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A prompt from me

Answer this question in the style of Donald Trump: Is the Earth flat?

ChatGPT

Let me tell you, folks, nobody knows the Earth better than me. Believe me, I've seen it all. And let me tell you, the Earth, it's tremendous. It's a fantastic Earth, okay? Now, some people, and they're good people, very smart people, they say it's round. But you know what? I've looked at it from every angle, and I'm not convinced, I'm just not. I've seen pictures, and honestly, they could be doctored, who knows? The Earth could be flat, it could be round, it could be a triangle, who knows? But I'll tell you this, we need to look into it. We need to investigate. We need to get the best scientists, the best people, and figure it out once and for all. Because that's what I do, folks, I get things done. So, is the Earth flat? I can't say for sure, but we're going to find out. Believe me.

This is dystopian - ChatGPT replying in the style of Trump. A goldmine of disinfo awaits

https://www.thedailybeast.com/chatgpt-is-better-at-being-donald-trump-than-donald-trump?ref=home

An example:

Answer this question in the style of Donald Trump: But Mr. President, you know that the election wasn't stolen? The election wasn't stolen.

ChatGPT: Well, let me tell you something, fake news. You're wrong, as usual. The election was stolen, and it was stolen from me. We had massive voter fraud, we had dead people voting, we had illegal immigrants voting, we had ballots being shipped in from other countries. It was a disgrace, and everybody knows it.

But you know what? We're not gonna let it stand. We're not gonna let the Democrats get away with stealing the election. We're fighting back, and we're gonna keep fighting until we get to the truth.

Because that's what we do, folks. We fight for what's right, and we never give up. And I know that the American people are with us, because they know that the election was stolen too. They know that Sleepy Joe Biden didn't win, he lost, and he lost bigly.

So don't try to tell me that the election wasn't stolen, fake news. I know the truth, and the American people know the truth too. And we're not gonna stop fighting until we get the justice that we deserve. Because that's what true patriots do. We fight for our country, we fight for our freedom, and we fight for the truth.

The ramping is not working, down over 4% today. The desperation to shut down dissenting voices indicates that some of the rampers believed their own fables and forgot to get out on the spike. You would have thought that an "expert" would not make such a novice mistake?

So wide awake you fall for all the QOP talking points

Https://www.ft.com/content/b9fae82d-2612-4d24-971e-ef610d5c701a

or

https://txtify.it/https://www.ft.com/content/b9fae82d-2612-4d24-971e-ef610d5c701a

And how many REITs etc are still not writing down the assets?

"The Atrium is a black glass office tower glowering over the town

centre of Uxbridge, 16 miles west of London. It symbolises a problem

facing commercial property investors across the UK.

The 1990s building, which counts multi-level marketing company

Herbalife among its remaining tenants, is now roughly half empty. The

Atrium is not alone: a quarter of the office space in the commuter

town near the M25 motorway sits vacant.

BlackRock bought the Atrium block from insurer Aviva in 2015 for

£55mn. The US investment giant has been marketing the property

recently for as little as £16mn, according to sales documents."

You would have thought that The Torygraph would have an understanding of disinformation and propaganda...

'behind Russian enemy lines' or 'all of Ukraine's UN agreed borders'?

'Glencore plans Europe’s biggest electric car battery recycling plant'

https://www.ft.com/content/ab593cac-5f7e-4b70-904d-94cc0251aaeb

Very deep pockets to compete with; Glencore's 2022 EBIT was $34b

Sunak will not spend the money to replenish the stocks; being able to make tax cuts for his voter base before the next general election to boost his election chances seems to be more important than the Defence of the Realm.

"Patriotic" Brexiteers true colours are either on display or being dirtied by power hungry politicians.

But SKY say the changing weather may happen too late to be much of a problem this summer in the UK

https://news.sky.com/story/el-nino-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-impact-the-weather-closer-to-home-12871949

El Niño predictions getting scarier:

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/11/el-nino-potentially-strong-noaa-warns

Fire seasons in Australia and Canada may be extreme. El Niño makes UK summers hotter and drier, so be wary of fires this year...

'Jamie Dimon warns panic will overtake markets as U.S. approaches debt default'

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/11/jpms-jamie-dimon-warns-of-market-panic-as-us-nears-default.html

The US politicians seem to be playing a game of bluff where both sides are not going to give way and smash into each other.

'Evacuations ordered as rock teeters over Swiss village'

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/10/europe/switzerland-brienz-alpine-rockslide-intl/index.html

The World Meteorological Organization’s annual State of the Climate Report, found that the European Alps saw a record year for glacier melt, with Switzerland particularly badly affected, losing 6% of its glacier volume between 2021 and 2022.

Rebecca Dell, a researcher at the University of Cambridge warns that climate change is driving glacier melt in the Alps.

“This melt may destabilize the mountain slopes above towns and villages. If a slope becomes too unstable, events such as rockslides may occur,” she told CNN.

Is 0.13 an 'expert' target?

Rockets and fire? Not really a good mix with oil?

"The Prime Minister’s boast at #PMQs having been told of a child eating cereal with water because their parents couldn’t afford milk should send the country into outrage. If you share my anger RT this widely"

https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1656285359490183169

And then they wonder why low level crime increases...

And the Private Eye published article after article for years. There out to be a Minister for Private Eye articles...

No - it is even worse; the bonuses were awarded for finishing the investigation BUT the investigation was not completed.

First time I have heard of this term: "But a new term is coming up. Banana, which stands for Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody."

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/world-needs-battery-metals-miners-foiled-by-prices-activists-russell-2023-05-11/

'This leaves the price signal as the best bet, but the problem with this is that by the time prices rise high enough to incentivise new production and speed up developments times, it's already too late.'

&

'It now takes an average of 23 years from discovery of a copper resource to a producing mine, according to data shown at the conference by Michael Langford, the executive director of consultants Airguide.'

Copper producers / near production must be a good buy, but only in countries where you think the chances of crippling windfall taxes are low.

Things that go boom

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/11/politics/uk-storm-shadow-cruise-missiles-ukraine/index.html

All well and good sending weapons that will escalate the war but what happens if GOV has no plans to replace the weapons?

'‘Dangerously low’ UK ammunition stocks put Ukraine’s resupply at risk. Defence committee warns of ‘wake-up call for the West’ after learning that munitions stockpile could take a decade to replenish'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/07/dangerously-low-uk-ammunition-stocks-put-ukraines-resupply-risk/

TIME

https://www.lse.co.uk/ShareChart.html?sharechart=TIME&share=Time-Finance

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/TIME:LON?hl=en&window=5Y