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As nice as it will be to see his end, the chaos in the US is only going to increase when he passes away. The powers are entrenched, and Trump's chaotic stupidity right now actually slows their progress toward complete dominance. Once he's out of the way, the behind the scenes string pullers will be free to manipulate Vance, who will have zero backbone and less desire to be placated than Trump.

It's gonna get a *LOT* uglier before it turns around. Unless Trump dies right as the mid-term results sweep through. In which case, it'll be a mad scramble until the newly elected folks take office, and another mad scramble to undo some of the damage after.

Cthulhu has no interest in planetary bodies other than what creatures may exist on it that can be mentally manipulated into observing its non-quantifiable visage and teetering their mental capacity into the non-standard state that humans refer to as insanity.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is filled with benevolence and kindness, as well as the quest to consume all knowledge, so that he may impart said knowledge with his noodly appendage upon all who dare to believe in his greatness.

That depends on relative velocity on any potential impact, including directional forces applied. You slap something hard enough outward and it won't be in LEO anymore. Granted, it's slim chances at the moment that this happens, but with how fucked up we've managed to make every other aspect of our world, do you completely discount the possibility of us managing to thread that needle?

We got what something around 30% of the population voted for. The rest of us are disgusted by this continual shit-show, and even the ones who voted for him are starting to realize they've been duped. Well, some of them.

This raises an interesting question. We've seen situations where AI will behave in unpredictable ways to keep itself on track to complete whatever task it has been given. How long do you suppose it will be before some AI system is being used by developers on one hand, and hackers / crackers on the other, and it will intentionally leave in holes on the development side that it's cracker side can then exploit?

I love that software is finally catching up with the real world. Now we can have virtual scams built on top of a world that's essentially scams from top to bottom.

Consumer protection is for real countries. The United States is currently in the process of exposing the fact that it's government is scams built on top of other scams, top to bottom. Illusions of it being anything other than scams are no longer useful, since the power structures are now firmly entrenched and the money flow no longer needs to be disguised.

Are those security issues in the room with us right now? Can you point them out to us?

If calling brown grass golden gives you some massive change in perspective, congrats. You've given up on reality and decided the fantasy is better. Welcome to "modern" thinking. We'll just fantasize our way out of this giant clusterfuck mess we've made of our world. Yay!

I wanna see Riddick fighting a General Grievous analog, except instead of collected lightsabers, it's collected dildos in every arm.

True. He prefers to give it to women that are old enough to produce offspring. He wants to shotgun blast his progeny around the world, because he's arrogant enough to believe his DNA is special and a gift to be shared with humanity.

Everything in our political and economic system is about greed and how best to justify it. If you don't see the link between this story and greed, I question your ability to process information.

In essence, I agree with you, and was using sarcasm to express it. It's been a step too far since long before Elon started piling corpses for profit with his government meddling, but getting hyperbolic about it just reinforces the rich worshipers' view that us poor people are just irrationally hate-filled idiots.

While I would love to have "fuck you" levels of money, I can't really wrap my head around the idea of one individual having "fuck all of you, plus the Earth, and quite possibly the entire solar system if I get my way" money. That seems a step too far into greed to be enviable.

The AI agents will be beholden to the corporation that owns them. And most of those corporations, especially those with interests in the financial sector, will want the end-users to be in debt up to their eyeballs, on forever payment loans. So, naturally, the best course of action will be to take out massive loans in the user's name, and use those funds to buy stock in the corporation that owns the agent, whether it's a money maker or not. Oh no, you lost your ass and will have to pay it off over the course of the next fifteen to thirty years. Too bad, so sad, shouldn't have trusted us. Guess that's on you.