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Russia will suffer the consequences of its brain drain and their aging population far after the overheated war economy cools down.

They just want the US to keep their word on promises already made. Is that so unreasonable? They gave up their nukes for it.

The nukes were never under Ukraine control or possession. It's like saying Turkey has nukes, they don't, they are US nukes.

You’re saying we already gave them the equivalent of NATO Article 5?

Not equivalent, but the USA is in violation as of today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

I think they have so much compromat that the entire GOO would seize to exist.

True, but Ukraine was on a very great trajectory, just like the baltic states. They were all proof that you don’t need the Russian federation.

I don’t know anyone who actually uses Grok.

That's probably mean you're more than thirty and work for a living.

Twitter is like the 15th social network, and even amongst those who use it, a lot (adults who use it as marketing tool) wouldn't use grok anyway. If I had to guess who is a regular user: a male in the US (not necessarily born there), between 13 and 25, either still a student or in an internship, probably a fan of tech and/or Musk.


I've used it as an alternative to duckduckgo. It worked pretty well.

A Tennessee dirt farmer and a Texas ranch owner were talking about their land one day. The rancher boasted "I can get in my car and drive all day and never leave the ranch." The farmer replied "Yeah, I had a car like that once".

None of the three people I know use AI at all, so that clearly gives me a good insight into AI usage. /s


Reading this in Safari.

I've been using Safari+Firefox for a good decade now. Just out of spite.

I was there when IE6 was the only browser that mattered, I'm doing all I can to prevent that from happening again.

I do use Chrome for webdev, the tooling is massively better than in Safari and FF. But I very rarely use it to open anything past localhost or the internal test servers.


Safari + Firefox here.

But I use Firefox for webdev as well.

And unlike my colleagues using Chrome I've only once been made aware of something I made that didn't work in every browser.


The article really should be "Everything Is Chrome + Safari", the "Firefox on the brink?"[1] article even shows that Safari has ~37% market share (Although the underlying site[2] currently shows me ~34%.)

[1] https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/ [2] https://analytics.usa.gov/


Nothing will change as long as his approval rating remains this high and protests consist of people writing angry blogs and comments.

What about his approval rating is high right now? Quite the opposite, in fact.

I read it’s still at 47.9%. The US is filled with terrible people who cheer him on.

The country is gripped by a fever, with 47.9% of the population basking in the heat. These individuals are indifferent to anything that doesn’t directly impact them. In fact, they quietly relish others’ complaints, seeing them as a sign that they’re somehow gaining the upper hand.

> quietly relish others’ complaints, seeing them as a sign that they’re somehow gaining the upper hand.

Quietly? "Owning the libs" is their whole identity.


47.9% of those who voted, not the total population. I am not a US citizen myself and I did not vote, for example.

It’s the most recent approval rating, sadly.

Understood. Honestly it makes sense. He promised his base something and he delivered in his first term, and he is going about it the same way this term. His base has good reasons to approve.

You're not wrong -- you're absolutely correct. The problem is that these changes will start impacting the supporters of the victors as well, it's just that the Administration will blame some other entity. We've seen the playbook before.

Not that I want anyone to lose their benefits, but perhaps there will be a sea change when people start losing their Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, Veteran benefits, just being able to forecast the weather reasonably well, flu vaccines, safe and competent air traffic control -- oh what else is on the chopping block...


This time around the changes might actually take effect quickly enough for people to feel them during the current administration.

Compared to the previous playbook of making changes and then blaming the effects on the next administration. While taking credit for everything good kicking in from the previous administration of course.


AI levels the playing field and gives ordinary people superpowers, even if it gets them to 70%, real pros don’t stand out as much as they used to. That’s a hard pill for some to swallow. Yes, they will stay ahead of the pack in many areas and will rightfully look down upon middle of the road AI assisted works, but the fact that everyone else can now at least level up is a big part of their resentment.

So these uber intelligent people are working 60 hours per week, have all the resources and data in the world, and they’re still lagging behind Deepseek in the most important areas?

They should try 62 hours. Maybe those extra 2 hours will give them a competitive edge.


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