I mean, that really wasn't a "meltdown" but sure.
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The word does seem overused. Any time he raises his voice or writes in all caps it's a "meltdown"
Lemmy poster VICIOUSLY ACCUSES poster of BLASTING THEIR VOICE in a SCORCHING comment!
Narcissists cannot stand being made a mockery of. This is the way to get under his skin. He will rage and rage over this, tweeting at 4 in the morning for as long as we keep this up lol
Call him a pedo, a rapist, a felon, and you get nothing.
Call him a chicken and he loses his one braincell.
Looking at the video I wouldn't call it a meltdown. He seemed upset, but also kind of out of it, like grandpa who doesn't necessarily have dementia but you can tell that engine ain't getting full RPM's anymore.
I feel like this kind of crap is put out there so opposition to this regime can feel like they are having a victory, while the world order is being overturned.
Don't celebrate this junior-high level mockery. It accomplished nothing. It changes nothing.
Grind, grind, grind, until these evil bastards are overturned or we're all dead.
It doesn't accomplish nothing. It chips away at the image of him as a strongman, which is one of the things his supporters care about the most. It's obviously not going to solve the problem, but those small victories do matter and help keep morale up when things feel otherwise hopeless. The key is to keep pushing and pushing in any and every way possible.
Rage rage rage against the dying of the light
On the other hand, the term is a good summary of his complete lack of negotiating skill.
I love that we found a nickname that gets under his skin, but I just hope he doesn't retaliate by targeting Mexicans specifically. Because tacos are a Mexican food and that's all the connection he needs
Because he's not already targeting Mexicans??
Targeting them more
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My favorite part:
"[China was] doing no business whatsoever, and they were having a lot of problems," Trump declared.
How daft can one be?
Millions of Americans bought it.
Think of how absolutely stupid the average person is, with average intelligence. Likely, they can barely read at a high school level in most cases and can barely make good decisions about, well, anything, especially things outside their limited area of expertise/influence.
Now, we need to realize that half the people in the US are dumber than that.
I have a job working with the public and I know I’m thick as shit but some people I serve I truly do wonder how some of them even tie their shoes in the morning.
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The only appropriate use of AI is to lampoon dirt bag politicians.
One of our customers is using it to develop medications for Parkinson's. Is that appropriate?
If chatgpt is developing medicine, absolutely the fuck not.
If it's a neural net they're calling Ai, go for it.
"AI" is a great tool for drug discovery. It can come through the insane dataset that is all published materials and recommend molecules based on their structure in comparison to the enzymes they are trying to interact with.
Once researchers have a shortlist of options, then they can do all the necessary bench work to test efficacy and safety.
Neural nets are AI, and so are LLMs. They haven't reached AGI, but it's silly to make that the threshold for something to be "AI".
People really need to understand the history of the field better.
Calling everything machine learning related AI is how we have a glorified predictive keyboard smashed into everything right now. It's become a buzzword, and whenever someone uses the term I automatically assume enshittification.
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What meltdown are we on for the year? The toddler in chief seems to have one every couple of weeks.
This I what AI should be used for and nothing else, and making Vance memes, and musk memes, and Putin memes, and…
China: bears
USA: chickens
ROFL I love it. It’s a technique that t uses to control people - to make them always be on edge. It creates survival mode. He’s not doing it intentionally, it is a narcissistic trait.
Why is the word "trade" in the headline?
new term, “TACO trade,” an acronym
And what is it doing here?
If I'm not mistaken, the origin of the phrase was wallstreet traders who used it to refer to the trades that happened when trump rolled back tariffs (or paused them, again).
Thus, TACO trade.
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Snowflake
Needs to be a Dorito shell so we can capture his dressed up corpse spray tan.
I haven't listen to this baffoon for a long time, now I did and it's mind blowing that anybody can take anything he says serious. You really get stupider listening to him.
Taco will be the next word banned from federal information systems.
Tacos will be banned from all restaurants in America. Taco Bell is now a terrorist gang, and Del Taco is a fugitive on the FBI-s Most Wanted List.
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These stories exist to distract from the active degradation of our rights
These stories exist to distract the american people from organizing and mobbing him
Nah - stories like this serve to both destabilize him, and make resistance feel more achievable.
It's intimidating to think about trying to oppose a government that can and will disappear people at will, and is stronger than any government in human history. But a chicken TACO? That you can resist.
Also, if he's focused on people name-calling him, it gets a bit harder for his handlers to keep him focused on their goals.
i might have missed a news cycle, what does TACO stand for in this context?
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