Imagine the USA being the new North Korea, Donald Jr. eventually following his father to the throne. Ostracized by the world. Global hacker scams and their own version of Juche. The parallels are astounding, esp. if you make a few simple deductions into the near future: distribution of wealth, collapsed economy while claiming it’s booming…

Another one? I’m still reeling from the preacher murders.

It’s the “Hit Rock Bottom and Turn Your Life Around” narrative. But it’s BS - there is no rock bottom. Things can always get worse. There is no miraculous cure. You need to make change happen.

He’s a fascist nut, easy to dismiss. But mainstream media are spreading the same lies.

Daily reminder that FOX themselves said that their News channel is not news but entertainment, and people cannot be expected to take it seriously. … Then why is it still OK to call it News?

And don’t get me started on certain far-right podcast grifters.

Sorry to say but this is just one aspect of dropping out of all climate contracts national, international and global. And yes, AI is making this much worse.

“Hyperscale data centers are the really large data centers that are being built now for [generative] AI, which is really driving a lot of the growth in this sector because it requires vast data processing capabilities,” said Volzer. “The trend is larger and bigger centers to feed this demand for AI.”

Much of the water used in data centers never gets back into the watershed, particularly if the data center uses a method called evaporative cooling.

Think about that the next time you “ask ChatGPT” something.

Just one more reason not to use servers located in the USA for anything.

This is genocide btw. And it makes me feel worse than all the shooting and killing. Whoever is complicit in this, whoever “just followed orders” any step along the way of abducting kids from their families and forcefully supplanting them, I want to see them rot in hell.

I knew what this was before I clicked it! On top of everything else, I love the choice of music. It’s the same pseudo-oriental music they use in movies and TV show when they introduce a terrorist lair in some Arabic nation. Preferably in squalor. Unbearable heat, hungry children barely moving in the dust. Or a docu about Al Qaeda.

edit: oh, it’s just a cut from the whole video. How could you forget Dijon-Gate, Bicycle-Gate and many more! Truly the worst POTUS ever. And people begrudge Trump a little vanity. SMH

Hmm, maybe the G in MAGA does not stand for “great” after all.

Or Biden!

Trump is kinda the opposite. He’s all about that peanut farm, and was from the start. POTUS is just a way to get more peanuts. And narcissism of course.

I will always love the story about how it’s made in China - the country whose name our Führer can only cough out with a derisive undertone. While claiming it was made in North America. And it hasn’t got any gold in it - just fiberglass and chrome color.

My first thought! Definitely not this guy:

Merz has said he will ensure Nord Stream 2, which the country once backed, would not go into operation, but for now the country has no legal means to prevent a sale of the assets, owned by Russian giant Gazprom.

Let’s hope the government follows these pretty words up with action - like setting the legal means to prevent that sale. And don’t dawdle.

And they’re running into issues due to increasingly ingesting AI-generated data.

There we go. Who coulda seen that coming! While that’s going to be a fun ride, at the same time companies all but mandate AS* to their employees.

Both are good 👍

ASSD

It really is very much not an “oil monarchy”

IDK; my father is one or two generations before boomers and what they did was not better.

Mostly correct, but I believe the strip deliberately portrays this as unrealistic, a dream basically. And seen like that it becomes even more cynical somehow. Which is something I appreciate in humor.