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Unfortunate but true. I’m all for getting rid of cigarettes, but that genie is already out of the bottle and running wild. Banning ‘drugs’ (in whatever form) hasn’t worked literally anywhere in the world. All bans accomplish is create an unregulated (or under-regulated) middle market where criminals will still peddle

Dowdy *KNOWINGLY* assisted and protected one or more criminals from investigation and prosecution. He is an accomplice after the fact, an accessory to two murders. And unlike the black man who was sent to prison under the same pretenses of being an accomplice for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Dowdy

Yup. It does seem like the choice is between giving the GOP free use of dynamite to blow up the government, or continue to let them use jackhammers and wrecking balls to tear it all down.

Indeed. But there’s no way to fix this. Even if she’s successful in her attempts to punish a rabid racist piece of trash, it’ll be a pyrrhic victory. The GOP is only a hair’s breadth away from weaponizing it against the Democrats, and are only too eager to do so. At which point they won’t have to ‘seize’ the

You know, we could adopt a multi-step approach to airplane issues, starting with doing what carriers do — launch assist. Instead of the aircraft burning fuel to accelerate to takeoff speeds, which uses a lot of fuel, use an electrical-powered accelerator system to do that part for them (just, you know, not at carrier

Once again proving it’s true:

Yes, it REALLY does matter who’s to blame. Because if THEY aren’t being held accountable, you’re just cutting them a blank check to KEEP DOING IT. Which is exactly what happened when corporate PR firms took over the US’s recycling industry — corporations shirked their responsibility and the amount of plastic trash

Except that industry and manufacturing moved to those countries specifically to get away from having to pay to clean up the messes they make. A corporate-captured government isn’t going to put the tab for those messes back on the table of the people making those messes in the first place. And like it or not, the US is

The Schizophrenic, Psychotic States of America

While certainly the most obvious point of contention, some people’s facial structures do lend themselves to an ‘unnatural’ stillness. Have you ever watched Peter Cushing speak? The *real* Peter Cushing, closely, from the original film? He speaks, but parts of his mouth and cheeks don’t move.

There’s a word specifically for these people: misogynists. Sometimes they call themselves incels, but there’s nothing involuntary about their celibacy. Choosing to be toxic garbage is most definitely voluntary.

Alabama is a state where accomplices are seen just as complicit as the person doing the murdering.

In sections, obviously!

Meanwhile, if Starship makes its $1m/launch cost window, SpaceX could build a 70-80m rotating habitat ring and make permanent habitation in space a legitimate thing. At roughly the price being awarded here.

Any system built on data collected from the ‘real world’ will be as inherently biased as the data on which it was trained. And since policing data, exactly the kind used to train these ‘predictive’ algorithms, has been proven to be highly biased by generations of racist — overt or otherwise — policies and laws, it can

And the majority shareholders, who are monsters just like Kotick, pause to consider how many fucks they give (spoiler: none) and decide to keep Kotick right where he is, given his ‘strong track record’ of squeezing blood from employees and customers stones.

Definitely. The shit going on with Georgia’s elections are appalling not simply in their brazenness but how insidiously packed they are to ensure a very specific outcome, over and over. And as with damn near everything wrong with the US (and especially in states with ‘red’ leadership) it’s consistently because of

This will not help with climate change. Plant growth depends on sunlight, both in intensity and duration. Interfering with either of those will reduce their intake of carbon, increasing atmospheric carbon levels as a result. A zero-sum accomplishment at an astronomical cost. So is Bezos really this stupid and it was

Meanwhile, Kemp and the GOP are busy making sure that this will only amount to a pyrrhic victory at most, by making sure that Atlanta’s votes won’t count or be counted. Because it’s only ‘democracy’ if the GOP wins. Yes, the GOP seriously believes that only their way qualifies as ‘democracy.’ That’s just how deranged

While I grant that the sheer volume of ‘social media’ ‘contributions’ is too great for a more hands-on approach to moderating to be cost-effective, I also see no way for any kind of AI-moderated attempt to be effective without being overreaching, heavy-handed, and ultimately counter-productive.