I will say this is ONLY in proper war. We’re damn good at putting down insurgencies in foreign nations when it’s the CIA doing it and we don’t have to worry about public perception of things like death squads and gunning down civilians in the streets and depopulating whole villages to send a message.
It’s really easy to suppress an insurgency if you simply don’t care about painting the streets with blood. I feel that this admin MIGHT NOT care about that if push came to shove.
They already had a film crew embedded with some raids early on thanks to none other than Dr Motherfucking Phil.
Bingo, it’s a Mafia boondoggle. You pay Company [exorbitant amount of money] to build an ever larger, ever more complex project so you can funnel cash to them without it looking like a gift. All Company has to do is have 4 or 5 guys be up on scaffolding “building the wall” a couple days a week to make it look like progress is being made.
ICE gets new cars
Which they will proceed to never use because the terror of “oh shit is THAT the black SUV full of Men With Guns” is the fucking point. They’re quite literally turning themselves into the Stasi - they are Anywhere, Anytime, and you will not know they’re ICE until you’re being shoved onto a plane. I wouldn’t be surprised if dozens of white terror cells across the US are using the confusion to mask up, throw a plate carrier on, sling up a rifle, and kidnap minorities to kill/worse because this is basically all but an invitation to do so if you’re a white supremacist terrorist.
It’s profitable in that it gives investors a giant pit to shovel money into. OpenAI has never ever turned a profit on its product, not even when accounting for the $200/mo subscription levels. The only way they look like they’re profitable is by getting huge amounts of investor money.
I’ll also throw in Iron Sky.
It’s being sold below cost in ALL cases. OpenAI literally has not posted profits, ever, if you discount the investor cash that gets hucked at them when they go begging for it every two or three months. They even admit they haven’t made a single cent on any of their subscription services.
They’re hoping celebrity endorsement will drive numbers up. ICE has, predictably, been having serious trouble recruiting - why else would they be offering enormous salaries and benefits packages to match?
Worse will happen. Laura Loomer, one of Trump’s former favorite talking heads, “joked” about 65 million people being thrown into Alligator Auschwitz.
That number, by the way, is the entirety of the Hispanic population in the US. I truly believe that the admin expects to make the US, at best, an apartheid state far worse than what it was. At worst, they’re wanting a complete ethnostate a la Rhodesia.
We’ve already got RFK doing that. The State Dept has also adopted pseudohistorical stances, and the Education Dept being cut is so they can teach those stances as fact.
Even fusion reactor theoretical outputs (if we manage to crack fusion) are still basically in the GW range. Terawatts of power is science fiction.
This is, or was (thanks RFK for handing the industry a blank check), how pharma development works. You don’t even get to do human trials until you’re pretty damn sure it’s not going to kill anyone. “Experimental medicine” stuff you read about is still medicine that’s been in development for YEARS, and gone through animal, cellular, and various other trials.
Assuming you can find a buyer who will process that crypto, without touching either of those payment processors. All the crypto evangelists seem to forget the major crypto payment platforms are in use because you can actually rapidly exchange your crypto for that thing you can actually pay your rent with - but those function largely on the backbone of big payment platforms to trade that crypto into cash for the merchant.
The worm that keeps getting put into payment processor’s brains is that they might somehow be held criminally liable for games people purchase. It’s like telling a bus driver that they might be liable because they gave a ride to someone who robbed a store.
Because DOGE is still running on Elon Musk’s strategy of “move fast, break things, and don’t fix anything until shit’s on fire”. People won’t be dying in concentration camps because of DOGE, they’ll just be homeless and probably half-dead of starvation (because of the repeal of the PFDA).
Except Collective Shout is Australian (which is unsurprising, considering that AUS is also a hotbed of hate groups).
Remember kids, if you see someone shoplifting food/clothes/necessities, no you fucking didn’t.
I still wish they would’ve done the Spiders, but as I understood it, even setting aside the “literally worst record in pro baseball” thing, there was some weird licensing shit.
Every one of these is always “Parent’s Rights Act” and the text is like “murdering your gay/trans 10-year-old is now totally legal”.
This is just wealth transfer to keep another AI company afloat. Most of them live and die on investor cash, and never turn a profit.