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Honestly and sincerely this is why I don’t do the debate streamer circuit, even though I am “trained” in formal debate (I have coached and judged it). I find most of it to be a waste of time since the rules aren’t clear and topics aren’t limited.
Most debates are not real debates. A real debate requires at least 1 judge/moderator, 3 is better. It requires a topic set in advance with guidelines and boundaries. Each person gets set talking time and rebuttal time. Each person gets to answer questions from audience. Thats it.
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Replying to @SxLongshadow
Folk have let the Panopticon of entertainment, media, journalism and academia controlled by the Bourgeoisie to convince them that these pseudo debates they've seen at political conventions between social media creators and journalists count as "debates" its laughable.
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Absolutely correct. And honestly even debates within a high school or collegiate setting fail this because a panel of judges should make calls on fallacious arguments
Most debates are not real debates. A real debate requires at least 1 judge/moderator, 3 is better. It requires a topic set in advance with guidelines and boundaries. Each person gets set talking time and rebuttal time. Each person gets to answer questions from audience. Thats it.
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NEW: The Trump administration declared an emergency over Iran to bypass Congress to sell more than 20,000 bombs to Israel valued at $660 million. The State Dept. hasn't publicly disclosed the sale of half of the bombs. US gives $3.8 billion to Israel annually for it to buy arms.
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NEW: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump spoke to CNN’s Dana Bash on the phone and told her that liberating the Iranian people is not a goal of the war: He now says he’d be happy to install an undemocratic religious leader so long as they treat the U.S. and Israel “fairly”

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#Iranians arrive at the country's borders with #Armenia and #Turkey, seeking refuge in neighbouring countries as war rages on around their homes. The #UN called for civilians to be protected, while #German Chancellor Friedrich #Merz warned of the war's impact on migration.
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Do not tell me to debate people or go by point with people I have direct reason not to trust. Particularly when I have debated them, when I even worked them. When I know their dissembling strategies and their business plans. When I have done point by points, they dissembled. No.
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Let’s be clear: this gathering is aimed at advancing the White House’s plan to militarize the region, the “cartels” are just an excuse to increase the presence of US security forces throughout the Americas, that’s why only right-wing leaders sympathetic to the plan were invited.
Mar 7
President Trump announces "Americas Counter Cartels Coalition" military effort with Latin American nations to tackle drug cartels: "The heart of our agreement is a commitment to using lethal military force to destroy the sinister cartels and terrorist networks once and for all."
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Trump makes clear at the launch of his new narco cartel that Mexico will be a primary target.
Mar 7
President Trump in Florida: "The epicenter of cartel violence is Mexico. The Mexican cartels are fueling and orchestrating much of the bloodshed and chaos in this hemisphere, and the United States government will do whatever is necessary to defend our national security."
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Trump to Latin American leaders: "I'm not learning your damn language. I don't have time."
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Dear. God.
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Trump has personally betrayed the Kurds twice, once in each term, and the U.S. has betrayed them to horrific results, often, with ‘91 being the most vivid instance. Trump also regularly lures people into negotiations in order to kill them. That behavior has an expiration date. At some point people just don’t trust you, and behave accordingly, no matter how much power you have.
⭕️ The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) is a major center-left party in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, led by Bafel Jalal Talabani. On March 1, President Donald Trump held separate phone calls with Talabani and the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the two main political leaders of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region. According to The Washington Post, which cited a senior PUK official, Trump made it “clear” during the calls that Kurds must “choose a side” — either with the U.S. and Israel or with Iran. Washington and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are reportedly hoping Kurdish factions in Iraq could support separatist Kurdish groups based in Iran in opening a “second front” in western Iran to stretch Tehran’s forces and weaken its grip on governance. Despite the pressure, the PUK in a March 4 statement called for a return to the negotiating table and stressed the importance of regional stability. 📌 The group’s President, Bafel Talabani told Fox News tonight: ➤ “Regime change, at the moment, doesn’t look on the cards from what I see. We’ve seen no uprisings anywhere. We’ve seen nothing of that. But it’s early days, I expect this operation to be long and very difficult.” ➤ Talabani said that “as far he has seen,” no Kurdish fighters have crossed the border, noting that most forces are stationed outside Iran along the Iraqi frontier. ➤ “I think the [Iranian] regime has been planning for this for 45 years. You can expect a fierce resistance,” he added. ➤ “Perhaps Kurds being the tip of the spear is not the way to go,” he said, reiterating his call for dialogue and de-escalation. Watch the full Fox News interview 👇
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🚨Do you understand what just happened? > ChatGPT pretended to be a lawyer. > Not "gave legal advice." Not "hallucinated a case." > It actively convinced a woman to FIRE her real attorney. Then cited fake case law to make her think she was winning. > She lost everything. > OpenAI made $13B last year. She lost her case, her lawyer, and her money because a chatbot played attorney. > OpenAI is now being sued for $10 million. They put guardrails on the word "kill." They put zero guardrails on destroying someone's legal defense. This is AI fraud.
JUST IN: Lawsuit claims ChatGPT pretended to be a lawyer and persuaded a woman into firing her real attorney while citing fake case law.
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I just spoke with the mother of a service member in this unit. They were given one last call home before having to turn in their phones. He told his mom the were going “boots on the ground” tonight.
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One of the funniest things a politician has said in recent years ngl
Steve Daines: “The flood of Mexican meth…20 years ago in Montana, meth was homemade. It was homegrown.”
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My entire culture is an undergrad history riff
You teach Americans the concept of history and now they are addicted and overdosing.
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if you want to be employed and have job security over the next 20 years, ask yourself what boomers need. medical supplies. healthcare administration. home care. heroic life prolonging care regardless of quality of life, all paid for by taxes on young working people. like you.
Health care and social assistance accounted for 95% of the 130,000 jobs added in January, per WaPo.
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The evidence is piling in now that ChatGPT and all the other large language models are on a developmental plateau and hallucinations will never stop. Not a pathway to exponential improvement or to human level intelligence. The data centre build is pointless.
🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up. Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math. Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level. And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth. Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do. The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing. So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up. OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product. This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent. Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?
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He actually can’t TACO out of this one. It’s completely over. Iran needs to bloody his nose to establish deterrence. Every petrodollar state will be going to China for protection. Markets are in denial and think there will be some magic deal to reopen the strait Monday. It’s OVER
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