The loophole is that he can run for Vice-President and the President can resign or fall out a window and he becomes President legally.
Wikipedia notes that the interaction of the 22nd and 12th Amendments is untested, so that loophole isn't guaranteed, though with the current makeup of SCOTUS
CEO: Data is valuable!
Shareholders: How valuable?
CEO: >:(
Do you want the value expressed in Crypto or something more easily understandable, like Library of Congress Furlongs per Fortnight?
Microsoft's announcement of a breakthrough in quantum computing faces skepticism from physicists,
Sounds like Microsoft's claims here are both true and false until observed.
Mark Zuckerberg's Makeover Didn't Make People Like Him, Study Shows
I'm gonna go out of a limb and say Pew could have taken a cue from Trump/Musk/DOGE and cut the funding for this study and still come to the same conclusion.
I mean even billionaires apparently don't like the other billionaires... Elon Musk Called Conversations With Bill Gates 'Underwhelming' After Fellow Tech Billionaire Shared He Bought An Electric Porsche, Not A Tesla -- or maybe Musk is just, um, bitter that Gates bought a Porsche EV rather than a Tesla
No argument on your first point.
It will be interesting to see if they will also try and get rid of term limits this term, so trump can become a dictator for life,
I think that'll be more difficult as it would require changing the Constitution and, even though some suck-up Republican Congressman (okay, redundant) has written up a bill to do that, practically (I don't think) it could be done before Trump left office, as it would require 2/3 of Congress and then 3/4 (38) of states to ratify it. Currently, only 23 states are completely controlled by Republicans (Governor, House, Senate). Even if that happened, Trump will 82 at the end of this term and would be 86 at the end of the next term when he could run again. I can't imagine even his staunchest supporters voting him back in at that point. I suppose there are some shenanigans I can't think of, but it seems pretty far-fetched. Also, Republicans would have to be okay with Democrats being eligible for 3 terms going forward.
I heard talk of trying to tailor the amendment to just Presidents that didn't have two consecutive terms, ostensibly to try and tailor it to Trump, but can't imagine that passing over the more general just three terms. The latter, of course, would allow Obama to run again...
Of course, none of that matters if Trump continues to declare himself King and Republicans and SCOTUS go along with that.
It's going to be a long 4 years -- or even 2 years until mod-term elections.
Slightly incorrect there. Musk owns the white house.
No argument from me. Trump is just a Muppet with a Sharpie
(He spent 10 of his first 31 days as President golfing at his properties. Obviously, not a busy guy.)
So... users will then have to deal with diffused "fragrant oils" settling over their desk, keyboard, mouse pad, monitor, etc
You're not allowed to talk about the massive number of job cuts coming from automation let alone the last 50 years of job cuts from automation. So you need to talk about AI because that's in the news and it's algorithm friendly but you can't talk about anything real about AI and so you're going to talk about scary terminators and robocops or whatever.
Yup, mentioning AI (also automation) in the real world isn't going so.
From Republican Congressman Faces Backlash at Town Hall Furious at Trump (Feb 21, 2025):
Representative Rich McCormick (R-GA), who represents a deep-red Trump district, was booed at his own town hall.
When asked about the hundreds of Atlantia-based CDC employees working on bird flu recently fired by DOGE, McCormick had the gall to tell the crowd that many of them were easily replaced by AI.
“Why is a supposedly conservative party taking such a radical, and extremist, and sloppy approach to this?” one constituent asked pointedly.
“I’m in close contact with the CDC,” McCormick replied. “They have about 13,000 employees. In the last couple of years, those probationary people, which is about 10 percent of their employee base a lot of the work they do is duplicitous with AI.”
This led to another string of boos and jeers from his constituents. McCormick got to be so bothered by the heckling that he compared his own base to January 6 insurrectionists, telling the crowd they were similar to “Jan. 6ers who are yelling just as loud as you.” This led to another round of boos.
I also have trouble imagining that this anti-EV position is popular with the real President, Elon
On the contrary, he owns his own network of chargers. These ones competed with him. It's a win all around.
Normally I'd agree, but how many of his chargers are installed *at* government build sites? If it's none, then that argument doesn't work here.
The stupid is strong with these people.
Maybe they could some sort of AI to help make their protests more effective and efficient -- oh, wait
What's going on is bullshit, and no one is doing anything.
Republicans control the White House, Congress (House *and* Senate) and ostensibly 6/9 of SCOTUS and they all either agree with Trump (and Musk) or are too cowardly to go against them. Democrats in office can only do so much to resist. Anything else is up to the electorate, which is slower to react, though that may be coming.
Republican Congressman Faces Backlash at Town Hall Furious at Trump (Feb 21, 2025) -- Google: gop booed town hall:
Representative Rich McCormick (R-GA), who represents a deep-red Trump district, was booed at his own town hall.
And Warning signs for Trump in new polling (Feb 20, 2025) notes that, according to several polls (Gallup, Post-Ipsos, etc...) his poll numbers are now lower -- and underwater -- compared to Inauguration Day, at about 46% Approve to 53% Disapprove, -- contrary to Trump's made up number of 70-80% approval. Google: trump polls underwater details
Anything to pump up the estimated number of dollars "saved."
Whilst also ignoring spending that will be required to compensate for that "savings".
Think of how much it cost to install these chargers, and how much it saved the government in fuel costs.
Agreed. While I could understand not installing any new chargers and not purchasing any new EVs, disabling / mothballing / selling the existing ones already purchased seems, putting it nicely, wasteful. And I can't imagine that any "savings" will offset the cost of going back to using fossil-fuel vehicles, at this point anyway. The only plausible reason for this is spite for all things Biden. I also have trouble imagining that this anti-EV position is popular with the real President, Elon
Dark Mode Might Be Burning More Juice Than You Think
That explains why Dark Brandon was so tired.
Microsoft will strip several features from Windows 11's File Explorer
These features relied on collecting user data to display recently accessed files and personalized recommendations.
They'll still collect the data, but just won't show it being used
Computers don't actually think. You just think they think. (We think.)
