Reminder that cutting too much is a declared part of Musk’s recipe for success. What does cutting too much imply when it comes to government? It likely means many people - millions? - will suffer to varying degree. Musk thinks that’s necessary for long-term gain.

New memes are in the making, but let us use up the last copies of the old ones

@Thinkwert They may not like it, but that’s peak Roman Empire

🤦‍♂️ One additional 🤦‍♂️ given that how the U.S. (president) suddenly decide(s) to call something does not mean other countries or international bodies have to go with it. This is just a money grab of Big Map in the U.S.!

@paulg @sama There is no Twitter, so it is a void offer.

@TirahAtt @BillAckman @UN @realDonaldTrump Pulling out of the UN would mean giving up the U.S. permanent spot in the security council and the U.S. veto power. If @BillAckman wants to do that, he is more than welcome.

1) LLM text generation is in general stochastic, so it is hard to reach definitive conclusions 2) in my N=1 test with o3-mini, the model refused for *both* candidates 3) it could have been fixed since some time ago, but only OpenAI could say about that.

I’d say this should stimulate the consideration “what else am I getting wrong?”

@Truth_in_Number I had thought about similar lines but I checked: there are studies regarding transgender mouse models used to study various effects of treatments

@NithurM @levelsio Also, the assumption is that he did not invest the money on something else but just sit on it.

@CricketSurfing @DianeCarolRoy1 @VoiceOfFranky I might have misinterpreted “poor consumer choice” as judgment

@CricketSurfing @DianeCarolRoy1 @VoiceOfFranky … up to the consumers to decide how to deal with that. Many people decide they prefer to buy local even if it costs more.

@CricketSurfing @DianeCarolRoy1 @VoiceOfFranky Free trade is about institutional barriers. Free choice is about consumers. You can have free trade where people make choices like choosing products based on origin. You are presently criticizing free choice confounding it with free trade or lack thereof.

@CricketSurfing @DianeCarolRoy1 @VoiceOfFranky Given the looming economic (if not more) threat from the U.S., it isn’t just a matter of prices. “Continue as usual” isn’t an option. Ultimately, Canada has to aim to be as independent as feasible from the U.S. so that if the U.S. elect a capricious president we are less affected

@TaraBull808 @elonmusk It has only been three weeks!

Chances are that for the moment Trump has increased the trade deficit he complains about.

@CricketSurfing @DianeCarolRoy1 @VoiceOfFranky You understand that the above is a consumer choice, right? And that that 70% has modified somewhat their choices but without necessarily stopping entirely buying non-Canadian — including continuing buying American as they see fit/necessary, for example.

That’s less than 0.01% of the world population, but OK