Don’t be ridiculous. Musk is part of the oligarchs controlling Trump.

It’s a Clint Eastwood movie, not a documentary.

Almost as if some rich foreign power has spent decades and billions of rubles to fertilise the ground for them.

Don’t underestimate the lots and lots of Russia money involved.

Not to forget the fact that a lot of trips were planned and bought and paid for before Trump had even won.

Your daily life not being an actual warzone is an extremely low bar to set for things not being bad.

Also the climate claim they made was pure fantasy.

we’re actually on track to stop the worst climate change (thanks to massive Chinese investments)

No, we damn well aren’t.

AI could vastly improve our lives in the future

It could also make it vastly worse in the future, which is the more likely scenario.

Literally everybody else. They don’t lack role models, they just actively seek out the sociopathic assholes who reminds them the most of themselves.

Unfortunately Musk didn’t get bullied out of politics, his office was always meant to expire at the beginning of May. He achieved what he set out to do: dismantling federal government completely to make deruglation, tax avoidance and corruption much easier.

This is just him doing the typical right wing martyrdom whining whenever somebody criticises them.

Unsure who you are referring to.

You are a presidential term too late. In this term he doesn’t have to distract anybody, because he knows he can do whatever he wants without any repercussions. He doesn’t do distractions anymore.

The “Fanta we know today” varies a lot from country to country.

Every time a court rules against the Trump administration it becomes a “is this the one where he enacts his coup?”-moment. Probably isn’t there yet, he needs to install a few more crucial stooges in various posts, but he is definitely getting there. Making his oligarch backers profit billions from his tariff scheme certainly was a good way for him to secure their backing for whatever he has planned.

Definitely affectation. I suspect the strong German accent is as well. His vocabulary is too good for it.

He has been insane his entire life. He just is at a point now where it gets to unfold much more freely than it ever has, because he has been crowned de facto king of everything.

Trump is chaotic and unpredictable. His actions are mainly decided by personal greed and petty whims and grievances prone to change from one day to the other. But there is one constant in his behaviour since at least 2016, and that is his allegiance to Putin. He has never once convincingly criticised him, and everything he has done which involved Russian interests has always been in favour of Russia.

It is possible to play singleplayer. In fact I would suspect most Stellaris players are playing it as single player.

It was about incels spouting misogyny and all other imaginable forms of bigotry. It served as yet another fascism pipeline for a lot of kids.

Very much depending on the topic. For specialised niche subjects, which are usually the ones students choose for final papers, literature can be very scarce, and 1994 would be fairly recent. For my specialised field the main study (which is still being cited frequently) is from 1870.

I switched to it a couple of years ago, with the expectation that I had to resort to google in more complex search instances. But very soon I found out that ddg did the job, and my “alternative” google searches did not turn up anything better, quite the contrary in fact, and I haven’t been back since.