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And since it's an open weight model, any remaining reluctance to talk about whatever subject can be abliterated or fine-tuned away if it's really a problem.

You are a bad poster. You didn't convince me with your argument.

The purpose of a candidate isn't to convince every single person to vote for them. It's to convince enough of them to vote for them (and in the right places) to achieve victory in the election.

I don't know how it looks on your instance, but on mine I've got twice as many upvotes on the comment you're responding to than I do downvotes. If I was a candidate in an election that would be a pretty good result!

However, I'm not a candidate in an election. I'm a participant in a discussion forum. The mere fact that you're engaging with my arguments and discussing them in a rational manner makes this a successful comment, and me a successful commenter.

Okay.

As a side note, nobody draw a circle in the woods and chant that name three times under moonlight. I'll probably be asleep, so suddenly teleporting into the woods in the middle of the night will be very annoying and make me cross.

Even now I routinely get hammered with downvotes when I say "Harris wasn't a good candidate."

I mean, elections are how you judge whether a candidate is a good candidate. We have an objective measure of how good a candidate she was. It wasn't very.

I'm not sure what better candidate the Democrats could have fielded by the time Biden withdrew, but that just shows that Biden waited way too late to drop out.

The Democrats are masters at pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.

As some kind of mystic deer-creature, fuck this guy.

Even if some form of manipulation or shenanigans pushed Trump over the edge, it couldn't have done that if it hadn't been close to begin with. It shouldn't have been close.

I read a proposal a while back for using the Yellowstone magma chamber for geothermal power generation. It's not currently in danger of erupting as a supervolcano, but the paper worked the numbers and showed that it would actually be feasable with realistic engineering to tap enough heat from the magma chamber to literally "defuse" it if it actually came to that. And turn a profit while doing so.

Americans use those so it's already accounted for.

The fact that Anna's Archive is accepting additional datasets as "payment" makes me comfortable that they're not in this for the money but rather for ideological reasons.

Guess we've finally reached the moment where letting the giant intellectual property cartels monopolize human culture is going to cause serious economic side effects for other big corporations rather than simply screwing over the general public.

There are more things going on in the world than the United States. Countries can focus on more than one issue at a time.

Besides, if the US goes the "tariff everyone! Yay isolationism!" Route then the rest of the world doesn't need to do anything. The US will have defeated itself for them.

You said:

In a world United against the US, there's no war the US can wage effectively.

What about the wars that the rest of the world wage?