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Do you have a good example?


The two recent examples I can think of are the Gaza ceasefire, as well as the general concept (and not actual implementation) of re-industrializing the USA in the context of China's dominance.


"re-industrializing the USA"

Call me when the party starts. Many of the decisions this administration has made are having the opposite impact. The re-industrialization of the US (what little bit of it there is) is in spite of the trump administration, not because of it.


Well, people are still dying despite the ceasefire and the reindustrialization seems mostly to build data centers. What parts of these do you think are good?


Has there actually been a ceasefire in practice? People are still dying, guns are still being fired afaik. And the broader plan does not instill confidence with Tony Blair proposed as a technocratic leader of the area


I don't know. It's tragic but unfortunately not surprising there is still fighting.

My recollection is that during the early, and perhaps overly hopeful, days, left-leaning media avoided saying Trump's name when reporting on it.


Of course I have no sway, politically or otherwise, but I would have happily given credit to Trump where it was due if it panned out.

But Israel does not seem to have abided by the ceasefire, and the larger peace plan now feels like it's going to be stitch up for the Palestinian people.

It is definitely tragic


I tried to help them steelman this but the only couple examples of good things I could come up with, I’ve not seen liberals complain about. Hm. Coming up blank.


Does any leftist have an example of anything good Trump has done?


Not that I think he has the legal authority to do it, but I am not really opposed to dropping the penny.


The 2018 farm bill was at the top of my list. But they just repealed all the good they accidentally did with it so never mind.


Trump seems to be really into kei trucks all of a sudden, if he follows through with allowing their import that seems like it could be good


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All these come from the white house press directly which has painted them in a glowing light but it remains to be seen if they are actually good things. The administration is crooked. Nothing they do can be trusted. Especially when they attack science and reduce funding for critical programs


He’s announced having done more things I might have liked, than he’s actually done. Lots of crowing about crap that never happens.


Which of these have been met with scorn by liberals? You seem to not get the idea...


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After significantly more searching, you managed to cite less criticisms of Trump’s “good actions” by liberals than you managed to cite “good actions” themselves, and then to top it all off you tried to weakly justify that conclusion with some trite aphorism about individualism encompassing many outcomes.

Weak!


Yes, you're right, I should google to make your arguments for you!

Listing a bunch of white house links and then 2 criticisms (edit: he got it up to about 6 criticisms of marijuana legislation, wow!) which aren't even really about the action but more about the general malfeasance of the administration is an extremely weak supporting argument behind "liberals criticize anything good Trump does the same way conservatives criticized anything good Biden did", because we can identify plentiful examples of naked hypocrisy around the criticisms of Biden - see the autopen debacle for one hilariously manufactured self-owning example.

It must really be quite trying to justify Trump's actions, I'm amazed you have failed to use any of that energy on introspection.


And we all know that enshittyfication is coming.

Exactly. Google doesn't show you what it knows is the most appropriate answer, it shows you a compromise between the most appropriate answer and the one that makes them the most money.

Same thing will happen with these tools, just a matter of time.


Did you hear his "A mind is born"? It is amazing outright, IMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8


I forgot he was the same person who did that! I was somewhat obsessed with it earlier this year. I had found a version you can type into BASIC that pokes it into a block of memory and jumps to it, since I have access to a C64 at a hackerspace that doesn't have a floppy drive, so I've run it at least once on real hardware. (I have a new C64 Ultimate on the way as well.)

Their chat was called "Le Chat" - it's just their style.

And while it may miss the HN crowd, one of the main selling-points of AI coding is the ease and playfulness.


It's still called "Le Chat" (which means The Cat in French), hence the occasional pun with a cat icon in various places on their website.


I didn't know about the cat!

Thanks :)


Is it the first time you hear about the risks of AMOC collapsing?


To clarify, no the AMOC collapse I have grown up with as a discussion point over the last 40 years.

I am talking about the decision by our national security council. I had not seen any reporting on that domestically.


IIRC, you can adjust the fog to still be there and get the best of both worlds.

Morrowind can indeed be small to look at, but big to play in <3


Uh, Novo is having an absolutely massive firing round; the CEO got axed first and Denmark now has a glut of qualified unemployed which we're all doing our best to hire ASAP :D (we just had the lowest unemployment rate in our history)

(Novo hired _way_ too many people because 'infinite money')


That sounds like some obscure Fallout idiot savant member-berry :D


The important thing is stocks. My guess is that more and more people has some cash lying around, esp. with NETS' last failure


Not 2 days ago, but in February, iirc.

We are thankfully on quite the shopping spree, we have also decided to include women into conscription (and that conscripts can be used for real missions, iirc) and we are financing and building Ukrainian weapons like the Flamingo.

Also, Scandinavia has pooled our airforces into one airforce, surpassing the UK, France etc. in size.


Belgian youngsters aged 17 wil get a voluntary call for 'vacation camps' in the army in a few weeks. Recently a lot of people were hired four the federal and regional governments to handle strategic supplies. All Belgians were asked to stock their own 3 day emergency kit.


Damn, France's plan to retake Wallonia has been discovered!


Au contraire, mon ami. In all the geopolitical madness it's time to reclaim what was ours onder Charles Quint. Habsburg rises again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor#...


Fun fact: Karel spoke Flemish natively.


Diets, indeed.


I mean war aside, the 3 day kit is always a good idea - power outages happen, freak weather events, supply chain issues, strikes, or even not feeling like going out which is very common.

As for the army vacation camp, I think it's good experience (same with scouting for example), although there's probably a huge recruitment angle there.

Personally I wouldn't mind a stint in the military, but at the same time I'm nearly 40 and not exactly fit if you catch my drift. That said, the military is also looking for a lot of reservists, people who do some jobs outside of their day job, some in IT security, base guarding, that kind of thing.


I think Belgium is the most stable unstable country in the world. We're always on strike, only surpassed by the French. At any given moment one of our seven governments is in a state of crisis. Somehow I feel like we'll make it though three days of lockdown without any issues.

I tried to sign up as a reservist - civil personell - because I feel like my logistic expertise could come in handy but sadly I passed 40 a few years ago and I'm deemed to old for service, even as a reservist.


She repeated it two days ago on live danish TV. See link 1 and 2 in my previous comment


Aaaaaand we just bought for 7.7 billion euro earth-based European airdefenses.


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