Well yeah the AI support is just the next iteration of confusing telephone trees and long wait times. The direct hope is that they make it just convoluted enough that a chunk of people that they before would have to “waste money” serving and fixing whatever problem they had will instead just give up without opening them up to liability for denying service. Only now they can do it while hiring even fewer actual people to handle the cases that get through.
As far as I’ve seen their argument is usually something along the lines of “The West is so antagonistic, of course they have to cozy up to Russia. They’re pretty much the only country not trying to destroy them.”
It’s all bullshit of course. In reality it’s almost always just Campism. North Korea opposes the Great SatanUS therefore they must be good. Any evil they’ve done has to be actually our fault and not any kind of evil or corruption from them.
I don’t think it’s that deep. I think he’s just trying to dismantle any “Biden win” he can. Probably wants to drop it here and get them to normalize outside of that deal so he can say that it was all him.
I’m guessing some variation of “You don’t understand… The West forced them to go all those things with the sanctions or whatever” has definitely been said by that individual before.
Notice how the lines the 7/10" is attached to go from one side of the miniature globe to the other? This indicates that measurement is meant to be a diameter. Looking back at the paragraph before he talks about 0.35" being Earth’s Schwarzschild Radius. Radius is half of diameter so doubling that radius you get 0.7 or 7/10" across at which the Earth would become a black hole.
That’s what that mini diagram is showing.
More like if we let gays get married the women-folk might have an option beyond being trapped in a marriage to a potentially abusive husband (them) the way God™ intended.
That’s what they’re scared of. That women might choose to be alone or “be gay” rather than be with them.
It’s never been more true.
There are only two sexualities, Straight and Woke.
There are only two ethnicities, White and Woke.
There are only two genders, Male and Woke.
It would almost be amusing how baby-brained these chuds’ understanding of the world is were it not for the massive amount of harm they cause. Like how every accusation is a confession so it takes very little thought to work out what they think from what they accuse others of.
"They just say everything they don't like is Hitler." = Everything I don't like is Woke.
"Trans people are going to attack cis women in the restroom." = That's what I'd do with unrestricted access to the women's restroom.
And on, and on, and on...
The actual type of play on words is called paraprosdokian. Where the in this case punchline is surprising in a way that makes you reinterpret the setup.
In this case “I wanna be supportive but,” is kind of priming the reader to expect they’re gonna say some transphobic shit then you read “fucking Mildred?” and those expectations are subverted by the actual point being essentially “Why you taking names from 2000’s obituaries?”
To my knowledge there’s not like a widespread name for this as like a comedic genre because it’s just one of the basic ways you can structure a joke. I’ve seen some comics call it a swerve or an anti-climax but nothing widespread.
Knowing him he’ll probably allow them to get on that “Gold Card” track without the money as a show of “combating the horrible racial injustice” in South Africa.
Every accusation is a confession after all. So it would be very on brand for them to fast track granting these people status that allows them to vote so now they’ll be the ones with the “millions of illegals voting” for them.
I think I get what it’s saying? It’s saying that while your phone isn’t directly listening to your conversations in any meaningful way they collect crazy amounts of other data on basically everyone and can piece it together in such a way that they can make some scary accurate guesses as to the kind of ads to serve you based on what their systems have gathered your interests are and where/with whom you spend your time.
I’m not entirely sure. They didn’t really seem to present much more than speculation on it.
It’s like the Old Man Yaoi version of Thanos trying to court Death by killing half of all life in the universe.
I remembered myself hearing about some interview where she said something similar. Went looking for it and found a Vanity Fair interview from 2006 where she says:
I slept with some nerd. I hope it was George. I took too many drugs to remember.
When asked about how she got cast in Star Wars back in the day. So not enough to say she got directly extorted sex for the role, or just happened to be sleeping around and whoever she slept with went “Damn, she’d be great in this movie.”
Then they should be educated out of those ignorant views, not have their rights restricted. What are you gonna do when some wannabe fascist decides that “basic voting condition” means believing that trans people don’t exist, that climate change is a hoax, and that the ultra-wealthy shouldn’t pay any taxes actually?
The right to vote shouldn’t be restricted in any way. If you have legal restrictions then all it takes is bad actors expanding those categories and sorry, you just failed the critical thinking test because you think that climate change is real and life doesn’t begin at conception. Better get ready for your shift at Amazon, serf.
Media literacy and such should just be part of the education everyone gets.
Don’t ya just hate it when people make their harmful kink both their entire personality, and a problem for your fundamental rights? It feels weird to say it. But that’s basically what this performative Christian schtick is for people like this. They get off in it so now it’s all of our problem.
It was only supposed to be a little instability Donald! Give us a little dip that we could use to buy up another chunk of the pie. NOT BLOW UP THE ENTIRE FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE DONALD!
I think so. I looked up the definition quickly to be sure, and:
shamelessly immoral or debauched. wildly extravagant or wasteful.
I know they wouldn’t think so obviously. But a lot of that seems to fit pretty well I think the whole goal of “force whatever woman I can to be my own personal Bang Maid subject to all my whims,” kinda qualifies.
Anyone who listened to Trump and Vance explain them basically. For months they’ve been straight up lying to their voters that if they put a tariff on China, then China would have to pay to ship their products to the US. How they’re going to bring in all this money from China and the rest of the countries that had been supposedly “screwing us” in trade.
The cynical part of me says it’s probably because cameras grab everyone. Compared to human enforcement which can be… Subtly encouraged to only enforce the speed limit on the “right people”