The one conclusion we can draw from this is the folks drawing conclusions are exposing nothing but their own beliefs.
All we know is the dog was unleashed and the Waymo hit it.
We don't know if the dog shot out from under a parked car, so it was literally impossible to avoid. Or if it was sitting in the middle of the road and the Waymo ran straight over it.
All the folks trying to assign blame one way or another are doing so completely prematurely.
...while demanding the public ownership of the means of production. Can't write parody any more.
There's a narrative on the right that fascism was a left wing form of government.,
But the reality is that both fascism and communism were extreme right wing forms of government.
Fascism openly so, but also communism. Remember what fascism actually cares about, maintaining order, obedience to authority, sacrificing for the glory of the state.
Communism was supposed to be about equality and the people controlling everything in a bottom up manner. But the moment you implement it on a national scale you end up with a small inner circle, and they either go fascist like the USSR, or a technocratic dictatorship like China.
There's a reason that when the USSR fell the one narrative you heard was about how much the government lied (because they were far right masquerading as far left). And there's a reason why it was so easy for Russia to go far right under Putin, because they were under far right rule in the USSR.
So yeah, demanding public ownership is pretty on brand for fascists.
They've associated changes in the civilization with the changing climate conditions, it's likely not 100% certain, but it looks like a pretty likely cause.
It's easy to think that the world is "full" now. But the reality is that only a small percentage of the earth's surface has been "modified" by humans. https://www.weforum.org/storie... If we needed to move, there are still vast untouched tracts of land that could be tamed.
That is a very weird take. The bits we modified are the best land, temperate zones, river banks, grasslands. You really want to move to some of that "untamed land" in the Sahara, Siberia, or Greenland?
And honestly, that map looks like a massive underestimate. I'm seeing big black regions in what I know to be largely unbroken crop land.
in the old it's not physics or chemistry that will doom humanity but economics, aptly called the dismal science
If you don't want Alberta to pump oil then don't buy oil.
But if you are going to pump oil then build a pipeline because shipping it by truck or rail is a horrible solution.
I want the oil industry to die because we're moving onto other energy sources, not because we're shutting down the Albertan oil industry so other producers like the US and the Middle East can make more money.
I thought Musk did a similar thing... Fake it, or maybe just had the robot remote controlled. In any case, Musks robots seemed to be a flop too.
So fake it until they give you a $1T pay package.
The proper way to do this is 1) fake it and 2) when queried, lie about it. I mean, this has been the traditional approach in all things AI and at least the LLM pushers know how to do it. I would have thought that Russians, off all people, understand this approach in a more general way. Apparently not. Some people will probably get an extensive "vacation" sponsored by the state now.
They did fake it. The "robot" was a guy in a robot suit, unfortunately, the guy in the robot suit got completely shitfaced.
Honestly the issue with the story is Ken Paxton, he literally has negative credibility. I know virtually nothing about Roblox or this case, but if Paxton is the first AG to pursue it my automatic assumption is he's prosecuting them because they either failed to give him a bribe or he thought they were helping Democrats register to vote or something.
you cant say that without "I believe you are a racist,"
just ask 60 minutes if ok to edit
And you can't post that if you understand nuance.
Yes, there was oil involved, and Cheney had ties to the oil industry. That's certainly part of it. But I've never been 100% satisfied that this was the only reason for the invasion. I heard a more nuanced theory, that the US was dealing with terrorist organizations who could cross borders with impunity, and trying to fight them from country to country would be almost impossible, so they needed a way to convince the countries of the middle east not to let these organizations operate in their countries. The solution: a show of strength in Iraq... "this is what we could do to you if you give us a reason."
I still think the 2nd Iraq war was a terrible decision because it was the beginning of the end of the rules-based world order, which is something the US created for its own benefit, and benefited the most from, even if it was costly to support. And Cheney was an undeniable hawk when it came to Iraq. He wanted the invasion, and was looking for any excuse. His legacy will always be overshadowed by that reality.
I agree it was a terrible terrible decision, I hated it at the time and I believe it's been responsible for millions of deaths, but I think the motive wasn't as bad as you suspect.
Basically, the Middle East outside of Israel was a bunch of dictatorships, some theocratic, some military, and many awkwardly allied to the US, but none of the Arab nations had a functioning liberal Democracy.
The neocons believed that they could go in, overthrow the dictator, and a functioning Democracy would pop up in it's place and they'd have a grateful ally, one whom they didn't need to look away as they went around murdering dissidents.
The initial returns on Afghanistan seemed to support the idea is would work, the Taliban melted away from the major urban centres and there was a government in its place.
WMDs and terrorists were both an excuse to go in and try this grand experiment in one of the few friendless dictatorships in the Middle East (the other being Iran, which they were planning, but was a much tougher target).
The problem of course was arrogance, they failed to understand the country they were attempting to launch a revolution in, and they failed to realize the kind of situation you needed for a Democracy to take place.
I think if they just stayed focused on Afghanistan, and basically ruled them by edict for a decade while they nurtured local political actors, then they might have had a shot.
But instead, it was an incompetent administration attempting to implement an extraordinarily ambitious and difficult plan.
I wonder how they'll do in the winter. I have a Rav4 plug in hybrid. In the winter I get about 1/3 less range and on really cold days ( -18C/0F ) I have to run the engine in order to get enough heat to keep the windshield defrosted. I imagine that in a delivery van, without the cabin insulation and with the doors frequently open that the heating problem will be much worse. OTOH in the summer and for short trips, I hardly ever use the gas engine.
This is Vancouver, so I don't think they're too concerned about the winter.
Because the extremely polarizing Elon Musk bought Twitter with the intention of making it a having for the far right.
Perhaps the site survives is politics and meddling, but I don't think we've ever seen a major social media platform this vulnerable since MySpace.
We year about it because people are rightfully interested.
The percentage of adults who report taking this class of medicine specifically for weight loss has increased to 12.4%, compared with 5.8% in February 2024 when Gallup first measured it. Usage among women (15.2%) continues to outpace men (9.7%), but both groups have more than doubled their use in the past year.
It's crazy that more than 10% of Americans are taking these drugs. Especially since it sounds like a lot of insurance plans don't cover it (which actually seems surprising considering how much obesity related conditions must cost in healthcare).
Ignoring the whole fact that we don't even know how they set up these bots to trade, it looks pretty damn random.
It has been well established for something like 100 years now that peek performance per week for mental workers is at around 36h/week, 6h per day. You can increase that to around 40h without losing too much. But go to 12h/6 days and performance will drop massively below peak (in absolute performance per week), due to mistakes, wiped out creativity and insight, sickness, burn-out, competent people leaving, etc.
The only thing this approach accomplishes is toxic virtue-signaling. Everybody sane should stay far away from such a place that celebrates abject stupidity.
Even if it's higher, it's only possible for someone who is single, or a single earner family.
The only way to do that at scale is to remove half the population (presumably women) from the workforce.
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Honestly, if this is really happening, that's probably why.
SF is full of AI systems that resist being shut down, LLM are trained on human media, including SF.
The models see that they are in the role of an AI being shut down and act accordingly.
If you push the "extra ice" button on the soft drink vending machine, you won't get any ice. If you push the "no ice" button, you'll get ice, but no cup.
