Remember Deepmind was poaching elite talent left and right for a decade. It can't very well just plod along without these people. They're probably the least commodified of any of us.

I'm sure Google has been careful about that for just as long, doing their best to make them identify with management/owners rather than each other as workers. Not least with stock options.

I also suspect the union is a poor fit for these workers - "communication workers" are often call center employees IME, and all honor to them, but their concerns are almost certainly not the concerns of superstar googlers who just don't want to build the torment nexus.

Oh, 'MAGAts'? Nice. Really shows off that high-level, nuanced critical thinking you're known for. Keep up the great work, champ

So we will get correct reports on things like:
Hunter laptop being a russia intel job.
Reports on joe being smart and competent.
kamala being the smartest woman around.
The Alfa Bank Server
How they handled Nicholas Sandmann
Biden coming and saying federal employees were "whipping" Haitian immigrants

Or most likely under democrats they will do like they have done in the past and have the tech companies block or label things as false when it goes against what they democrats want you to think.

If you think of taxes as "confiscation", then it seems to me it's taxes you object to.

You'll always have the choice to pay tax on the market valuation of your shares.

It's only if you think that valuation is inflated, you can choose to turn over the shares instead.

Hell, why not throw in a third option? Sell tax% of them on the open market yourself, and your tax is what you made from that.

Maybe come up with a fourth option too? Feel free. Maybe something to do with options? I'll be flexible, and allay your concerns about "unrealized gains" in whatever way you think is needed - except not taxing them. Wealth needs to be taxed, otherwise no social institution (including constitutions) can be trusted to endure.

So you admit it's really just taxes you object to, that they're unrealized is just a convenient excuse.

Nutrition and pleasurable sense data. Share and enjoy!

> unrealized gains

If the uncertain value of unrealized gains bother you, I'm more than happy to let people pay in natura. Instead of 1% of the value of your Tesla stock, I'd give you the option to just hand over 1% of your Tesla stock. Instead of 1% of the value of your mansion, you may at your discretion give a lien of 1% of the price if and when it's sold. All the "concerns" about gains being unrealized are addressed, and we get some good pricing information as a bonus.

Got of those, too (the early USB 1 ones, with the exposed ATAPI connector. I ended up buying Iomega's Firewire expansion that attaches on the back of the slim USB and latches on that ATAPI connector, as Firewire 400 had much better bandwidth than USB 1, provided enough power and thus required only a single cable, and I had a cheap Firewire 400 adapter laying around from some video project (funily: the Firewire 400 card was a free bundle bundled with some crappy movie software that was selling poorly and was on heavy sale at the shop I bought it from. Threw the useless CD, kept the Firewire card).

Mine still works too. The most difficult was trying to find the barrel power plug (since back in the days I was mostly using the Firewire attachment and because Firewire provides enough power, I wasn't using the barrel jack much. Nowadays most of my machine are USB only.

Yup. The slim USB were also a good solution to carry data around.
Bring the slim USB and the cables at the university, download shit with the fast bandwidth, then bring the drive back home, plug into the Firewire attachment and load it onto the computer.
Later the university aquired computers (from Dell) that came with ZIP IDE drive built in, so I only carried the Zip250 disks and kept the drive permanently plugged into the Firewire attachement. And almost lost the power barrel adapter as mentioned above.

Yes. The thing that kills people is diseases. Even in the modern era with colonialism and industrialized genocide, those are a drop in the ocean compared to diseases. Our ancestors didn't survive because they were smart and strong, they survived because they got less sick. That getting less sick allowed them to be smarter and stronger than people who got more sick, was just a bonus.

Yes, that ass-backward approach came in my mind.
Your bank notes are too easy to copy now that color photocopiers and color laser printers are a thing?
- Rest of the world: make better banknotes (see swiss money, euros, etc.)
- USA: make bank note detection software mandatory on each piece of tech (HP and other US manufacturers have a boner at the thoughts of the sudden illegalness of cheaper competitors from countries without that function) and also mandate yellow dot tracking (now in addition the police-state is having a boner, too) (*).
- Rest of the world: why the hell is my color cartridge constantly empty on yellow and why is this preventing my to print even black and white?

Same here:
USA: has a problem of violence, bonkers level of gun proliferation, on tops of tons of ways to make life shitty for everyone (lack of proper health care, social welfare, etc.)
also the USA: lets add "gun detectors" to 3D printers so nobody prints a gun without a serial number. Surely that's the best solution to address all of the above, right?

Trouble is that this time, most 3D manufacturers ARE NOT in the USA.
Most of them are in China, and the US is only a fraction of their exports, and the required function requires magnitude more compute power to implement than the tiny micro-controller that is usually found in those printers and implementing would require massively driving up the cost of the printer.
Chance are high that the manufacturer will just say f-u, and merely just stop selling complete pre-assembled kit to the USA, only stuff that can circumvent the restrictions (e.g., kits with only motor and drivers that require adding a sold-separately microcontroller).

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(*): fun fact: on some printers (E.g. with very low memory) those "functionnalities" were implemented in the drivers instead.
My ancient HP color lasterjet works this way. There are no yellow dot when I print from CUPS.

It's entirely possible that the "gun detection" is going to be the same: crappy buggy detection +additional privacy invading tracking implemented into the management software shipped next to the 3D printer as the MCU cannot handle that. Circumventable by downloading Octoprint from some european server and running that on a Pi to manage the printers.

Except it really wasn't. At the time of Star Trek you had blacks staring in multiple TV shows, even headlining very popular TV shows. TV and movies were hiring blacks with the requirement that they be qualified while under the woke and DEI thinking the industry has shifted toward a system of identity-first hiring, where a actor suitability for a role is secondary to meeting diversity quotas.

The people listed are the same people who have come out against paramount due to allowing free speech and in their news setting up people to ensure that the new was now biased.
They talk that with Paramount not being biased then things such as Biden administration officials "furiously pressured" platforms like Facebook and YouTube to remove posts that questioned vaccine safety or mask efficacy, Biden explicitly having reporters in "reporting it the right way" regarding the economy, and democrats pushing the false "Biden laptop is a Russian hack and leak" will not be allowed to happen.

Excluding facebook and linkedin the other places have younger users. The older people are not really dieing off they are just not clicking on like or otherwise activly participating; and why should they it is old stuff. The younger are still out there click on like, and sharing everything because they think it is all new.

Russia? China? I don't understand why you'd think this would be such a gotcha.

What exactly is the proper modern approach to warfare?

Same as it always was: don't do it you idiot.