Wow. What a way to live.
05.03.2026 16:27
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Wow. What a way to live.
Just thinking about what we could do with a billion dollars a day that doesnβt include bombing people.
Thatβs a lot.
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been βinundatedβ with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesusβ¦
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Also: any news on Mexico? Minnesota/Chicago? Venezuela?
Is Marco Rubio literally going to starve the people of Cuba while everybody is paying attention to Iran? www.crisisgroup.org/qna/latin-am...
And these are the oldest boomers!
Our troops are being told that war with Iran is part of a biblical prophecy for Armageddon that Trump was anointed by God to carry out.
This is what happens when Christian Nationalism infiltrates the government. And people are dying because of it.
So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:
- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
Even by cult standards, this is just bonkers.
User Chris: What was the core difference why you think the DoW accepted OpenAI but not Anthropic Sam Altman: I can't speak for them, but to speculate with the best understanding of the situation. *First, I saw reporting that they were extremely close on a deal, and for much of the time both sides really wanted to reach one. I have seen what happens in tense negotiations when things get stressed and deteriorate super fast, and I could believe that was a large part of what happened here. *We believe in a layered approach to safety--building a safety stack, deploying FDEs and having our safety and alignment researcher involved, deploying via cloud, working directly with the DoW. Anthropic seemed more focused on specific prohibitions in the contract, rather than citing applicable laws, which we felt comfortable with. We feel that it it's very important to build safe system, and although documents are also important, I'd clearly rather rely on technical safeguards if I only had to pick one. *We and the DoW got comfortable with the contractual language, but I can understand other people would have a different opinion here. *I think Anthropic may have wanted more operational control than we did
I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.
Your tax dollars at work: Florida (Congress) Man makes an epic mistake about Operation Epicβ¦..Furry?
rutherford.house.gov/media/press-...
There are several ways a dictatorship can transition to a democracy. A foreign power assassinating the dictator in an unprovoked war isn't one of them.
So recommended. Rachel breaks down the corruption and ineptitude of the attack on a way that will have you screaming into the void. In a (sorta) good way.
When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.
In a new filing with the SEC, Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, revealed that in 2025 it lost $712 million and brought in just $3.7 million in revenue.
Isnβt the key period BEFORE the first conviction, after which JE became more circumspect?
Itβs insane that such questions as βhow much killing will we let the killer robots do on their ownβ are being hashed out as back-room handshakes between the military and its AI contractors in the first place. lnk.thebulwark.com/4rzYBkf
Evil.
Come study at America's world-leading universities, where a lawless paramilitary force will break into your residency and kidnap you at dawn.
People are always like whatβs something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws
Burn it all down
The USDA proposed a rule to allow meat plants for pork and poultry to increase the speed of the kills lines that process chicken, turkey, and pork. While simultaneously relaxing rules for prevention of salmonella. The higher speed w/o increased staffing will cause more injury and sloppy processing.
Patel was a witness in the stolen-documents case and pleaded the Fifth. A bit of a conflict of interest for him to be punishing those who worked on it.
It is very hard not to have a safe choice to use the bathroom in public.
It may be impossible to continue living, working, eating, etc without a valid driver's license if your life was built around driving and the assumption that your license wouldn't be invalidated overnight by the legislature.
it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.
it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.
MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.
They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
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We are starving Cuba out. Thatβs what is happening. No powered, dwindling food. In our name.
And getting even less attention than our possible war with Iran.
1. US Senator Markwayne Mullin, who serves on the Armed Services Committee, believes that Ayatollah Khamenei, the current Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has been the Supreme Leader since 1979.
