For Palestine’s sake, we really have to hope that it’s not all - or even a majority - of Israelis. I’ve seen the footage of protests there, and heard interviews with Israelis who reject genocide. They give me some hope that the entire country hasn’t lost its mind.

The general Israeli populace needs to come to terms with the fact that their government is now committing a very specific war crime that makes their prisons for Palestinians look like Nazi concentration camps.

There is no positive way to spin this. Starving prisoners is literally what the Nazis did.

I just do not get why any Canadians would even consider him after what a disaster Trump has been for the United States. He’s Canadian Trump.

Well, hopefully not. He did lose, after all.

If you can get it, Portland Ketchup is very good, and you won’t be supporting dipshit multimillionaires.

That’s definitely where the world is headed. As an American, my stomach drops every time I think about what exports from the United States are going to look like when the quarterly numbers come out. No one wants to buy from us anymore because… Well… We’re a bunch of fucking assholes.

Fair point. But our cars? Nah.

Yeah, good luck with that. No one’s gonna buy our rice or shitty, gas-guzzling cars over there because of this trade war shit, so this is basically just Trump announcing a 15% tax on consumers who want to buy stuff from Japan.

Yeah, but the price of eggs…

Correction: Everything I don’t like gets threatened with a tariff. Remember, he always chickens out with this shit.

She’ll be able to wear that sanction as a badge of honor.

But if he didn’t create problems that he could pretend to solve through bluster and rambling incoherence, he’d have to actually work. A Trump never works.

That’s an odd thing to say. For one thing, there are plenty of physical activities that one could get a reasonable description of from ChatGPT, but if you can’t actually do them or understand the steps, you’re gonna have a bad time.

Example: I’ve never seen any evidence that ChatGPT can properly clean and sterilize beakers in an autoclave for a chemical engineering laboratory, even if it can describe the process. If you turned in homework cribbed from ChatGPT and don’t actually know how to do it, your future lab partners aren’t going to be happy that you passed your course by letting ChatGPT do all the work on paper.

There’s also the issue that ChatGPT is frequently wrong. The whole point here is that these cheaters are getting caught because their papers have all the hallmarks of having been written by a large language model, and don’t show any comprehension of the study material by the student.

And finally, if you’re cheating to get a degree in a field you don’t actually want to know anything about… Why?

Why fight against it? Because some of these students will be going into jobs that are life-or-death levels of importance and won’t know how to do what they’re hired to do.

There’s nothing wrong with using a large language model to check your essay for errors and clumsy phrasing. There’s a lot wrong with trying to make it do your homework for you. If you graduate with a degree indicating you know your field, and you don’t actually know your field, you and everyone you work with are going to have a bad time.

Every headline like this should make clear that him imposing tariffs by fiat is illegal and unconstitutional.

I hate the fact that the media just reports that he’s doing it without ever citing Article 1, Section 8:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

Every one of these tariff manipulations has been 100% illegal, because the supposed emergencies he’s using to excuse them are nonexistent.

I’m in a similar boat, except I’m waiting to find out if my multinational will be willing to move me. I’m the lead developer, admin, product owner, and architect for a very publicly-facing web presence for my company, so I’m hoping they’ll be willing to in order to keep me happy.

And if they won’t, I’m going to be applying for similar jobs abroad the moment I know.

It’s not just for me. My son is trans and my daughter is gay. I have to get them both out of here before the ovens start firing up.

If you get the impression that at this point I believe the U.S. is a lost cause, you’re correct. If we make it to the 2026 elections intact, the elections are valid, and Democrats sweep, I’ll be extremely surprised.

A spoiled and unintelligent child.

I’m actually kind of glad to see this. Should drive turnout for Carney.

Counter-offer, Vlad: Fuck aaaall the way off back to Russia, then “fall” out a window so someone else can get started on blaming you for everything going wrong and reverse all your horrific garbage.

Sound good?

Rien ne va plus.