I’ll buy that for a dollar!

Perhaps by your standards. ;)

Celebrate is not the right word. Trump is just the crash test dummy front man. The entire administration and republican party have lost their minds/shown their true colors. It’s not time to celebrate. There’s still a lot of work to be done.

I will however drink my best bottle of wine and toast the moment.

The Newsroom. - EPA

And while perhaps more contentious, and more like an honorable mention, not a winner.

The Newsroom - Greatest Country

Excellent point. Good perspective and post.

people forming mobs that actively hunt down immigrants.

That is ICE already. I was thinking "people forming mobs well regulated militias that actively hunt ICE mobs. That just me speaking from my privilege.

Does it? When brownshits can extrajudicially shoot innocents in the face without consequence “legal” and Public opinion loses much of its meaning.

“Was Trump oblivious to…”

Stop. No need to elaborate. The answer is yes.

Not to be rude, but who cares? Authoritarian governments could send a goon squad and shoot you in the face extrajudicially. Seeing they are already doing that for such severe threats to authority as being in a public space, they have no threats left to make. Edit: not making guillotine jokes is not protection.

Let’s not pretend we didn’t call it during his first election. Then he proved us right. We elected him again so it became his democratic mandate.

Vote for Biff Tannen, get his corrupt distopia.

Two thoughts to consider. First is that the author might be abusing language in a way that deliberately obscures meaning, to pursue another goal. I.e. appearing intellectual or appealing to a reader who wants to fit this aesthetic.

The second is that LLMs do this as well. As they adapt to the language in your questions and subject material, they can diverge from the ideal path of bridge building between the reader and subject matter and either dumb it down so as to lose meaning (not explain in laymen’s terms), or further obscure meaning by hallucination, misinterpretation, abuse of language in trying to appear to be something.

It may help. It may hurt. They aren’t reliable enough yet to know which is which especially when you are unfamiliar enough with the material and trusting the system is all you got. The better method is joining a book club or perhaps a discussion forum for the fans of the book if available. Maybe a forum on the general topic were you might encounter other readers where you can discuss the topic.

This is just the most immediate face of their food problem. 1 Billion people + rapidly depleting groundwater + rapidly depleting glacial water + climate change = famine. Everyone is vulnerable but few moreso than india.

They knew.

My dog sleeps right in between me and my wife. She likes to be the big spoon and the little spoon.

US counterterror officials plan Antifa summit, sources say.

TL/DR - yes. Hell yes even.

What is art or what is good art?

One of my fav definitions of art is "that which was created with the primary intention of invoking an emotional response in the observing subject.

Some would say art which provokes positive or negative emotions is good art, even if it was intended to be only positive. The more powerful the emotional response the better the art. So the Brandenburg Concertos are potentially on the same level of art as say Tiny Tims Tiptoe Through the Tulips, or Rebecca Black’s Friday. As music they are all galaxies apart, but as art. Strong emotions all.

Other would say good art provokes strong intended emotions. Like a performance piece about domestic violence is supposed to make you feel strong anger and revulsion. To these same “intentionists” if you found the same piece triggers a dark humour reponse and you lol, it’s bad art because it didn’t demonstrate mastery of emotional provocation. Closer to home, it means Shitposts are art. We are all artists here. Some masters, some aspiring. I could go on, but why.

At first I was gonna say, maybe morality isn’t subjective. Maybe its just our perception of morality that is, and that as an intelligence constrained by our meat, the subjectivity is just a naturally occuring conceptual filter construct that creates the illusion of subjectivity.

Then I realized, I should have just said “yeah”.

With apologies to Mitch Hedberg.

Or if you don’t have the means, including libraries, a last resort could include crooksmaxxing.

Top level comments, yes.

Just raise tarrifs on American goods and services! Poof! Money and deintegration asap.

Like many claim satire is dead because it is indistinguishable from real news, this makes me think shitposting will suffer the same fate.

Now where can I buy this?