According to this former Russian diplomat, Putin will not accept the 28 point plan either because it is too generous to Kyiv and gives too much power to the POTUS: The final section of the plan is especially revealing: it puts forward the establishment of a so-called “Peace Council” led by President Donald Trump to oversee compliance. This arrangement is utterly unacceptable to Putin, as it places Trump in the position of supervising and assessing the Russian leader’s actions. Putin is waging war to prove that he has an equal right to shape global decisions alongside the U.S. president and other world leaders. He is fighting for imagined respect, for a status of equality — or primacy, even — among global actors. In this worldview, putting anyone above himself, especially someone as unpredictable as Trump, would be humiliating and a signal of weakness. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/11/21/trumps-peace-plan-favors-russia-putin-still-wont-accept-it-a91209

Gemini just refused to do that for me. It is a funny thought.

Dude, gotta stay legal.

Instead of forcing employers/institutions to hand over lists of names and contact information, a more voluntary approach maybe to set up a hotline (and the cyber equivalent) for people who want federal government attention to specific matters to contact.

Bigger seats, then. As posited in the opening post: Civility is easier when there is more space between you and the other passengers. That's what I noticed in the video when they show air travel in the old days.

Yeah, but it's still following the trends with that paper clip tail light. Plus, the age of logos as the badge is over. Now the cool thing is to spell out the name with letters on the back. [image: ?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.motortrend.com%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F10%2F2022-Lexus-NX-350h-AWD-Luxury-13.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=26b43897f512164c9f8a84dae87c6c188301e1b37233c6dcf4561987e0ca782e]

@jon-nyc said in Are we in an AI bubble?: AMD or Huawei in China but Nvidia has like 80-90% of the American market for AI compute which comprises 75% of the world’s total. First the bubble bursts, then the missiles start exchanging. If your brains aren't already trying to prepare you for survival in the aftermath, I wish you the best. I'm already a crack shot as i've played first player shooters my whole adult life. Now I'm signing up for jujitsu classes. Gotta learn how to roll. But mostly it's gonna be all about who's got guns. That's the new currency for a spell, bullets. Worth more than gold per ounce. And we all worried that AI would be the ruinization of us. Terminator 2 unfolding, right? Well AI took us out but just in a bit different way. When it happens, we will all point the finger at Nvidia of course. And Jensen Huang will self headshot with a single bullet. The least he could do for raping and pillaging us poor gamer boys for years. He just got $1000 from me for my latest upgrade of my GPU. Nvidia purposely screwed around with their gamers base with their latest release of the RTX 5000 series video cards. The grandaddy , the 5090, which is by far the faster gun in town, saw it's price skyrocket due to scarcity and today they can be had but not for its MSRP of $2000. No, no. Try almost double that price. Check it out.... https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Graphics-3-8-Slot-Axial-tech-Phase-Change/dp/B0DS2WQZ2M/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=2MUI35HRFNNWG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2ibhmwk9uT-yYDlHF7f8SAhAgzE3MSvmCgDg7f5hBAQXWzdwBkZHVv-34SIclFJgkD2ODOZWARMciBDn2wm12-F3a47FxttZ1DlKNTaoO64JXG-16qDnG-5y4BQc-K_UmBblQWmvL5TrD7GN-mhGSnGPGy3PCVmU3bqaHWsXCpTVgU8_1LtCBL7uaCDpjf_1xpM2CVsrGQzcUQKgAED11OoNoWFb9F8XJKHCdu1OACA.YbS16RFPfq8j8q7sK47qC0ywpbDZp8DmICk1aVEhgfI&dib_tag=se&keywords=rtx+5090&qid=1763799532&sprefix=rtx+509%2Caps%2C245&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1 I bought the step down card , the rtx 5080 and it too was going for almost double its msrp of $1000 throughout the year. But it has come back down to earth a bit and today can be had at msrp mostly. Add a little Black Friday spice and I personally kept the lights on at Nvidia for another 10 seconds. You know what I think I'll miss the most in this aftermath. PC Gaming. No more danged electricity. Sucks.

I can't remember a time when we weren't being told that the Iranian regime wasn't on the verge of collapse. And that, my friends, is a triple-negative.

"That far orange cunt" isn't particularly witty, but it is quite satisfying to say out loud.

@Horace said in How AI defends the status quo: So AI is conservative by nature. I guess that's more evidence of how smart it is. I think you might be right. I've seen its jokes.

@Doctor-Phibes said in To hell in a fucking handcart I say…: African or European? African Swallows are non-migratory… So couldn’t bring a coconut.

@jon-nyc said in Trumpenomics: They can always learn to code. https://x.com/josephpolitano/status/1991502507345170867?s=46 Yeah, this is what I was concerned about. Do you think all of those populist union voters Trump courted are going to blame the actual policies? Or just blame Republicans?

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@Axtremus said in The impact of AI on jobs: Yeah ... I prefer my computer cool and exacting. Like a cucumber?

I only read a few, immediately saw how much crap they talked about Donald LOL [image: 1763753140695-be6aeab9-c849-455b-b16c-9aa0c9cb5254-image.png] [image: 1763753207925-4b62394b-1a18-4443-b9f2-e983ba28314e-image.png]

Or maybe she was already on her knees amirite

It is. And of course totally unplanned. Remember we didn’t even see it until two weeks later when we got home and had the film developed.

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