Recent content by shangrila

Specifically, it spews back what the user tells it to find on the internet. Any serious use of AI revolves around ordering it to look at specific things with particular weightings. It's a super search engine. Somehow people are shocked, shocked that you can google for terrorist directions or...

Man, when Sotomayor can't hide her cringe at what a libtard you are being. I kinda feel sorry for Kagan, but then again, she's the one choosing to have her name next to the other two so often.

I'll be frank, not only does this response look bad, it looks incompetent, whether honest or a coverup. Trump's "stop talking about Epstein because Texas flood" sounds defensive and uncharacteristically avoidant. Bondi's "there is nothing that can be released because it's all child porn" is just...

The Trump Administration has decided to bury the Epstein case. The story now is that not only did Epstein kill himself, there was no Epstein List, Epstein never blackmailed anyone, and no one else connected to Epstein committed any crimes worth investigating. . . . yeah, I can maybe buy...

Soli trolling aside, Trump represents the most pro-open borders, GDP line go up only thing important Republicans left. This was literally 2 days ago: Trump stepping down is not going to herald the return of the Romneys and Paul Ryans, quite the opposite. Thiel and Musk (and likely Vance once...

Man, we had decades of these things called "proxy wars" before we got 2 decades of the U.S. going crazy wasting its strength in the absence of a peer. Proxy wars are how peer powers fight each other without risking nuclear war, but if you don't think proxy wars can break superpowers, you should...

Have you heard of these geographical features called the Red Sea, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Suez Canal?

Well, some of the bad shit is clearly just Trump, not just necessary bribery of recalcitrant House and Senate Republicans. The coal and agricultural subsidies for example. I mean, Trump is still trying to somehow get his base to accept giving agricorps free reign to use illegal labor, there is...

Man, you know the Republican Party was literally founded by people that opposed slavery almost entirely because of unfair competition with free labor. The mainstream position was indeed mass deportation of blacks. So it's pretty hilarious to think it's some gotcha to think the other side has...

They are reasons that benefit the U.S. because the U.S. is more concerned about regional stability and domestic politics issues resulting from extended uncertainty or escalation. Israel is already committed and cares far less. In fact I suspect Trump was pushed into authorizing the strikes when...

We know about the other solutions: Commando raid, or bombing all the entrances and letting the people inside suffocate. Both of which Israel has used before. There are obvious reasons why the U.S. might prefer stepping in over letting Israel do either. Both are much more uncertain, commandos...

Eh, the Christian Mediterranean powers only stopped taking slaves when galleys were phased out. The European powers lacked the eunuch and sex slave markets so profitable in the Islamic world, so captured muslim slaves mainly went to the galleys. And saying privateering was strictly limited to...

I'm not aware of a recent year in which a direct Iranian proxy like Hezbollah under the direction of the revolutionary guard corps hasn't been attacking Israel.

Man, it doesn't matter what kind of historical idiocy resulted in mullahs wanting to kill us and ruling a country, they want to do it and need to die before they do. Pretending otherwise is exactly the kind of delusional utopianism the left is famous for. "If only something that will never...

Looks like Mossad really has gotten its mojo back and the pagerpocalypse isn't just a one-off. It's also blatantly obvious that Israel is acting as an American proxy here. The moment the Iranians told Trump "fuck your negotiations" an example had to be made. Every single negotiation the...