C batteries. Had a dream once about eating em. They were chewy and had a nice tang.

I’m torn. I wanna go ahead and start chilling my champagne but don’t wanna jinx it

It’s more likely he’s had another stroke and is laid up in Walter Reed than he wrote this.

Being only the 8th largest economy would rule you out as a superpower from the jump.

He is going to 180 on this later today or tomorrow. He may have thought he’d get an easy win and leave like in Venezuela. Now that it’s clear that won’t happen, he thinks he can declare that he doesn’t need a deal after all and leave.

This is not a real estate deal and he can’t just leave. There are too many powerful people in the world who will find this outcome unacceptable. He is stuck and we are stuck there with him.

The reasoning would be: You’re right. They don’t care. But he will never voluntarily release them and it results in maximum embarrassment.

It wouldn’t be a sincere negotiating tactic but it works because they don’t need to negotiate.

Could be a local minimum and not the global minimum.

The broken window fallacy is so fucking back.

Yeah. But I mean dying pointlessly is kinda what he signed up for. Civilian deaths are far more tragic.

Step 1: “AI will replace human labor.”
Step 2: “Actually, we still need a few humans to label the data.”
Step 3: “Okay, the humans are now teleoperating the robots directly.”
Step 4: “Wait, that’s just… labor again.”

For all we know, he does wear a cape.