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The Red Line Isn’t Just About You When do you act — and who do you act for?

The Red Line Isn’t Just About You: When do you act — and who do you act for?
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I just noticed that Usha Vance isn't on the White House homepage. Quick check over the last three admins on the official archives has the second lady/gent (including 45). Wonder what's different this time around...? 🤔At least she made the administration page.

Barbara F. Walter: How Civil Wars Start YouTube video by Penn State McCourtney Institute for Democracy

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Expert on civil wars around the world says the fight to save democracy must come from the bottom up YouTube video by MSNBC

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It has to start some where, it has to start some time...

MAGA Daily Checklist "Freedom™ Edition"

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Financial Resilience in the Face of Super Power Expansionism Safeguarding Assets Amid Geopolitical Upheaval

Imagine a world facing major geopolitical shifts, where traditional financial systems feel less secure. In such a hypothetical scenario, understanding how to protect your assets becomes crucial.
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Finding Your Stable Spot in a Shaky World Where Could You Live Long-Term?

Feeling like the world's getting a bit unpredictable? You're not alone! Between political tensions, a changing climate, and all sorts of economic shifts, lots of people are wondering where they might find a genuinely safe and stable place to call home.
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Something I've been working on for far too long
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Which religious-, autocratic- or fascist- based laws or statutes are US states... Since 2016, there has been a significant increase in religious-, autocratic-, and fascist-based laws and statutes proposed or passed in various U.S. states...

AI has pitfalls, but are humans really any better with our biases and beliefs coupled with nightmarish modern tools of dis/misinformation? Always vet the information for truth & citations (the AI can hallucinate)! I hope the discussion is informative and unbiased.
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DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America YouTube video by Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious

Just a friendly reminder that it's really a class war. The techbro oligarchs have a guru, a plan, and they are executing it.
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What could be more predictable except the sun rising and setting...

Exactly this. There's almost nothing to stop him now, and perhaps somehow less than that once the purge of disloyalists is complete. Ethics and conflicts of interest have never been in his vocabulary.

I've been wanting an AI like HER (without the romance 😂) since I saw the film. Something that can really help me every day. Looking forward to these next gen XR smart glasses and very curious to know more about the GAI & SAI that Altman's been talking about. I wonder if Jonna has the future pegged.

I started with ChatGPT, got Perplexity with the order of my Rabbit R1, and Gemini with my Pixel. I dabble with Claude, which I've read is superior in many ways. Copilot gives interesting results from ChatGPT too. They all have their strong and weak capabilities. Midjourney and Suno are fun too!

Especially with writing! I use it to help me flesh out ideas that I can use to commission imagery. I play around with creating music for fun. Obtaining information on complicated or disparately related subjects, and yes checking the work for hallucinations.

I know using AI to help create images, music, etc is (yet another) contentious topic. I'm not going to engage in a debate about it. As a normie, it's really helped me execute my creative ideas in ways I couldn't before. Lack of patience, talent, w/e. But I'm having a blast and feeling unleashed!

He had "concepts" of a plan ... and yet here we are.

And the punchline to this whole ridiculous story? After all that trouble, the rims didn't even fit his car! I guess crime really doesn't pay... or at least, it doesn't if you don't know your tire size.

Talk about a close call!

Somehow, they make it back without getting caught. The papers never mention it - guess the cops were too embarrassed to admit they got outsmarted by some teenagers.

They each grab two tires and make a run for it. But here's the kicker - as they're sneaking back, they hear a commotion in the nearby ravine. It's a whole squad of cops with flashlights, searching for "something" down there.

So, the friend from the double date goes to check on him. He finds our wannabe thief with three tires off, working on the last one. Creeeeeek, creeeeeek, creeeeeek - that's the sound of (lug nuts and) bad decisions being made, folks!

When it's go time, his friends chicken out, thinking he wasn't serious. But our boy's committed. He sneaks in solo, leaving his buddies wondering if he's lost his mind.
After a while, they start to worry.

Our friend gets his car out of impound and notices some sweet rims. Now, he's got this brilliant idea to stick it to the man and score some free wheels. He rounds up his buddies, they all dress in white - 'cause that's not suspicious at all even though it's winter- and park near the impound lot.

Tap, tap, tap on the window. Next thing you know, the boys are getting a free ride to the police station, and the girls are being escorted home by the town's finest.
But wait, it gets better!

Parks this huge red car in some random driveway in the slightly-less-rich part of the neighborhood. Yeah, 'cause that's not obvious at all.
You can guess what happens next.

He fires up the engine and takes off like a bat outta hell. Real smooth, right?
Of course, this makes the cop suspicious. They see her pull a U-turn in their rearview. So what does our genius driver do?

The driver's rockin' this big red car, like something straight outta Starsky and Hutch.
So there they are, thinking they're all cool, when a cop cruises by. Now, these kids can't legally drive after dark, so the driver starts sweating bullets.

Alright, folks, let me tell you about some teenage shenanigans that went down back in the 80s. Picture this: four 17-year-olds (that I may or may not know and may or may not include me) on a double date, parked at the top of some fancy-pants neighborhood by the lake.

Thanksgiving at friends 20 YA. Driving home, tipsy wife spots my phone. "What's that?" she slurs. "Klimt painting of a woman," I reply. She squints, then declares with drunken confidence: "That's not a woman! That's a motherfucking haaaaaaaaaam!" I nearly crash from laughing. Always makes me 😂.