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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1h

Correct. They are as stupid as Whiskey Pete. And you, it would appear. You seem like exactly the sort of credulous, low IQ moron that would take the bait.

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1h

The only thing you need to know about the Qatari Air Force presence in Idaho is that Donald Trump is all over the Epstein Files.

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1h

I doubt they were smart enough to plan it, but it's been a great pointless distraction.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16h

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

www.bloomberg.com

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 16h

Ask yourself, as well, "Why would Qatar want or need a base nowhere near its country or any area of interest to its military?"

They wouldn't.

Which is why I don't get why people took this very dumb ragebait.

Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 16h

And it's vital to remember that Hegseth is an unqualified drunk who is totally out of his depth.

Though he could also be a genius, who used a non-story to massively distract the opposition and waste its time and energy on something that doesn't matter... Guessing it's more just coincidence though.

Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1d

You replied to a post on with a link to an article which explains it in detail. The article is from 2022.

Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1d

Not exactly, and it isn't new. It's training facilities for their new F-15s, it's been expected and planned a while. www.spokesman.com/stories/2022...

$12 billion deal may bring hundreds of Qatar, US Air Force members to Idaho base

BOISE – The U.S. Air Force may soon bring 170 members of Qatar’s air force to live on the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. They would be coming to learn to fly the newest model of the F-15 fight...

www.spokesman.com

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats Rich!

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1d

They also had their Hawaiian listed there.

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I just had a Caesar salad pizza which was, and did, exactly what it said on the packet. It was staggeringly good. It was, however, aptly listed on the Abominations section of the menu. But seriously good.

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1d

Gentlemen, please. You can't fight here.

I believe Paul is talking about Chicago tavern pizza, not the tomato casserole. Tavern pizza is pretty good stuff.

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1d

It is not. It is a US Air Force Base which hosts training for F-15 crews for countries the USA sells F-15s to, like Singapore.

It's also not news. Note the date on the article. www.spokesman.com/stories/2022...

$12 billion deal may bring hundreds of Qatar, US Air Force members to Idaho base

BOISE – The U.S. Air Force may soon bring 170 members of Qatar’s air force to live on the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. They would be coming to learn to fly the newest model of the F-15 fight...

www.spokesman.com

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1d

This is much more polite than, "they should get the fuck out of my state and fuck off back to theirs to do something meaningful."

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

trib.al

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Hegseth restored the name of a confederate general to the base.
Taking care of your troops matters. You can't eat the culture war.

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1d

You don't though, because this has been planned for a long time. It was news locally in 2022.

Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly dumb take on a story that isn't even current news. bsky.app/profile/samf...

Sam Fellman @samfellman.bsky.social · 2d

Not really. This is a US air base that will host a facility where Qatari pilots are trained to fly F-15. The US also trains pilots from Singapore there www.spokesman.com/stories/2022...

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1d

Which is unfortunate, because it's just a distraction

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 2d

Who exactly is the target audience for this idiocy?

Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 2d

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 2d

The trials will be wild.

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 2d

Reappeared earlier this year, I think. It's exactly as I remember it.

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