I think that was part of his appeal for MAGA: that he was open about corruption while other politicians are not.

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/6/9114565/donald-trump-debate-money

Did they want to see the country crash and burn? Did they think he would break the rules for good? Did they think it doesn’t matter who is in power?

I dunno, am not MAGA myself.

Marketing works. Apparently there is a whole industry dedicated to it.

I experienced similar as a paying customer there.

I swear Android autocorrect has a sense of humour. I swiped shape but it wrote shadow. OK the last two sets of keys are adjacent but I did not pause over d.

You are also describing markup.

Does your son realize that Elon is not an engineer? And he has never produced his own invention (the shadow shape of the cyber truck does not count as an invention).

It was only the next day that I returned to this post realising that “this question” isn’t even defined.

No different to most pop music.

Not all tree species destroy sidewalks.

Cartoons often have fewer than 5 fingers, but AI notoriously errs by drawing more.

Be careful whether you upvote the post. And did you disable your webcam before you laughed?

True. More than that: “the angry robot” is to the right of the human when he speaks/punches yet the robot with the hair is on the other side.

It is hard to make AI cartoons appear consistently. Why is that so hard? And why is drawing 5 fingered hands so hard?

I can’t.

He “knows” already where autism is found: in vaccines. That is what he will announce in September.

It is what he has claimed in the past, only this time he will “prove” it after 5 months of “rigorous investigations”.

Dated cartoon perhaps?

Nowadays kids can probably teach parents about sex but the parents need to teach kids about scams (or privacy protection at least).

I suspect he likes to visit them often. Probably enjoys the friendly bathrooms too.

Isn’t that just peppering (or is it salting) the data?

Yes, the cartoon, but not my title which implies an equivalence with torrenting but that was disingenuous of me because people usually share what they just downloaded (rather than some obsolete crap).

Maybe it was too cold for anyone to be swimming and the plants were all cacti.

Yeah that one (off Italy coast) ended up being blown up by authorities. There was a movie about it.

On a serious note:

My job in a ten day Vipassana retreat was to wash the dishes. No eye contact with anyone or talking. We were meant to focus on the moment.

It was only at the very end that I realised my dishwashing partner was a woman I would have found attractive so I really did give it my best shot but was pissed off at the end because I felt no different from all the meditation.

A year later when tripping at a forest rave I decided to meditate in the chill out zone. I realised then that the Vipassana did have benefits after all and took up meditation again.