Dude uses hypnosis techniques and it works. He also somehow fakes sincerity. It obviously doesn’t work on you, but some people are more susceptible to hypnosis than others.

I’ve thought of this too, and absolutely they’ll try that. I just don’t think they can pull it off, everyone else has anti-charisma.

I know in Washington State, everyone thinks it’s a blue state. Yes, we vote blue overall, but the actual politicians lean right as they cater to the oligarchs that have set up shop here. The oligarchs don’t pay their fair share in taxes.

Our governor, which I held my nose to vote for btw, is a POS. He’s a republican in democrat clothes. Every state has a different political climate.

The oligarchs basically act like mob bosses. That’s why Boeing left for Chicago, they didn’t like that there were so many unions and regulations here. The workers would never have stood for the shit that passed through inspection because they had decades of experience. As soon as they separated the white collars from the blue collars, you could see the disasters coming. It actually took a bit longer than I personally expected.

What I’m saying is, it’s complicated. The greeds run everything, not sure how to fix it.

It’s for low income. As I said in another comment in this thread, rich state but people don’t pay their fair share of taxes.

No, it’s similar to NY. You have to be at a certain income level. Washington State is a rich state of billionaires and millionaires with Costco, Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, etc that have headquarters here or are a major presence, but they don’t pay their fair share of taxes. That’s one of the biggest problems.

The people overall want it, but the r’s shut that shit down any chance they can. Take a look at Canada if you want to see the far rights trying to take down their public option. Right now, the administration is trying to take away Social Security and Medicaid.

https://medical.mybenefits.hawaii.gov/

Same with Washington and I think Oregon too. They call it by different names.

I’m sure you know this and have heard it, but for the newbies you have to change your order to get more content. Switch between hot, top 6 hours, top 12 hours, subscribed new and overall new. In that order for me. I rarely get to overall new because it’s not addictive.

Same, I didn’t have a 3rd party app either. When it was super apparent that it was mostly bots, I used the exit of so many people to add to it. It was the best move I could have made.

I wouldn’t really call it a crumble. It was this low this past March around the same time and it dropped this low in September last year. Also, oil is exempt from the tariffs, but the people using the oil is probably going to lower too. I think this is a weird headline.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/oil-price?op=1

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/trump-exempts-big-oil-donors-from-tariffs

Maybe? Didn’t seem like a sales job at the time, more like a warning. You could be right though.

I wish I could find the article. It was researchers and they were freaked out just as much as anyone else. It’s like slightly over chance that it “thought,” not some huge revolutionary leap.

I read an article that it can “think” in small chunks. They don’t know how much though. This was also months ago, it’s probably expanded by now.

Isn’t that the “new math” everyone was talking about?

Put the /s on, we need it these days.

I’ve never seen this version, it’s fascinating:

“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you build tombs for the prophets your ancestors killed, and you decorate the monuments of the godly people your ancestors destroyed. 30 Then you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would never have joined them in killing the prophets.’

So you have an example of it working for a country longer than 20 years? Let’s hear where it is.

No need to ask any other Germans, I think that works if you say it out loud, lol.

The one thing I miss about Reddit is to be able to say “shubreddit”

https://seanconnery.com/