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would you care to clarify on this? are you saying the current administration has been corrupted by foreign adverseries? or has the administration been outsmarted by foreign adverseries?

Russia has been working on Trump for decades, he's an amusing idiot. They manipulated him, people around him, the electorate, and the election to engineer the situation where this fool is in the presidency. They have hard power over him (compromising pictures, information, loans, etc) and soft power over him (he admires strongmen autocrats).

The rise of the alt-right took weaknesses in the right and left and amplified them to engineer the situation where there was a populist takeover of the Republican party. Epstein met moot. 4chan took a turn from being the asshole of the internet that was the original source of the concept of memes and a lot of other internet culture and turned it political and the conspiracies and thought processes jumped from 4chan to your dimwitted fox news loving uncle.

All of this is taking and molding stupidity and weaknesses in order to achieve outcomes: international conflict and weakening America on the world stage with both its allies and adversaries. Not outright commanded by foreigners but shaped by them taking advantages of the post-9/11 fear and general stupidity and anti-intellectualism and fear of immigration.


I see - thanks for taking the time by writing this up and adding a little more texture to the debate

Trump is rumored to be heavily influenced by Russia and supposedly goes under the codename "Krasnov".

There were photos of him kissing the kremlin wall.. just saying..

Can someone enlighten me what people actually use this for? The article mentions „managing your calendar, responding to emails, file your taxes“

The bottleneck for emails and my calendar is not the speed at which I can type/click some buttons, but rather figuring out what I want to write or clarifying priorities when managing my calendar.


I'm also curious.

So far the only purpose I have seen for this is people selling the hype; people posting videos/courses on how to use it.

I have downloaded and tried it and I can't figure out why would I need it.


I wouldn’t worry too much about those threats. This administration is so erratic that you may see those same threats made against you for any other reason down the line even if you keep it put.


Maybe the implementation will be challenging in one aspect or another but are there any reasons why you would you rather keep the current patchwork?


What kind of ridiculous stupidity is it to endanger the greatest military alliance in history? You give up the credible deterrent that all member states enjoy and contribute for what exactly? A bunch of minerals you could have had with a simple treaty? Military access that you already enjoyed? China and Russia must be laughing hard at this amateur shit show


Specifically in this case Trump's stated rationale is to shove Denmark's face in it for not forcing the Nobel prize committee to give him a peace prize. I don't think minerals or national security factor into it.


And yet, nobody lifts a finger.


One reason you may want to care about this "fake money" is the buy, borrow, die tax avoidance scheme you can run if you're asset rich [1]

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyBorrowDieExplained/comments/1f26...


"Buy, borrow, die" is simply not a thing. It's a half-baked idea invented by academics, who don't realize that it's just not viable in practice. Billionaires do not actually utilize it[1].

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...


In that case, isn't the correct analysis how much money is borrowed? If Musk is borrowing $500 million, that won't fund the government very long.


What should probably happen is the gains on any stock used for collateral in a loan are automatically realized for tax purposes.


That would make sense.


You may call them pathetic or hysterical but that doesn’t change the fact that the sentiment is real. The pace at which the current administration is burning through political capital that has been built over the last century is truly staggering and makes me wonder how much there will be left in three years time.


Wasn‘t Borat wearing one of those like 20years ago?


It's high time the Republicans embrace their new leadership with a re-branding of their outfit's name and henceforth call themselves The Banana Republicans


You‘re in luck BMW recently presented their vision CE.

https://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/en/experience/stories/urban-m...


Sadly, no weather protection and apparently almost zero luggage capacity. But it's a very tiny step in roughly the right direction ...


In the camper image it has a luggage box a sort of roof case.


oh, those concept shots are hysterical. the one with the pink bike and the woman with 3 dogs kills, but the dj setup is where I said "too far" and closed the tab


> the one with the pink bike and the woman with 3 dogs kills

A was all curious about the "woman with 3 dogs kills", but was disappointed to find the dogs are alive. I just read the sentence wrong.


the with 3 dogs was just describing the woman, not the target of the kills. it's not Kristi Noem in the image.


> the dj setup is where I said "too far" and closed the tab

Also, it's AI-generated. Zoom in on the right-most guy in the image. Garbage in, garbage out. Embarrassing garbage quality for an official site.


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