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I live in a community that easily could have lost Selfridge Air Base if it weren't for goodwill capital that Whitmer got for being the better person and agreeing to try and work with Trump. Michigan and the rest of the great lakes states got the added benefit of additional funds to help keep invasive carp out of Lake Michigan too. In Whitmer's case I don't think she capitulated to Trump either in order to get some benefit for this state. Additionally you can make the argument that if Trump didn't get to pick the cabinet he wanted, that cabinet may have shielded him from being the trainwreck he is, arguably like they did his first term. Allowing Trump to pick his own cabinet, which an elected president should be able to do unless he's putting outrageously unqualified folks up for nomination is arguably one of the biggest reasons we're starting to see cracks in MAGA and unprecedented likability numbers in a time of war like we're seeing now.

If he keeps this up, does he go into the HOF with a Dodger, Yankee, or Mets hat?

Ahh, I took it as the guy mocking religion and laughing at the fact that MAGA didn't get pissed until Trump mocked Jesus with a picture, but mocking jesus with his actions over the years was fine. To me, I saw enough prior to 2016, but I'm still completely lost on how he maintained support after 1/6/21. But at this point, if it leaked he demanded his TP to be under vs over and that lost him more votes, I'm all for it.

I might be annoyed at where they put their 'red' line, but happy when folks realize it's been crossed.

This is also why I want a silent platform policy for the dems to be, if they secure Congress, investigations will be the biggest priority. If they say it now, I feel like that could turn off some independent voters, but unless people are held accountable for their actions when they have a government position, others will abuse it as well. Put people in jail and then we still have a chance to continue with this democracy thing.

I think i'm leaning towards this as well. Not too often this White House actually thinks strategically, but that tweet by Massie informing the new acting AG that he was on a 30 day time limit, combined with Bondi ignoring her subpoena, I feel like the WH knew Epstein was not going to fade away. So they picked one aspect from the Epstein saga, put that center stage, then after they get their hearing and can speak, the WH can claim they gave them a chance to speak and then attack everything else Epstein as people wanting to live in the past. That said, Trump tends to tell the truth in candid situations. He told a reporter that he had no idea that Melania was going to do that. Of course if it was planned out, that tends to be when he would then just lie to the reporter, so who knows.

When does the chart get updated to reflect the price in Chinese Yuan?

Doesn't matter, cool as hell regardless. Planned/Surprised, either are great stories. I want to know eventually, but i'm good regardless of how the world sees it. Amazing stuff regardless.

I had no idea about his wife and was working with it on in the background. I assumed it was Wiseman that was saying it based on the emotion that bled through from the request. If true that Wiseman and his family didn't know, that's incredible. Right before that they announced it they brought Wiseman's family into command central so they got to hear the request as well.

Farthest ever now and if you were listening to the naming request from the crew, i'm not crying, you're crying.

I used to argue with folks that you had to work to maintain it, don't just let the algorithm dictate who you follow, follow specific folks you trust, block crackpots, etc. It's a flood of crackpots now though spewing clickbait. It's all consuming.

I would like to think that even Trump doesn't want to escalate to nuclear. My guess is Hegseth got rid of those guys as they were the ones that said not to invade Iran and in current meetings, probably pointing out stupid adult things like 'well, we shouldn't do that sir, that could cause X'. I'm not going to pretend I fully understand all ethics regarding military service and how they should operate at that level, regardless if they retire or are let go, but if it is related to acts they believe are War Crime or Nuclear, I do believe its in the Nations best interest that they share their side of the story with the media.

I don't disagree that Miller (via Trump) will continue to push further. But what is in front of the court right now is not at the level you folks were mentioning, perhaps joking about before. As for the administration refusing to answer a question about going further back, just shows he's not a completely incompetent lawyer as no lawyer should feed into "perhaps" statements. I also would put more money on 9-0 than I would that SCOTUS holds up the EO.

You're thinking like a rational person would think, which is why you are wrong. It's quite clear looking at her what the real issue is, this aging women thinks it's alright to just represent his whims without truly representing the most important thing to Trump, physical looks. She has refused Mar-a-lago face and he's not going to tolerate that. Definitely a legal document, but you can't use it to hide behind illegal acts. As a public official, no idea if it is even legal to sign an NDA related to your work though.

My CEO has advocated for the use of AI and they are giving us a ton of resources and options. He's been very up front, it very well could result in less employees. That said, he has stressed two things 1) take advantage of the training/tools and use our AI. Even if you're not with Verizon, they are skills that will help you elsewhere. 2) the focus from leadership is not simply to cut staff, it's to become more productive and translate that to better products, better customer service, etc. How that shakes out, who knows. But I have embraced it and now that i'm getting better at prompts, i'm getting a ton of good info out of it. I gave up on a project last year as it would require IT to do some work and our department didn't have any more money left for IT. I took a look at it the other day and by the end of the day, I had a script, documentation on how to maintain it, documentation on how to use it, had more functionality that we had originally discussed, and had verified it enough to feel comfortable to turn it over to my team to do some QA testing. I haven't had this much fun at work in quite some time. My brother was at RSA (IT security conference) last week and one of the keynote speakers warned companies that if you're looking to use AI to find efficiencies, and then look to cut payroll to enjoy that benefit, you may get left behind. Companies that find efficiencies and use that additional time to find more efficiencies but also improve products will be the ones that succeed. Today's CEOs and Wall Street demands will result in layoffs, but it definitely is possible that if several start to flounder soon after, we might just find that the AI world still has a place for human workers.