and a participate pant

Typical autocorrect, the author of the article clearly meant "and drop his pants"

exactly! "I was energized to meet with the team in X and discuss our sales figures" or "congrats, company Y, for disrupting the market of foot creams" is the best use of AI.

I'm not sure how you would even be able to tell if that type of content is AI-generated or just plain old copy-pasted from one of a thousand similar posts

more like:

• Viruses seize opportunity given by favorable political environment to multiply aggressively

• Viruses win, humanity loses...

• but hey, that's free competition and low regulation for you and viruses are Republicans

• Viruses proceed to elect Trump (who now claims to be a virus, bigliest ever) as their leaeder

I see what you mean and I agree with you too. He's no longer a private citizen "just voicing his opinion" or "just asking questions". When you are in power, words have consequences.

The issue is that both Musk and Trump were already professional trolls and liars. Now they actually weaponized trolling to create anger and fear, which directly feed votes and power into the side they have chosen to represent. How do you fight that? Do you still try NOT to feed the troll, when the troll is leading the most powerful nation on Earth?

if you want to listen to 35 minutes of annoying music, press 1. If you want to get insulted personally by an operator stay on the line

can we start collectively ignoring whatever Musk says? I am individually starting to, making one last exception with this comment, but only collectively we can really make a difference in making the world (or at least Lemmy) a quieter, Elon-less place. If he does something newsworthy for good (puts a person on Mars) or for bad (I don't know where to start here....) then by all means let's celebrate or sulk but when he talks or Xits let his voice disperse as quickly as a fart in the wind.

Yes, I get your point and I agree that Marcos lost the chance to try and de-escalate things.

The thing is that these are not two random people fighting in a bar. They both have large, very powerful clans and millions of supporters each. If they start talking about who is going to kill whom first, that's playing a very dangerous game and they both should feel the responsibility to keep things civil. Not for them but for the People who elected them

I am not from the Philippines and am not taking sides here, but if someone taked about killing me (even hypothetically) iI would find it a bit threatening too.

Especially if that someone was very specific about it. Like, not shouting angrily "I'll kill you!" but describing a plan to send a hitman after me.

I agree with you. In addition to what you are saying, if Lodge exports to other countries and these countries fire back with tariffs of their own, there will be increased pressure to raise prices in the US to make up for the loss of revenue abroad. I'm not from the US and don't know if that is the case for Lodge specifically, but it will surely be the case for a lot of US brands

“It is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition,” said the former Republican congressman from Florida.

Spoiler alert, Matt, being a distraction was the one job you had to do

Ok. I Hope there were industrial secrets or some weird espionage thing going on because the premise of foreign intelligence paying a guy to burn down a business sounds like peak Zapp Brannigan.

Looking forward to "yes I admit drinking one too many and getting naked at the Christmas party; Russia paid me to do it!"

Plus, you know that a human body is like 70% water? If you're one of those billionaire vampires you are going to be just fine.

and they might even be Donald's only remaining chance to see her naked

I'm not a master diplomat but this is negotiation 101: don't look too keen to negotiate, start from a position of strength.

Trump's opening offer was to allow Putin to keep whatever he's managed to invade and, by most accounts, Russia is now gaining territory again. Plus, Trump is clearly not so keen to continue supporting Ukraine militarily and economically (not to speak of his stance on NATO) and in Europe we are weak, divided and also increasingly voting for our own small versions of Trump (Trumpets?). Put these things together and why would Putin get all chummy and sit down to negotiate now? He's signaling strength and taking a position of "YOU want to end this war, not me, so if you want me to stop, you better come begging and bringing gifts".

I don't think Musk would disagree with that definition and I bet he even likes it.

The key word here is "significant". That's the part that clearly matters to him, based on his actions. I don't care about the man and I don't think he's a genius, but he does not look stupid or delusional either.

Musk spreads disinformation very deliberately for the purpose of being significant. Just as his chatbot says.

I keep seeing news that the Russian economy is perfectly fine.... no, wait it's in shambles... no it's actually even better than before.... no, people can't even find bread.... no, sanctions are killing it.... and so on. And this is not even from different sources; different articles on the same (I hope reputable) sources.

I know that it's hard to get a read of these things even when not in the middle of a war with lots of disinformation happening on both sides. And I also know that indicators of the economy are tricky to read and often in contradiction. But these swings are so extreme that I don't know what to make of these articles any longer.

Wait, is that a valid argument? "You, sir are infringing on my claim that this in your pocket is MY wallet and this picture on your driver's license is in fact MY picture."

sink? I'm pretty sure that's a toilet bowl. Look there's still a big fat tur... ah no wait.... that's Elon

yes, this is more like that little hand wave that tennis players do to acknowledge a lucky point "sorry mate, your job is gone... moving on"

Russia and Ukraine are two countries that have thrown everything they had at each other: from good soldiers, to inmates, to good people who'd probably never held a weapon before.

At this point I imagine that having troops who are alive and actual trained soldiers, not emotionally and physically drained (if not outright mutilated) by years of fighting is a big advantage

If I was taken from my home and suddenly sent to fight for my country, no matter how full of patriotic love I might be, one North Korean child with a knife would be enough to take me out.