Fascinating, as I’ve really gotten into swing dancing in the last 9 months.

It’s a valuable part of the education…

Just think about how they will manipulate the public as their AI influencer bots become more realistic. It’s a limitless propaganda army. The people around you shape your views and habits, and Meta is making every effort possible to control public discourse. This will not end well.

It’s literally a pillage of the treasury. The U.S. is done.

Castel also noted that government lawyers recently reversed their position, saying they’ve learned that 2025 policies regarding arrests in and around courthouses set by the Trump administration did not apply to immigration courts after all.

The judge, who last year had declined to ban the practice, said the new position by government lawyers meant it was necessary to “correct a clear error and prevent a manifest injustice.”

So, last year the issue came up, the government represented to the court one set of facts, which resulted in a ruling in favor of the government. Now, a year later, the government concedes that their initial position was wrong (presumably because their bullshit is no longer tenable), which obviously caused a “manifest injustice”, and the court reverses it’s position. However, there is no discussion of sanctions or any consequences whatsoever for the prior misrepresentation. I’m an attorney, and having dealt with mischief many times from opposing counsel, in my opinion the biggest problem with our legal system is that it relies on the participants to act in good faith. When they don’t, there are few consequences, so bad actors gain an advantage from bad conduct, which provides incentive to continue the conduct and undermine justice.

Well, did they accept the kidnapping of their president? Unfortunately, I don’t think this fascist administration gives a shit about how they feel about it, and will do whatever it wants.

I’ll add that while your analogy clearly makes the point, as a practical matter there are plenty of women out there that happily fulfill the mistress role that do not aspire to wifehood.

Yes, and Trump is always straightforward and honest.

Puerto Rico’s representatives are non-voting and have very limited impact on legislation. They could have 100 Congressmen and still have zero votes.

THey’d get the same representation as Puerto Rico.

God, I’m so sick of AI that I feel like a luddite. I used to be a tech nerd, and enjoy the cutting edge of developing technologies. Now I just wish we could go back in time. I think the problem isn’t so much the developing technology, but rather the way it is being crammed down our throats whether we want it or not. Everywhere I look I’m inundated with AI slop. Youtube has gotten ridiculous. I used to be able to find interesting content fairly easily. Now, every search is full of an endless array of AI slop from brand new accounts with only a few hundred followers. Anything good has been buried by 10,000 AI-generated ripoffs. Maybe someday AI will come into it’s own, but it is nowhere near there now, and I am so, so tired of having to deal with it. It’s like the entire world is being turned into one of those automated customer service telephone lines that are completely useless; that you’re stuck navigating until you’re put on hold for 30 minutes when you ask to speak to a human.

Thank you for making me see that it is a strategy!