All 100% true. EU and rest of NATO giving Trump valid ammunition by not meeting spend targets and essentially giving up the defense game is one of the greatest self-cuckings of all time. Obama and Merkel sold out Crimea for cheap LNG, and EU kept doing business as usual and now the world is hyperdependent on US.

I’m also enthusiastically not Christian but this post is a fun read regardless. Send it to your evangelical MAGA friends and family if you really want to burn bridges!

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Best part is he’s almost certainly not right. Man thinks cause the bank gave him a mortgage w/ his tenants paying that makes him wealthy (and/or successful and/or more intelligent) lol.

Entertaining theory but almost certainly wrong. I make mid-single-digit multiples above the median wage of the US in my native currency. I bought my first place at 24 on my own after paying my own university bill. If you want to pull a shitty appeal to authority you better be 100% sure you’re already correct.

Congrats on your success but don’t confuse your success in your limited area with omniscience - you’re clearly a bit lacking in other areas.

deploma

Man the memes write themselves these days

The Americans can have a little misogyny, as a treat

Which isn’t really relevant to their original comment about basic necessities? So far it’s like you haven’t bothered to read any comments but just really wanted to say something. Got the number of people for my expenses comment wrong, completely missed the point of the main comment. 0/2.

… 65 - 20 = 45, which I explicitly called out as our lowest expenses for 2 people but their comment is about 40 for a family of four…

Off by a factor of 2, bud

Straight up no idea how you’re doing that - genuinely you should be proud of your budgeting.

My partner and I live quite comfortably admittedly, but we rarely buy “things” - our biggest discretionary spending by far is on higher quality food. Our net expenses last year was around 65k CAD.

24k went to housing, around 20k went into investments and savings, and the last 20k was on “everything else”, including discretionary spending. We live comfortably but not nearly extravagantly and our expenses floor for the two of us is probably 40k… let alone adding two kids.

And we live in an incredibly cheap city compared to Vancouver/Toronto!

Probably. But who knows. And the fact that the only cope is “it’s just a negotiating tactic” like MAGA after prices increase from tariffs is giving me a headache. What a time to be alive.

Here’s another

https://www.ft.com/content/ce9eb7e4-7989-45f6-a3b3-3cdec73a8540

A Nato official confirmed the message’s authenticity.

I can only provide some sample articles that reference a confirmation from Rutte’s office. I don’t think they put out a statement or a release, I think reporters called the office and got confirmation that way. Not sure you’ll be able to find a public statement.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250624-trump-posts-nato-chief-gushing-message-praise-extraordinary-iran-action-rutte

Here’s a French one that theoretically isn’t bound to gobble Trumps knob.

“Congratulations and thank you for your decisive action in Iran, that was truly extraordinary and something no one else dared to do. It makes us safer,” Rutte wrote in a message shared by Trump on Truth Social – and confirmed by the NATO chief’s office.

I regret to inform you Rutte’s office has confirmed officially. I took massive psychic damage when I discovered this was a real post of a real text not a real post of a fake text.

Of course it is, LLMs are inherently regurgitation machines - train on biased data, make biased predictions.

Meanwhile you’re funding the engagement machine and directly padding their bottom line - arguing with dipshits on websites who profit from visit duration is exactly the psychological trap they encourage.

As though the US invaded Mexico, failed for 3 years to make significant new gains, and then lost a chunk of Texas to Mexican occupation, all while blowing through massive amounts of men and material.

A stunningly poor performance that never needed to happen.

I don’t wanna be that guy but it’s funny to me that this is suddenly true after many statements that there is no video and after GenAI/deepfake has hit the mainstream.

That’s just the SK/MB border. We also have many thousands of hectares burning to our east on the Ontario border.

The air quality is complete ass in this province right now.

An acquaintance of mine from university started doing ChatGPT therapy and the confirmation bias machine has fooled him into thinking it loves him and he’s very special and doesn’t need to change anything in his life. It even told him (unemployed and living in his parents basement at 30 with <$2000 in his accounts) he shouldn’t get a job if it would “feel restricting to his creative tendencies”.

Truly sad.

I’m running a Matrix server with a FB Messenger bridge via mautrix-meta and that makes it a clear winner. Half my group chats have migrated entirely since I’ve set my close friends up with accounts in my server and they also use the bridge. The fact that people can slowly migrate chats without losing messages or groups is killer for adoption imo.