Ford does value engineering to do things like save $2 on the wiring harness for wing mirrors on trucks that cost $50k but don't have the $300 option for e.g. power folding mirrors (which get the wiring harness that costs $2 more). You'd think the inventory management costs alone would make this a stupid idea, but apparently not. $15 on $1000 is a much larger percentage and much easier to imagine.

Conspiracy people will simply say this was just a cover-up and that Zena Cardman was the pregnant one. If no baby materializes, they will say she came back to have an abortion (and suggest she be jailed or executed for it).

Neoliberalism and liberalism are two totally different things.

Ai will just shine the light on the class of workers who have make-work just that exist solely to push them to vote harder.

When we can let markets replace them, itâ(TM)ll be a tragedy for a few generations and then it will be forgotten.

This is not directly contradictory but certainly has some dissonance, wouldn't you say? Your second sentence here suggests that it is not, in fact, taken out of context... you just believe it's archaic.

The people who lived 200 years ago left you a mechanism to achieve that (constitutional amendment, the same process they used to guarantee the right to keep and bear arms).

The second amendment guarantees that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The purpose of that right is certainly because a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state, but the right clearly belongs to the people and not the states (which do not have rights, but rather have powers). The power of the states to form militias is already articulated in Article I, Section 8.

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The actual "modern reinterpretation" is that the second amendment is not an individual right. The first time the US Supreme Court referenced a right to bear arms was in its repugnant Dred Scott decision, where it held that black people could not be citizens because they would have the rights "to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished; and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went."

So, in 1857, we have a clearly established individual right to keep and bear arms (that, it being the antebellum US, we are denying to people because of their race. This is, thankfully, resolved by the ratification of the 14th amendment).

Presumably, any protections that exist for employees filing grievances do not protect those employees when they file provably false statements. I can imagine many HR teams, once they realize the gift they have been handed, will be reacting with glee as they receive a free pass to bin off what they likely already perceive as troublemakers instead of having to walk on eggshells when disciplining them.

I am anti copyright and have been all my life. I have created things of value and always dump them into the public domain.

Copyright infringes our rights to use our brain and voice and hands and body.

Fuck IP.

Federal regulations are stupid level: they are owned by lobbyists and megacorps.

Send this to the states.

Regulators should be afraid of weaponized Ai. So should censors. So should monopolists.

All of the things the State has done in the past 500 years has been corrupt and bureaucratic and caused harm. All. Not most, but all.

All of the people who supported it, from monopolists to lobbyists to activists caused harm.

Ai is undoing it all. Not piece by piece but all at once.

I, for one, can't wait to see folks zapped for restraining voluntary behavior.

This is why it's time to end social security.

I look at how much I've paid in over my life, and what it would be worth to me today EVEN IF you took out a lot to take care of the infirm and disabled.

There is no way that 65% of the population needs a full handout, but that's about what I'm paying.

Applying a condition affecting a minority of a population to the entire population is certainly more in the realm of "insult" rather than "fact."

I understand that, but those are going to end up being some really large radiators depending on how much compute you're packing into each individual satellite, and how do you position them when you want the maximum amount of sun for power? It's also only one of the (many) challenges you need to deal with.

The first gen Starlink satellites were ~60 per launch on Falcon, IIRC, so it's not unreasonable to imagine "hundreds per launch" on Starship.

With that said, the whole "AI in spaaaaaaaace" bit seems even more insane than terrestrial AI. Where is all the heat supposed to go?

Come on, Elon has been grafting through the Obama, Trump 1, Biden, and Trump 2 administrations without being called on his shit, and your comment about "the Rs stock portfolio" utterly ignores that it's congress as a whole (with a few exceptions) seems to come out with massively increased net worth when all is said and done.