Yeah, the new guys really need to avoid being threatened or indoctrinated by the old guys.
‘Make life a living hell’, yeah? Nah, serve the people, not the party. You protect the people, they’ll keep voting for you. You don’t have to listen to the old guys who need to retire, or weak guys who need a new career, etc.
Dismantle, arrest, convict, sentence…
And you, Mr. Miller, your number is… up!
Ah ah aaah
He’s not allowed to cast pods in there, is he?
Plus he’s not in the shadows anymore. More accountability, no plausible deniability… Guys like him get cooked in the light.
(No offense, true children of the night, I know you don’t count him among you)
I condemn it!
I condom it?
I condone it* ¯_ (ツ)_/¯
Gymnasium Jordan. Looks like he has a strict diet of armpit hair. That’s the guy.
Maybe he can settle down in a nice west bank place with Joe and Eileen Bailey
The only things Russia exports more than oil products are propaganda and corruption.
Many formerly Russian-occupied countries spent a few generations under a system that’s run as a mafia rather than a government. Estonia is a great example of resisting that culture and rebuilding quickly after re-independence. Ukraine is also culturally distinct from Russia, but Russia entrenched itself much deeper in Ukraine, because i) the land is richer, ii) the population is larger, and iii) Kyiv is ‘their’ place of origin.
It was much harder for Ukraine to sever the ties. Estonia had the non-violent singing revolution, while Ukraine had the bloody Euromaidan, which resulted directly in the 2014 invasion. Corruption is still an issue (and not unique to Ukraine), but at least their government listens to their people now.
Ugh, McConnell… (shakes fist gerontocratically)… I need a drink 🥃
I don’t know the total amount repaid. AI suggested all but $15B, out of $426B paid out from the treasury. Also other guy said Clinton signed glass-steagall, minor note: he repealed* it.
Obama was far better than Trump and Bush, but I think he dropped the ball on that one, and on Russia’s annexation of Crimea. He was in a strong position to empower the people, but he kinda left the door open for authoritarianism.
Was it the best decision to continue Bush era policy, hang millions of families out to dry, deny accountability, and allow neoliberals to pursue their mythical infinite growth? Just… bygones?
Guess again.
It was Bush’s policies that created the mess, but (😱) it was Obama who allowed i) the bailouts the happen, ii) the actions to go unpunished, and iii) the system to continue.
https://youtu.be/wb9qikdg3M0&t=14m20s (FD Signifier)
Are there enough US lawmakers who don’t own stock in the companies that would receive these bailouts?
Do enough of them understand that the rest of the economy would be in better shape if the biggest AI companies would face a strong setback in the next 2 years? Jesus, are they even aware that more American-made AI tools exist beyond Claude and ChatGPT?
Remember, even the biggest Obama supporters looked at the Wall Street bailouts like wtf dude… If people see that folly again, we’re gonna see some crowdfunded drone strikes on data centers 🍿
Yeah, the ‘just following orders’ brigade. Also, C is for Charlatan, it was decided, by them, through their ineptitude.
Depends on the company and its culture. Sometimes they’re the worst, others they’re quite good.
Size can be a factor (easier to hide in a larger crowd), but any size group can allow itself to be led by feckless fecking fecks if they don’t push back.
Leaving aside the whole circle jerkular economics of AI, the pattern in tech companies has been:
Can we make the CEO role redundant already? ‘One boss to rule them all’ is the fastest way into the fires of mount doom. Stupid fucks…
Where are all those agile loraxes now? Why didn’t we listen to them about sustainable operations?
Hey that’s great 👍