Difficult Opinions

Just a reminder that "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse" is not a real thing. Fraud is currently still a crime. Waste and abuse are political constructs, and in the minds of Republicans that means taking food away from poor people, and housing from people on disability programs.

We're getting a glimpse of North Korea's spy satellite program.

A sad day for Trekkies everywhere. Chekov was one of the best characters on the show. Just a great presence. RIP

I want this for America.

There’s always treason in the banana stand.

A plurality of editors, story editor, reporters do not understand AI, AI systems, technical methods, or how agents and harnesses are often used. It's complicated and fast moving. But, stories like this have a commonality: these are crimes. Report them as crimes committed by people using AI tools.

The Cheesecake Factory designs their restaurants knowing they're over the top. It's a feature not a bug. Right-winger MAGA has no sense of humor.

Side note here... I would support no man having a vote of any kind on the topic of abortion or women's rights. We (men) need to STFU.

Can we put an end to the Vivek era already? He can go back to thieving people out of healthcare and medicine, and his anti-ESG investment company.

New AI model from Jack Dorsey focused on spoken conversation. It is, well, incredible and most definitely frightening. As this gets better and better it will ruin thousands of lives. Many people will not accept their AI thingy is not real and does not care about them. block.xyz/dessa

"Take the number 49, triple it, divide by four, add 2019, subtract 87, divide by 3, multiply by 9. What is the number?" If you think Donald J. Trump could produce this answer in the context of a Montreal Cognitive Assessment, you should be expelled from society.

We need to get these crimes in front of a jury. No pleas. No settlements. A jury verdict. All of us normie citizens need to have faith that serious crimes will not go unpunished. That the ultra-wealthy and powerful cannot squeeze their way between crimes.

“Well, I don’t know if it was anybody, because it wasn’t me, and I don’t think it was Elon". He really thinks everyone is gullible and stupid.

"The evacuation route and start of the cease-fire were not immediately clear, and the White House did not comment."

I think the Tesla Roadster jet thing was a troll. He's going to carve out the cars and then merge the rest into SpaceX to build robots.

I consider myself super woke, like really woke. But this, no. What are we doing?

I could imagine Trump launching an Iran attack on election day.

I predict Elon Musk will spend the end of his miserable, drug-addled, creepy days in a non-extradition country, which are not really nice places for a baby-minded billionaire.

More broadly, the world has settled into the cycle to simply shift private citizens money and public money into the hands of the ultra wealthy. When a government has a budget deficit, it means the people that pay the taxes don’t have the money anymore.

These guys are just on non-stop biz dev trips.

It is difficult to comprehend for most of us how utterly ineffective Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have been diplomatically. It's an historic joke. Not Gaza. Not Iran. Not Ukraine. Only the useless Abraham Accords. I sincerely hope they see the inside of a courtroom and face a jury.

That is shocking. Wow. Extremely unsettling to watch this.

I feel cautiously optimistic Dems will control Congress, but that means Trump and MAGA go scorched earth for more two years. I sincerely hope we see Dems fight back. We cannot afford to lose the world or ourselves to hold Trump in power.

Netflix. Just kill the games. Keep the podcasts, but find normal people, not the multi-million flash-in-the-pan celebs. Then produce shows that test well, and then commit for 3 seasons, shoot straight through, release weekly. 🫳 🎤

Trump was impeached already for less.

I can assure you Jensen Huang has zero understanding of Germans. This is a place where many, many people walk around with hundreds in cash so they don't get "tracked" by their bank. Can't wait for the labor unions to weigh in on "ROBOTS BUILDING ROBOTIC CARS INSIDE ROBOTIC FACTORIES".

Until the "deal culture" is rejected, all this bullshit will continue. Trump is addicted to this make-a-deal insanity. He loves the feeling he gets from besting a business rival (or so he might think, reality says otherwise). This is not real life. People are not living in the Wall Street movie.

Trump urged Kansas voters to support Republican Senator Roger Marshall, warning without evidence that the United States could experience France-style unrest if Democrats win. It's a bold strategy, Cotton, to threaten your own country to win votes. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.

wtf are we doing

French students protesting over crumbling schools, overcrowding, teacher shortages and selective university admissions are a microcosm of the wealth inequality epidemic. Unless govs are willing to tax ultra-wealth, either personal or corporate, the people are going to burn it all down.

I can't tell if the 'return to Mexico caravan' is real or TikTok slop. The economic disaster Trump dumped on thousands of families is just sad. The farmers can fuck right off for not paying living wages and fighting for their workforce. If you choose racism and greed you eventually get bankruptcy.

Americans, you're the baddies now. The US has given no financial aid to Ukraine for over two years, restricted Starlink and StarShield access, and postponed sanctions under the Graham Act. Normalizing and rewarding Russian aggression and MAGA racism and hate has made the US an enemy of the world.

JD Vance will never be president. Just an absurdly empty man.

Here in our town diesel is $9.14 and premium gas is $8.59 in US dollar/gallons equivalent. Trump is destroying the global economy singlehandedly, so I really hope he dies in prison.

That Tesla fliperoo demo…no chance it’s a real fitted out car. It would weigh at least 2,500kg to house the battery power and thruster system. I’m no engineer but there has to be a point when it’s too heavy to be a jet car AND a car car.

Trump signed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act 👏, but Congress included Section 115, which authorizes the president to waive sanctions, restrictions, and (his own) tariffs when doing so is in the national interest. Trump's EO invokes that provision. 🖕 difopin.com/7pr9ye8

Your country will not win a drone war if you do not have complete data coverage of the battlefield. In addition to the concept of air superiority, now total connectivity is required. We must end SpaceX from controlling Starshield coverage.

No.

“This might just bring down the entire Trump administration, an administration which I have supported from Day 1, whose policies I still support. It also may end the JD Vance/Marco Rubio ticket after you hear the phone call that I’m going to play tomorrow. It’s pretty freakin’ amazing.”

Super hoping a jury gets to decide if “being my friend” or “car deductible” would be normal payments to a rando young woman.

Direct 💉 into my brain. Super silly but fun as hell.

Just fuck all these people. wapo.st/4yiUDPx

Obama: Please meet my new press secretary, who is a fake lawyer from China who formerly worked for my personal media and technology company, and cannot speak in full sentences. Republicans: 💣🔥💥🤬💣🔥💥🤬💣🔥💥🤬💣🔥💥🤬💣🔥💥🤬

The president of the United States firmly believes that public schools are performing gender affirming surgeries on students That is, by no exaggeration, the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life, and he's been repeating this claim for years He needs to be removed from office immediately

Again. Gambling is legalized theft and it destroys lives. Kudos to Noren for having a spine. 👏

We have definitive proof with this video that WOMEN ARE TOO EMOTIONAL for politics.

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

Trump said the United States is considering joining Saudi Arabia in military actions against Houthi forces following a deadly strike on Riyadh's main airport. Please do this one week before the midterm elections. Please. Please do this bigly.