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This issue is where the “bluesky/twitter is not real life” adage is actually very true imo. Most ppl are in the middle and use if helpful as needed.

If llms help grad students produce better original research then that’s good (tbf seems like most academics would agree). I get the resistance at lower levels of pedagogy tho.

This definitely sucked lol.

Obviously terrible laws, but saying liberals can’t have events in Austin anymore probably isn’t the solution.

I mean I expected nothing less of Trump/ hegseth. But what about the military? Im pretty sure some plans for Iran were lying around? Seriously what happened here?

Not an oil price expert, but why would this price going down have anything to do with ppl wanting to get rich in denial of physical reality? Isn’t everyone’s incentive to correctly assess the price trajectory (high or low)?

Trump being the president to unwind our business with Israel would be funny.

Goes to a finance conference: I’m confused. Goes to a business summit: I don’t get it. Goes to a media cocktail hour: what in the world? Goes to a rural retirement community: ahhhh ok.

An issue is that they do have one connection to society: social media. This is where they find out that they are morons that no one actually likes or respects. Makes them rabid.

Lot of antiwar ppl in both the Harris and Trump coalitions. But everyone who wanted a military adventure in Iran voted Trump. They rightly assessed that his vapid stupidity was the vehicle.

The AI will be better and faster at us at many tasks is the most likely trajectory here, and we will have to be ok with it.

It is funny that these pieces are always written from the “I am the genius it surely can’t replace” perspective.

To give them credit: we can’t have a forever war if we lose in a week.

What would the plan even be, outside of a massive ground invasion?

My Donald the dove theory rested on the fact that wars would mean a lot of non public meetings and briefings, which Trump can’t stand. I’m taking the L here.

This is the type of (imo) toothless, bad faith attack that genuinely keeps dem politicians up at night but absolutely shouldn’t.

As an engineer, I focus on process. “An 80 year old man in heavy makeup ranting about Hannibal lecter makes unilateral military decisions” is a process so bad you shouldn’t even think about discussing possible outcomes.

Totally fair but was anyone arguing otherwise?

Popularism/abundance is wars of choice in the Middle East.

Very true, but “so you think the founders got this one wrong?” Is a very fair question for elected officials.

Since you apparently support this with no congressional approval if there’s a briefing, are you planning to propose a constitutional amendment removing congress from war making decisions?

When you swore an oath, if you meant it at all, your messaging today could only be one thing: illegal war, President should be impeached. If not, then come tell us how the founders got it wrong and we need to amend the constitution.

Guys has anyone ever studied the pros and cons of personalist regimes on the economy???

Even in the most cynical, popularist world planting your flag against wars of choice in the Middle East is an incredibly easy political decision. Not for our dems tho!!! They want to find a way to have no position on anything.

Congressmen swear an oath to the constitution but they never mean it. Crumpling it up into a ball to occasionally bomb Iran is absolutely fine by them. Our military becoming the personal plaything of the executive is not, in fact, supporting the troops.

Firing up my slide deck for the c-suite: evidence suggests that businesses do better when there are these things called “laws” that are predictable and applied equally.

“It doesn’t make sense to me” is the funniest part here.

Damn I’m stuck around 200 but I haven’t tried alcoholism yet.

Guys I think we can skip the big bipartisanship and turn the page stuff in ‘29

The splits in the dem party: wants to fight vs wants to do nothing; vacant centrism vs believes in something. Keep it up.