Trump would not elaborate on what he meant by his threat

That’s on-brand for him.

It’s just vague posturing. A concept of a plan for a threat at most.

provided the manufacturers don’t all start requiring internet to ‘set up’ a tv

That’s an important caveat. And it appears that increasingly manufacturers are adding that requirement.

Apparently LG has extra features it only wants hotels to be able to use.

It’s more that hotels will buy in bulk if a TV has the features they want - and those “hotel mode” controls being hidden from typical hotel guests is one of those features.

Except some models won’t let you do anything until you “activate” your smart TV, which requires an internet connection.

Thw 100k word part is relatively easy.

The coherent story part is not possible with today’s LLMs, even with a much smaller word count.

Hell, lots of human writers fail at making their stories coherent.

They’re half-ass trying to incite intergenerational conflict between X, Z, millenials, etc.

That’s not even new.

Dismissively saying “OK boomer” has been around for several years.

but I think they have had issues with filtering neonazis

Any platform that proclaims itself to be a censorship free zone is going to attract nazis and other undesirables.

Purpose isn’t something that is handed to you, it’s something that each of us has to find/create for ourselves.

And true happiness isn’t found by comparing yourself to others.

Its not a fair comparison. You only get to see their directors cut, but you see your own blooper reel.

8 years on an internal combustion engine is nothing if you preventative maintenance properly.

Also depends on the type and amount of driving you do.

did the product description indicate the internet connection was required?

That’s an important question.

That said, we were recently appliance shopping and none of them said that it was required, but a couple of the negative reviews mentioned it.

We ended up choosing one of the very few that didn’t list wifi or an app as a feature. Hopefully there isn’t a stealth modem hidden in there somewhere. I guess we’ll find out next week when it’s delivered…

Leaving it open ended and subjective is setting up for failure.

Having a specific list always misses something, and bad actors will find ways to abuse the gaps in that list.

Ummm… that was a separate thing, and he made the announcement before Trump’s statement.

And it’s Prime Minister, not premier.

Trump already called for government agencies to shut down CBS, and Muskrat is publicly musing about buying out MSNBC…

Most of the culture wars bullshit is originating from a tiny but disproportionately noisy number of people.

But then, because their claims are so outrageous, the media picks up on it and runs with it, without bothering to be proportional to the number of people causing the problem in the first place.

most of my friends from Ukraine wanted the war to end from the very beginning.

Nobody in Ukraine wanted this war to happen at all, but Russia went ahead and invaded them anyway, so they didn’t have any real choice in the matter.

What a horrible misunderstanding of how addiction works.

RFK had a horrible misunderstanding of how most things work.

If he is allowed to implement his insane ideas, people will die. A lot of people.

There is a chance that Trump will inadvertently weaken the US long term

He already did that the first time.

This time he’ll double (or triple) down on that.

The End of American Exceptionalism

But not the end of them claiming it regardless of the reality.

Then again, their claims of being the bestest ever at everything have been false for a very long time already.

Thanks. I hate it.

Except they didn’t get what they claim to have wanted, they got a result that is much worse for Palestinians.