Well, often Romans were Romans' worst enemies.
ArbitraryValue
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I'm not a bee, you're not a bee, so it sounds like a them problem.
(On the internet, nobody knows you're a bee.)
Ah, then I don't think we disagree. Still, the CBG might be overkill when a simple phone call would have sufficed. After all, they don't want him. We're paying them to keep him.
Then again, since we're already threatening Canada and Greenland, maybe we should threaten El Salvador too? We can accuse them of imprisoning residents of other countries who were sent to them extralegally without a trial or any other sort of official procedure. It's unethical! They would be so confused.
I think that is the most based I have ever seen a machine be. Soon AI will be more based than any human.
Such public benefits now fall prey to the whims of the president with his pardon of a cryptocurrency company that smacks of political corruption.
So a man who promised to pardon his friends and allies, once elected, pardons his friends and allies. Is that corruption or is it just government policy by this point?
I don't think that's a claim that the Trump administration is actually making, even though it's in the title of the article. Here's what the article quotes them saying:
“The individual in question is a member of the brutal MS-13 gang — we have intelligence reports that he is involved in human trafficking,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to The Independent. “Whether he is in El Salvador or a detention facility in the U.S., he should be locked up. Remarkable that The Atlantic and other MSM continue to do the bidding of these vicious gangs and ignore their victims.”
The programmer's answer?
We don't support that use case.
On the one hand, murder for the purpose of terrorism is more serious than ordinary murder, but on the other hand I think they might be overreaching given that people on the jury are more likely to be sympathetic to the defendant than they would be to an ordinary murderer. I suspect the feds are more interested in making a strong impression now than they are in the ultimate outcome of a case that will go on for years.
I wonder if that's actually true, because I think that he is to some extent literally psychotic. What happens when someone who actually has enormous wealth and power still goes through manic phases or experiences something like grandiose delusions? He might really believe that he's saving the nation and the world, and that this should be obvious to all.
It's like those movies (I can't remember which ones but I'm sure I've seen some) where the king thinks of himself as good and is genuinely surprised and confused when he learns that the common people feel oppressed by him. Except in this case the king does not (and probably can not) learn a heartwarming moral lesson.
I don't think anyone claims that music or literature can't be art (though some people claim that video games can't) but in this context I'm using "art" as a shorthand for visual art of the sort that the public is interested in seeing computers create.
(Modern AI can also generate music and poetry, although it's worse at those art forms than at visual art. Plus listening to bad music takes time in a way that clicking past bad art doesn't and the general public does not care about poetry.)
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I think that the variety of leftists here, ranging all the way from people who don't hate voting for Democrats to literal Stalinists, is one of the peculiarities of Lemmy that I find interesting. With that said, actually engaging with any of the ones more like the latter than the former is, as you've experienced, unrewarding.