Some thought he might be resigning at this press conference. Oh no. No no no. This is a double down to end all double downs.

"Murder is just a policy disagreement my bros. Y'all see all those policies I dropped on those fishermen swimming next to their sinking boats?"

“In the 250 years of our American republic, no Secretary of War or Secretary of Defense has ever been impeached for carrying out lawful military operations,” Hegseth told reporters.

I don't see what that has to do with anything. Oh and when your ugly ass gets impeached it will still be a true statement. See that word lawful?

If by "work with" he means complying with subpoenas for testimony and evidence about Epstein, Iran, ICE, corruption, embezzlement, and a million other things and then surrending peacefully upon arrest after an onslaught of 2028 DoJ criminal referrals, I actually agree with him. Looking forward to it, actually.

The richest person I know walks around in a 15 year old pair of these https://www.newbalance.com/pd/mx608v5/MX608V5-35113-PMG-NA.html?dwvar_MX608V5-35113-PMG-NA_style=MX608WN5

And similarly old generic jeans.

I don't know how rich they are, but in the $50-100m range if I had to guess.

That's just the DoD's cost. That's basically nothing as far as the cost of this war. That's just one that is easy to count.

A: There's some more "easy" to count ones. What about other federal agencies? State, CIA, FBI, etc.?

B: There are way more costs that are harder to count up using normal accounting methods but dwarf the DoD numbers: increased cost in goods/shipping, cost of alienating our allies and making them less likely to work with us in the future, the cost of radicalizing a new generation of Iranians against the US, the cost of radicalizing a new generation of other Middle Eastern citizens against the US, etc.

US official data is here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/tags/series?t=bls%3Bwages

Those are in 1982-84 dollar amounts.

No idea about German data.

For wages/income/wealth data you usually want to look at the median values, not average. Average gets way skewed by the super rich, so the average value is typically far from the common person. Median shows what the common person earns.

Photo caption: Two differently colored horses, providing a counterexample to the general theorem

I'm dying.

The softest of soft pushback = abuse. Nice.

Well, that's one candidate. And a reference to an official gov doc doesn't meant the info was extracted or summarized accurately.

How about the others?

How do you know that anything it displayed was accurate for those candidates? Every single time I've asked it to include source links, those source links don't actually support the AI's statement.

I think it's two things. A publicity stunt to market the "power" of AI. And a conspiracy that helps them with a soft landing of investor expectations when the companies start pulling back on expansion/growth due to lack of demand or out of control costs. It means they can cut back on development because the demand doesn't exist, but they don't have to blame it on that low demand.

It's really hard to distinguish your incompetence surrounded by really incompetent people.

What a joke.

They should fire the person who approved this hire. That's the person to blame.

I have a few suggestions for candidate prisoners astronauts for this mission.