Also it should be specified that these are straight men who never entertain wistful thoughts of another man’s cock. Muscular, well-endowed straight men, whose rock-like chests glisten with fragile beads of moisture as they shower together before towelling each other off and pulling on their tight, white, form-hugging space underwear under their spacesuits, but who are not thereby aroused. This should be spelled out explicitly, to avoid any confusion.

Only if what they’re saying is bigoted or a scam.

AI has a role in turning pages and pages of text into one sentence.

Right now it’s generally used the other way round.

I’m sure people pointed out all of those things and were overruled by the Nazi manchild in charge.

The best thing they could do for their sales is get rid of all ties to Elon Musk.

I’m starting to wean myself off all US services and subscriptions, and avoid US products wherever possible. I’d encourage other Canadians to do the same and buy Canadian wherever you can.

2013 Ukraine might be closer to his thinking. Trump learns from his mentor. And just as in Ukraine, there will be traitors in Canada who help the invader (looking at you, Danielle Smith, and I don’t trust Poilievre for a minute).

Canada supplies 60% of the US oil. If we want, we have them by the balls and they’re isn’t a damn thing they can do.

Canada supplies 60% of US oil imports. The USA also uses domestically produced oil. So it’s not true that Canada supplies 60% of their oil in total.

This is a bit out of date but just for example:

in 2020 America produced 18.4 million barrels of oil per day and consumed 18.12 million. And yet that same report reveals that the U.S. imported 7.86 million barrels of oil per day last year. Source

That would make imported oil about 43% of what was consumed, and Canada’s contribution about 60% of that 43%, so about 26%.

I can absolutely see the US military following those orders once Trump has replaced all the top brass with his cultists and the alternative is the harshest punishment they can come up with.

And as for no public support, half the electorate just voted him back in after he spent weeks talking every day about how he would annex Canada. I suspect there are many tens of millions of Americans who support it.

Ah, the supporters of the free market strike again. No competition allowed, Sam Altman and his American billionaire peers are entitled to all the money.

I can’t believe we’re two weeks into Trump’s presidency and already people are seriously discussing whether the USA is going to take over our country by force. Canada and the USA’s other former allies needs to do everything they can to forge new trade relations that leave the USA out of the picture. Otherwise the Trump-Putin axis will be ready to swallow us all.

What is a pedon? The dictionary says it’s a soil sample.

Not ordinary Americans. That’s piracy, which is a form of terrorism. Only the wealthiest asshole Americans can steal data.

I don’t see this as the USA turning into China. China has many problematic aspects, and being an immigrant or an LGBTQ+ person in China is probably not fun, but China at this point is less stupid and understands competitiveness. China would not defund all its science overnight, hamstring its technology and trash its whole economy with tariffs on goods it cannot produce domestically, withdraw vaccines in the face of new epidemics, and cancel sustainable energy projects and funding while denying climate science. The new US Government is just shooting the country in the foot again and again.

Which one to trust more is at least debatable. In the end, neither can be trusted.

The fact that Microsoft and OpenAI define Artificial General Intelligence in terms of profit suggests they’re not confident about achieving the real thing:

The two companies reportedly signed an agreement last year stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when it develops AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits. (Source)

Given this definition, when they say they’ll achieve AGI and beyond, they simply mean they’ll achieve more than $100 billion in profit. It says nothing about what they expect to achieve technically.

Intel has been trying to get itself into that position for years, with huge amounts of public money being pumped in, and it is struggling so badly the company lost patience and fired the CEO who had the best chance of getting this done. And, as others have said, it doesn’t look like TSMC is about to let its US fabs do the most advanced stuff even if they could.

So this move will just make the best technology less accessible to the USA and tech products more expensive for Americans, for the foreseeable future.

Looks like an American salute to me.

The United States of Northern Mexico?

How pathetic is it to respond to political difficulties by ramping up your persecution of trans people? I can’t think of a lower move, except perhaps supporting any politician who does this.