the front power-seat switch could overheat and ignite the seat

Dolly Parton playing Miss Mona in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas:

You know what burns my ass?

Have you been awake during el Bunko's alleged presidency? The Justice Dept. is as crooked as the crooks. el Bunko's idea of following the law is breaking it and daring the judicial system to catch him at it, and then go crying to Supreme Court which promptly bends over and takes it.

Haven't worked in academia, have you. I'll put it in terms you might understand. Suppose there is coach of university basketball team. The school and the coach have a great reputation of attracting the best up and coming athletes. Then the school Administration decides to cut the basketball's program funding so that it will no will no longer have great facilities, the travel budget is reduced so the school cannot recruit like it used to. The star player decides to finish out his eligibility at another university. Several of his friends decide they'd also like to transfer because of the situation and that the school did nothing to keep the star.

Now, the coach can expect the basketball program to deteriorate because word gets around and high school players learn that tjhe school won't support the basketball team very well.

So the coach goes to the Administration and explains how they are destroying the basketball program. Unfortunately for the coach, the Administration is run by you who understands nothing about college athletics or basketball. You tell the coach: "There is probably a long list of players eager to fill the vacated roles and a long tail of high school players who will follow them."

Now you have destroyed the basketball program. I might add your attitude is what got the U.S. into the current predicament with respect to qualified individuals to run anything. DoD is being destroyed by the same boneheaded thinking. Who the hell needs expertise, there's always a long list of unqualified people willing to step up and screw up.

"Long-term if the technology works out for the Epstein class they will replace everyone except a handful of engineers and a handful of thugs to keep the engineers in line. There's a well understood process for doing that used by guys like Vladimir Putin and Kim jong-un. It's a more advanced version of feudalism. "

It is what is known an Technocracy back in 1930s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy). The argument was that Democracy was failing and it was failing because people were stupid. What the followers claimed was needed was technocrats who would take over governance and make all the decisions because they were smart and regular folks were dumb. At least in the U.S., FDR came along and wiped the slate clean of those yokels.

Today, we have Silicon Valley and its goomers (Ray Kurzweil, Marc Andreessen, Elmo, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, etc.) arguing the same thing. The outgoing face is the "Singularity" where they've married Technocracy with their fevered dream of living forever in silicon, regardless of how they must trash the planet to get there.

And el Bunko is speeding them on their journey. Jettisoning immigrants (legal or illegal) is already hollowing out the tax base because we no longer tax capital. We tax people. Less people, less taxes. Politico has a cover story about how SS is headed for a 20+% haircut for the blue-haired and that no Republican will do a damn thing about it because their dumbass belief that taxing the wealthy and capital in general kills jobs. We've been lowering taxes on the wealthy and capital since Reagan. Do we have a Workers' Paradise yet? Are we fucking tired of winning yet?

The Technocracy dimbulbs don't care about the regular proles; The Technocracy advocates are merely the technoweenie moral equivalents of el Bunko. They aim to remove regular folks from voting their representatives, much like el Bunko. They figure they will be the ones making ALL the decisions. So they are essentially Fascists, and we should treat them accordingly.

The rest of your post is spot on. The Epstein class and the Silicon Valley goomers have every intention of replacing Democracy with their demented vision. It is as though Nazi Germany never happened for these bastards.

Meta is a Nazi company that banned people for posting #NeverAgain and links to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (the British government's official Holocaust Memorial Day organizing office and remembrance agency).

It's absolutely no surprise that a Nazi company run by Nazi Zuck would do things like this article describes either.

"Democrats gave her over a million dollars. " and Republicans gave el Bunko billions of dollars and he's caused the deaths of countless Ukrainians and Africans, what's yer point. None of this has squat to do with Democracy.

Your fixation on sexual orientation is charming? Do you think that up all by yourself or just upchuck talking points you heard on Fox? I'm guessing the latter, unless. . . .unless. . . .is there something you are not telling us about your sexual orientation? C'mon, we'll all friends here, we won't laugh at you.

Ditto. I might add that my Macbooks have delete keys. I find the Windows gui obnoxious, and it still feels like a Hasbro toy interface suitable for 5 yr olds.

"but the USA showed the world how a PLC can be completely weaponized" This is the dumb Iranian argument. Give them a break, they are just as smart and wily as Americans.

Oh yes! Those dumb Iranians would never have thought to do this were it not for Stuxnet.

Amazon is only taking over DuckDB in smaller bites, eventually they will get the entire thing because some goomer in AWS can get a promotion or greater wealth by doing it.

He will do what he always does, demand tribute from the U.S. companies hosting K3 models in exchange for not issuing more silly Executive Orders claiming he's protecting America. If he really wanted to protect America, he'd abdicate the throne and go decompose in Mar-A-Loco.

Aye, defend Democracy. There was movement called Technocracy back in 1930s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy). The argument was that Democracy was failing and it was failing because people were stupid. What the followers claimed was needed was technocrats who would take over governance and make all the decisions because they were smart and regular folks were dumb. At least in the U.S., FDR came along and wiped the slate clean of those yokels.

Today, we have Silicon Valley and its goomers (Ray Kurzweil, Marc Andreessen, Elmo, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, etc.) arguing the same thing. The outgoing face is the "Singularity" where they've married Technocracy with their fevered dream of living forever in silicon, regardless of how they must trash the planet to get there.

They don't care about the regular proles, they are merely the technoweenie moral equivalents of el Bunko. They aim to remove regular folks from voting their representatives, much like el Bunko. They figure they will be the ones making ALL the decisions. So they are essentially Fascists, and we should treat them accordingly.

I preferred to think of Star Trek as going out to research sexy new alien females so we could imagine what we'd to with them and they with us.

More likely is that Local AI will get connected to cloud models so that the Local can do what it does to economize and the heavy grunt work, to the extent it is needed, gets passed to the cloud crap.

I don't think the American side had some vague idea of pushing "American power". This was simply another example of Dear Leader trying to impose his dyspeptic will on another entity, in this case, Canada. Similarly, the "American side" (which is somewhat of a joke considering it included that bootlicker Lutnick) demanded Canada rein in its ability to pursue other trading deals with other countries.

A similar thing is happening with that other bootlicker, Bessent who is claiming Economic D-Day (or some such silly thing) for Iran and threatening to screw any country doing business with Iran. That wasn't Bessent's idea, that was Dear Leader thinking he could infect other countries with his disease. China is likely to hand him his ass if he tries to screw with them.

This all of the same package, el Bunko has gone off the megalomaniacal deep end and thinking he should extract tribute from everything. I would argue he hasn't gone off the deep end but rather was already drowning in that pool. It is just that now he can use the U.S. to further his disease. This will not end well for the U.S. That should make the Maggots happy.