The prediction I’ve been making since he got reinstalled is that trump will be out of office one way or another by around March–sometime after the new Congress is sworn in. I should say IF it actually does get sworn in, which is not guaranteed whatsoever–repubs have a trick up their sleeves to use a technicality in the Constitution to refuse to seat them, and if they do, I don’t trust SCOTUS to try and stop them or succeed even if they do try.

Others: Canada and the EU will become closer and both will continue to pull away from the US as well as US tech. They’ll also start building their militaries up more. Russia/Ukraine and US/Iran wars will drag on. Climate change will continue to be unaddressed by anyone.

The AI bubble will probably burst in 2027 but it may take longer. The longer it takes the worse the economic effects will be.

On the positive side,

Millenials retire?! Even Gen Xers aren’t old enough to retire yet (the oldest ones still have 6 years to go)! Even some boomers aren’t old enough to retire yet.

Brockman’s looks like a kindergartener wrote it.

Oh no, how could it have become a Nazi party, Karl? Who worked to specifically make the GOP open to far right ideology, Karl? Who spent their entire career and influence in the GOP playing to the far right for their votes, Karl?

He’ll probably pick an ear bone. They’re small and he’s not using them.

(never mind–replied in wrong place)

Yeah I’m trying to figure out if the downvotes are because people don’t believe it’s an AI image. How is it not obvious. Compare it to the original meme to see all the differences.

The entire image is AI.

edit: Just look at it, it’s obvious. Look at the bottom left corner, shirt merging into a bare leg

Obviously Trump is currently the establishment since he’s the one in power right now, …

Trump and maga are not the establishment. They are extreme radicals with a completely different agenda than the establishment. Their agenda is to do away with the Constitution and replace it with an authoritarian regime centered on christian nationalism and fascism–of that’s not radical, what is? The fact that they managed to take over the government doesn’t make them “the establishment” unless you accept that they will maintain power and thus become a new “establishment”.

Text, and preferably with some info on why I’d want to read it. But I would consider clicking on a video link if again, you actually tell me what it’s about and why I should want to watch it.

IOW, if I am given the same info about the video as I would get by quickly skimming part of an article to see if I want to spend time reading the whole thing. Seems like most links I see here have no context at all, meaning no chance I’d click it.

Even if I’m on YT and see a title and thumbnail that looks interesting, I’ll right-click to open it in a new tab so the page loads in the background without starting to play. Then I can switch to that tab and see if the description and/or comments make me want to actually hit play, otherwise I close the tab.

I didn’t even think of that. But in most cases I’m seeing black ones, as if the color is important.

I’ve rebooted my modem to get a new IP, though I have to wait a while before restarting or I’d get the same one. Usually if I just wait a while (a few hours?), YT unblocks me again. But it’s irritating.

Not to mention inability to afford a decent attorney, because we can be sure if she had enough money she wouldn’t have spent more than a day in jail.

That happens to me when I use FreeTube. After a few videos, I get an error that my IP address has been blocked.

Sorry for how trite and predictable this is, but even though I was pretty cynical half my life ago, I couldn’t have imagined so vile and corrupt a personage occupying the White House as what is there now, nor how easily and with how much cooperation they’ve been able to destroy the Constitution and government that was based on it.

WTF. They didn’t even use footage of the suspect to falsely ID the TN woman, they used the picture on a fake ID used by the suspect !?!?!?!! That’s so mind-bogglingly stupid. How was this charge not thrown out immediately?

The source of the facial recognition was a fake ID used by a female suspect who was captured on surveillance footage in incidents involving multiple Fargo-area banks, according to the complaint. Lipps did not look like the suspect captured on surveillance video, according to the complaint, which noted their difference in build, facial features and tattoos. Prior to arrest, Lipps had also never been to North Dakota, according to the complaint.

$10 million isn’t enough.

edited to remove unnecessary personal info. tl;dr I had to see different specialists and it took 2-3 months to get all the work done.

I definitely remember reading that part, even mentioned it in the post I made earlier. The press is completely under control of the regime now. Soon they’ll be more careful not to put in anything that could even possibly cause them to get a displeased phone call.

From what I can tell, this video was taken as they arrived to transport him, then later another one was taken when he was actually brought out of the house and put into the limo. Then more video was taken of him being wheeled around in the safe space Senate Chamber, but out in the hallway, only photos were allowed to be taken, no video.

So my guess is, he’s non-verbal and they’re going to wheel him around and help him push the right button to vote when they need his vote on something. So far I haven’t seen – more importantly heard any footage of him actually speaking. In the video I linked with him being wheeled out, he doesn’t speak but does a “thumbs up” once, and in the car we see he has a blank expression and mindless grin.