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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. someone like Karoline has no limits. When Trump says something awful or just flat out factually wrong, she will tell you that he didn't say that. Or in case that she wants to repeat it, she will say it's aligned with the American public. I don't expect a WH Press Secretary to ever disagree with a President but she comes across as happy that Trump is cruel to people. And the major news sources will only push back on her so much because they need access to the briefing room and the WH. Not to mention that reporters are not supposed to be opinion writers but rather to ask questions and report back on the answers.
  2. (Bad etiquette for a second response to a post. delete post, ban user) With cameras becoming cheaper and cheaper, and honesty automated drones becoming cheaper and cheaper, intense surveillance will become more common. AI could control the surveillance system, interpret the photos/video and then alert the appropriate folks (police, security or neighborhood watch) when needed. Eventually it will alert SkyNet or Robocop to detain the teenagers hanging out on the dead end street.
  3. If you're not doing anything wrong (as defined by others) you shouldn't mind constant surveillance. We're doing it for your safety and the safety of children! Why are you so opposed to children safety? I've been watching the star wars show, Andor this past week. When they are highlighting the news agencies or politics, it's so apparent which political party is the Empire. Of course, I imagine there is a TexAgs post saying this opposite.
  4. The playbook also is to reply to the reporter something like, you must be from cnn. when a politican fails to answer these simple question especially about laws they want to pass, every reporter should ask why Patrick (or abbot) is refusing is newer a question.
  5. AI + criminals + dementia = print money for those criminals. If you see an older person mentally slipping, it’s critical to remove their access to large sums of money. Fine, let them have a few hundred in cash, or a credit card with a low limit. But if they need more, require someone else sign off. Convincing them to agree and stick to this is the tough part. of course in their dementia/paranoia they feel the person, who is truly trying to help and protect them, is the bad guy.
  6. Margaret’s character was great when she was paired up as Frank as a bad guys of MASH. When they lightened up her character and Frank left, the show wasn’t as good.
  7. Have your AI call my AI to solve this problem, and then tell us what we need to do to make it happen. I've seen a few hypothetical scenarios online where AI agents are organized as virtual company. CEO, CFO all the way down to worker bees. In theory each agent knows its role, and the role of others agents. You can give the overall AI organization a goal(s), and it will start defining how each "person" will work together to achieve that goal. Scary and cool at the same time.
  8. I'm envious. I started my own personal dividend fund a bit later in life but it's a goal of mine that, when I retire, dividends will replace ~10% of my last take home pay. I throw a few bucks into the account every so often, and reinvest all dividends. Outside of the reinvestment, I love when the dividends have a >5% annual increase which usually grows the stock price as well.
  9. My guess is that we will soon see a large dump of hacked data that will include the names and addresses of these ICE seal team 6 types. Which will lead Pam Bondi and Kash Patel go on a manhunt for the person who leaks the info. Obviously, I wouldn't want anyone to take violent action on ICE employees but I wouldn't lose any sleep if they or their families are publicly shamed.
  10. Agree with this 100% I'm not a parent so take my additional advice, or not. I personally worry about the upcoming generations and how they will thrive. If I had kids, I would be pushing them to be curious and learn more about how AI is changing the world. Obviously a 5 year old's exposure shouldn't be the same as a 22 year old. AI is going to increase productivity and eliminate some jobs, so anyone with ambitions to have a comfortable life with money needs to understand how to use it to their advantage. If you were hiring a data analyst today, would you want someone who's resume demonstrates their knowledge on how to crunch numbers, or the person who also knows how to do that but via AI tools? Do you want to hire a VP who can competently manage and plan a division at your company, or a similar VP candidate who has experience deploying AI tools to increase productivity? AI will quickly become an essential skill.
  11. SIAP but important to remember that with some of the pardons, the convicted party had an order to pay restitution to the victims. If they still owe money at the time of the pardon, any remaining amount does not need to be paid. So when Trump is pardoning some of these individuals, the victim doesn't get paid but presumably Trump does. If he really thought the sentence was too harsh or the convict showed true remorse, Trump has the ability to only commute the sentence and allow them to return home immediately. Of course they would still owe the restitution amount. Instead Trump wiped out their conviction, sentence and financial penalties.
  12. The correction isn't helping me understand what is going on here.
  13. DUI after seen driving erratically in her Porsche. Glad that the public was needed to pay her medical bills.
  14. If a bank is dumb enough to give you money by not catching your lies, how is that your fault? So sad.
  15. What's a terrible thing? That a white couple was convicted of bank fraud, lying to the IRS, and then found guilty by their peers? He doesn't even pretend that he's not a criminal.
  16. Im not a fan of thc products and you know my solution that works 100% of the time: I don’t use them. Ridiculous to ban the industry. the trouble with Texas is that it’s full of Texans.
  17. Still have 10 years left on my 2.6%. I actually had been planning to pay it off within 5 just to get it behind me when I retired. I need to rethink that plan.
  18. I agree that it unfortunate that Elon has burned all of the goodwill and technology that Tesla has created. But the blame is not on the person hating Elon. a better statement is that it was foolish and short sighted for Elon to force the dismissal of the great work Tesla previously accomplished. Tesla is most toxic national brand in the US. And it’s not close. And it’s not changing.
  19. With my job I have to answer my mobile even when an incoming number isn’t in my contact list. Most of these calls are telemarketers or scams. In the past scammers always have some thick accent. Lately the scammers have zero accent. Either they’re teaching American accents across the world now, or we’re onshoring the scamming business back to America. Or perhaps it’s an AI voice.
  20. It may not be banned at Bob Jones but that’s a far cry from being acceptable.
  21. Trumps bans international students from Harvard. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/us/harvard-university-trump-international-students I can't wait to see the next Democrat President decide that Liberty Universit or Bob Jones University is against the law and must close. Of course, the Left would do that in the first place. EDIT: I wonder if they will make a carve-out for Afrikanner students escaping the white genocide in South Africa, or any and all Qatari students.
  22. There's a false narrative that there's a Texas Democratic Party. Obviously they exist but do they do anything but work to keep themselves in the minority? If they were secretly run by a GOP operative, would the outcome be any worse?
  23. It doesn't take much to interpret that actions by Abbott and Goeb are solely about keeping the GOP in power in the face of changing demographics. Even the school voucher program might harm some of their constituency, there is an element to have kids educated in private schools that can be openly hostile to actual history and liberal ideas. The top priority is always about keeping Democrat stronghold (youth, non-white, and big city) votes as suppressed as possible.
  24. While I don't agree with many of Barrett's opinions, from my non-trained legal perspective, but I give her credit that she actually does appear to consider the case in front of her. Unlike Alito or Thomas who only look to see the conservative view and then shape their opinion to further their viewpoint. I would guess that many MAGAts and Trump are disappointed in Barrett. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think that Alito or Thomas would recuse themselves in any case these days, unless they were 100% sure their side had a sizable court victory. Even then they would issue an opinion. Not that this would seem possible, but if Thomas personally argued a case in front of the SCOTUS, he would still participate in the vote.
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