I can't imagine much of a solution beyond just making it giggle and say, "that's too grown up for me!" to most questions. Having a plush toy take on questions like "is capitalism good?" or "is Trump a grifter?" is just doomed from the start.

To that end, I wonder if there is (or ought to be) a different word for when everybody is in on the joke. Or is that just 'meme stock?' Nobody is buying these particular stocks in the hopes of future dividends justifying the purchase price. Whereas in bubbles like Worldcom, or early Railroads, they did. Then there's Tesla which seems to be some of both.

China isn't developing, it's AHEAD of the West. They have nearly zero crime, the streets are safe and clean, highspeed rail over the entire country, education and family are highly valued, teachers and fathers get respect in public, and most importantly NO WARS.

Their political system is highly criticized but there never, ever could be a Trump there. No PACs, politics isn't run by billionaire donations, no foreign aid and no bending the knee to foreign countries and bombing other foreign countries for their interests.

Morons are permanently locked out of the system at the leadership and grassroots levels.

Ever wanted a government by rationalist atheists? China is your country. Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer.

The most important billionaire, Jack Ma, was shut up in prison when he tried to use his wealth to fuck with politics.

Imagine an America that had the courage to do the same to Elon Musk, the Sacklers, Miriam Adelson, David Rubelstein, Bill Ackman and all the rest of the far right.

We'd be a different, and better country.

Do you know you have TDS? You are having an argument with voices in your head.

Literally nobody is saying any of this.

I'd almost feel sorry for you people, you're obviously suffering from mental health problems. But then I remember you told us men can get pregnant and mutilated children's genitals.

There is no punishment we Americans can give you worse than the one you already have.

Have US tech companies considered following the laws in the countries in which they wish to operate?

I've used ChatGPT to write code and Gemini to debug it. If you pass the feedback back and forth, it takes a couple iterations but they'll eventually agree that it's all good and I find that's about 90-95% of the way to where I need it to be. Earlier today I took a 6kb script that had been used as something fast and dirty for years - written by someone long gone from the company - and completely revamped it into something much more powerful, robust, and polished in both its code and its output. Script grew to about 20kb, but it's 10x better and I only had to make minor tweaks. Between the two, they found all sorts of hidden bugs and problems with it.

We don't WANT China to win. They ethnically cleansed Tibet, oppressed Hong Kong and committed genocide on the Uighurs. Not to forget the Tienanmen Square Massacre in 1989.

This is Cold War 2.0, and the sooner we relegate them to the ash heap of history, the better.

Coal miners had ample opportunity to change. Training programs, good stamps, government benefits of all kinds. Instead they blamed immigrants, chanted DEY TOOK OUR JERBS and voted for an obvious conman and fascist. Now you're out of a job? How's it feel, retards?

All I ever hear is bitching and moaning after Ukraine blew up the Nordstream pipeline about how energy availability is out of control and causing German companies to close or relocate to America.

But now that we get the real story: the green push has worked well. Germany is on the other side now and permanently off Russian gas. Not another eurodollar for them.

Ukraine is kicking their butts and refuses to give up a single hectare of land no matter how much Trump and Putin gang up on Zelensky the hero and try to force him to surrender.

Who needs school when we have TikTok?

Now that they've gotten rid of this woke DEI nonsense, they can spend 10x as much on some more wholesome and less-indoctrinating educational materials! /s

Slashdot is a US site. You have freedom of speech here. You can say Trump is a piece of shit.

It's the same in Europe. You can go online and say Trump is a piece of shit, too!

I thought the US was under a tourism boycott already. Remember those German prostitutes who got deported from Hawaii to Japan?

America is closed. Don't come. Tourism economies suck. You don't tip, either, which is why you get spit in your food and poor service.

Tell all your friends America is closed, too. Stay home. We built a Disneyland in Paris for this exact reason.

I don't think it's possible to make a less nuanced and less coherent argument than this. At best, you're telling on yourself.

As opposed to the open corruption on display with the President personally involving himself in making sure the deal resolves in favor of a major financial backer.

I suppose you have nothing to say about that.

Much like Cracker Barrel, this was a deliberatte "fuck you" to get attention. It worked!