Probably even still gets to keep his pension.

"How much longer are they going to torture us? When will this all end?"

And

"All these sirens, some loudspeakers saying stay off the streets."

Y'all don't like it very much when minor impacts from your way come home, do you. Y'all would've been fine if you'd just left Ukraine alone.

Also, your stress contrasts so aptly with the blithe guy who put an extra tank into his back stay because

"I have to go to Mariupol [in occupied Ukraine] tomorrow."

Obviously people who are more vulnerable should get it, in order to reduce their risk of death. However, given the devastation you can get from long covid, I think everyone else should get it as well. I think the original stats were that something like 2% of covid patients die and 10% get long covid, and those percentages are just too high for my comfort - and those are percentages that we could revert to with the next new variant.

Hunh - TIL - thank you!

yoinks to hdd. Thanks for sharing this!

He's out next January and he's not seeing reelection. Funny how they all find their balls and their voices after they're on their way out.

Why? Congressional and establishment Democrats did everything they could to sabotage his campaign, as well as the campaigns of every Progressive out there - and they got elected because they're actually working for change, not just facism-lite.

Honestly, there are only a couple things I remember them telling him No on, and he's pretty much either ignored their No entirely (so on brand for him), or he's immediately come up with a different way to get to the same end. Until they repeatedly stand up to him and make it stick, I don't much care about any of them.

That it's gotten this far with this many votes means that investment firms have already placed language into the bill that will let them continue to buy up houses by completing a few additional low-effort steps.

Like all the other current rats, he's positioning himself to appear more moderate than he has in the past, ready for a post-trump GOP. Also, he wants to be President and he can't do that unless he appeals to a broader base than he currently has.

He's also acting like he didn't have a major part in setting up the current regime and all it's predecessors.

Plus, he also said in this same conversation that he's not going to vote for Democrats, so this is really him just trying to pull the same shit that men pull on dating sites - "I'm apolitical", "I'm libertarian", etc.

Even with gifted articles, the NYT refuses to accept that I'm not a bot (possibly because of my aggressive ad and JS blocking). I appreciate alternatives.

Honestly, fingers and movement have been two of the telling signs of AI photos and video for a long time. Just like they've used captchas to crowd-source house numbers for their maps, and vehicle information and street infrastructure for their attempts at self-driving vehicles, they're now crowd-sourcing data for AI images and video.

Plus they'll get geo-information on your location, and video of your immediate area - like the inside of your house. They've had code that processes images and gives feedback on the people in the photo, their likely income and interests, and suggests ads targeted to those people. With geo-location, fingerprinting your phone, and now pictures of the inside of your house, they're really dialing in on their surveillance and ad databases.

Not saying that the opportunity to build facial ID banks isn't a bonus. But don't discount the opportunity to spy inside everyone's homes, and to improve their ability to literally generate their own version of reality - or to produce "evidence" disproving your reality to everyone else.

That's what I'm guessing, that each LLC is only allowed a certain number of units, or there's a limit on the number of different types of units which will only lead them to re-name each type of unit to something else. It's no longer "single family homes" but "one unit housing with land". Or it limits the amount of "affordable housing" they can buy, but then they just change what's affordable, or only build luxury houses - like everyone wants affordable, economical cars these days, but all you can buy are expensive, gas-guzzling SUVs.

Oh dear, what a shame ...

Did you know that Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, lives in the 950 Lombard Street and 841 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, California? Very interesting!

I didn't know that!

Is this the same Sam Altman where, when someone tried to throw a Molotov cocktail at his house a couple of months ago, it took the police over 15 minutes to arrive to investigate?

A lot of sidewalks in major cities don't have room for these. Especially if you account for traffic, light, and power poles, street signs, bus and trolley stops, subway and El entrances, sidewalk trees, garbage, trash and recycling bins, sidewalk grates, cellar entries, cracked sidewalks, etc, etc, etc. And suddenly you're being asked to give up one piece of space that's supposedly reserved for you, to yet another 'move fast, break things, get permission later' techbro "innovation" that no one's asked for.

There's no regulation over them, no standards that they have to follow or how to behave, no way for the public to specifically identify a robot when they encounter it in public (like, say, your robot ran into my car or whatever).

I'd only allow them if each robot carried a certain amount of insurance, was registered and had some kind of license plate, had turn signals (I don't know if they do, the ones I saw didn't), had limited operating hours and locations, were forced to move aside for humans, etc - basically make them the absolute lowest priority thing on the streets and sidewalks. Streets, bike lanes, sidewalks, subways, etc, were each built for specific forms of human movement. If techbros want to introduce a new type of system, they should be forced to build their own infrastructure to support it (no idea what that looks like for delivery robots), instead of just blatantly overloading already-stressed public infrastructure.

Not a Republican, Russian, Israeli or billionaire.

You can't just drop this and not tell us about this impossibly dumb rule you made years ago.

Also: welcome home, Critter!

A bunch of artists have severed connections with the Kennedy Center. I would assume most would refuse to play there until Trump's hand-picked sycophantic Board is cleared of all the trash.

Aka, Dances with Wolvesheads.