So finally they’ve figured out that “privatization” is a shitty idea. Not only does it introduce another point of failure in logistics and operations, but the private sector doesn’t mind trying to make every contract on they can retire off of using taxpayer money.
Because compared to America everyone else’s “shit” is 10x better than our “none at all”.
Personally I don’t care for the trend that is RGB EvReyWhERe!!1!1! MoRe!1!1! Especially in what amounts to pretty normal cases. Just a box with a bunch of bolt on lights and fans. Yay?
I far more admire a computer where someone has taken the time to actually invest some customization that took skill. Bending watercool hard tubing around a hand made or modified case. Lights are fine for accent or drama, but not as a misrepresentation of uniqueness or effort.
And not pay their debts.
Tesla tried to do it all at once instead of perfecting the electric tech first and then incrementally adding on advances. They also made change for change’s sake. There’s absolutely no reason mechanical door locks could not have been engineered to work on this car as the default method of opening and closing the door. It’s killing people.
Btw, banks will flag multiple transactions of $9,999 even if the reporting threshold is $10k USD. Structuring to avoid the $10k reporting requirement is well known and no guarantee of remaining under the radar.
Republicans: The other half are guilty of something, we just haven’t got to them yet.
Our taxes go to punitive enforcement now. ICE has become massive, gulags being built, our military is massive, now trump is making agencies to spy on and amass data about Americans, etc. but social programs are being cut, scientific programs are being cut, citizens protections cut…
Plenty of money for punishment. None to improve lives.
I always find irony in the fact that the US helped set up better forms of government in the countries it fought in WW2, Japan and Germany, than it could make better in its own country.
Flags have become a warning over the last decade or so about the person waving it. It no longer has the hope of a better America, solidarity, or welcome; it’s a symbol of a myopic, selfish, aggro, uneducated person full of performative nationalism and real hatreds.
Our independence was supposed to free the people of kings and tyrants. It’s been 249 years since 1776, we have undone what the Constitution authors fought for.
I’m sure the laws will focus on protecting IP - specifically that of AI companies or megacorps, the famous and powerful, but not the small creators of content or the rabble negatively affected by AI abuse.
The rest of us will have to suffer through presenting whatever damaging and humiliating video to a court. If you can even afford a lawyer to do so. Then be offered a judgement that probably won’t be paid or won’t cover the damage done by an image that will never be able to be erased from the internet. Those damages could include the suicide of young people bullied and humiliated by such deepfakes.
Shouldn’t be an app. It should be a site accessible using vpn and private browsing with an appropriate browser. Nobody should have to worry about the Stasi finding the app on their phone regardless of the situation.
Wouldn’t take much work on the hair to get Butthead.
Should just make a Liberal Party. The Dems aren’t liberal anymore.
Only one is an actual threat to how the Democrats do things.
I’m not even sure what to do with this argument. It’s irrelevant. An exercise in extraneous thought. No, we wouldn’t have millions of years - unless you’re referring to molecular oxygen vs higher life form sustaining oxygen, and it certainly would stabilize once all life was gone. There’d be nothing left to care. Maybe a few thousand years. Estimates are all over the place, from 1,500 to 2 million years.
Photosynthesizing plants remove carbon dioxide in addition to producing oxygen. We’d feel the effects of depleted oxygen long before it “ran out.” We’d also be killed by the excess CO2 before the oxygen disappeared. And of course, all higher life on this planet would be dead in a month or so if plants disappeared seeing as plant life is pretty much the base of the food chain for most everything.
Yeah, never use rental car agency toll payment. Too late for you now, but they treat it the same way they do the gas fill charges. If they do it they’ll double the cost. Use your own toll pass if you have one, add the rental plate to the pass while you’re using it.
Gotta be big-ass trucks for quite a few places. ‘Specially Texas. The other facet would be poor states with lower average income will spend a higher percentage of income on the least expensive cars.
The dude could literally have the hangman’s noose of judgement around his neck and still be ranting and blaming everyone but himself. He cannot operate any other way. It’s pathological.