The vast majority of Americans allowed for this by either voting for Trump or refraining from voting at all. There is certainly some global animosity towards the American voting public, though little has been said so far, as we wait to see if the people have any sway over the global recession their choice may cause.

Most of us have come to realize that the American government does not care about the world, which is fine. But this is the first time I’ve seen ordinary people around the world wish economic pain upon the American people, mostly because they know it’s the only reason that their government will change course.

At no point in my lifetime has America’s allies wished pain upon its people. It’s precedent setting and these attitudes are not going to go away overnight. Trust is a very hard to rebuild.

America’s allies invoked Article 5 of the NATO agreement after the attack on September 11th, 2001. Our countrymen then put their lives on the line (some of whom died) for several questionable American led military incursions.

This is a betrayal that likely won’t be forgotten in either of our lifetimes. Anyone who thinks that the US can just vote in a democrat in 2028 and everything will go back to normal is kidding themselves.

This is what the ARC-AGI test by Chollet has also revealed of current AI / LLMs. They have a tendency to approach problems with this trial and error method and can be extremely inefficient (in their current form) with anything involving abstract / deductive reasoning.

Most LLMs do terribly at the test with the most recent breakthrough being with reasoning models. But even the reasoning models struggle.

ARC-AGI is simple, but it demands a keen sense of perception and, in some sense, judgment. It consists of a series of incomplete grids that the test-taker must color in based on the rules they deduce from a few examples; one might, for instance, see a sequence of images and observe that a blue tile is always surrounded by orange tiles, then complete the next picture accordingly. It’s not so different from paint by numbers.

The test has long seemed intractable to major AI companies. GPT-4, which OpenAI boasted in 2023 had “advanced reasoning capabilities,” didn’t do much better than the zero percent earned by its predecessor. A year later, GPT-4o, which the start-up marketed as displaying “text, reasoning, and coding intelligence,” achieved only 5 percent. Gemini 1.5 and Claude 3.7, flagship models from Google and Anthropic, achieved 5 and 14 percent, respectively.

https://archive.is/7PL2a

Nor does the US need to make everything.

The US is a service economy. It makes money through capital and intellectual property. Being the first to innovate means also having the opportunity to wedge yourself as a permanent middle man and charge people around the world to pass go.

Think Uber eats for example. If I order food in Toronto from a Toronto based restaurant fulfilled by a courier in Toronto, 30% of my payment is going to them in silicon valley for managing that order.

Similarly, when you purchase an app on Google or Apple store, they are collecting 30%.

If I am in Norway purchasing a game on Steam from a Norwegian developer, you guessed it, 30% is going to Steam.

This is America’s strength now, not making t shirts, shoes or cars entirely domesticallty.

Most of the world was ok with paying the markup for convenience.

Since the US have gone rogue, many are calling for an end for respect to US intellectual property. Perhaps each country should have its own Uber, app store etc so that the cut can stay within our borders.

One case: Uber was charging 30% commission for managing rickshaw rides in India (a country with relatively low purchasing power per capita).

It was only after domestic options like Rapido or Namma Yatri undercut them that they moved to a subscription based model, charging drivers 20 to 40 rupees daily, rather than taking an exorbitant commission of 30% per ride. To India’s credit, it has a robust IT sector located in one of its major cities (Bangalore) which helps promote competition in this case.

I love how they cite multiple papers to justify setting phi at 0.25 but for epsilon it essentially just says ‘it’s 4’

Free speech for any white person born on US soil absolutist just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Florida likes to speedrun the decimation of civilization.

America is the epicenter of social media brainrot. ‘I’m not Trump’ would never be good enough there. It needs to come with a TikTok dance or something else flashy and provocative.

I can see how the genocide comment could rub people the wrong way.

This is a case where the outcome trumps process or rationale.

Regardless of whatever personal reason someone may have for not voting in the election, their lack of participation has allowed Trump to take power, leading to the global instability we see today.

They have therefore cosigned America’s role in leading the world into this period of uncertainty.

Which is why America’s standing in the world is about to diminish and the concept of the ‘Western world’ is growing increasingly fragile.

Non voters bear some responsibility for this, regardless of their personal views.

Which is why many outside the US put non voters and Trump voters in the same bucket. Both evil and apathy towards evil have the ability to do incredible harm, especially when paired.

This is the accurate assessment.

The vast majority of Americans allowed Trump to become president by either voting for him or failing to show up at the ballot box.

Out of all forms of governance, those that live under a democracy have the least credibility when claiming that their government does not represent them.

It should be known that the takeaway from this is not just that Trump cannot be trusted. That was already known. Many nations, including America’s allies, are learning that America’s voting base can no longer be trusted. The lesson here is that we’re always going to be 4 years away from attempts at global destabilization if we continue to allow America to be the world’s preeminent super power.

Which is why nearly every nation is putting together a plan to divest in the US. America, as a whole, is no longer a reliable partner.

Even if MAGA and its ideology dies with this presidency, America is going to be spending the next few decades winning the world’s trust back. China will likely take its place in the meantime.

I mean he’s essentially just following project 2025. They clearly didn’t want him to think too much this time around.

They can, they’ll just go out of business. Puts them at a huge competitive disadvantage relative to asian and European car makers.

The idea behind tariffs is you take the money earned by taxation on foreign goods and invest it in domestic production.

Except Trump leaves the second part out completely. He should be announcing large subsidies for American auto companies to bring those jobs back to the US but he’s not.

He’s going to find a way to siphon the money to himself and his magnificent 7 buddies.

Tariff then invest the proceeds into domestic production. Why is he leaving the second part out?

That’s generally true. If you live in a northern climate vitamin D deficiency is very common and certain over the counter meds like omeprazole can impair vitamin absorption (b12 in the case of omeprazole) if taken long term. Supplementing other vitamins hasn’t been shown to have any meaningful benefit.

Just to be clear Vitamin A is the treatment of choice for measles. But it needs to be dosed by a healthcare provider and is generally not used for prevention (that’s what vaccines are for).

Also, vitamin A (like vitamin E, D and K) are fat soluble so you can overdose on them, causing liver failure.

Sometimes being partially right is worse than being wrong. Though in this case these impressionable folk would have likely followed RFK Jr regardless.

Skill issue, was likely overemployed all things considered. Question the qualifications or anyone who would say this.

They produce solid content, especially long form journalism but their subscription cost is fairly high.

Develop a public healthcare system and we’ll talk.

And is malleable enough to allow for coinage.

The difference is gold has carried high monetary value among human societies for nearly 3000 years while Bitcoin is a non tangible digital asset that’s existed for less than two decades and remains incredibly volatile.

This comes across as another Trump scam. He’s going to bankrupt the American government by siphoning public money to himself and other private entities and the American people are going to be stuck hodling the bag.