It was only really Gene Simmons that gave that vibe. I mean, ones a cat and another has a star.

More like 1D. The only tools he knows are tariffs and troops.

Doesn’t matter if it’s power over girls or countries… power hungry is power hungry.

“Burning itself out” means it escalating to a point where somebody has no option but to go to war, either civil or international. Dictatorships don’t just decide democracy should be a thing. Trump and his cohort are wannabe dictators.

So the only question is do you want to fight now, or when it’s become worse. Fighting now will mean fewer people die in the conflict.

It’s still a bad choice. Maybe choose a pre-colonial name, or something new.

Maybe it was Melinda Gates that was the ethical part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They divorced 5 years ago and I think it’s fair to say that Bill Gates’ focus has changed in that time frame.

“We’re disbanding. Honest! No need to come looking for us anymore because we’re not here. Please, stop looking.”

Of course they will. Just not in such an obvious organisation. Basically they’ve been pushed underground.

Your first statement was “I don’t like NATO”. I think the person responding is assuming you’re a US citizen, and so a member of the only country to call the rest of NATO to its aid, despite being the most powerful.

Are you suggesting that when the President says it’s vital for national security that he’s being less than truthful?

It’s a long time since I watched it. I’m wondering what meaning you found in Zardos except…

Oh it was a fantasy and still is. They’ve removed the president, but that doesn’t stop the regime. The VP has taken power, not the US.

Most don’t have international relations on their radar, or if they do they think it’s tariffs that have soured relationships.

The political bias of AI will be set by those tuning the models. Now mix in a bunch of voters asking LLMs who they should vote for, because people will outsource their thinking any chance they get. The result is model owners being able to sway elections with very little effort.

It’s a fair post. It’s a Times story with the headline unedited. I’m questioning the original author more than OP.

Do we have any evidence of them acting “on instructions from the ruling Chinese Communist Party”? I think we know they’re full of security holes, sure. I always put that down to the designers not caring about doing a good job.

This is what some call “mindfulness”. The ability to be aware of feeling an emotion, and then to be able to step outside of that and ask “why am I feeling that?”. You can then start to work on the cause rather than the symptoms.

If you ever get taught meditation, a lot of it is about letting the mind go in the direction it wants to go, catching it, noting it, and then resetting. Lather, rinse, repeat.

You just did it when you were writing an essay.

It would, but that’s a very broad term. I expect they were trying to be specific, but only succeeded in being forgiving in the headline.

They’d struggle to pardon someone in the UK.

Glastonbury is our (bi?)annual Woodstock-like music festival.