Sure. He’s an idiot, no argument. But I think he understands leverage, and what tariffs means to domestic leverage over their consumers because of lack of competition. But ultimately, his understanding doesn’t matter, the voters understanding does. And I doubt many who are considering voting for him understand that tariffs are worst for them personally.

It’s certainly possible, but I don’t buy that level of ignorance.

Trump was savvy enough to keep interest rates low to heavily inflate real estate as the obvious money dump for free money. As a real estate mogul, this directly benefited him personally.

And don’t give me that nieve nonsense that the president doesn’t control the fed reserve. Trump’s corruption was thorough and complete.

Trump absolutely understands basic economic principles of supply and demand. He is constantly trying to manipulate competition to give himself more power so he can gain from it. It’s the same as raising tariffs to give domestic producers more power so they can raise their profits at the cost to the consumer.

He just doesn’t give a shit about the consumer, only the kickbacks he gets from the producers.

I don’t know how you can miss that, though.

Tariffs on imported goods means the price raises to cover the increased cost to import it.

Tariffs are a mechanism to encourage domestic production by making foreign competition more expensive.

It’s literally the opposite of reducing the cost to consumers.

Trump has to understand this. But he knows his rabid base do not. So he says it like it’s going to help consumers, rather than exclusively the domestic producers that are already overcharging.

It’s really just a way for former coworkers thatdon’t know your personal email or phone, or don’t feel comfortable using them if they do, to reach out to you if they have an opening or are looking for one after a layoff or something urgent.

Both can be true.

Preserved and curated datasets to train AI on, gathered before AI was mainstream. This has the disadvantage of being stuck in time, so-to-speak.

New datasets that will inevitably contain AI generated content, even with careful curation. So to take the other commenter’s analogy, it’s a shit sandwich that has some real ingredients, and doodoo smeared throughout.

You seem to be ignorant of the subject matter. Google “full english breakfast”.

Eh. I’ve had it, and it was fine. I’ve had the meat heavy full breakfast version too, and it was fine.

Certainly nothing I miss after leaving, nor something to avoid while there.

5/10, bland but sufficient.

Shift-left eliminated the QA role.

Now we have AI generated shit code, with devs that don’t understand the low level details of both the language, and the specifics of the generated code.

So we basically have content entry (ai inputs) and extremely shitty QA bundled into the “developer” role.

As a 20 year veteran of the industry, people keep asking me if I think AI will make developers obsolete. I keep telling them “maybe some day, but today’s LLMs are not it. The AI bubble is going to burst, and a few legit use cases will make it through”

Could have been one of them newfangled Libertarians, who align 100% with Republicans, but are independent thinkers because they consume “alt” media instead of Fox News.

They might even be mildly against Trump because they’re such independent thinkers (translation: contrarian), and may vote 3rd party. That way all of the worlds problems are someone else’s fault.

Yep. He doesn’t give a shit. It’s just that the leopard is currently eating his (state’s constituent’s) face, so he has to go against the party narrative. That’s it.

Ok. Why don’t we just stop sending you more tax money than we receive? We’ll just pay for shit ourselves and not pay federal taxes anymore.

We’re cool with that.

Your federal tax brackets are reaming us while our cost of living is way higher than the national median anyway.

You might have just triggered someone to kill someone. How dare you say those aggressive triggering words.

You see how dumb that sounds?

Problem is that RCV will only have a chance in deep blue states, and all it would accomplish is reducing the blue representation in congress.

To put it bluntly, all it would accomplish is more in fighting and contributing to the reputation that Dems are ineffective. Except, it would be the “blue aligned coalition” instead of “Dems”

The only real path to making this change is to give Dems a super majority so they can amend the constitution.

And, well, the minority of Red voters have a majority of power thanks to the electoral college, so a super majority is absolutely impossible for the foreseeable future.

Edit - it’d also cause disruptions in States that don’t adopt RCV, as “progressives” protest vote 3rd party and sandbag the Dems

Republicans also love to volunteer / run for local elections that oversee these logistics purely because they want to manipulate it in bad faith. It’s SOP for them.

Hell, they have even been caught multiple times putting up fake ballot areas, and “helping” non-native English speakers fill out their ballots, and being in full control of delivering those ballots.

Both sides are not the same.

You could tell she had those zingers locked and loaded and was just waiting for the right time to drop each of them.

You could also see her when she decided to chamber the round. Where her stern disapproval face had brief flickers of delight as she decided she was going to use one when she had her next chance to speak.

I think they were surprised at how unhinged he got, and looked impotent with rage.

He’s usually surrounded by sycophants that he can bully around and they get linched by his mob if they don’t fall in line. Or he just gets up and leaves any interview that challenges his bullshit, and can leave with the last word. His childish tantrums can get reduced to soundbites that make him look like the winner to his followers who are also petty adult children.

But here, Harris was in frame laughing at his meltdowns and clearly easily pushing his buttons where it hurt, and he could do nothing but stomp over the so called moderation to steal airtime, just to look like a petulant child who needed a nap.

And the Genocide Joe canvassers on lemmy

Bruh. You just fetishized a 10 year old kid because she’s a female Japanese minor.

You need to step away from your weird anime/hentai loop and step into society.

I learned to touch type quickly mostly out of necessity to communicate quickly in online games before voice chat was a thing.

Go outside.