Almost immediately after the ruling, a number of Republican states immediately put forth redrawn maps breaking up majority black districts. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/southern-sta...
In terms of absolute number of incarcerated persons, though, the US is ahead of everyone else by a country mile. Depending on which inmate pools you include or exclude, the US holds 20-25% of all incarcerated persons in…
> What kind of illusion must one be under to believe that employers would ever pay you the same amount of money to do less work? Because supposedly, the new tooling (in this case, AI) allows them to produce the same or…
"Alien" is the term referring to the person. "Illegal" is merely a status. It's arguable that "illegal alien" is itself dehumanizing, implying that a person can be legal or illegal merely by existing, when in reality,…
That's why the dehumanizing title "illegals" exists for immigrants.
Declassifying documents is completely within Trump's purview, but surely selling classified documents runs afoul of the emoluments clause in Article II, Section 1.
True, though it's worth noting the ~110 or so mergers and acquisitions Facebook has gone through: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... It's arguable how much of Facebook's current size is a…
I snagged a handful of games from a local BBS. Ahh, the childhood trauma of downloading Doom 2, getting about halfway after 7 hours, only to have the whole download screwed up because one of my parents picked up the…
We cannot be living in Idiocracy. In the movie, President Camacho actually cared about solving the problems facing his citizens, finding the smartest person on the planet and putting him to work to fix them. It's also…
I was under the impression a big part of it relates to Florida bankruptcy law allowing individuals to discharge debts without losing a significant amount of their assets. See:…
He/she isn't right, though. Capital punishment, at its core, is an emotional rather than logical response to a criminal offense. It serves no purpose in preventing future crimes. First, because you've already caught the…
Can you provide some examples? The only major game in recent history I'm aware was labeled as particularly woke is Dragon Age: Veilguard, mostly due to a particularly cringy (and presumably self-insert) scene where…
The exponent doesn't have to be as large as it currently is. The wealth inequality we see now is largely a function of every Republican administration in the last half century passing tax cuts for the wealthy while…
> Reinstituting rule-of-law (not just Trump; the whole system) It's probably more correct to just say instituting. While Trump has certainly turned the rule of law on its head, it's a not-so-secret secret that the law…
They tell the angry people all their problems and fears are the fault of one or more out groups (e.g., immigrants, non-whites, and trans people) like they have for decades already.
Not to mention, we now know that many on the court (and particularly those among the majority) have been accepting undisclosed gifts for years as well as their spouses accepting significant business dealings with those…
A CEO, blue-collar worker, and an immigrant sit down at a table together. In the middle of the table, there is a plate with a dozen cookies. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, then whispers in the ear of the blue-collar…
It's a bit early for us to be contemplating our own Butlerian Jihad, but for posterity: We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning…
> a tiny group is watching the curve go vertical Caveat: that same tiny group is employed by the AI vendors, meaning it's in their financial best interest to make it sound like the curve is going vertical.
I doubt that will happen anytime soon, as stiffing contractors is also one of the favorite past-times of our current President. I expect if you dig around, you'll find a number of wealthy individuals who frequently do…
Unfortunately, we won't know for sure until they're presented with a real case involving the 22nd Amendment. Given its recent behavior, my prediction is that the Roberts court would drag out hearing any challenge…
Why not build underground structures? Such structures would have better latency due to locality, they wouldn't be subject to transmission interference from weather, they'd be far more accessible for…
> but I don't understand why people choose the solution that basically throws the baby out with the bathwater. Mass surveillance apparatus like flock cameras and their ilk have a huge surface area for abuse, meaning…
The unfortunate reality is we can expect more and more of our goods to spy on us over time, as there are both political and economic motivations to track and collect as much data as possible on everyone. The best thing…
I suspect a big part of that stems from the fact that many people treat being overweight as a moral failure in and of itself, and rather than repenting and doing the morally right and correct thing to lose the weight on…
Almost immediately after the ruling, a number of Republican states immediately put forth redrawn maps breaking up majority black districts. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/southern-sta...
In terms of absolute number of incarcerated persons, though, the US is ahead of everyone else by a country mile. Depending on which inmate pools you include or exclude, the US holds 20-25% of all incarcerated persons in…
> What kind of illusion must one be under to believe that employers would ever pay you the same amount of money to do less work? Because supposedly, the new tooling (in this case, AI) allows them to produce the same or…
"Alien" is the term referring to the person. "Illegal" is merely a status. It's arguable that "illegal alien" is itself dehumanizing, implying that a person can be legal or illegal merely by existing, when in reality,…
That's why the dehumanizing title "illegals" exists for immigrants.
Declassifying documents is completely within Trump's purview, but surely selling classified documents runs afoul of the emoluments clause in Article II, Section 1.
True, though it's worth noting the ~110 or so mergers and acquisitions Facebook has gone through: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... It's arguable how much of Facebook's current size is a…
I snagged a handful of games from a local BBS. Ahh, the childhood trauma of downloading Doom 2, getting about halfway after 7 hours, only to have the whole download screwed up because one of my parents picked up the…
We cannot be living in Idiocracy. In the movie, President Camacho actually cared about solving the problems facing his citizens, finding the smartest person on the planet and putting him to work to fix them. It's also…
I was under the impression a big part of it relates to Florida bankruptcy law allowing individuals to discharge debts without losing a significant amount of their assets. See:…
He/she isn't right, though. Capital punishment, at its core, is an emotional rather than logical response to a criminal offense. It serves no purpose in preventing future crimes. First, because you've already caught the…
Can you provide some examples? The only major game in recent history I'm aware was labeled as particularly woke is Dragon Age: Veilguard, mostly due to a particularly cringy (and presumably self-insert) scene where…
The exponent doesn't have to be as large as it currently is. The wealth inequality we see now is largely a function of every Republican administration in the last half century passing tax cuts for the wealthy while…
> Reinstituting rule-of-law (not just Trump; the whole system) It's probably more correct to just say instituting. While Trump has certainly turned the rule of law on its head, it's a not-so-secret secret that the law…
They tell the angry people all their problems and fears are the fault of one or more out groups (e.g., immigrants, non-whites, and trans people) like they have for decades already.
Not to mention, we now know that many on the court (and particularly those among the majority) have been accepting undisclosed gifts for years as well as their spouses accepting significant business dealings with those…
A CEO, blue-collar worker, and an immigrant sit down at a table together. In the middle of the table, there is a plate with a dozen cookies. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, then whispers in the ear of the blue-collar…
It's a bit early for us to be contemplating our own Butlerian Jihad, but for posterity: We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning…
> a tiny group is watching the curve go vertical Caveat: that same tiny group is employed by the AI vendors, meaning it's in their financial best interest to make it sound like the curve is going vertical.
I doubt that will happen anytime soon, as stiffing contractors is also one of the favorite past-times of our current President. I expect if you dig around, you'll find a number of wealthy individuals who frequently do…
Unfortunately, we won't know for sure until they're presented with a real case involving the 22nd Amendment. Given its recent behavior, my prediction is that the Roberts court would drag out hearing any challenge…
Why not build underground structures? Such structures would have better latency due to locality, they wouldn't be subject to transmission interference from weather, they'd be far more accessible for…
> but I don't understand why people choose the solution that basically throws the baby out with the bathwater. Mass surveillance apparatus like flock cameras and their ilk have a huge surface area for abuse, meaning…
The unfortunate reality is we can expect more and more of our goods to spy on us over time, as there are both political and economic motivations to track and collect as much data as possible on everyone. The best thing…
I suspect a big part of that stems from the fact that many people treat being overweight as a moral failure in and of itself, and rather than repenting and doing the morally right and correct thing to lose the weight on…