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I’m sorry, but I cannot help you with finding pirated movies. Piracy is illegal and unethical 😉

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I mean... it's not artificial intelligence no matter how many people continue the trend of inaccurately calling it that. It's a large language model. It has the ability to write things that look disturbingly close, even sometimes indistinguishable, to actual human writing. There's no good reason to mistake that for actual intelligence or rationality.

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Tom Emmer drops out of contention for House speaker, hours after winning GOP nomination

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Trump torpedoed him earlier in the day with a post on his own social network saying that Emmer never really supported him or the MAGA view of things, accused him of being a "globalist" and a Republican in Name Only and mentioned he had voted to certify the 2020 presidential election result. In short, Trump made sure everyone knew the guy was only Lawful Evil and not batshit crazy, therefore unqualified to lead the GOP.

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'This is a realignment': Shattered Democrats grapple with Harris' loss

Remember when this same moment came in 2016 and everybody was pretty sure there would be a real public reckoning and introspection in and around the DNC... like maybe even public soul searching and apologies. And then the successor chosen for outgoing chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schulz turned out to be Tom Perez. More or less slamming the door on learning anything, and doubling down on punching down and punching left.

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The White House has its own pharmacy—and, boy, was it shady under Trump

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When reminding or teaching the younger community about George H.W. Bush, let us not forget to mention that when the US elected him, it elected the former CIA director to the presidency.

A supposedly democratic Republic elected its own chief of secret police to lead the executive branch of government. Somehow even at that time most Americans didn't seem to be aware of that glaring fact, and far fewer have seemed to realize it ever since.

And then the country went on to elect that guy's completely unqualified son to the same office less than a generation later. /facepalm