While I agree, to the best I can see, so far I don’t see his original claims as being anti-war. Yes he said he was progressive… but the specific examples I find of his old stances were healthcare etc… He does appear heavily neocon now, and he’s largely silent on the issues he appeared progressive on. Which isn’t super shocking as they are largely not the focus right now, as no one is talking about them.

IE you can’t directly call it a two faced flip until he takes the opposite side of a stance he formerly took. I mean it’s still fishy as hell and he’s clearly making no effort to bring the issues that he ran on into the spotlight… but it’s very hard to judge if he’s flipped a stance, or just put his best foot forward.

I’m currious because there’s 3 theories to fit the concept.

1. He’s two faced… when surrounded by left leaning people he’s saying “yeah I’m going to tell trump he can suck it to his face!!!”, then in front of the right leaning people he’s actually bending the knee.

2. He’s being sarcastic, and trump is too narcisistic to see it… IE see the right leaning people who can’t understand how Colbert left their side.

3. He’s being civil, simply talking about what they can agree on and work with… and trump is calling that great.

Honestly if someone didn’t call this out and say “So you feel all positions should be a meritocracy… Do you think there may be candidates with more merit than you have in the aspects of geopolitics”.

I mean both… obviously if you want to get on trumps good side you combine bribing with censoring content he doesn’t like, and making sure not to censor or even fact check his lies.

Wonder how he’d fare against trump at golf.

Are people are claiming this is how men are?

I think what’s intended is that’s how many PEOPLE are. Not all… not most… but I definately hear that kind of talk from a lot of people.

If you go to dating apps you’ll hear over and over “I hate these apps, whenever I get a like it’s someone horribly ugly”.

I’m roughly trying to skim to understand… of course both sides are over my head in development. But it sounds like the first thing they had was just lack of confidence they could do… well exactly what OP wants (IE specifically keeping posts private and only shared with who he wants). That combined with technical difficulty with limited development resources to rewrite the protocol itself.

If I remember right, diaspora was kind of poised to be the fediverse facebook a very long time ago, one of it’s major features was aspects, which indeed was set where you added people to categories, and could make posts only visible to certain categories (basically if you remember google plus, that’s what they were copying). Though from what I’ve seen it took a huge PR hit very early on, but still is kind of alive last I checked.

https://diasporafoundation.org/

I mean pre-election it would be a bet. IE you don’t want to kiss up to the wrong side and make an enemy of the winner…

of course once it wins then it’s not a gamble, it’s just boot licking.

The cost… wouldn’t be that absurd if it wasn’t so bad at what it claimed it’s specialty was.

I specialize in humanlike conversation and emotional intelligence (head looks down at the floor, hands flailing off to the sides). Never once attempting to look at interviewer in the eye. Lips just flap randomly when talking.

It kind of baffles me what it’s trying to sell, because the technology isn’t exactly super out there. We have chat bots, and we have basic robot puppets that can fairly accurately mimic what their source is saying to do. It does not seem far fetched or even impressive to have a robot that makes eye contact and believable hand gestures… yet it can’t do that. I’ve seen more believable emotional range from chuck e cheese animatronics.

Well I do always hold to the “whatever they accuse the democrats of, is what either they are planning or already doing”. Anyone remember talking about how it was a coup when Biden’s VP threw him out to pasture.

Bottom line is, far as the project 2025 goal… trump’s entire responsibility was to win the election… Once votes don’t matter, he’s actually more of a liability because his brain is sludge… and he still has an ego that makes him easy to manipulate and a risk of doing things because they are popular even if they don’t fit the agenda.

I would be extremely unsuprised if shortly after being sworn in, trump were 25thed.

Doubles down too, because within a week the novelty wears off and the rich people don’t use it, it’s just sitting in the corner, collecting their data, possibly raking in a subscription fee that they forgot about.

Obviously the point is selective enforcement… IE Musk can ban anyone “impersonating” himself or any of the white supremicists he likes… while he can chose not to enforce the rules on people that may be trying to damage his opponents.

Much like the “no negativity” rule.

Oh one further side note, gatebox didn’t go under, nor did the service fully discontinue. It just lost the license for Hatsune Miku. So in short it’s only unhappy for the sort of people that actually go all in to the mindset. (IE the guy could go to one that says and does all of the same things as his old one did, but not with the same face and voice, and probably could have avoided the problem if he started with something that was property of gatebox, and not licensed from a game).

Don’t have instagram so I cant look past the first page of thumbnails… but is one of those pics of him with a girl in a wedding dress? Or is he just at a friends wedding with a life sized miku doll.

What’s more weird to me is… acting like this is new…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcKaNqfykg

Right though that’s my point.

Minimum specs etc… is something PC gamers are more than used to… but also why there’s a large console market that doesn’t game on PCs.

My fear is bad acting OEMs… playing on user ignorance to assume automatically that the steamOS logo means it can run most games, and shipping out hardware that utterly fails at that use purpose, and as uneducated consumers may think the “runs steamOS”, logo could be some form of endorsement from valve to imply it in fact is suitable for gaming.

Modern Corporation:

Just in… we’re re-releasing old classic games, but making every reward 10x harder to earn… but adding in microtransactions so you can get them without having to do all the playing portions.

What do they do for you, scavenger hunts? Literary mysteries? Maybe the old it’s burried at the bottom of a lake challenge?

I was going to beat my wife… but she’s all the way on the other side of the couch… and there’s chips right here.