That’s not sure. What comes after him might be worse. But for the USA, this is like getting that first heart attack. It’s the sign things need to change urgently. Just ignoring it happened and assuming the problem goes away when going back to the old routine is the worst you can do. Without some serious lifetime changes, the next one will be worse.

Unfortunately Democrats are the party is the status quo and Republicans only like to make things right for a very small part of the population. Nothing much will change for the better.

Oh, so that’s why it’s also called the pedo pavilion.

I’ll buy a machine specifically for doing this

Throw the bread in a pan is so 1900.

will be possible to rebuild from the ashes

The problem is that the billionaires are thinking the same thing and their ideas for a "new modern way of life* are a bit different from the rest of the population.

Reticulating Splines

I’d argue there are too many structural issues, all too established to ever fix. Trump is just abusing these with abandon instead of papering over them like often happened in the past.

But change the channel and they wake up, complaining they were watching that.

Then you get the witching hour, when she’s asleep, relaxes, and all those farts escape.

And of course we are in the Great Enshittification where every platform turns into profit squeezing machines with the greatest minds working on showing more ads. More ads doesn’t sound that productive to me.

The classic A to F + S ranking. Nobody wants to come near an S ranked carcinogen.

'Tis but a scratch

Because apparently that‘s a normal thing to assume in our society.

It’s just very difficult to think outside of society , to think of a working society without the organizing power of money and labor. And even more difficult to think about the path to get there.

“Collapse now and avoid the rush” as some folks put it.

If the AI bubble pops on his watch and he’s going to bail out the magnificent seven to prop up the market, 8 trillion might not be enough.

Choose one cat and chase it around the house. Next time they’re not so sure they want to be picked.

And all it took was one mail address being blocked at the ICC in the Netherlands to kick them into action. Before that, the problem was mostly theoretical.

Faking personal interest as a ritual greeting between business types. It’s about as real as the greasy laughter they use for each other’s often misogynistic tinted jokes when the managers gather.

There be lightning in the internet cloud, and because of the thunder your computer can’t hear the cloud no more.

I’m more afraid of the AI propped stock market collapsing and sending us in a decade of financial ruin for the majority of people. Yeah, they’ll do bailouts but that won’t go to the bottom 80%. Most people will welcome an AGI for president at this stage.

Then came AI and it needed gigawatts fast, and the coal plants were available, so they cranked those up.