Bribery is just argument by other means.

Clarence Thomas’s concurrence on the case they take after this one.

Shit like this and the willingness of the news media to frame it like that is the reason people describe politics as kayfabe. And why they aren’t exactly wrong to believe that.

The natural gas power plant would be producing the electricity that would go beyond the regular demand. And no, there aren’t any reactors there. There’s only about 50 nuclear plants in the country and Danville, VA didn’t get one.

Natural gas makes the plurality of electricity produced in the US, and to get there, it murdered coal, not nuclear or renewables, so bad as it is, it does represent an improvement in the American energy mix.

A welcome change from the vice signaling that’s marked the last decade since his escalator speech.

I somehow doubt this indicates any sort of improvement in him as a person.

At least his grandfather only inflicted disastrously bad medical ideas on his own family.

He’s not a US citizen, but he had a court order not to deport from during the previous Trump administration.

No, it’s good that he’s following the law. Unlike those criminals that are trying to manipulate him like Stephen Miller.

I think I must’ve missed that Verge article. I guess that dashes my “this is a creative writing exercise by somebody in Joburg” theory.

But we know that lizards have self preservation instincts (which for the purpose of this conversation I’ll say is interchangable with sentience (it’s probably a good enough proxy at any rate). But we know this because we have lots of people who have observed lizard behavior, not because The Lizard Farm, Inc has hyped up how alive and ensouled their lizards arev in a bid to get ever more VC funding.

Maybe I’m too pessimistic about this tech and my obsolete meat sack will get tossed to the time-traveling torture robot. But I think it’s more likely that we have a money grabbing hype train in the tradition of the Mechanical Turk or Theranos than it is that we have created a new lifeform by feeding every extant piece of writing that isn’t nailed down (and some that are) to the sand we’ve forced to do math.

In a banana republic, what’s a president but a local representative of the company?

Well, the only claim of this self preservation (that I’ve seen) is this article, which is on a website I’m unfamiliar with (which I often interpret as ‘more likely to be a creative writing exercise than the average news site’) and its only citation is a company that has a vested interest in making us believe the tech is better than it may actually be.

Guess it’s time to send the repo man down to the sewage treatment facility.

Fine, I won’t complain when Yudkowski’s followers take matters into their own hands.

How else are they going to be able to brag about their 90 trillion daily AI users?

Only according to the Castillan occupiers. Not the Catalans who live there.

They probably were intending/expecting arrests. There are probably protesters who didn’t go into the library because they specifically don’t want a criminal record (especially if they’re on a visa or some such).

And you can see in the comments here how angry the arrests are getting some people.

That’s the goal of a lot of nonviolent protest. Get your allies loud about it and split some moderates away from the authorities that they hadn’t really thought of as “the bad guys” before.

How did the company named after the thing Sauron used to communicate with/spy on Saruman lose its moral compass?

A nepo baby, of course. They’re famously really good at everything. That’s why they’re always getting hired to high up positions, right?

Will removing him as CEO really matter? As long as he’s as heavily invested in the company as he is, its gains are his gains.

Well, they both increase at a rate of one day per day, so they’re kind of parallel lines, but since Trump said once day and Vova said three, I guess they can kind of cross after two or three years.

the war he promised to end in 24 hours… 93 days ago.

Pretty embarrassing, but still better than day 1155 of a three day operation.