't resign and Trump won, one where Trudeau did resign and Trump Lost, and one where Trudeau didn't resigns and Trump lost just to see the difference it made. Because I would love to know the exact split on how much this change is due to Trump victory and how much of it is Trudeau's resignation. Oh well, the CPC should be shitting their pants over their lead evaporating so that's nice.

I'm seeing reports on social media that ICE agents are raiding immigration attorney offices, that the Trump Government has argued Native American's don't qualify for birthright citizenship because they're loyal to their tribe first, and that the government's censoring of the NIH mentioned in the last thread includes preventing grants from being approved. If any of that is even slightly true shit's kinda fucked up.

"Why is a person that relies on US support and an organization that relies on US support not calling out a major player in the US government." I fucking wonder guys. Could it be they're just fucking opportunists who don't have any principles except that which benefits them? No not Benjamin "Being PM keeps me out of prison" Netanyahu and The "criticism of Israel is antisemitic" ADL.

Actually given the wording, there are no sexes. The order specifies gamete production at conception, which no one does. So there are no sexes. Now of course, getting into the weeds of the definition is what bigots want, they've never come up with a coherent definition because they can't they just want people distracted and focusing on the minutiae.

Don't worry motherfuckers are gonna be out here measuring the angles like salute phrenologists.

Look I stayed on Twitter way to fucking long and watched not only as he happily welcomed Nazis back onto the platform but boosted them. There's not a single fucking thing baseless about calling him a Nazi. And it really doesn't matter if he himself actually believes in Nazi ideology or not. Sitting at a table with a Nazi and all that. Though if you think the South African Apartheid Nepo baby that hypes up the AfD doesn't believe in at least some Nazi ideology than I have some lovely oceanfront property in Nebraska to sell you.

Nazis are saying it was a Nazi salute. Non-Nazis are saying it was a Nazi salute. The only ones trying to claim it wasn't are closeted-Nazis.

The funniest part about the Tiktok ban, justified because of Tiktok's ties to China, is that a lot of people are leaving Tiktok for RedNote, a Chinese social media platform. Apparently there have been some pretty cool conversations between the old Chinese users and the new American ones.

Anita Anand has announced she won't be running for leadership or reelection. This is pretty much one of the things I was worried about, a bunch of the more visible members seeing how things are going and deciding they're better off leaving.

I remember last year when there was anything that pointed toward Irish reunification that Star Trek Meme about the Irish reunification of 2024 would be posted, well with this talk about the US annexing Canada it's beginning to feel a lot like Fall Out.

In terms of raw numbers the Liberals have been pretty successful, and I fully expect in 20 or so years people will look back at this government and say they did a good job. The problem in the moment is they're held back by things they can't control at all, like global inflation and instability, or can only slightly control, like housing a provincial responsibility that the provinces have managed to convince people is actually a federal problem. All of which has lead to those numbers not having as much of a positive effect on average Canadians as you'd hope. Who knows? With Trump being an active threat, he just might be that miracle.

The really annoying thing IMO is he had moments showing he's his dad's kid, but then he'd just stop. Like he'd do something, like a speech, where he'd look really good, then he'd just default back to politician speak. And I just don't know why. Like I don't get how you can have the ambition to become a political leader like he did, but then just seem to constantly stop short.

Broad strokes? Yes, though I was thinking more of the general demographic of disaffected white male. We also don't know, assuming the reports of it being an explosive device are true, that this was the target.

My entire social media feed was people shrugging it off like "Yeah it's a cybertruck that kind of thing just happens with one of Elon Musk's deathtraps" and like that's true (The cybertruck shouldn't be street legal) but I am surprised no one seemed to think that it could have been deliberate given the demographics of cybertruck owners.

US President, but more importantly Canadian Hero. Seriously that's a cool as fuck story and I've always loved it.

I didn't know you were South African.

Them perp walking him like he was the fucking Joker was pretty good.

Didn't the US have a school shooting like a couple days ago? This time by a women? Makes the pearl clutching over this one guy even more ridiculous when we're reminded how little other deaths matter. Wonder if they brought her to Burger King like that other mass shooter? Like just so I'm clear on the score: School shooting? Tragic but business as usual not even worth talking about. Killed someone that society doesn't care about? He's actually a hero. Same old strategy in the middle east killing thousands of innocent people? For the greater good and one more bomb will finally fix it bro. Healthcare CEO shot? Most important event ever needs to be condemned in the strongest terms or who knows what chaos it will unleash. That about right?

What's the saying? "The purpose of a system is what it does"? The justice system has never given a shit about protecting lives before I'm not sure why people are freaking out about that fact just because it's now the rich that are seeing that truth.

I wonder if this might be the set-up to a leadership run? Though I'm concerned it might be a sign of impending Liberal collapse. I'm not convinced leadership is actually the issue here when compared to the general Canadian tendency to want change at all costs combined with a global surge to the right. So I'm worried that we'll burn through a potential leader or leaders when it won't actually make a difference. Not that I don't think that things couldn't be turned around, just that I don't think it's actually going to hinge all that much on who's in charge.