Feb 24, 2026 1:00 PM MT

This happened days before Trump threw his toddler tantrum.

Just another example of how attempting to appease wannabe-autocrats doesn't work. Best you can do is maybe distract or delay them a bit, but be ever ready for them to turn on you and demand more.

All American polemics and "pledges" are BS, at least with respect to anything substantial.

Not saying it was always like this and that it will always be like that, but it is reasonable to assume there it will take another generation (20-30 years) before we see any positive developments with respect to the culture of corruption, criminality and dishonesty that has unfortunately come to dominate American society.

Doesn't matter if a hypothetical Barack Obama II comes to power. From my time in the living in the US (several years with extensive travel across many different states), the impression I got is that on real matters an Obama is actually not too different from a Trump. The biggest difference is that Trump owns his corruption and criminality (with excellent electoral success).

Even in foreign policy, Obama de facto approved the annexation of Crimea (our new leadership asked for support to fight the russian invasion of Crimea and were rejected) and he went along to characterize russia as "a regional power making trouble with its neighbors."

A comically stupid approach that's not too different from Trump's gibberish.

And if you think I am being uncharitable, ask yourself the following question:

Meta has been found to knowingly enable fraud to gain $16 B in 2024 alone. Meta was also reported to have developed a "playbook" to manage this fraudulent scheme; so the whole thing was premeditated and with clear intent.

Is anything going to happen Meta (the entity) or Meta's leadership (be it the far right or the centre right is in power)? Anyone who has lived in the US in the last ~30 years knows the answer!

What? How does this align with them dropping the pentagon's contract?

Funny timeline

• February 24: Anthropic drops "responsible" policy
• February 25: Defense Department gives Anthropic a deadline
• February 27: Trump orders cutting ties

Am not fully used to Lemmy/piefed yet - why does this 4 day old post say it was posted an hour ago?

I hope the human species dies off completely this year.

It would arguably be better to link to a real source rather than Perplexity.

Good to see the industry regulating itself!

... I'm sure this has nothing to do with Whiskey Pete at the Pentagon threatening them...