It was. And it was beyond far-fetched, but I was able to suspend disbelief, and I definitely enjoyed it. And I was also a huge fan of Battlestar Galactica (the reboot) so naturally now I’m all in on Westworld :)

Oops - to clarify, I meant “Google renewing its contract,” not “Google passing on the contract,” hopefully that was clear from the rest of the comment.

This is so monumentally stupid.

United States War Crimes

If China and Russia “will build killer machines to fight us,” Google giving up this contract isn’t going to stop them. And if Google doesn’t develop this software for the military, that just means they have to develop their own rather than steal it from Google (or as it stands, whoever takes up the contract). You do…

I support giving them the best possible intel to make the best possible decisions, you know?

It’s true that Bezos is a monster, but I still don’t think that justifies Google passing on the contract. I realize it’s a perennial ethical debate: if X will be discovered/invented/created or is otherwise basically inevitable, do you try to maintain some control over X or leave it to other (potentially evil)…

Has anybody thought about the possibility that such developments could lead to less civilian casualties in drone strikes?

I fucking love this commercial, and will happily star any and every comment that embeds it, but even if i didn’t love the ad you still earned it :)

Tearing ICE Chief Thomas Homan’s shriveled testicles from his mealy scrotum is unpleasant, but someone has to do it.

shit, i’m sorry, i didn’t read your comment close enough to realize the correction was replacing “wacky” with “Trump.” asshole move on my part. how can i make it up to you?

boy... where do i begin?

Trump’s Meeting With Families of Santa Fe Victims Was Apparently a Total Disaster

I didn’t even need a hint to know the song would be Yakety Sax; by now it is so deeply ingrained in all of us that wacky = Yakety Sax, it may as well be embedded in our DNA.

I remember thinking that too.

He may occasionally let his guard down, but I clearly remember an exchange that went... aw hell, I’ll just look it up... here’s the exchange, verbatim, I shit you not:

Totally.

You’re very welcome! I love Chomsky, but even though I graduated w/ a Bachelor’s Degree, I can only really absorb his stuff if it’s articles, interviews (he’s done a couple/few great ones with David Barsamian), or speeches/youtube clips. Most of what he’s written is really dense; he very much writes as an academic…

No doubt, claiming credit for someone else’s work is exhausting.

A-FUCKING-MEN