Should have been done sooner, I take issue with the 3 who dissented and how long it took there get there. The constitution is clear on this matter. Prices are insane already, we don't need fake emergencies to drive up prices even more.
Furious about the defeat, Trump said he will impose a global 10% tariff as an alternative while pressing his trade policies by other means. The new tariffs would come under a law that restricts them to 150 days.
Don't you americans have some kind of mechanism for removing a president from office when the trust is no longer there? I remember hearing a lot about it during the Clinton era in the 90s.
In the US, Congress has two parts: the House of Representatives (members proportional-ish to state populations elected every 2 years) and the Senate (two members per state with 1/3rd of the body elected every 2 years to a 6 year term). To remove the President (impeachment), requires the House to "indict" the President with a majority vote; and the Senate to "convict" with a 2/3rds majority vote.
Both of these bodies are currently controlled by Trump's party. So .. it ain't happening. Trump's party supports his actions.
If Democrats win the house in the upcoming (November) elections, it is likely that they can pass an impeachment indictment for a number of causes. It is unlikely that the Senate finds the 2/3rds necessary to remove him from office, though.
Trump was impeached by the House twice in his first term (impeachment is rare in US history - it has happened 4 times and 2 of those are Trump); the Senate declined to remove him from office both times. Even after the January 6th riot, with MAGA literally storming through their offices threatening to hang their leader, only 7 Republican Senators voted to impeach. 43 Republicans voted No. With one of them, Susan Collins, famously saying she thought Trump had "learned his lesson." It's fair to say he did learn a lesson; but not the one Collins imagined.
The GOP has been transformed by Trump. It's much bolder, more shameless, nakedly corrupt, openly hypocritical, and unafraid of burning bridges with allies who have supported the USA for decades (some for centuries).
As the sun downing continues the direction of influence may start flowing the other way.
At this point my guess is those physically closest to Trump have the most power. They control whom he speaks to last before opening his mouth.
I'm impressed with Claude Sonnet in general. It's been doing better than Gemini 3 at following instructions. Gemini 2.5 Pro March 2025 was the best model I ever used and I feel Claude is reaching that level even surpassing it.
I subscribed to Claude because of that. I hope 4.6 is even better.
Yes, it does worse but a far margin. Requires more instructions and way too eager to code without proper instructions unlike the 03-25 version. I want that version back.
I love Rust, but I would not try to make a full fledged game with it without patience. This post is not so much a moving away from Rust as much as Bevy is not enjoyable in its current form.
Bevy is in its early stages. I'm sure more Rust Game Engines will come up and make it easier. That said, Godot was great experience for me but doesn't run on mobile well for what I was making. I enjoy using Flutter Flame now (honestly different game engines for different genres or preference), but as Godot continues to get better, I personally would use Godot. Try Unity or Unreal as well if I just want to focus on making a game and less on engine quirks and bugs.
The problem with words like "woke" is that there is no agreement on what it means. One sides it means this another says it means that. I think whatever it means to you shows truly what you believe. I don't use this word because it means nothing to me and I use more specific words to better communicate.
"Cancel Culture" has agreement on what it is, but one side says only the other side does it while doing it themselves. Give me a break. I just don't care enough about this.
Feminism, Privilege, gaslighting, toxic, DEI, etc. These words are perverted to mean whatever people want it to mean these days. Sometimes there is agreement other times there are not. DEI means inclusion spaces to one and exclusion/racism/sexism/ageism to another.
To address one part of the article about moral purity, again give me a break. We all have our compasses and will typically react with disgust to those who don't follow. Some people share some vague sense of moral compasses. You see it everywhere, not just politics. The spreading of outrage via the mainstream via internet and media outlets is really what has changed.
America, in its history, has had mobs that would be "woke" in today's culture apparently. Social media mobs are nothing fundamentally different.
Also, Twitter under Elon did censor people and ban words causing them to move to Mastodon and Threads before Bluesky, so let's not whitewash the suppression of "free speech" under him by saying that all he did was give more visibility to paying members when in fact it's what they settled on.
If PG actually wants better examples of moral purity and pushback against it, he can get in touch. Some of these examples are just not it.
I've had great success with quantized Phi-4 12B and Ollama so far. It's as fast as Llama 3.1 8B but the results have been (subjectively) higher quality. I copy/pasted some past requests into Phi-4 and found the answers were generally better.
