What's your guess, military strikes on Venezuela tonight? Only real question seems to be what he meant by "on land." Does unstable grampa mean ground troops and if so, is it just special forces or more? Another GOP led attack attack on a country with large oil reserves (largest on Earth, fyi).

Time to start considering if you even need to buy another car at this point. Autonomous car service will be rolled out in the next five years to most Americans. No car payments (but yes subscriptions), no auto insurance, no filling or charging, need for a garage or parking them. Hold out if you can!

I don't usually like pickups, especially old ones, but this one is so sweet. Ugly as shit, but you can tell it would go through anything. Just a purpose-built tool. Even has a winch, as it should.

Trump really is unhinged and off his rocker--even compared to his own baseline stupidity and ignorance of a few years back. He is deteriorating rapidly and publicly, about to attack another sovereign country and risking war. Shit continues to get stupider by the minute.

Tesla FSD update: I know many of you hate Elon (I don't like him either), and further, many don't believe in AI at all as it's being forced on us by the very worst technofascist crowd. Still, not everything that touches that world is without merit, so a quick update on where we stand. 🧵

This is the way.

The fantasy world of FoxNews to Truth Social wouldn't be nearly so bad if people weren't cable-cutting and print/magazine journalism having imploded. So, not only is there a MAGAverse of fantasy if people want to live there, there often isn't anything else. The trashy TMZified CNN and MS Now remain.

There are three "networks" FoxNews, Newsmax, and OAN that all tell the same messed up fantasy. It's then boosted by sophisticated datamining and served by algorithms from Meta, X, and Truth Social. We have a propaganda world of fantasy the Right lives in, and has lived in for over a decade.

I totally agree that mainstream media has done a disservice by repeating lies in headlines, but that's really not our big problem. The thing that's changed is that many aren't getting mainstream journalism at all but get their worldview from FoxNews, Newsmax, OAN and the MAGA-sphere on social media.

The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of: -ABC, which bribed the president -CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans -WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor Fools.

If you thought Trump was bad, well now we have unstable Trump. Double the racism, cruelty, and generally confused. He's also easily manipulated is surrounded by the worst yes men and grifters since Roman times.

Barbarian Days A Surfing Life by William Finnegan Amazing memoir, and I don't even surf. www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...

Incompetence will save us from full blown autocracy… probably

Will Durant (legendary popular historian, along with his wife wrote the 11 volume The Story of Civilization. Quote: "The first principle of government is good example; to improve his people the ruler must make himself a model of intelligence and good will."

If you thought Trump was bad, well now we have unstable Trump. Double the racism, cruelty, and generally confused. He's also easily manipulated is surrounded by the worst yes men and grifters since Roman times.

Most of us won't own a car pretty soon. Autonomous cars-as-a-service will mean no more auto insurance, no more gas stations or charging, no more drunk driving, no more texting while driving. It's a major cultural innovation for our auto-based society.

Science is real!

Tweet of the day. It is quite something when Trump's go to architect comes to him and says Sir, what you're describing is gauche, tacky and monstrous.

How is it not against the law for a sitting politician & their family to do business with anyone receiving government contracts or grants? Asking for friend’s supposed democracy.

Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?

Has some already trained an LLM AI on deranged racist Truth Social posts and his tweets? I smell a marketing opportunity. A Trump bot would be hard to distinguish from the real thing. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION.

I am not subjecting my brain to reading this, but scanning a few keywords thru the text - Trump didn't write this. This is Steven Miller's stream of conciseness after he snorted two lines of coke, and raved directly into speech-to-text dictation.

My 600lb Life training regimen. This and a 2 liter of Code Red Mountain Dew, is the most American meal there is. What’s dessert? Maybe some Sour Patch Kids? Got to put I the work to get pancreas turning out insulin like a true blue American citizen.

Media always gets it wrong. Lots of racist stupid shit said by Trump yesterday, but his litany about Omar is the worst shit I’ve ever heard him utter, from swaddling hijab, to calling Somalia “decadent” like a good daily stormer wanting to sound smart’ it’s awful stuff.

Joe Biden was old but he wasn’t a fucking xenophobic racist dictator wannabe.

The stuff about Omar is vile as well. So fucking racist. Sick shit from anyone let alone someone claiming to be a leader.

Man Getting High And Eating Taco Bell Thousands Of Miles Away From Family Having Best Thanksgiving Of Life https://theonion.com/man-getting-high-and-eating-taco-bell-thousands-of-mile-1845721340/

You have an increased risk of developing diabetes-II just from reading this repost.

This should be the next Long Way route with Ewan and. Charlie.

Keanu Reeves has a pretty limited range as an actor I’ve got to say.

The Unitary Executive is some of the dumbest shit ever foisted on our nation. We need a constrained and largely symbolic president, not someone with 16 declared emergencies sending troops into US cities during peace time for Christsake.

This discribes workers as well, but at least they don't get to boss others around.

Happy secular autumnal harvest feast day 2025! We don't farm anymore, and family's are far smaller than in previous generations, but fuck it, it's a vacation day and no religious nonsense attached. That's a win. Not as good as firework day, but I'll take it, even if I don't even do the family part.

Halftime shows? I lose respect for musicians that do them, they're so dumb. I get the cash grab must be enticing, but how degrading to be wheeled out to the stage as a diversion. I'd rather we have like circus acts like a fire breather, knife thrower, and trapeze.

The education of anyone in the health professions should be free.

All the way back in 2002, way before #MeToo Alanis Morissette was courageously telling her story of being taken advantage of as a young musician. Her perpetrator many have speculated was her first producer. Also, just a good song. youtu.be/2dH289KxkGw

Koenigseggs are insane Swedish hypercars. This a video from CarWow showing their factory. You need millions for these cars, but you can see what real craftsmanship goes into these cars (almost all parts are made by them). A single wheel which takes 3-4 days to make. Insanity. youtu.be/Dhl-4swrr0o

In another thread about racism, it occurred to me that Dems really ought to embrace empowering immigrants politically. Adopt--officially--policies of bringing in many more immigrants and getting them voting rights sooner. This is the MAGA boogeyman and it isn't true now, but why shouldn't it be?

AI is transformative (eg self driving cars will improve transportation immensely) but comes at a cost (driver is one of the biggest occupations in the world ). It’s also being shoehorned into everything these days even when it doesn’t improve them. Tech bosses also in bed with a fascist to push it.

People’s hate of AI is reminiscent of people who held out against smartphones. Many proudly & almost condescendingly refused to admit they were even potentially worthwhile. Of course smartphones came at a dear cost, so the apprehension some felt wasn’t entirely irrational. See that with AI today.

I’ve never seen a new technology more hated and misunderstood than AI. It’s come to symbolize the worst of exploitative capitalism—stealing the work of artists (this is a misunderstanding of it), threatening many careers ( correct), extremely costly, with little perceived value to many.

AI models will put many creatives out of work as well as lead to a sprouting of creative work by artists. Also, AI doesn’t plagiarize when it creates, there is no copying, just analysis, as it breaks art into tokens & its own conceptual mapping in its neural net.

the list of people who can be trusted with regime change is zero, because it's not something we should be doing at all, but somehow the current batch of idiots is at the bottom of that list anyway

“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago

Quiet Piggy was such a mean cruel insult from the ultimate bully, it just encapsulated Trump's terribleness. Feeling more confident it will be the event that signals the beginning of the end for his era of political dominance. Notice how people keep coming back to the insult.

Watching the Bears game—they’re not looking great—but the CBS coverage is much better than on Fox with cameras. They’re using many interesting low angles and drone? shots. Cool stuff.

This mirrors my own suspicion that Ukraine would be abandoned already if not for the money making opportunities for US arms industry. Weird to think the military arms industry is on the right side of history, for their own selfish reasons.

We need people running for office. Speak up. Say enough. Make your voice heard. Shit's not right.

Will Bondi initiate sedition charges against the Dem lawmakers including Sen Kelly calling for troops to refuse illegal orders.? She's followed his previous orders pretty faithfully, so it wouldn't be surprising if she did. I think it will backfire if they do, so hoping it happens.