Nah, America has become a reality TV nation.

We have zero chance of getting a competent president, for the same reason that the most skillful competitors never won Survivor.

Newsom comes across as bitter, though. He's a nepo candidate, never having won a particularly competitive race. He needs a little positivity. A positive slogan like, "Hope and Prosperity" or "High Time for Change" or "Change for High Time" or something.

That made me laugh.

They recently purged the designer of their stealth aircraft after realizing the stealth part doesn't work. https://www.visiontimes.com/20...

Maybe they want to ensure those weapons designers don't leave before their deception is realized.

In China communism started with education programs for poor people. Once they got some power, they got rid of the landlords who were actually very abusive. So for many people, communism was a step forward. It was better than monarchy (or a system of warlords, which was the alternative at the time).

Communism: a step up from monarchy, a step down from democracy.

Ironically, China is both of those.

It would be impressive if AI rewrote MongoDB but with good coding standards.

THAT is the story I want to see about MongoDB.

You post was advocating for isolationism.

Isolationism isn't an option.

The Iranians have their revolutionary project, and are trying to export the revolution with some success. It's basically communism with theocracy as the base instead of an economic system.

Personally, I prefer to not live in an Islamic theocracy. I'm having trouble thinking in history of a time when a theocracy turned out well.

Technically, Stalin left office before he was voted out.

Really? Here's a 90s documentary about the power of the press a hundred years ago. This shit's been going on since the Roman days, and they had to use slaves to hand-copy the news.

Iranians were, in fact, sponsoring terrorists and war around the globe.

At the speed these cars typically travel, roll cages and seat belts aren't a big deal.

It's hard to take you seriously when your comment is a polemic. Your goal is to win an argument, not to come to an understanding of the data.

This article does a better analysis than Waymo's official blog: https://electrek.co/2026/07/25...

It's still lacking some things.