UnspecificGravity

Right, but it means they cannot ignore their own analysis just because it feels right.

Not unless the Democrats flush half their own leadership because NONE of the DNC leaders have any interest in actually doing anything about Trump.

You are asking a publicly traded company to just kill itself, which would ALSO be illegal, so here we are. They are literally required to make the decision that most economically benefits the company, and that is clearly not to build products for a market that does not exist and which may never exist.

I mean yeah, we are getting fucked, but at the moment in this particular case its Trump doing the fucking.

What a tidy little package, how lucky for the feds that this crime ust went and solved itself for them.

Same for the department of defense.

Probably because nothing that he did was incriminating because he didn’t commit any crimes and given that he is likely a better lawyer than anyone in that room, I think he is probably right about that.

why do I get the feeling Heinlein and Roddenberry shared a surprising number of friends

Probably because Heinlein was a hack that stole unashamedly from everyone around him. His politics are literally just a reflection of whatever was most popular with whoever he was associating with at the time. He went from being a new deal democrat to libertarian because he changed who he was dating.

I think his closest literary “friend” was Philip K Dick who was grateful that Heinlein (who never actually was friends with) once loaned him money.

What they want to do is scam a bunch of public money and put it into their own pockets. No research required for that.

Not everyone values issues the same way you do.

Plus they have to keep developing solutions to Nighshade 2 and Nightshade 2.1 and the Deathcap fork etc. etc. An enthusiastically developed open source project with a bunch of forks and versions is not an easy thing for a big lumbering corporation to keep up with. Especially a corporation that is actively trying to replace staff with AI coders.

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, the guy that wears a Nazi costume as part of his official uniform has a favorite movie and book. That favorite book AND movie is Starship Troopers.

Think he understands that one is a satire of the other?

These guys aren’t big on media literacy.

I can assure you that while billions of dollars will change hands, not one cent of it will go to actual useful research.

Finally bringing together the old nuclear fusion, AI, and Trump admin scams into a single glorious ouroboros of dumbass corruption.

Probably reveals pretty much the opposite of what the party leadership is saying.

DNC Leaders: “We lost because we tried to bring trans and immigrants etc etc into the tent”
Reality: “We lost because were were nearly indistinguishable from our opposition and abandoned any policy that might benefit marginalized people at the expense of our donors.”

Cutting the VAST majority of social media and replacing it with reading, listening to music, and talking to people, has dramatically improved my quality of life, but it really wasn’t easy.

The problem is that this one device we adopted kept getting worse at what it was supposed to do and got repurposed as a real time ad delivery and social engineering machine instead.

It is easily the most common answer I hear to the “why don’t you use transit in this city that is very well served by a robust network and also REALLY sucks to drive in?” question.

Reminds me of that five year period where every movie had to be shot with a 3d release in mind for no reason.

I don’t know how they calculate this, but it seems like the expensive products went up a LOT more than 3% so even if that is the average across products it seems like my actual bill went up a lot more.

Most decent rice cookers have a time delay option. You load it up with water and rice and set a couple hours of delay and then in the morning you have fresh hot rice.