Here's the reality this example illustrates:

It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).

I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.

Had a really solid Steak Au Poivre there once in a different life

Also, Tom Cotton's description of this as two guys trying to "get back into the fight" is psychopathic. There was no fight. No U.S. forces were taking contact. There isn't even a legal state of hostilities.

I’ve had a very similar experience from pretty much right before Trump II up to the present and it’s definitely been strange

Boston is also European but for different reasons (beautiful architecture full of virulent racists)