The Cheesecake Factory is a restaurant chain. Its decor is intentionally over-the-top.

Saddam Hussein lived a very extravagant lifestyle, even by dictators’ standards, and famously built himself palaces so overfilled with gold and precious things that instead of looking luxurious they looked tacky and in horrible taste.

Obama joked that Trump’s White House looks like if Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory (Trump and MAGA took it about as well as you can imagine).

The brilliance of the joke is that, while being on the surface about interior design, Obama called Trump a narcissistic dictator getting rich by stealing from his own people. And clearly MAGAs choose to focus their response only on the Cheesecake part of the joke.

No, but I bet we could be charged for treason for speaking against Cheesecake Saddam

one day, millions of years from now some of their bodies might turn into oil

I was not disagreeing with you, I was just trying to be funny and summarize “ok”

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I think it might be true. Not in the sense that agents are so clever that they are hacking into online banking websites but in the sense that some people are so dumb they:

1. willingly give agents credentials to access their bank accounts (“it’s going to help me budget/figure out if I’m being overcharged by Netflix” or whatever else the AI-hype convinced them it’s a good idea to let an agent do for you)
2. or let agents run with full access to everything on their machines, including their “my_banking_codes.txt” file with their unencrypted passwords and the email/messaging apps where they receive the 2FA message to confirm their access

No worries, Muse will read it for them and inform them if it’s important! As soon as it finishes cleaning up their PC from all these work files

I heard the US President does a mean parody of an unhinged Donald Trump. Very funny

I am sorry, you are correct. Trying to swallow a cactus does not in fact cure smoking-induced throat cancer. I messed up. I should not treat the US Department of Health as a reputable source of medical advice. Do you want me to research uses of Ivermectin to treat throat bleeding?

He said “for young kids”, never said they were his.

He has a legion of kids with several different women and does not live with them. He’s more likely to buy legos for his friend at the Epstein club than to do anything nice for his kids anyway.

Well, Robotics is (allegedly) making big progress too. Have you seen those robot dogs replacing security guards, self-driving cars replacing human drivers, or the level of automation reported in Chinese car factories? Even warfare has changed, largely automating the once manual job of murdering your neighbors.

But that aside, even if manual labor still exists in this future automation dystopia, if it’s all that’s left, the economy will still shrink considerably.

Might be… But then who’s going to pay those $6T to Anthropic and/or OpenAI when there is no longer an economy?