Move to a country without these deplorables where you will be respected
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It read like AI and I spent 2 seconds checking and itâs AI, just like the James Hetfield crap and the other similar idiotic stories.
Please be a bit more careful with your memes in the future (memes are not sources and worse than useless when they do not have a source you can actually check). I donât understand why this keeps happening really. So easy to see that it is AI and there is no reason in the world to post misinformation that is so easy to fact check.
Edit: Please donât take the constructive criticism personally. It is not meant as a stab, you know I like and respect you.
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I agree, although you did use AI to check it rather than a manually written fact checking source:
Interestingly, many of these memes originate from satirical websites like The Onion or The Daily Mash. These days itâs getting increasingly hard for satirists to come up with something that is obviously more ridiculous than what passes for political debate.
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Of course @Magnus mate!! No hard feelings whatsoever.
Just for the record, I put it out here as a light-hearted post, it wasnât meant to be taken seriously.
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See
https://x.com/Scott_Maxwell/status/2023830014744289448?s=20
This is part of reporting showing that the state of Florida has diverted nearly half a billion out of an emergency management fund to pay for the various Trump era immigration actions, all of which has gone to a small collection of companies (many newly formed) owned by politically connected people
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Wrong threat mate. What the tories and their mates did during Covid belongs in the covâŠ
Oh wait a minute!
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Oh believe me, I did scroll down manually too (but sure, this one time I didnât spend time actually openeing the sources I got on hits, since I already knew the answer) 
Here is the rest of the query if you donât believe me.
Seemed unreasonable at the time to screen shot all of it when I already knew the answer (because I recognice the machine language with the emotional up and down beats, as 90% of clickbait on facebook and elsewhere reads exactly like it)
But AI isnât AI. You can use Microsoft Copilot to query where in Deweyâs system a book is supposed to be, if you are a bit unsure and then use digital Dewey to double check and itâs actually helpful. Same with a search in Google database. Google AI, while more rudimentary, is often adequate enough to tell you if something which there is a lot of data on, is in itâs registry (but you need to click on the links as sometimes it can be noise and false data, particularly if the topic is very narrow).
If someone thought I was against the concept of all AI and would never ever use it for anything because of ideology, then that is wrong. I am against how a lot of people uncritically use it though.
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This really is an outrage - I have seen the beginnings of discussions in Europe of a European platform to replace Visa and Mastercard, and it cannot come too soon. American pre-eminence in financial and technology spheres is not neutral.
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The future will be interesting.
On the topic of AI (lol, bear with me), the most interesting (and important) that academia is waiting and hoping for, is the coming EU ruling on ethics.
In the entire technology field, the United States dominates completely. And I am not talking about only obvious stuff like Facebook. But in business and academia ? Well, we use Teams and etc. Essentially (almost) all the platforms we use to communicate, are American and can technically be exploited by America. And the same with Visa, Mastercard etc.
I suppose Russian oil is not the worst metaphor for this conundrum, yet clearly not perfect. Because like Russian oil, it takes a big showdown and break in relations to force any such change.
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Yeah, FT was running a story yesterday or this morning about British Banks wanting an alternative,
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If only Britain was in a group with other countries that shared a political will to work together and stand up to such American B/S and also had the ability to work together to cut out the worlds reliance on USA.
Oh waitâŠ
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There is a thought that people who mispronounce words are simply well read. Sometimes though it is genuinely because they are an idiot
https://x.com/candaceReading1/status/2024120166431273308?s=20
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Absolutely shocking. But then again, everything they stand for is shocking.
Yeah, I agree, the sooner Europe, Canada and others can get on their feet and gain as much independence as possible from the US, at least as an alternative, the better it will be. We here have an excellent Swiss phone-app called Twint which guarantees the private sphere of its users. Iâm now switching my habits in order to use my credit cards as sparingly as possible, as they are all linked with American companies (MasterCard etc.), and to use Twint on a regular basis.
With hindsight, twenty-five years have been lost in that regard (independence from the US). The Bush era should have been a warning for the EU and all other allied countries that the US had the potential to become a rogue state. Now that it is increasingly becoming the new reality, we all are in a difficult position.
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Donât you dare be doting on my neck bitch!
One the plots of Love Actually is the unsure, bumbling British PM finding himself by standing up to a bully of a US president who needed to be corrected about what it meant to be an ally. That was released in 2003, and it was abundantly clear it was not just a throw away plot, but meant as a direct shot at the Bush administration.
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Are you suggesting that Hugh Grant was Blair?
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There are Christmas Cards and then there are Christmas Cards.
A timeless classic for which the rest of Europe is thankful to the United Kingdom (still shows up in memes every Christmas).
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Yeah, but 52% innit? 
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Donât like the CCP but at least these guys would be at risk of a bullet. The US is set on its way to being a failed state if they donât drastically change direction.