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Pascal: "I am having the best Christmas right now."

Did everybody get this as a maths problem nearly every year in primary school, and again in high school when triangle numbers were brought up?

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Perfect representation would actually by sortition (selection of public office by jury duty type random selection), but that scares people because "I don't want just anybody to be in power" but that doesn't stop people who should from getting it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Yes.

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin

In response to another post about Project 2025

Congratulations nzmaa, you won. You're going to live in my mind 24/7 for the next four years.

So the working class had to be specifically told

• the democrats support unions
• the democrats support breaking up monopolies
• the cost of living is a complex issue with multiple causes that will take a very careful and calculated collection of regulations regarding home ownership, rent, taxes, and it's not going to work for everyone, and it's not going to happen overnight
• supporting and expanding social welfare programs helps everyone

What are they expecting? The Republicans will be able to write a law saying Netflix will be cheaper and have no ads?

In 2006, a movie was released in which an evil AI is defeated by Shia LeBouf.

The evil AI's plan? Kill the president!

Why does the AI want to kill the president? he has too much unchecked power and bombed village of innocent people in the middle east and the AI told him not to because it could not confirm if there was actually a terrorist there.

How does Shia LeBouf defeat the evil AI? Opening fire at the capitol to cause a panic.

The war in Iraq was ramping up at the time, how was there not rioting at screenings? How is this not a controversial movie?

The acting is not great, but it deserves better than 27% on Rotten Tomatoes when the message of the film is the government does bad stuff and should be persecuted for it

Eagle Eye | Rotten Tomatoes

"Oh you know, how it always ends, feelings of self loathing and despair."

So, place your bets! What's going to be that one announcement that suddenly makes your neighbours go all quiet?

• Repeal of the 19th amendment
• Mandatory military service
• Military sent to Ukraine
• Military sent to Gaza
• Additional protections to police
• The pardon of all January 6th rioters
• The relaxation of maximum presidential terms
• Repeal of Affordable Care Act
• Repeal of Social Security
• Increase in taxes of lowest and middle incomes
• Reduction in the minimum wage
• Shutdown of major news outlets of "reporting lies"
• Ban of reporting "bad news"
• New ability to farmers to hire for no wage
• New protections to reject hiring/customers/schooling based on colour
• Collapse of NOAA
• Atheists targeted as terrorists
• Democrats imprisoned for Socialist ties
• Mysterious disappearances of democrats
• Random deportation of American citizens for being first/second generation
• Removal of all laws related to carbon output

Yes, some of these are fearmongering but he's made all sorts of promises and debts are due! The sky is the limit!

So to answer Green Buzzard, yes.

Well, we will know things will have gotten real bad when they start approaching sex offenders for fertility studies in an Operation Paperclip type arrangement