Basically Vance is just trying to make ultra-sure that everyone knows he's in lockstep with the president in all ways... including in corruption.

I'd argue they both are focused on funneling money into their own pockets...

Your parent poster didn't say rogue, he said rouge.

People are being far too blase about the very real possibility of Color Wars.

Oh, crap - and didn't Google release Android 17 recently?

Think the problem is certain individuals have told Trump that (white) Americans are smarter than anyone else, and he's stupid and vain enough to believe it - after all, the Very Stable Genius is a white American.

If so, it's a win in my book.

... and China has hundreds/thousands of government-sponsored hacking teams. Nah, I'm sure there's no connection there.

microwave labotomy ... We just put the machine against your head here for a bit and those bad urges go away, all better.

Another poster mentioned that it's actually focussed ultrasound.

Still sounds like breaking a piece of a system by stirring the brain with a knife (lobotomy) or burning it out with heat (cauterization), electricity (electroshock) or mechanical shock (blow to the head) - just carefully focused without (substantial) damage to other parts of the brain or its casing.

Ultrasonic destruction of a piece of the brain's reward/punishment/desire/avoidance mechanism rather than persistent unwanted fat.

Or Ford has no hired 700 senior engineers.

https://slashdot.org/story/26/...

Well, at least there's no war in Ba-Sing-Se.

That's not enough to make you fall... you also need to wave at the audience, breaking the fourth wall.

I did use the qualifier "most". :-)

I dunno about that... for one thing, most humans don't confidently spout nonsense unless alcohol is involved.

Companies don't spin off business lines into independent subsidiaries when they foresee lots of profits in the future... this is what they do when they're trying to cut their losses.

In other words - IBM is basically cutting their losses with regards to quantum computing. They may technically keep the unit alive, but they're gonna tighten expenditures significantly.

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