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I love it when the fanbois tell us we're just envious. Yeah, Pablo Escobar owned a lot of houses and shit too.

This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.

Trump AI slop post showing him on the battlefield in a general's uniform flanked by bad AI versions of Patton and MacArthur

The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.

Shouldn’t be shocked at any lie RFK Jr tells, but he whined to Dana Bash that businesses were shut down during the pandemic “with no just compensation.” There was an almost trillion dollar PPP loan program, and his organization got millions from it, none of it paid back, to make payroll.

WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE
..
Why is my loan information here?
Loan Amount
$521,012
Amount Forgiven
$523,907
Includes any accrued interest
Where applicants said the money will go
Payroll
$521,009
Utilities
$1
Mortgage Interest
$o
Health Care
$0
Rent
$o
Refinance EIDL
$0
Debt Interest
$0
Location
New York, NY
Urban
Industry
Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations
Date Approved
Jan. 22, 2021 (Second Round)
Lender
HSBC Bank USA, National Association
Jobs Reported
28
Business Type CorporationLOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER
Why is my loan information here?
Loan Amount
$130,260
Amount Forgiven
$131,434
Includes any accrued interest
Where applicants said the money will go
Payroll
$130,260
Utilities
$0
Mortgage Interest
$0
Health Care
$0
Rent
$0
Refinance EIDL
$0
Debt Interest
$0
Location
Santa Monica, CA
Urban
Industry
Offices of Lawyers
Date Approved
April 10, 2020 (First Round)
Lender
Beneficial State Bank
Jobs Reported
9Recipient
WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC
Location
NEW YORK, NY
Loan Status
Forgiven as of April 1, 2021
Loan Amount
$498,174
Date Approved
April 27, 2020
Recipient
LOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER
Location
Santa Monica, CA
Loan Status
Forgiven as of July 14, 2021
Loan Amount
$130,260
Date Approved
Feb. 12, 2021ProPublica:
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"farm market"
Recipient
OAHU WATERKEEPER
Location
HONOLULU, HI
Loan Status
Forgiven as of June 15, 2021
Loan Amount
$14,300
Date Approved
April 6, 2020

I’ve spent months exploring smart defaults for fact checking to minimize hallucinations in ChatGPT & Claude and now have something I think is ready to share. Add the following prompt to the Settings->Personalization-> Custom instructions in ChatGPT and Settings-> Profile->Instructions in Claude.

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WSJ’s Josh Dawsey got to see unreleased footage from years of a documentarian’s inside access to Lindsey Graham. It’s filled with giddy, war-hungry stuff like this: (Gift link below)

Look what we’ve done here. I almost cried,” he tells the crew, laughing loudly just after U.S. strikes on Iran began in February. “How long have we been pushing this?” He then tells the crew that Trump was equally happy about the war. “I talked to Trump this morning, he’s jacked, he said, ‘best thing I have ever done.’ He loves blowing stuff up.”

The US press *covers* Trump, I'm not saying they don't. But you can tell when they *care*, when they are genuinely *angry*. They were furious about Biden & Dems constantly. You could feel the umbrage. They don't get angry about Trump. He doesn't seem to offend their sensibilities the same way.

I don't know why these two particular episodes (out of so many) stick out in my memory, but: the Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan & Claudine Gay "plagiarism" "scandal." *No* Trump scandal has received the quantity or intensity of mainstream press fury that those two attracted.

The legacy media sat there while Trump lied about the past elections and "joked" about running again in 2028. They did not boo. They did not walk out. They just sat there and ate their dinner. The journalists in that room will be remembered as the journalists in that room.

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.