Favorites June 23rd 2023
This is an interesting poll result, but mostly as an illustration of the consequences of poll design. If you don't make voters rank things, they aren't forced to think through their priorities, and some people will say everything is broken at that point. See also polling on "worried about AI risk".
This is a cool feature, I experimented with it today for making the banner image, but it isn't really built to work on your own images, you have to already have output from the midjourney system.
But don't worry, once Republican voters learn more about this Trump guy, they'll realize he'd be a terrible president and move on to another candidate.
I also must admit I was not aware of this. Every alliance between states is a 'lesser evil' to some extent.
This was going to be my meme for, buuut
Things have been moving very fast this evening, from "Wagner group wouldn't be saying this stuff if he wasn't ready to back it up," to "Wagner fighters have been calling to say goodbye to loved ones over the last 24 hours, maybe this is real", to "Sure, but Wagner is gonna get crushed, they have no allies" "if Wagner doesn't get some allies fast, they're screwed". "Russian security expects an attack on Moscow". They appear to have captured the Southern Military District, but I admit I'm not sure what that means, apparently this includes a city of over a million people. Folks in Kyiv are laughing. How will Americans figure what the Kremlin's position on all of this is without Tucker Carlson on the air? Fukuyama is undefeated. But everyone forgot about the Musk/Zuck cage match.
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• The Supreme court has made very clear that non-quid-pro-quo bribery is something that should be handled by impeachment, rather than being illegal. They've made the correct actions very clear, Alito & Thomas have to go.
• Looks like Iran and the Saudis, and a bunch of other Gulf countries, may be getting more friendly, that's probably good.