Pence wouldn't even turn on Trump after he set a mob on him and tried to have him killed. Republicans turn on Trump after they retire, and even then they're extraordinarily mild about it.
Trump's trump card is his cult - they're a solid block of voters big enough to sink the entire party if he tells them the party has turned on him (and thus them).
>People respond well to choice and when given choices, they will pick the better of the options
I'm not sure if you're young, an idealist, or both... but no, they don't.
The majority of people are selfish and short-sighted - and that's fine when they exist in an environment that makes the better choices the ones that align with their selfish and short-sighted goals, or at least where things are good enough they will put up with the things that don't as a 'cost of doing business'.
But when things get tough and they feel threatened, it's a lot more difficult to get them to make sacrifices for anything, even their own future good, unless it's at gunpoint (literal or figurative).
> Trump is pissing on his best friends
C'mon. The man's been front-page news for over a decade now. You know he has no friends. He has people he can exploit, and people he's worried will exploit him. To Trump, loyalty means you'll make him happy and he doesn't have to do a damn thing in return. I don't think he really understands the word, it's just a sound he makes when he's demanding your unconditional support.
Obviously the companies will go wherever profits indicate, but memristor tech is theoretically a massive leap forward, allowing low-power transistor equivalents, using less volume, maintaining persistent states without power, and providing more than just binary states per memristor. And it's been in labs for at least a decade.
Basically, if you're trying to make a neural net in hardware, memristors appear to be what you want.
Generally speaking, populations keep their heads down and try to avoid change or effort so long as they have a choice.
The few in position to force a direction on the mob are usually short-sighted and selfish.
In other words, it seems likely nothing's going to happen until people are ready to riot. As long as we're comfortable enough, it's status quo even as the 1% gather more wealth and the environment becomes more hostile.
Prior to Broadcom, I had no hesitation recommending VMWare, either ESXi or Player. The current trajectory for the product line would make choosing it a stupid decision now.
Given that everything to date looked like the new model was squeezing the locked-in customers for everything until the business finally collapsed, I will admit to not understanding this move, even if it is just PR bullshit.
VMWare is a zombie product, nobody with any brains is going to hold on longer than they have to.
Definitely not my kind of thing, but at least they're paying to see people perform at a level most people can never hope to approach.
D&D though? Maybe you don't have what it takes to be a DM, but anyone who can communicate can be a player.
Google is one of the companies that built the tools that allow propaganda to be made much more efficiently, funny its own employees fell for it hook line and sinker.
In the age when males are beating females in sports by pretending to be females the structural inability to tell the truth, to provide negative feedback is not only hurting female sports. Musk will never land a star ship on the Moon or Mars or anything because he is a sharlatan and he hires former government officials who signed government checks, he is burning through billions of tax money with every flight, all of these star ship flights are pointless. Gaza residents and Hamas operatives not only indistinguishable, they share the same values. People protesting pro terrorism (against Israel) are wrong for the same reasons this male athlete is participating in female sports. USA denying help to Ukraine is literally murdering thousands of Ukrainians and promoting putinism, which is terrorism. USA federal reserve has created the inflation by monetizing government debt and so the economy is dying. The planet is going to become extremely hostile to people because we are still burning coal, oil and gas for power and heat production instead of building more nuclear power plants. There are more and more lies all over.
These Googlers are a sad reflection of the modern approach to reality - our game is ignorance, lies and denial and these protests are just a form of it.
What I read (between the lines, since the actual lines don't fucking explain):
- they were getting divorced anyway (both the husband and wife have different teams of lawyers)
- someone at the wife's law firm clicked basically "ok let's call this marriage done" in some online portal
- the husbands lawyers didn't see anything wrong with that
- the judge said "okey dokey, you're divorced"
- the wife's lawyers said "wait! No! We want to undo that"
- the judge said basically that the court had followed the procedures it was supposed to, and if the wife was angry, she should file against her law firm
My inference is: very wealthy couple getting a divorce, arguing over how much she should get. Her law firm accidentally said "ok we're satisfied close this case" and his lawyers instantly agree.
So yeah, her law firm is upset because now not only are they not getting a fat % of the overly optimistic alimony they probably claimed they could get for her, they absolutely are legally exposed to get sued for that full amount themselves.
The hilarious result would be if his law firm helps her sue them. Even funnier if he pays for it.
Terrorists are very good at pushing their messages, this is clear today. ruZia, hamas, Iran, north korea even, apparently they are very effective at this entire psyops thing. Israel needs to eliminate the threat, AFAIC this can entirely mean whiping out the entire Gaza population also I hope they take out Iran's rocket and drone manufacturing capabilities, this would help both, Israel and Ukraine.
Electric is now better than hydraulic, and humanoid robots are a decent form because they can use any tool designed for humans wherever humans would use it.
We've designed the world with places we go and tools we use there.
Could we finally have stumbled on something that both political sides of this country can agree on?
Fair point on orders vs species, my sloppy use of language.
So yes, some coral species are going to fail; that's the nature of specialization.
As long as the ecosystem is stable, specialization is an evolutionary advantage meaning specialists can outcompete generalists. Once things get shaken up, specialists die off, generalists survive until the next stable span as specialists start to evolve into the new niches.
That's how it's worked for a *billion* years. Evolution requires death.
Assuming humans are somehow responsible to fix climate into the Holocene optimal forever with sea levels NEVER AGAIN CHANGING and ecosystems NEVER AGAIN CHANGING is absurdist fantasy.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
