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  • You're not wrong, but keep in mind ChatGPT advocates, including the company itself are referring to it as AI, including in marketing. They're saying it's a complete, self-learning, constantly-evolving Artificial Intelligence that has been improving itself since release... And it loses to a 4KB video game program from 1979 that can only "think" 2 moves ahead.

  • Sounds like they need corrective action.

  • The party of "small government", trampling over the rights of the state of California, one of the largest economies in the world.

  • Damn. That's so much worse! Thank you for the context and quotes...

  • Rubber bullets are "less than lethal" ammunition. They can still seriously injure, permanently maim, and even kill. Cops have been known to target eyes and other vulnerable points to increase damage. If that sadism doesn't horrify and disgust you, you're not paying attention. So yeah, this should be prosecuted as a blatant, potentially deadly attack on a reporter...

  • And the people who report openly and honestly what they are doing. In this case it was a toofer...

  • Damn, that's an actual quote. About tariffs, but the point applies here as well... From the context, it seems he meant all the shit he's been doing...

  • offer not valid in blue states, like "The People's Gay-public of Drugifornia"

  • I'm going to throw up.

  • Thank you, I did read the whole article! You said "It was all a scam setup by his manager." That's an exaggeration, if not misinformation. His manager Parker essentially only scammed Elvis, by making it seem he would be able to avoid service.

    I also don't see where it said his manager "convinced the selective service to immediately draft Elvis before his number came up, lying to them that Elvis would be a performer for the army", but I don't have access to The Colonel, the source in the article.

    Those nitpicks aside, I think they both probably decided it was a shrewd business decision for Elvis to give 2 years of service as a soldier, rather than a performer, especially since Elvis declined Special Services a second time after he was already drafted.

  • "Scam" is an exaggeration. Your own Wikipedia link shows he declined a cushy entertainment position in Special Services. Twice. He completed the training, which he hated, and broke down in tears on multiple phone calls, describing his homesickness. As the most popular entertainer in the world at the time, he was of course given special privileges, but he was still a soldier. Soldiers have many duties and not all of them engage in direct combat. "Never winding up anywhere remotely near a battle" would have happened with anyone that famous (for political and strategic reasons), and certainly did for other rich, well-connected people...

  • Or Mortal Combat.

  • Well, I do. So fuck him, and fuck you too!

  • Do you think an obscenely wealthy individual owner vs a publicly-traded company owned by a group of them solves the fundamental issue?

  • When I think of someone addicted to meth, it's someone that's lost it all, or is in the process of losing it all. They have run out of favors and couches to sleep on for a night, they are unemployed, and they certainly have no money or health insurance to seek recovery. And of course I know there are "functioning" addicts just like there's functioning alcoholics. Maybe my ignorance is its own level of privilege, but that's what I imagine...

  • The voices in his head are speaking to him... I can tell! 💙

  • Only Reddit is allowed to profit off its users' content and personal data!

  • JD Vance is garbage, buuut... he's just another horrible GOP person, really. The thing that made people afraid to resist Trump was his cult-like base. They've tried multiple successors, and no one has even come close to capturing the same unconditional love of this racist moron by those pieces of shit as Trump. If we as a country have a final chance we don't deserve, it's Trump dying from his beloved "hamberders"...

  • Ugh, not a fan. I know some people like them, but I just don't get the appeal. 🤷‍♂️ Ignoring the feet, I do love the kitties though!