A headline without calling it an "Artificial Sun"?!

I remain unimpressed by CNN reporters because he has not asked the most important question: What will guarantee Russia's adherence to any kind of peace deal?

It's boring to repost it the Nth time but the 1994 Budapest Memorandum was quite clear about these matters:

1. Respect the signatory's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders
2. Refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of the signatories...
3. Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest...
4. Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".

Yet, putin kicked nearly every single point in the memorandum the moment he felt ready. Why would the same leader act differently in the future?

It's eerily similar in my view to the Abraham accords. Trump negotiated bypassing Palestinians and then we got Oct 7 and the war that spiraled from it. These "deals" are as flimsy as a CyberTruck, but it's also very trumpy. He gets to act like a peacemaker and then his successor will deal with the consequent shit. Same thing happened in Afghanistan.

*edit: also, if someone wants to be "fair" (i'd rather say naive) one can consider the official Russian narrative, but again that narrative explicitly goes against the Budapest Memorandum, meaning, they are very open about not respecting treaties they sign.

Few takeaways:

1. JD Vance is talking over a tired-looking trump who can't follow the conversation (See, him trying to correct Zelenskyy on the date of Crimea's annexation, claiming it was 2015, then responding to being corrected on the date that, "I wasn't there". Like he was there in 2015, LOL).
2. This was a preplanned ambush that is the most cringe fucking thing I've seen in the last 5 years, from MTG's fucking boyfriend (I wish I made this up, I really do), attacking Zelenskyy for not wearing a suite, to which he responds by saying "I'll wear a costume after the war is over. Like yours, but maybe better"
3. JD Vance is really really bad at acting. He theatrically exclaims how the Oval office is being dIsReSPecTed!!!111!!! but with like a 5 second delay and with limited enthusiasm. All it does it tells you that this was the plan all along.
4. Marco Rubio had a Dr Birx/drink bleach kind of moment there.

Overall the only news here is trump is really really declining cognitively. I wonder how long it will take NYT to notice that....

All this raises the question: Why has the US president chosen to upend trade relations on the North American continent?

It's because the trade agreement trump's unhappy with was made by a raging moron.

TL;DR: this isn't stupidity unraveling. It's the Oligarchic takeover of academia and science

It's cute that the post assumes ignorance. We are way past the Hanlon's razor phase. Cutting indirects is a way to punch $10-100M holes into elite universities' budgets overnight, sow fear and render them financially vulnerable. The prestigious universities will be bailed out by private donations and boom, you have an unprecedented scale of oligarchic influence of leading academic institutions and academic research.

I don't think the title could be any more clickbaity.

"Musk’s purges suddenly take a horrific turn—and wreck an ugly MAGA lie"

causing UNSPECIFIED event that of UNSPECIFIED lie of <unpopular movement [on lemmy]>

this one gets it. This is exactly how Viktor Orban's system works.

All they achieved with this ambush is to show the difference in quality between Zelenskyy and trump/vance. The contrast is stark. Those two guys would have shat themselves in a reverse situation.

Ohh, Thanks I did need a dictionary for the OP, but you still left out the racist 4chan verbiage around the etymology ("CIA N*s glow in the dark"). https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie#English

It's interesting to watch this, and while Bernie is slightly left to my values, how come this octogenarian gets it and the rest of the party doesn't? I'm just amazed that some democrats interpret this as "let's align with MAGA" a little more, instead of calling those "right wing radicalists". The future of Dems is to be the anti-oligarchy party. While I understand how risky this may be as unlimited dark money pouring in can tilt things, but people still have the power if they unite.

Dr Shafiq's case was a great example of how one should (not) to deal with MAGA. She literally did everything the GOP demanded of her. Then Mike Johnson still went on to demand her resignation. She called cops on students (HUGE mistake), fueled the flames of nationwide protests... Yet she ended up resigning. In contrast Dr Claudine Gay did not budge so she was academically assassinated and then they made her resign. UPenn's president Dr Liz Magill was pressured to resign too. Which is telling how the free speech absolutist party suddenly uniformly got 3 ivy league university presidents resign/removed regardless of them doing what was demanded or not.

And this is what will lead to the demise of trumpism: they make resistance way more worthwhile than compliance.

What I find hilarious about RFK, is that he's supposed to be this paragon of health, with his spasmodic dysphonia, documented mercury poisoning, and history of heroin addiction. Also, while neurocysticercosis (most common brain worm) is common and is like the most common cause of symptomatic epilepsy in the developing world, DO NOT EVER take public health advice from someone with a history of a brain worm.

His take on antidepressants is also like he wants people to raw dog the next 4 years.

just look at the room's configuration and you can immediately tell that the goal was to literally corner Zelenskyy and hammer him until he loses his cool and lashes out. It really impresses as Vance orchestrated the whole thing, but he hasn't thought about that someone fighting putin, a room full of spongy suits might not be scary enough.

This guy is a charlatan. He doesn't understand medical facts or human behavior.

1. Despite what the vitamin industry says, nutritional deficiencies are quite rare in the USA (except for vitamin D)
2. As mentioned in the article, if your population isn't vitamin deficient, you can't assume that vitamin supplementation will have similar (or any) role as in developing countries with high prevalence of nutrition deficiencies to reduce mortality of infections.
3. Vitamin A (along with the other fat-soluble vitamins) can actually be overdosed. (Fun fact: Polar Bear liver is toxic for human consumption because it contains vitamin A in huge concentrations)
4. This kind of communication will lead for Vitamin A overdoses and vaccine avoidance.
5. RFK will take no responsibility for either.

Besides this being a distraction, it's more likely that in this case Canada would end up politically annexing the USA:

• The 2 Senators and 50 something electoral votes for "Canada State" would mean that Canadians would end up controlling US politics. :D

Of course if one assumes that elections remain binding in the Turd Reich.

Is it too early to call it the Trump Slump?

I'm 100% certain that LLMs are smarter than half of Americans. What I'm not so sure about is that the people with the insight to admit being dumber than an LLM are the ones who really are.

Can't wait to see how TSLA stocks prices will react once people realize what an amazing target Musk's own fleet will be for vandalism and public furor:D

Step 1: Make insanely stupid design decision to save $2

Step 2: Sell reversal as an upgrade

According to this reasoning CEOs don't create value.