Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 4)

But is it indisputable evidence?

Please make this happen…

Donalds melt down would be epic…

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I bet he would probably fill 3 or 4 nappies rather than his normal 2 for that day.

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500% tariffs on Canadain goods!!!

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Fixed

That seems very odd, doesn’t pass the basic ā€˜for what?’ question. He has been prominent, his middle powers vision seems to be catching on, but has that actually brought peace anywhere?

To be fair, in these fairly dismal times, I am not sure who I would nominate.

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It’s very odd as up till about the 60’s leaders generally didn’t even get a look in, odd one or two and as expected. Hitler actually once got a nomination :wink: was a sardonic one mind.

Kissinger got it in 1972… so after that.

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Pearson got one before he became PM for his resolution of the Suez crisis, which included development of peacekeeping.

There have been quite a few dubious ones, Machado’s comes to mind

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After summit with tech titans, Trump calls for ā€˜self-regulation’ by AI companies

FAA allowed Boeing to self-regulate for a period. Boeing ignored the problems with the 737 Max, which resulted in the demise of 346 people.

As English VAR officials would put it: ā€œWell done, boys. Good process, carry onā€.

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Still waiting for my medal from 2012

I listened to an interview over the weekend with Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA. Nothing could convince me more that strict regulation was needed than his farcical arguments for why self-regulation was sufficient. He just kept saying ā€œdont ship dangerous productsā€ as if we havent seen over and over again that tech does in fact do that reoutinely. But more importantly, the concerns being raised currently are being driven by bad outcomes from products that had not yet been ā€œshippedā€. It was delusional, disconnected from reality and facts, and arrogant to nth degree.

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Norwegians put up a nice front facade, but they are really shifty. I think it is the viking thing

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Yeah, definitely not associate material

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Trump has signed an Executive Order officially rebranding AI as SI, Super Intelligence, in all official US government records.

The EO included a spelling error for the name of the country on Trump’s signature line

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I’ve looked more thrilled before an operation than these two. Did someone not flip the switch on Elon?

Probably was the cleaner wiping up the powder on the desk before the photo

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Self regulation is no regulation. What if there is a clash between economic gain, or business advantage, and public safety? Who polices that - the shareholders?

It’s a dereliction of duty to have the AI industry start to gain such prominence and not have proper regulation.

It strikes me as such a potentially difficult thing that even with properly structured regulation, there will be issues, some perhaps huge. I half wonder if saying we don’t want independent regulation is an admission that they don’t fully know what they are doing, and where things might lead?

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Kash bravely violating federal election laws to make an attack ad against Trump

https://x.com/Acyn/status/2105104675989242211?s=20

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How many Dems participating in a scheme to overturn the 2020 election, you fucking idiot?

https://x.com/SenTedCruz/status/2104976722659578003?s=20

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