It's the USA, we've had fascist foreign policy for over half a century. Only now that the fascism is becoming domestic policy are a fraction of the population not OK with it.

botched penis surgery

rumor has it he's already given himself erectile dysfunction with one already

Plus all the employees who've been forced to produce and sift through that garbage code, because their bosses bought into the hype and don't see the software for what it actually is.

Two billion across the whole country isn't all that much, especially considering how bonkers property evaluations are.

Nah, it's because all the Albertans who would have voted for this are paying more attention to US politics than their own. It didn't get enough coverage on FOX News.

I thought code couldn't be copywritten? It's instructions, isn't it?

If you don't mind me asking, whats that big, greener patch in the south east? Forest? Swamp?

Mormons are at least upfront in believing the United States is the holy land. For the rest of the country, its closer to an unconscious assumption.

Bernie led that charge at the last minute, and it still ignored every other demand they had. Notably, the ones that would have made train derailments far less likely.

call me crazy but what if the heat pump just wasn't networked

you can still have a networked computer hooked up to a thermometer and since we live in hell also a camera and a little monitor and speaker for advertising; just don't wire it up to the actual real crucial function.

The scifi police/hospital procedural needs a high-school drama tie in.

Biden forced rail-workers - who were striking for safer conditions - back to work. Less than a year later, a train derailment caused a massive chemical spill is Palestine, Ohio.

The AI being hyped right now is not AI at all. It’s really important that we all acknowledge this, that the world is selling itself a multi-billion-dollar lemon: predictive text engines that have nothing intelligent about them. They’re giant sorting machines, which is why they’re so good at identifying patterns in scientific research, and could genuinely advance medicine in wonderful ways. But what they cannot do is think, and as such, it’s a collective mass-delusion that these systems have any use in our day-to-day lives beyond plagiarism.

Goddamn, a gaming outlet saying what the serious grown-up press should have been saying from the start!

Voicing His Own Thoughts Without Prompts

What are you thinking about, baby?

Ok, but you see how massively demoralizing this conversation is, right?

Making logical points weighing up two distinct yet similar stances on genocide is only going to suppress voter turnout.

now now, let's be fair

it's also so that evangelicals can ban recreational sex

i had oat butter a while back, and suddenly I understood why all the dairy conglomerates are lobbying hard about the legal names

yes

oat milk is an alright substitute, helped by being cheap

oat ice cream has a slightly different texture and flavor, though its harder to notice in the Ben & Jerry's

But oat butter is indistinguishable from cow butter

The Tea they destroyed was tariff-free, which hurt the organisers who were smuggling tea and charging a huge mark-up to customers

This is a critical bit that gets overlooked in the US framing of events. The taxed tea was actually cheaper than what local businessmen were charging! We didn't have a grass-roots revolution for the benefit of "we the people". It was organized and funded by the local elites, who were throwing a fit that larger overseas elites were telling them what to do.

When researchers say "observe" they actually mean "measure". And when you're working with sub-atomic particles, "measure" isn't some passive activity. It's an active thing. When you measure small particles you are applying some force upon them, changing them in some way from how they would otherwise act.

Imagine if you were tasked with measuring traffic on the other side of the planet, but you had no cameras. The only tool you had was a gigantic 30 ton, satellite-networked pendulum swinging across the highway. The only way you know if there are cars on the highway is if the pendulum thwacks into one of them. That's quantum particle physics.... I think.