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I think Trump is playing with fire here. I have seen on Twitter that the sentiments against him by some supporters is waning (myself included). DeSantis is taking a very interesting approach by not ...

This would all be great as the storyline in some movie. Not so great as the storyline from our actual news. Scary times!

I remember when Musk warned us of this about a decade ago. I thought he was kind of bonkers at the time since AI seemed like one of the last things to worry about. Then, a few years ago, I read an ar...

ChatGPT is an AI bot that was launched in November 2022 and has been in the news recently. Not only can it be used to write fake essays, thereby harming traditional educational practices, but it is a...

This article lightly criticizes "lifestyle rightism", which seems to be the trend of people adopting lifestyles or behaviors associated with the political right while minimizing (or not adopting at al...

So was this year's national championship game a bust with the Georgia blowout? It seems to me like without Alabama in it, it could never be a great game. Almost makes me think that Alabama should ge...

Well, we now have a speaker. Hopefully the holdout Republicans got some serious concessions in exchange for ending the vote.

So I think there was a post on here that got deleted during the database wipe of 2021, but I believe the idea was floated that Donovan Mitchell would eventually be one of the top players in the NBA. ...

We've seen how irrational the left becomes over Trump, even as Biden does the same things (and worse) than they accused Trump of doing. We've also seen the lengths they will go to stop Trump. Wouldn...

If the government is leading the way, then yes, I think digital currency is a threat. Two reasons for this. First, the entire purpose of digital currency is to bypass government control of the money...

Well the whole Kanye West thing blew up this week. He goes from saying some great things to very stupid things in the same week. However, the thing that put him over a cliff was the the whole "defen...

I think I mentioned in a different thread somewhere that I play in a Yahoo college football "pick'em" league. Been playing for years, and I have a system down that is almost foolproof. Basically, yo...

So what's the assessment of Vivaldi after you've had the chance to use it some more?

That's the silver lining - Dr. Oz would have been a RINO, I'm pretty sure. He'd have been like Romney-Lite. Yes, it would have been good to have his vote, but we'd be battling against him anyway if h...

So the results are in, and the GOP did not enjoy the massive wave that some were predicting. Still, they did win quite a few key races, and took back power in the House of Representatives. I am the k...