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Donald Trump seemingly had a meltdown during a press briefing at the White House on Wednesday after a "nasty" reporter asked whether he was familiar with Wall Street analysts' new term, "TACO trade," an acronym suggesting "Trump always chickens out" under tariff threats.

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[-] [email protected] 96 points 1 week ago

My favorite part:

"[China was] doing no business whatsoever, and they were having a lot of problems," Trump declared.

How daft can one be?

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Millions of Americans bought it.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Think of how absolutely stupid the average person is, with average intelligence. Likely, they can barely read at a high school level in most cases and can barely make good decisions about, well, anything, especially things outside their limited area of expertise/influence.

Now, we need to realize that half the people in the US are dumber than that.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I have a job working with the public and I know I’m thick as shit but some people I serve I truly do wonder how some of them even tie their shoes in the morning.

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[-] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

They were ahead of the curve!

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[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

I love that we found a nickname that gets under his skin, but I just hope he doesn't retaliate by targeting Mexicans specifically. Because tacos are a Mexican food and that's all the connection he needs

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

Because he's not already targeting Mexicans??

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Targeting them more

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

The only appropriate use of AI is to lampoon dirt bag politicians.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

One of our customers is using it to develop medications for Parkinson's. Is that appropriate?

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

If chatgpt is developing medicine, absolutely the fuck not.

If it's a neural net they're calling Ai, go for it.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

"AI" is a great tool for drug discovery. It can come through the insane dataset that is all published materials and recommend molecules based on their structure in comparison to the enzymes they are trying to interact with.

Once researchers have a shortlist of options, then they can do all the necessary bench work to test efficacy and safety.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Neural nets are AI, and so are LLMs. They haven't reached AGI, but it's silly to make that the threshold for something to be "AI".

People really need to understand the history of the field better.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Calling everything machine learning related AI is how we have a glorified predictive keyboard smashed into everything right now. It's become a buzzword, and whenever someone uses the term I automatically assume enshittification.

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

I feel like this kind of crap is put out there so opposition to this regime can feel like they are having a victory, while the world order is being overturned.

Don't celebrate this junior-high level mockery. It accomplished nothing. It changes nothing.

Grind, grind, grind, until these evil bastards are overturned or we're all dead.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

It doesn't accomplish nothing. It chips away at the image of him as a strongman, which is one of the things his supporters care about the most. It's obviously not going to solve the problem, but those small victories do matter and help keep morale up when things feel otherwise hopeless. The key is to keep pushing and pushing in any and every way possible.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Rage rage rage against the dying of the light

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

What meltdown are we on for the year? The toddler in chief seems to have one every couple of weeks.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

They’re all selfish fucks. Don’t want to take responsibility for anything. Doesn’t matter if it’s the environment, masking to save lives, or the laws they break.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

In town halls hosted by Republicans (the very few of them who is hosting or did since Trump has been inaugurated) when people ask about issues being caused by Trump they either say agree or try to grease their words around it to sound less important without denouncing it, its the party of gaslighting and manipulation because thats the thing they are most competent at

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

This I what AI should be used for and nothing else, and making Vance memes, and musk memes, and Putin memes, and…

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Narcissists cannot stand being made a mockery of. This is the way to get under his skin. He will rage and rage over this, tweeting at 4 in the morning for as long as we keep this up lol

Call him a pedo, a rapist, a felon, and you get nothing.

Call him a chicken and he loses his one braincell.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Needs to be a Dorito shell so we can capture his dressed up corpse spray tan.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Taco will be the next word banned from federal information systems.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Tacos will be banned from all restaurants in America. Taco Bell is now a terrorist gang, and Del Taco is a fugitive on the FBI-s Most Wanted List.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

I haven't listen to this baffoon for a long time, now I did and it's mind blowing that anybody can take anything he says serious. You really get stupider listening to him.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

These stories exist to distract from the active degradation of our rights

These stories exist to distract the american people from organizing and mobbing him

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Nah - stories like this serve to both destabilize him, and make resistance feel more achievable.

It's intimidating to think about trying to oppose a government that can and will disappear people at will, and is stronger than any government in human history. But a chicken TACO? That you can resist.

Also, if he's focused on people name-calling him, it gets a bit harder for his handlers to keep him focused on their goals.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

ROFL I love it. It’s a technique that t uses to control people - to make them always be on edge. It creates survival mode. He’s not doing it intentionally, it is a narcissistic trait.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Looking at the video I wouldn't call it a meltdown. He seemed upset, but also kind of out of it, like grandpa who doesn't necessarily have dementia but you can tell that engine ain't getting full RPM's anymore.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Generative AI slop is bad, no matter what.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

What poor artist should have to live through doing such a cruel job of drawing Donald’s face. Have some humanity.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Sometimes I feel like the people who say ai is always bad for everything, no matter what, kinda remind me of horse buggy salesmen putting down automobiles at the turn of the century. There are many instances in which ai would actually be a benefit, and many jobs are pretty much obsolete and ai is gonna give them that last push to die. Those jobs were always gonna go. You can’t stop the future.

Artists and other jobs people worry ai will steal are safe, so long as you’re good enough to be better than shitty ai artists, you shouldn’t worry. If ai is funnier and better than you, that’s kinda on you.

Most companies are realizing ai can’t match a human employee for quality. If ai can obsolete you, you were likely on your way out

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I mean, that really wasn't a "meltdown" but sure.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

The word does seem overused. Any time he raises his voice or writes in all caps it's a "meltdown"

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

China: bears

USA: chickens

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

i might have missed a news cycle, what does TACO stand for in this context?

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago
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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Let's not encourage him to stop chickening out. Him not doing the things she says he's going to do is a good thing.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Great job everyone. We sure showed trump. /$

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

How, and why, are people takin this dumb twat seriously?

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Because apparently 77million other dumb twats give or take, plus a few million other dumb twat sitouts seated him in the most powerful office in the world. Like it or not, he's affecting your life.

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