I really hope the rest of the world leaders keep this at the forefront of their mind: Trump doesn’t keep his word. Also, Trump doesn’t pay his debts.

Attempting to make ANY deal with him is foolish. The wisest move is to expect him to screw over anyone who attempts to “work with” him, because unless you’re holding his purse strings, he’ll use you and lose you at his soonest opportunity. He is a cancer cell stealing resources from all the healthy cells around him - expect him to give nothing and take everything for his own gain.

I know to some that is “preaching to the choir,” but living in the U.S. at a time like this, I really don’t know who’s been charmed by his BS vs who can see what’s really going on. I imagine those outside the U.S. have better perspective, but I can’t just expect people to be rational anymore.

Don’t poop on stuff you don’t own.

Bad news for everyone who rents their home, and thus doesn’t technically own a toilet :(

Portraiture, live photography of events, those are skills. It absolutely is not as simple as pushing a button.

This can’t be overstated. Taking good portraits of people is not easy. The requisite skills go beyond the technical aspects of photography, extending into social skill territory. You have to know how to direct people, you have to understand body language and what emotions it may convey. Being able to create flattering images, while working with subjects of various personalities and standards, takes skill.

I enjoy photography. But I don’t do portraits.

Women outnumber men

Wait, did the topic of the conversation change? Because China absolutely does not have more women than men.

Back when I was in high school (gosh, 2005 or so?) I had a teacher that said he only watched the Superbowl to see the commercials.

Me, being someone who tunes out, mutes, or otherwise does whatever possible to avoid being subject to ads, thought it was absurd. Sure, companies may go all-out if they think their ad will pay off, but there are so many things designed to entertain us that aren’t also trying to push us to buy something.

But saying that out loud seems to confuse people.

The combination of the headline and the thumbnail suggested something far more hardcore was about to happen.

Bruh, real men use their tough, strong, manly fingers to bore a hole through a chunk of solid rock.

Then they throw the rock away and stick their faces directly into the river current. Bonus points if they catch a fish.

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You may be a leader and you may be Jewish, but I interpreted that comment to specifically mean the people in power who maintain this connection. That is, “you guys” sounds like an appeal to the Jewish leaders referenced in the article, the US leaders that support the ADL, or both.

I might be wrong, I don’t know OP or what they truly believe. If there is context I’m missing that changes the message, I will stand corrected.

I watched the real video first and got all into it.

Then I watched the AI video and now my brain’s wondering what the hell just happened.

Ohh, that’s clever. It took me a moment.

I hope this doesn’t come out the wrong way, but I’m curious what AI would be able to do to solve these issues? There are a lot of ways I could see it being used to make plans or ideas, but ultimately wouldn’t people need to trust AI and give it power over our decisions?

Even if AI weren’t plagued with human biases, it’s hard to imagine people agreeing to trust it. People barely trust each other, and we’d have to trust those who program AI not to manipulate it in their own favor.

It sounds like you mean we should focus on impacting and supporting our local communities. That is definitely something more of us should be doing.

It’s the use of the word “tribalism” that’s putting people off. That word has connotations that (I don’t believe?) you intended. To a lot of us, it’s a pejorative term that refers to the mindset of a small group that’s fiercely hostile to other groups (while only being protective to their own.) A group with a “tribalist” mindset is likely a bubble of xenophobia.

I can’t speak for everyone. All I know is that every time I notice the deduction in my paycheck that’s going toward my health insurance, I’ll be thinking of this. Same with when I have to pay a co-pay despite having said-insurance. Or when I get a text from the urgent care, months after my visit, telling me I still have “a balance” to resolve…

Really, there is no shortage of reminders for many of us. As long as the system keeps squeezing us, we will have plenty of reminders.

Sentences, man. Run-on sentences make people’s heads hurt. I eventually got your message, but without reasonable punctuation, most readers just see a jumble of loosely-connected words.

To be fair, it’s really hard to tell what you were saying. It took a few re-reads to parse your comment into something that makes sense.