What is whataboutism, Alex?

Republicans: categorically awful on every single issue

Democrats: Not that

Babies: waaaah I want a competitive party that matches my opinions on every single issue

Find me one major party in the entire world that matches your personal ideals 100%. Spoiler: it doesn’t exist, unless you happen to be a king or dictator of an authoritarian state.

Two party systems means you have two parties with distinct ethics, and one party winning consistently means the country’s ethics will shift over time in the favor of that winning party. So keep spite voting against Democrats and see where that gets you.

Edit: you know why the Democrats are similar to Republicans on so many issues? Because Republicans keep winning elections.

Define win because I’m pretty sure it doesn’t mean what you think it means.

The only tactic with “almost instant” results would be the US just nuking everything, which A. is definitely not a “win” by any definition, and B. is an insanely irresponsible assumption that there wouldn’t be substantial collateral damage and that’s if you were inhumane enough to ignore the lives of everyone living in the targeted countries to begin with.

Or somehow do you think the US could win a conventional war against three separate countries “almost instantly”, after it took 2 decades to make absolutely no lasting changes in Afghanistan? In which case just lol.

Bring on the snacks

Head end

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Leg end

For those who are slow like me

DXY measures the US dollar against every other currency. So if the US dollar in isolation had a bunch of inflation (e.g. because the US government printed a ton of money), then that would be reflected in DXY.

But if every major currency printed a ton of money at the same time, then DXY would not change because it’s only relative to other currencies.

So it doesn’t calculate inflation directly, but it’s generally correlated with it.

SPY is up 3% YTD while DXY (which measures the value of a dollar) is down 9% YTD. If you own shares of SPY, then you hold them in dollars, so the real change in value of your stock is [share price] x 1.03 x 0.91, which translates to being down over 6%.

BUT not only is your investment value down, if you live in the US you presumably get paid in dollars as well. Which means you’ve gotten a 9% pay cut since the start of the year.

There are a lot of Walmart heirs, and even collectively I doubt they own enough shares to control the company at this point.

The underlying neural network tech is the same as what the best chess AIs (AlphaZero, Leela) use. The problem is, as you said, that ChatGPT is designed specifically as an LLM so it’s been optimized strictly to write semi-coherent text first, and then any problem solving beyond that is ancillary. Which should say a lot about how inconsistent ChatGPT is at solving problems, given that it’s not actually optimized for any specific use cases.

And the other guy is way too thin to be Trump

Canada sends its regards

Hey bro I already know you aren’t succeeding in life, being this terminally mad online is definitely not the hallmark of someone whose got it figured out.

I was just trying to help you out. Looks like you’ll just have to keep suffering tho.

Bro every one of your recent comments is you being mad af. Maybe reflect on that.

Also the fact that your instinctive response to someone disagreeing with you is to immediately lob insults calling everyone else dumb makes you look insecure about your intelligence.

It was literally a binary election. That’s how FPTP works. In a two party system it’s ridiculous to expect a candidate that has your exact values on every single issue.

But sure protest vote for the next 50 years and see where that gets you.

Right, I forgot that Trump won because of how pro-Palestine he is.

The Trail of Tears of Joy

-Republicans

Well that rock hard source has swayed my opinion

Iirc this asshole denied penicillin to his wife when she was dying, but then later when he needed it he was all for the miracles of modern technology.

News headlines way overuse the verb “slam”, but even if they didn’t, my first reading of this title makes it sound like the pilot “slammed” the plane literally.

CGP Grey is a Tesla shill