You should borrow Obama's magic weather machine. He keeps it right next to his magic time machine.

Again he already admitted to Congress that when they need the vehicles to do anything more complicated than basic Lane assist driving it's a call center in the Philippines doing the actual driving. I think there is also a center in United States but they weren't clear on when or if it's gets used.

You can look it up on google. It's amazing how different their tune gets when they are under oath to Congress...

This isn't the future this is just more outsourcing and you're going to be on the road with remote control cars pilot it from another country so that they can pay taxi cab drivers even less than they pay them now. And over time it will become increasingly unsafe because they will start using layers of contractors and they won't follow driving laws the way the current batch does because they won't be sitting on limitless amounts of investor cash hoping to reduce wages even more than what Uber pays which is already sub minimum wage

In the dystopian cyberpunk books they never really get this deep into all the nasty little pieces of dystopia that affect daily life it's usually the big cool stuff of course. I'm not enjoying learning about the banal aspects of a techno-feudal corporatocracy

Well assuming you're not just trolling which is assuming a lot then EA is going to take features out of the games you enjoy and then sell them back to you at a premium. The entire design of the games you enjoy will be radically altered to try and push your buttons so that you will part with more money. So even if you have limitless cash because you're Elon Musk (and I could see him wasting his time trolling slashdot after all he's never invented anything so he's got nothing but time) the basic design of the games you enjoy is going to be radically altered to turn them into nasty little Skinner boxes designed to get money out of you...

Antitrust doesn't just ask is this a monopoly it also asks will this substantially reduce competition or negatively impact consumers.

You don't have to be a monopoly to run afoul of antitrust law properly enforced. Just like how you don't have to murder somebody before you can be brought up on charges for conspiracy.

He can do all the bullshit outrage posts for clicks he wants he has never once spoken out in detail or frankly at all about county level voter suppression or what to do about it. He is yet another useless progressive. Somebody who just wants to go back to the '60s and how much fun they had in protests back then instead of thinking about and dealing with the incredibly boring work of stopping voter suppression where it's happening.

He's especially bad because he has the background in statistics that he can actually see the effects of county level voter suppression and fully understand them. I've seen some academics do studies but I have to admit some of it escapes me. I do know a broken voting machine and a 7 hour wait time when I see one though and they always seem to be in blue districts...

Fetterment is 20 points below water in polls. As soon as the next election comes around he's out. Exact same thing happened to that Sinema. The real issue is that these are senators so it's 6 years before we can kick them out which is by design

Possible but it's easy enough to clean up in a pinch as long as you catch it and it's easy enough to catch early on unless you have underfunded your regulatory agencies because somebody called them bureaucrats...

And when we hit the general election and there is literally billions of dollars of money blasting the eyeballs of your neighbors that's going to be tough. Remember it's not just about convincing you it's about getting voter turnout from people who are otherwise super low information and haven't got a clue what dropping a data center in there county means and even if they did they wouldn't have the mental capacity to put two and two together...

This is why education especially the humanities is so important. It's very difficult to teach people how to think with mathematics no matter what nerds say. That's because with math you're either right or you're wrong there is no in between at least not until you are doing graduate level work.

There is a lot of value in teaching the humanities because somebody can be half right and still learn something from it. With mathematics somebody who is struggling with learning how to think and how to think critically is either going to fail the class or they're going to brute force it with rote memorization. Neither of which is going to teach them how to think.

This is just a Democrat primary they still have to win their election. And if they do it's probably because they are in a heavily gerrymandered district...

The Democrats are going to have a hard time leaning into anti-data Center because even though it's extremely popular the most powerful and wealthy members of the Epstein class on Earth have decided whether you and I like it or not data centers are getting built and we're all just going to have to pay for it because you don't get rich by paying for things you get rich by making other people pay for the things you enjoy.

They have private armies. Literally. They're basically untouchable. You can't really solve political problems with violence. Not anymore anyway.

I'm also as a Democrat incredibly furious because they did absolutely fuck all about voter suppression. It was like watching a slow moving train wreck. I knew the disaster was coming and I could see the people who are in charge and I expected them to do I don't know something and they did absolutely fucking nothing.

I think a few of them filed some paperwork that didn't go anywhere.

Democrats are obsessed with propriety and being correct. So they don't know how to respond when the other side are openly criminal. The correct response is what LBJ did. You go in there and you fuck shit up like you're a fucking mob boss. You wield power.

I don't think it has sunk in with people that the Republican party is actively implementing fascism. I think that's just too much for most people to take in. It's the classic it can't happen here problem.

I don't think anyone's going to believe it until their third or fourth week in the camps. Some of them might think that they're actually going to get showers...

You know we have a Navy right?

The Republicans are deeply deeply underwater for the midterms and as much as they will cheat using common county level voter suppression tactics there are limits to what they can get away with even in deep red Texas.

So short-term they're going to back off at least until after the midterms because America is still nominally a democracy.

If we get another term of the Republicans in the white house though I don't think it's going to matter anymore and you're going to find out what it's like to have one party rule. They're not going to give a fucking rat's ass whether you have electricity and water..

Trump said and did absolutely batshit in the same things all throughout the 2024 campaign and he also if you were paying any attention to politics made it crystal clear that his brain is mush and that he is actively senile. We pretty much have confirmation that he is on Alzheimer's medication. That's why he keeps having to go to Walter Reed and why he has those bruises on his hands that's how they deliver the medications they're using to try and keep his brain just functional enough that he can get through a speech.

The news media is 90% billionaire owned and they cover it all of that up. Meanwhile every time Joe Biden stuttered we got eight weeks of non-stop coverage. It was so common that it's created a new term in politics called sane washing which is the idea of taking a batshit crazy politician and covering up how insane they are.

If you're a low information voter who doesn't pay attention to politics then what you came away from in the last election is that Kamala Harris was going to help you get an abortion and Donald Trump was going to lower the price of eggs. Yeah that's absolutely fucking insane but that's what happens when so many people are so low information and our news media no longer even tries to inform them. Anyone who did last cycle got fired.

I watched as a couple dozen well respected journalists got fired from their jobs for reporting things Trump said and did.

If your hobby is sports and sports video games then I don't know what to tell you. I feel really bad for those folks. If that's what takes the edge off from your daily life it's about to get a lot shittier and it was already pretty shitty.