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Immediately had the same reaction.

Not that anything he does is worthy of making a film out of, but when the crash comes and they make retrospective dramas about it, they have to cast Matthew Rhys to play hassabis. Also autocorrect tried to change his name to Hassan’s lol.

Yeah that’s probably accurate—like the general center to right position is that Venezuela should be toppled, so they just require the skimpiest of fig leaves to hide under to lend their support.

I saw reporting on a poll yesterday where it claimed 48 % of US disapproved of a military campaign, and it was being presented as an example of how this was unpopular. To me, the fact tha 52ish % of the pop either supports it or doesn’t have a strong opinion is absurd. I remember the bush years and the constant let’s get Chavez bullshit, but like what has Venezuela actually ever done to the US other than attempt to remain sovereign and do what they want in their country… and more than half the US wants to blow up their country for that? If I thought they all subconsciously understood the oil angle and were supportive because it would be a good exploitive opportunity, I could at least see logic, but I don’t think the majority of them are cold hard realists.

Yeah this was strange—the boat strikes have been explained as hitting drug boats, and ground target strikes have been discussed as “going after drug locations” so either that’s a tanker full of fent, or they’ll say something mundane like the oil revenue is used by Maduro to fun his sun cartel. Either way, it’s just piracy out in the open. It’s amusing that they’re using DOJ comms to brag about it, like which is it, a law enforcement operation (nope you specifically made it mil so you could better get away with murder) or a military conflict, in which case what the fuck does bondi have to do with it.

Graduating from murder to grand theft. This whole thing is so surreal—completely fabricated without even a basic effort at misdirection, and this time, everything’s broken enough that everyone’s just like “when do the air strikes start”

Shit yeah I neglected to consider the rows in front and back, you’re definitely gonna have to listen to them as well, sigh.

But people are picking the Trump and RFK row and I think they’re forgetting how bad Trump is supposed to smell. RFK would probably keep offering you tinctures and months old jerky he made from dead birds he found around Washington so I don’t buy that that’s a good option.

I mean 4 is so obviously better than alternatives, the quiz feels like a non choice. I get papa John AND Alex jones???

My guess for how: they used an AI content generation or research system, which picked up the Beaverton “quote” during search and had no ability to discern satire from reality.

Actually just looked at the article/larger chart. It does have income section and it plays out like you would imagine, but the gap between lib-conservative stays more or less constant. I don’t see an obvious display of proportion of each, but he does say the average American rates about 58-60 score so I suppose you could sort of backwards engineer from there.

Would also be interesting/helpful to have like a relative ratio/weighting somehow visualized also… for instance I very much doubt Gen Z is 50-50 split between liberal conservative spectrum, even if the poll only selected an equal number of respondents for each.

Also this. If AGI>ASI is at all like they’re threatening, we couldn’t even comprehend how to shackle it, so choosing to make it can only be read as suicidal urge.