People change their minds all the time because they are wishy-washy. They're confused because they don't have a lot of good information available and they don't have the skills and training to parse what they do have.

So you can do a 6-week ad blitz and change 3 to 5% of The public's opinion on pretty much any issue which is more than enough in a winner-take-all first past the post voting system to win the election.

This is why musk gave Trump $250 million dollars right before the end of the election.

By psychopathic billionaires who are actively trying to manipulate people into new feudal hellscape...

This is why they go out of their way to attack higher education and convince us all to be plumbers. They want us on educated and lacking in critical thinking skills. Yes some of us figure that shit out naturally most of us don't.

Errr no. Fundamentally the laws were written at a time when this idea was a fantasy. No laws needed to be changed, no hands needed to be greased. It just simply wasn't a case of these laws applying back decades ago when they were written.

No nefarious conspiwacy needed.

Because the laws don't govern their suspension the same way? Fundamentally there is no license to suspend. It's a different regulatory framework.

Whose licence? Corporations don't have the same ones as they are governed under a different framework. That's a fundamentally legal problem.

Maybe a better idea would be to not make school children cross a road, design roads that can be crossed safely without a silly bus specific rule. After all who gives a fuck about school children, at the risk of sounding selfish, what about me? Fuck me because I don't go to school right?

America implemented a stupid band-aid that covers a tiny minority of the population to a fundamental problem of pedestrian safety. But they clearly don't give a shit about that, after all it's the only place in the west where pedestrian safety statistics are getting worse rather than better.

Let me stop you right there. The question is not one of corporation or not, the question is one of legalese, specifically...

Actually no they aren't. That's the problem. The way the laws are written don't account for this. Maybe we should get that addressed fundamentally. Additionally the fines need to be adjusted to suit the scenario. It doesn't help anyone if Waymo can pay the fines from the admin's petty cash budget.

Maybe you should get this fixed rather than implementing a dangerous band aid that only partially protects a tiny minority of the population. What happens if someone doesn't go to school and wants to cross the road? Fuck them, let them die?

Designing roads which *break up* areas rather than *connecting* them is fundamentally dumb.

So, TikTok, not Roblox! C’mon.

There was absolutely nothing in that article about Roblox usage. It talked about browsing websites.

Honestly, I miss the taxis. The pricing is so predictable and affordable. If you're in a big city it works great to just go to the street and flag one. If you're in a smaller city or town you can still call for one.

Now, with the deregulated ride share companies the price is so unpredictable and so often is unaffordable. You can't negotiate the price as it's take it or leave it and based off of not just supply and demand, but what the company thinks you as an individual might be willing to pay.

And the Republicans know this and many of them have their own presidential ambitions. If Trump is successful in a third term then we are probably in for a permanent Trump dynasty with Baron taking over when Trump dies and then Baron's son taking over and so forth.

While it's true that the heritage foundation is fine with that since it would still just be a puppet regime for them plenty of Republicans are hoping to be that puppet. Trump has made billions being president.

So what you're seeing here is the Republican party trying to undermine and split from Trump in order weaken his position in the party so that they can prevent him from running for a third term.

What's going to make that hard is the Republicans do not have a viable candidate for 2028 besides trump. The candidates they have with a national profile who haven't already retired are all deeply weird and deeply unpopular.

That means it's likely the heritage foundation will push for Trump to run for a third term.

It is possible voters will reject that but they can probably make up the difference with basic voter suppression tactics.

I suspect after the midterms when the Republicans lose the house they will go harder after Trump but it's tough for them to do that because he is still in a position that he can endorse primary challengers against them. That's why you're seeing so many people drop out of politics and then go after trump.

The difference is a human gets ticketed when they do that shit. Self-driving cars are explicitly excluded from traffic enforcement and police are told not to pull them over

Nooo, we need to ban 3D printers

PEEK is commonly used in engines. It's not easy to print, but if you're making parts for engines you can spend the money to do it right.

I know there are a handful of people who are kind of freaked out at the suggestion that we should put a halt to any new technology. But besides that knee jerk reaction is there anyone who genuinely wants to see these data centers built out?

We could just tell the billionaires no. We would have to take their money away because money is power but we could do that. There's about 8,000 of them. There's 8 billion of us.

We could just tell them no.