President Trump 2.0

[Russ]

Originally Posted by Pierre

No I’m not, I’ve said it’s an observation based on watching him talk in previous interviews.



you obviously think that. Based on nothing but what you wish to believe.

As I said, anyone that watched the whole video and accepted that this was a man that has Asperger’s and can be awkward projecting and controlling and containing excitement and emotions would reasonably come to another conclusion.

It’s fairly amusing that someone who fiercely defended individuals with ADHD, because he was diagnosed with it, against those that dismissed it as bollocks and an excuse for bad behaviour in children.

Will happily accuse another neuro-diverse individual with a condition as being “deliberately ambiguous”………….very telling, and I thank you for it.

You’re welcome.

We’re doing exactly the same thing: judging him on our perceptions of him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...eral-agencies/

The White House late Friday fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies in a purge that could clear the way for President Donald Trump to install loyalists in the crucial role of identifying fraud, waste and abuse in the government.

The inspectors general were notified by emails from the White House personnel director that they had been terminated immediately, according to people familiar with the actions, who like others in this report spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private messages.

The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire a Senate-confirmed inspector general…

… Most of those dismissed were Trump appointees from his first term, which stunned the watchdog community. One prominent inspector general survived the purge — Michael Horowitz at the Justice Department, an appointee of President Barack Obama who has issued reports critical of both the Biden administration and Trump’s first administration...

… Among those apparently spared Friday was Joseph V. Cuffari Jr., the embattled inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security. A Trump appointee, Cuffari was found in October by an independent panel of watchdogs to have misled the Senate during his nomination process and committed other misconduct during his five years in office.

I am much more worried about this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2686079.html

I thought the Greenland stuff was just Trump putting on a show but he seems pretty determined to get it.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Damien

I am much more worried about this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2686079.html

I thought the Greenland stuff was just Trump putting on a show but he seems pretty determined to get it.

It will end with a compromise that will ensure that the US can put its military bases there. He would call that a negotiation. You would perhaps call it intimidation, but it works.

Hopefully, though if Canada and Greenland become the 52nd and 53rd States of the US, we’ll be the 54th! At least we will then be on side…

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Hopefully, though if Canada and Greenland become the 52nd and 53rd States of the US, we’ll be the 54th! At least we will then be on side…

Yeah, but we wanted our sovereignty and not to be ruled by other countries (remember? )
Maybe Greenland, unreasonably, wants the same.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Mr K

Yeah, but we wanted our sovereignty and not to be ruled by other countries (remember? )
Maybe Greenland, unreasonably, wants the same.

Well, not the bureaucratic EU, anyway!

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Well, not the bureaucratic EU, anyway!

Have you ever been to the US?

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

It will end with a compromise that will ensure that the US can put its military bases there. He would call that a negotiation. You would perhaps call it intimidation, but it works.

Hopefully, though if Canada and Greenland become the 52nd and 53rd States of the US, we’ll be the 54th! At least we will then be on side…

It already has a military base there...

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

It will end with a compromise that will ensure that the US can put its military bases there. He would call that a negotiation. You would perhaps call it intimidation, but it works.

They already can, just like they put them here. Denmark (and the UK) are pretty good allies to the US. Denmark is part of NATO anyway.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Hugh

It already has a military base there...

[Pierre]

What strength looks like.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...tation-flights

Wasn't sure where to put this but it impacts Trump's Presidency so it's as good a place as any: https://www.reuters.com/technology/c...ut-2025-01-27/

Investors made a quick exit from a host of technology stocks from Tokyo to New York on Monday as the emergence of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model challenged the dominance of current AI leaders such as Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab.

Raising questions about the level of investment needed for AI, startup DeepSeek launched a free AI assistant last week that it says uses less data at a fraction of the cost of incumbent services.

I think this is a much bigger story than covered so far. America thought they had a big lead in AI simply because of the power and cost involved in training models and they limited China's supply to American chipsets to capitalise on it.

China just dropped a model trained at 1/10th of the cost is matches or exceeds OpenAI's o1 model, their most advanced, in nearly all benchmarks.

It's tanked American AI stock prices and upends the entire market. It raises a lot of questions on what these American AI companies have been doing with the money when it clearly could have been done a lot more efficiently.

Originally Posted by Damien

Wasn't sure where to put this but it impacts Trump's Presidency so it's as good a place as any: https://www.reuters.com/technology/c...ut-2025-01-27/



I think this is a much bigger story than covered so far. America thought they had a big lead in AI simply because of the power and cost involved in training models and they limited China's supply to American chipsets to capitalise on it.

China just dropped a model trained at 1/10th of the cost is matches or exceeds OpenAI's o1 model, their most advanced, in nearly all benchmarks.

It's tanked American AI stock prices and upends the entire market. It raises a lot of questions on what these American AI companies have been doing with the money when it clearly could have been done a lot more efficiently.

Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say.

Even so, I’d be very wary of how I engaged with anything living on a Chinese server and dedicated to learning from its interactions with me.

Most "AI" is not really AI (so Im told by people who know far more about it than me).
Its just a good human language interpreter that can look up information based on what you ask.

It's a very fancy autocomplete. It doesn't look anything in that sense. It takes the input and statistically works out the most likely token based on the tokens beforehand IIRC.

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Originally Posted by Chris

Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say.

Even so, I’d be very wary of how I engaged with anything living on a Chinese server and dedicated to learning from its interactions with me.

I give very little to AI in that sense. Plus I always say please or thank you in case the robots rise up and remember how we treated them.