This is the insidious two-step.

Flock probably didn't *accuse* anyone. They probably "indicated to law enforcement that further investigation is recommended". Flock gets out of it because it was "simply a recommendation", the PD gets out of it because they were "following standard protocol".

If there were really justice in this world, they would both be facing a $100M lawsuit (paid from the pension fund in the case of the PD), unless they agreed who would accept responsibility as a matter of formal record, in which case, the responsible party pays $100M and the 'whoopsie' side got only $1M...and then let the relationship strain as a result. ...but this is why the two-step exists - it protects both.

Given she was guilty of Driving While Black, it's somewhat surprising they didn't shoot her during one stop or the other.

Hopefully that's also how you feel as well about the $100 billion in refunds of Trump's tariffs, which were ordered by the Supreme Court - not a problem, just resets the clock. But it certainly didn't seem to be how Trump felt about that.

"other laws" = Trump executive orders

Americans deserve an energy system built on common sense and not one dependent on "costly subsidies."

Costly subsidies... like $1.2 billion?

I almost added a comment to that previous post about my own tendency towards pedantry... so I totally get it.

Or perhaps a Futurama quote would've been better, e.g. "You are technically correct. The BEST kind of correct."

This is not accurate. Occam's razor has multiple forms that are carefully and don't run into the issue you have. See for example here https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f4txACqDWithRi7hs/occam-s-razor for an introduction to some of the relevant ideas.

Dyson spheres, Dyson swarms, and similar objects all have a lot of advantages. In the same way, we don't live in houses made of sticks and stones because our current houses have advantages.

It seems pretty obvious that when most people use a phrase like "insider trading" in this context, what they are really referring to trades motivated by access to insider information - not the straightforward trading by company insiders that you mention.

Yes. And the laws were laid down in the foundations of the positronic brains, which are probably somewhat similar, if not more complex, than the neural networks used in LLMs and their ilk. So complex that humans don't understand how they work either, thus leading to the various stories as they try to work out why the robot is doing what it's doing.

If only there wEre some way to store iNformation in a Completely non-Readable form unless You had some other bit of information (Prudently sTored In another) were alsO available...

I kNow, I know, it's a pipe dream.

"BigDecimal's"

That's an apostrophe that you are using in a word that I assume it's supposed to be a plural.

(plus I've no idea where apostrophie, or whatever was there, came from...lol)

You might joke. But any theocracy would be a similar regime. However most Americans don't realise that -- "a Christian-based theocracy would never turn into that...!!!".

I own the heaters. I shouldn't be locked out of using them because I didn't "pay for the software". That bullshit, and still encourage this sort of shitty behaviour from companies. Why the fuck are you even arguing on their behalf? This is NOT "consumer choice". This is bullshit enshittifacation and scamming customers. Nothing but.

Not everyone has a smart watch. I don't. I found mine useless. And you left your phone at home... Best to have the technology in the car where and when is needed and not be relying on someone owning a smart device and remembering to bring it.