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by pipbarber
Fri May 30, 2025 7:09 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Donald Trump
Replies: 1094
Views: 140716

Re: Donald Trump

While on the subject of RFK:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/rfk-jr-maha-health-report-studies

The citation failures come as Kennedy, a noted skeptic of vaccines, criticized medical publishing this week, branding top journals the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine and Jama as ...
by pipbarber
Wed May 28, 2025 4:44 pm
Forum: Geek Speak - Tech Forum
Topic: AI Uses
Replies: 37
Views: 11064

Re: AI Uses

I'm naturally inclined towards Stylo's cynicism of ai but your point, Saint, that ai can be a useful tool in the right circumstances is obviously valid. The same debate is had over every new technology though, isn't it? The real question is who owns it and how is it used.

You've given two ...
by pipbarber
Mon May 26, 2025 6:26 pm
Forum: Geek Speak - Tech Forum
Topic: AI Uses
Replies: 37
Views: 11064

Re: AI Uses


An long assessment of the internet's descent into madness. (original ft link provided to create preview, archive link for the whole article).

https://archive.is/H2Wjh

https://www.ft.com/content/5d06bbb4-0034-493b-8b0d-5c0ab74bedef
From that article.

We are faced, now, with a digital world ...
by pipbarber
Mon May 26, 2025 5:58 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Donald Trump
Replies: 1094
Views: 140716

Re: Donald Trump


25% tariff on all Apple products that are manufactured outside the US. Now this is fun right, Trump is demanding that Apple manufacture iPhones in the US or be subject to tariffs, so what are the problems associated with manufacturing iPhones in the US, Tim Cook:

Remember when doddery Trump ...
by pipbarber
Tue May 20, 2025 6:43 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Aus Election 2025
Replies: 120
Views: 13097

Re: Aus Election 2025

It's a curious development. For the libs to form a majority government they'll need 76 - not including the certain 9 seats the nationals win every election. So that's not likely but they might win 67 seats, one day, and the 9 nationals will join them in a minority government.

It's actually a ...
by pipbarber
Mon May 19, 2025 5:21 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Joe Biden
Replies: 93
Views: 14478

Re: Joe Biden

Yeah it really highlights the incompetence of Dem decision makers. Not that they could have predicted this cancer diagnosis but they surely must have witnessed his cognitive decline and yet they still decided he'd be fine for the next 4 years, honestly wtf. It's just completely disrespectful to the ...
by pipbarber
Sat May 17, 2025 7:40 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Donald Trump
Replies: 1094
Views: 140716

Re: Donald Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/16/house-republicans-block-trump-spending-bill

Trump also lost again at the Supreme court, so a bad day for orange fascism. However, as you read about why republicans blocked this ridiculous bill from passing, it's pretty obvious it'll get through ...
by pipbarber
Tue May 13, 2025 7:49 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Donald Trump
Replies: 1094
Views: 140716

Re: Donald Trump


So apparently after all that the only thing that we know about the talks in Switzerland is that the US has agreed to reduce its tariffs on Chinese incoming goods to 30% and China has reduced its tariffs on US goods to 10%, essentially the US has caved and achieved nothing, and keep in mind even if ...
by pipbarber
Sat May 10, 2025 8:11 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Donald Trump
Replies: 1094
Views: 140716

Re: Donald Trump

Trump administration ‘actively looking at’ suspending habeas corpus, Stephen Miller says

In response to a question from a blogger for the far-right Gateway Pundit about when the Trump administration could start “suspending the writ of habeas corpus to take care of the illegal immigration problem ...
by pipbarber
Fri May 09, 2025 4:48 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Donald Trump
Replies: 1094
Views: 140716

Re: Donald Trump

stevebrooks wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 3:00 pm
Yes it's that insane woman from the Fox news panel, the one that seems to know nothing about the legal system in the US actually works.
Sounds like she'll fit right in.

I think Trump pardoned her tax evading husband at the end of his first term?