the media should have been stating this shit more often

So we respond by bashing the parts of the media who do actually publish it, even if they are later than ideal?

Eh, whatever excuse keeps the toddler in chief pacified for a bit.

Now, I’d take anything Trump says about deals and interactions with anyone else with a large grain of salt,

Doesn’t really apply in this case. Either option, 1) Trump asked or 2) Trump lies about asking, are pretty much equally bad. Trump is proven unfit to manage a McDonalds in either case.

Now Trump claiming someone else said is always worthy of skepticism. Especially when it is someone not aligned with Trump.

A non-sociopath would never push that button, so we have a sociopath in the oval office to push it for us.

I think you got the process backwards, Trump doesn’t care about the diesel price. Trump started out wanting to help Russia. The whole diesel thing is just an invented setup, to give Trump a propaganda reason to bash Ukraine.

To see this realize that 1) Trump has always been openly pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine 2) the diesel price effect this will have is tiny 3) the political cost to Trump is completely disproportional to diesel price relief.

So I am not a lawyer. But it can’t possibly be the case, that you are not allowed to publicly say something trivially provably true, unless you have a court’s word that it is true. That would effectively mean that there is zero free speech.

Because it is very expensive to get sued if they get it wrong.

Republicans are still projected to get something like 40-50% of the votes next election. Given how much the Republican party is the party of Trump, pretty much every vote for a Republican is a vote for Trump. All the Republicans who opposed Trump have already been primaried out at this point.

What actual policies does the Republican party even stand for, at this point? “No new wars”? Economic responsibility? Preserving freedom and democracy? Small government? Real Christian values like helping the poor? Preserving the status quo? Free market capitalism? Free speech? No, they stand for Trump and racism, and nothing else.

So while you can (rightfully) quibble about the specific % I mentioned being misleading, the underlying Trump support is huge.

Supporting Trump was always about making MAGA feel good about themselves, feels not reals. Trump’s actual policy outcomes almost never mattered.

Perhaps the main policy point of Trump was anti foreign adventure, alongside being anti-immigration and anti-inflation. And now Trump has started an optional war in Iran which is arguably even stupider than Bush II’s Iraq War. Which has caused inflation to sky-rocket. And the national debt is spiraling out of control. And yet, 76% of Republicans still approve of Trump. I don’t think most people realize how literally insane the loyalty of the Republican voter base is.

Karoline Leavitt’s ability to shamelessly lie was impressible. Horrifying and evil, but impressive. I assume that Zacharia was simply not qualified at shamelessly lying?

She lasted only 0.45 Scaramucci.

I don’t think their boobs are big enough for them to be qualified to be White House Press Secretary.

If someone openly commits murder, you are in fact allowed to say they did it without saying “allegedly”. Otherwise there would be no free speech, it would mean you could not say anything that was not already whitelisted by the state.

Have LLMs become better than Google?

Or has Google just gotten shittier than LLMs?

LLMs are better at most search tasks than Google has ever been. No contest, it is in no way close.

Why do you think that? Not that they are saints, but the demand shock is a real thing, not something the DRAM manufacturers created artificially. And that prices rise with demand is not price fixing.

Many people fail to appreciate just how much consumer battery technology has improved, in their lifetime.

LLM can be sycophantic at times, but it will usually not hesitate to tell you you are wrong.

I think the more attractive LLM property is that you can ask questions, without thereby admitting to a human that there is something he doesn’t know. That is surely very attractive to narcissists like Trump.

So was Star Trek. There was not really any science in there.

It wouldn’t be dumb if ICE vehicles were also taxed the same way but they’re not.

Petroleum is taxed per liter. A car goes X km per liter. So the current petroleum tax is effectively per km, or close enough.

• Electric cars
• Reusable orbital rockets
• Robots
• AI

The Wrath of Kahn novel was released in 1982. The 1981 IBM PC already came with an optional 10MB HDD. So the author would have had to assume that storage space tech would basically never improve at all.