This is dumping it on the next administration. If that happens to be a trump administration that's fine because Trump can get more bribes. It's not going to be a Vance administration since well, there is no way in hell anyone but Trump is going to get a republican elected in 2028. Nobody else has his cult of personality that can give people to forget that they can't afford to drive to work this week...

There is a shitload of extraordinarily nasty things in the big beautiful bill that are going to hit like a truck after the midterms. Hundreds of billions of dollars of cuts to Medicare and medicaid. I want to be clear that's both Medicare and Medicaid. The Medicare cuts are trickier and nastier because they need to be round about so that people can pretend they aren't happening but they are still there. And the Medicaid cuts are going to basically devastate rural hospitals. There's a slew of other cuts and problems that were done to make room for billionaire tax cuts.

All of this is scheduled to hit after the midterms because that way you've already voted Republican by then like the sucker you are.

There's an old saying, what the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public. Low information voters who have no idea they are about to lose their health care or that their grandparents or parents are about to lose Health Care are in for a world of hurt but right now they're cheerfully humming along telling pollsters that they approve of the job Donald Trump is doing.

Oh and Donald Trump and Republican party are once again mobilizing poll watchers and voter suppressors in Mass. There is a little article about it over on MSNBC but they're not exactly spending a lot of time talking about it. For some reason the Democrats can't seem to understand that voter suppression at the county level is a huge problem... Meanwhile the Republican party can easily use it to stop 5 to 7% of Democrats from voting. And that's before the racist gerrymandering that just got legalized

For every Republican yucking it up because this sounds great remember the less Democrat voting power there is the less they need you to vote for them. As always it's a big club and you ain't in it.

"We'll be happy to sell AI services to folks in Kenya who don't want the datacenter there. Pony up."

Who is "we"? The same liars who scripted the first part of your absurd post?

"...upgrading the grid and capacity to support such a venture could provide economic benefits..."

It could just as easily impoverish the nation. as the "upgrades" could easily be made to serve only the venture while being paid for by the locals.

"Done right" is a matter of perspective. We know the perspective that matters, it isn't Kenya's.

Never, since SCOTUS declared the president immune from the constitution and all other law. The OP's question is a good one, the only thing that prevents the Trump administration from doing anything is competence / ability to do it.

You can't update firmware unless you can get firmware. That's what alligator Alcatraz is for, anyone who imagines they can provide firmware. Threats is how they do it, just like how they do everything else.

Fortunate, then, that Trump is immune from law. What's this "legal power" stuff? Does ICE have the "legal power" to murder US citizens in the streets?

I like how the discussion centers on what government organizations can do as if that's how the Trump executive branch works. Respect for the law has really sorted the tariffs out and stopped the war in Iran.

Which one of these is the Ayn Rand laissez-faire capitalism choice? #3, right? Certainly can't be #1 or #2. Funny how free markets get abandoned the moment nationalism is the priority.

"While were at it, the public till can get raided to inject cash into some American chip makers so they can design but not actually make any chips..."

So #3 is also the communism choice?

"...do fuck all about supply chain risk and the national security and sovereignty implications..."

What are those, other than current administration talking points? Racism against the Chinese sure is complicated.

"...pretend we did not just sell out our grandchildren at the same time."

Like you did in the last election?

It means you have a much less stressful job.

We know what ages people. It's over work. And it appears that once you get past 32 hours that's qualifies as over work, let alone the 50 or 60 the average American is doing right now. Just a reminder that Americans now work more hours than the Japanese...

Somebody that is putting in 50 or 60 hours a week on top of kids or something isn't going to a museum or even the library. They are lying on the couch exhausted maybe watching TV or maybe even too exhausted to do that.

Incidentally this is why actors tend to age so well. Less stress and more sleep and rest mean you age less. It's also why being president of the United States tends to age people. Because the job involves constant work and long hours and enormous stress. I mean unless you're the current guy. The job doesn't seem to be aging him in the slightest. I mean not anymore than he already is...

Same thing happens with humans.

It's worth figuring out what your threat model is. There probably are ways that some government agencies can get into iPhones or decrypt these messages, and they probably are collecting all the encrypted data in case quantum computers can decrypt it later.

But are they going to waste any of that on you? Unless you are a high value target for them, and unless they intend to avoid any judicial process where their capabilities might become public, they probably aren't going to use their best tools to help the local cops break into your phone.

To take a hike and the billionaire backing it just built it anyway and told the town to go fuck themselves.

You can't have billionaires and sovereignty. You can't have that much power in the hands of one person and pretend that you don't have to do what they tell you to do.

I mean I guess you can pretend. But at the end of the day when they say jump you're going to say how high on the way up.

Yeah what scares me about that is it's clearly automatic bots making those picks on the stock market and it really shouldn't be something that can move stock prices that much. I can see a few idiots running bots maybe even a few of the rich assholes doing it but not enough to take a dying shoe store and bump its stock to 127 million.

That's a sign of a fundamentally unsound system that's going to come crashing down soon.

I wouldn't care but every time it crashes it comes down on my head. The entire system is designed to wreck my finances and anyone's finances when they work for a living and leave the top 10% untouched.

It used to be the top 20% was untouched but that number gets smaller every year. Heck it's possible that only the top four or five percent is going to come out unscathed this time around

Genies are fun and good. The djinn are generally malevolent spirits seeking to take advantage of people's greed and gullibility.

Somebody did some math on one of the mega data centers they want to build in Utah and it's the equivalent of dropping 23 atomic bombs in terms of heat output. It's going to basically destroy the local environment.

There's another case of locals telling the data center no and the billionaire funding it just started building it and told them go fuck yourself I'm in charge here.

And there's another data center that guzzled down 30 million gallons of water without telling anyone and now the community has groundwater shortages and might even have serious structural stability issues that come from taking out too much water too fast.

All of this so that a handful of Epstein class members don't have to pay wages.

Because make no mistake that is what this is about. It's about replacing people with machines so the people at the top don't have to pay those of us at the bottom.

I remember when you could add crypto to the name of your company and your stock would shoot up because bots were buying any stock with a crypto in the name. AI has the same bullshit going on.

It sounds like he's just doing basically like a Google search for a news topic. Using Twitter chat as the source to determine what the highest ranking search result is. To limit the amount of searching he's doing and to get attention he's focusing on news stories discussing AI.

There is absolutely nothing new here he's just trying to use an algorithm to pick up popular news stories and display them on his website. And he is limiting the type of news stories to ones that discuss AI.

It sounds like a big thing until you actually stop and think about it. It's still just a shitty aggregator just an automated shitty aggregator...

It's not going to go anywhere as far as people using it but throwing the words AI here and there might get some clueless investors to give him some money. But man this reeks of desperation

"I'm too busy to research this and form an educated opinion, but I do have time to tell everyone my uninformed opinion."

Signature checks out, at least.

In this world, AI will have a massively-negative carbon footprint, as it eliminates the need for billions of vehicle trips per year.