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Whereas the Republicans didn't switch out their dementia patient.

How's that working out?

Biden wasn't on the ballot.

I'm not hoping, I know that every possible 1024-character ASCII text file is going to be generated over the course of all this. I'm just hoping that one of them will tell me to do something that will get me out of the loop. If I reach the end of the possible 1024-character text files without escaping, that means that either the solution takes more than 1024 characters to encode or there is no solution at all.

It's important to increment the count and record it for next time before I read it, just in case one of those 1024-character strings contains an argument that convinces me to do something other than that.

I'd ask why they cared.

I mean, he's a dementia patient, that limits the ability of anyone to sway his behaviour.

And frankly, seeing the mod abuse that goes on in many communities, having AI moderators helping with text moderation would be nice too. At least they'd be more consistent.

Unfortunately, there's no EU or NATO equivalent for us to rely on.

I would say this is a good time for you guys to make one. My home country is Canada, and I think it'd be great to see defensive pacts in both the Atlantic and Pacific - we'd be keen on joining both of them, I suspect. We're threatened by Chinese influence too.

Problem is, a lot of them already are suffering and poor. Look at the nightmare that is American health care, for example. They're dead last among the developed world and people would rather risk death than call an ambulance because they fear it'll put them and their next-of-kin into debt forever. Losing a job can mean death for some because their health insurance depends on employment.

And yet the propaganda reverberates back and forth among them; "The United States is the greatest country in the world! Land of the free and home of the brave!"

I'm Canadian, and Trump's been Trumping a lot about how Canada should be forcibly made the "51st state." He said, among other insane and offensive drivel, that Canadians would get better healthcare if that happened. I honestly think a lot of Americans believe that. They are deeply indoctrinated.

We've seen plenty of other countries where this kind of indoctrination works. People may live terrible lives of deprivation, but as long as they believe their enemies are worse off they love dear leader for the bounty they've been given.

Hence why I said "I'm kind of looking forward to seeing what Europe manages to put together as a replacement."

That axis is "USA + two regional powers that can't even invade a neighboring country properly and have negligible economies." Not exactly an upgrade over the alliances the US had before.

If it's just me; I'd increment it by one at the start of each loop. That is, I'd increment the underlying 8192-bit number that the 1024 bytes represents. On some loops this will form a coherent ASCII text, on most it'll be gibberish. But I have infinite retries and it doesn't bother me how many loops I go through. So there will be 2^8192 "initial states" it's in, or about 10^2467 different states in base ten. If anything is going to get me out of that time loop then I'll hit on it eventually.

If I see that the integer is maxed out, I think I won't overflow it back to 0 again. The whole point of this is to avoid trying exactly the same thing over and over again indefinitely. I think I'd have to resort to a leap of faith - that quantum effects are still random. I'd go to random.org and generate something bigger than 1024 bytes to use as "inspiration" instead. Maybe a megabyte? It'd have to be a lot bigger to be on the safe side, since this is the last resort.

And I'm also getting a little tired of them expecting me to be sad that this is bad for the US. A lot of the "woe is me, the US is losing influence!" Sounds almost as whiny to the non-American audience as some of the MAGA stuff about the world not being "grateful" enough for them.

The US' international influence has been a mixed blessing for a long time. I'm kind of looking forward to seeing what Europe manages to put together as a replacement. Could be a step up.