You can't attack education, non-whites, non-MAGA, all your allies, enact random tariffs, and then disrupt the world's flow of oil, all while building a kleptocracy and expect anything but a major long term downward trend.

You can no longer trust the government numbers. They're lying, and anyone who won't lie gets fired. Unemployment is probably higher than they're telling you.

The robot didn't 'pledge' anything - it mindlessly followed a script. A pledge requires self-awareness and will, neither of which this device has.

At the time, Apple promised that the AI features would be available on the iPhone 15 Pro and higher models. (They weren't going to be on the plain iPhone 15, I guess because it has an older CPU.)

It would be much less expensive to put some mice in a rotating orbital habitat to see what low g does to a mammal than to send humans on long term missions to the Moon or Mars, but other than one limited Japanese experiment nobody seems interested in doing so.

That tells me that nobody is yet serious about such missions.

Where I live, the rules are generally the same for e-bikes as regular bikes. Wear a helmet, stay off the sidewalks.

The additional rules are "max assist speed 32 km/h" and "counts as a motorized vehicle if your dumbass has been prohibited from driving by a judge"

If licensing rules come here, I want a speed increase.

CO2 has the properties it has, and trying to shift or deny that is a sign of either a liar or an idiot.

I'll let others decide what you are.

Oh look, another denialist trying to sidetrack a pretty verifiable statement of fact.

We all saw the video. We all know what it meant. We all know Musk's background and upbringing. You can quit gaslighting us. We all saw it.

One of the things I like about Linux is that it's common to follow a philosophy of "start with nothing then add what you need" rather than "throw in everything and good luck trying to remove anything problematic".

Make it an optional component suggested during the installation procedure and it's fine. Force it on everyone and you're undermining good security and I have to suspect you're doing it for reasons I wouldn't like.

In Sony's eyes, you have no rights. This is a company that deliberately installed malware on customer computers.

If you do business with Sony, you get what you deserve. It's not like they've made a secret of their utter contempt for you.

It's an impressive accomplishment - nobody liked Iran, though it had allies. This unnecessary war is pissing everyone off enough they're more or less siding with Iran over the US.

That's the 'respect' Trump has brought to America.

I seem to recall the Mythbusters did a reasonably well designed practical experiment and found this just wasn't likely - if you think a place is haunted, it's because you're susceptible to that kind of thinking, not because of infrasound.

I think it is reasonable to allow the accumulation of enough wealth to sustain your lifestyle throughout retirement. Furthermore, I think at least a lower middle class existence is a reasonable goal - you're going to need a couple of million for that.

Additionally, there's nothing wrong with letting the numbers creep up a bit higher to harness human greed. I think maybe $20m is reasonable. It's not the end of the world in terms of wealth concentration, and it's enough of a differential to keep the motivation there.

Billionaires shouldn't exist, they're a runaway condition in our economic system that should be corrected.

The tax should be ongoing, and slightly higher than inflation, scaling with distance from an agreed-upon 'reasonable wealth'.

I suspect I'll be able to sleep tonight. Somehow.

It'll be a struggle knowing some guy was told he couldn't have a Pokemon award because he couldn't stop banging a table, but I'll manage.