The arguments on Sloshdat tend to be very simplistic and binary. Reality tends to be rather more complex and nuanced. Religion and race are not equivalent, just like being African doesn't necessarily mean that you are black. There is also much more to Islam than Sunni and Shia. Similarly not everything Donny does is crazy - the US economy is booming and that is more important than anything else.

Law not lae.

It would make sense for Flock to have guarantees for weather damage or similar, but vandalism is a lae enforcement proposition. Flock definitely overextended themselves.

What kind of crackhead at Flock agreed to a contract obligating them to cover the cost of cameras lost to vandals?

If Flock is losing money, then presumably so will everyone else.

People seem to only have memory that goes back two years.

We went to war with Iraq due to faulty intel. No AI was involved at all, at least not in the modern sense of the term. Just a human expert hallucinating a bioweapons lab from a blurry photo.

Russia almost nuked us due to a faulty machine sending a false positive about a nuclear attack. Definitely not AI.

It's easy to reach that conclusion if you have never been active in a party. The democratic party does have a good local ground game that is run by volunteers who actually have beliefs and principles. The problem is that at the end of the day the candidate who wins in the one who can pull in the most money, and that's true no matter what. Where do you see a situation where an independent candidate can pull in enough money to win an election? The message is important, but getting the message out is what brings in votes. Just as the democrats need a more coherent message than just "we're not Trump", an independent needs a better message than just "I'm not a democrat or a republican" - and they need backing in order to get that message out.

There have been some democratic candidates who have been able to get some local traction without taking special interest money, but that's only possible if they had a large war chest of money ready before they announced their candidacy. An independent would face the same challenge.

Just waiting for Rust#

Just make the fan bigger...

The CCCP (essentially Russia plus Ukraine) used to put 20 mm aircraft guns in their Salyut and Mir space stations. So there has been weapons in space for a long time.

An EMP nuke in space is not very useful, since it would destroy your own equipment also. It reminds of the so called Backyard Bomb that can destroy the whole planet - probably only deemed useful by a crazy Iranian mullah. Small targeted EMP/microwave devices are useful and used against drone swarms for example.

This is about creating stock price volatility so they can make money off it and about creating new barriers to entry for newcomers.

Well, strategic business growth is very important

Iran is destroyed - the UAE is the new dominant power.

The Epp files are on the web site of the Senate Oversight Committee.