https://x.com/thepondering_/status/2010118932099735911?s=46

said in The Venezuelan Oil Thread: Trump is saying the oil companies need to invest their own money, but he’ll provide the security. That was yesterday, this is today: https://x.com/osint613/status/2010133143878250738?s=46

Yeah. Gimme a couple weeks. Actually I feel great. Regular exercise, an excellent whole food diet and mental challenge daily work for me.

Damn.

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@Horace said in McConnell gets one right: But one could have asked an AI to write that. As one probably did. And that one was probably not even Mitch. It was probably one of his handlers. So? I don’t anticipate him disputing its substance anytime soon. As to the substance, sure, let's explore this alliance that has historical relevance beyond that of NATO. Sounds good. Pointless if the people who should be learning refuse to listen.

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Inside knowledge? Or wishcasting? https://x.com/osint613/status/2010080991080038758?s=46

I think UM will be preparing more after last night.

Heritage thinks Trump’s ass is yummy. I don’t know that any other thoughts go through their mind.

I think they’re running out of new things to say and the new things Loury is coming up with I’m not interested in. I rarely listen to his show anymore, the fact that much of it is paywalled doesn’t help.

A lot of insurance coverage follows official recommendations. Including Medicaid which covers about half of all children. (Though some states are making allowances for the kooks running policy these days). For your average kid in Mississippi for example, Kennedy just took away half your vaccines.

That is informative. Edgelords gonna be edgelords. Glad to see Kimmel continuing to be heroically unafraid of opposing the administration, btw.

Here again we see the dichotomy of the public versus private Trump.

I also mentioned that Mandarin tones were the final boss of AI mixed language representation. If you ask an AI to reproduce Mandarin tones, the classical example being the four forms of the word "ma", it will give you identical tones for all four, and explain in english how it bent each of those tones to be so different. It's blind to its own inability. My hope was to simply have an eternally patient conversation partner. I could ask it how to say some sentence in Mandarin, it would reproduce the sentence aurally and in pinyin. Not much more structured or formal than any other immersion type language learning process. I think spanish/english mixing for such a project presents fewer obstacles, in that both use the same alphabet, and neither has tones.

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It’s least that appeared bipartisan…

I recently finished 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin. A great, relatively short book (compared to what I usually read). It tells the story of the run up to and aftermath of the 29 crash. Told as a narrative focused on a dozen or so key characters. Doesn’t cover the whole depression, just the crash and subsequent prosecutions and hearings, etc culminating in Glass-Steagle. Great read. [image: 1768031824071-img_9857.jpeg]

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