the promised third “f”

tbf he is complaining

It really depends on stupid.

Will he ever leave office?

He’s an old man. Either Americans will get rid of him, or he’ll die of old age.

America is rotten to the core.

Is that new? The US has/had many great attributes, but they’ve never been as good as their PR pretends. Jim Crow, the Trail of Tears, Iraq, Vietnam, the CIA, etc.

Richest country on the planet … Greedy fucks.

I can’t disagree.

Their special status no longer applies

Their special status is money, a productive economy, and a massive military. Trump may damage those attributes, but I suspect the US will generally retain them.

And other countries will line up to get access to that trough. Even if governments don’t want to buddy up, the moneyed classes in those countries will agitate to get access to that market.

I expect to see a stronger push away from reliance on the US for…

During COVID we said we were going to start producing our own vaccines, pharmaceuticals, and PPE. We said we would address the crisis in Canadian healthcare. In the three-ish years since the end of lockdowns, we’ve settled back into our pre-covid rut.

Post-Trump, it will be the same. As long as the US is a huge market, we’ll eventually settle back into the NAFTA rut.

It looks like an offline tool that reviews existing medical records to find indicators of addiction:

Overall, the AI screener was as effective as provider-only assessments in leading to addiction specialist consultations. However, those who received AI screening were 47% less likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days after initial discharge.

The team calculated that each readmission avoided saved about $6,800 in health care costs during the study period. The findings suggest that investment in AI could help to increase access to addiction treatment, improve efficiencies, and save costs.

There’s a lot of money to be made by selling stuff to the US. I’ll be surprised if Canadian companies and trading agreements didn’t revert to their pre-Trump arrangements within a few years of him leaving office.

Who asked the glass?

The Thatcher effect or Thatcher illusion is a phenomenon where it becomes more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside-down face, despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcher_effect?wprov=sfla1

not again

That’d track

Google cut nearly a thousand other employees in its Pixel, Nest, Fitbit and Voice Assistant units in January this year, while it cut “only a few teams” in its Cloud Computing division in February. The largest round of cuts came in early 2023 when Google’s parent firm Alphabet announced it would cut 12 000 jobs, or six percent of its global workforce.

Ouch

They aren’t gonna leave until it’s untenable here.

Postcrime will be there?

Precrime will be here!

Don’t make Trump sound awesome. He’s not.

and “enters” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

Overwatch License

Modification of the source code is only allowed if your competitive rank in Overwatch is higher than the maintainer’s.

okay fine i’ll get some

My machine is not a workhorse. I got it second hand. It has around 8gb of RAM, and an 80gb HDD I found in a laptop.

But it’s enough to work as a testbed, so it’s fine with me.