mriguy

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mriguy,

“We hear you, American consumer! You say you want a sub-$40k, small, basic EV. So here’s another luxury SUV/pickup truck/yacht crossover starting at $90,000.”

mriguy,

“I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.”

mriguy,

“Yeah, he’s a convicted felon, but we can’t put him in jail because that would inconvenience the Secret Service.”

Nope. Sorry it’s a burden for them, but they can figure it out. Make a prison out of the brig on an abandoned military base in the middle of nowhere with him as the only prisoner. It worked for Rudolph Hess.

mriguy,

So it all comes down to “do Republicans want to win badly enough that they can suppress their racism and misogyny and vote for a woman of color”. Republicans like winning, but NEVER bet against racism and misogyny with that crew.

Also, a large fraction of the base WILL vote for Trump, and only Trump, whether he’s on the ballot or not, which hurts Haley. And there’s no evidence that the R’s have won over a single new voter since 2020, when they lost.

This all turns on how badly Biden does with HIS base, and that is currently pretty worrying. Democratic voters like unproductive petulance at least as much as Republican voters like racism and misogyny.

mriguy,

So… CEOs will cause job cuts in 2024, and have decided to use generative AI as an excuse.

mriguy,

“Asks”? So they can just say “no thank you” and keep their jobs?

No?

Then asks is not the right word.

mriguy,

Not this one - it’s a civil case on the state of NY.

mriguy,

In this case, you have to develop an individual vaccine for every patient based on the DNA from their own cancer. That’s actually a lot of work. $10K a poke is very reasonable given that you could easily spend 10 or 100 times that on conventional treatment.

mriguy,

“We would have all stayed under our rocks if YOU hadn’t forced us to freak out by electing a black guy”.

mriguy,

Kills you painfully with a brain infection, I think. I don’t really see the appeal.

mriguy,

Their intention has never been to run the country. It is to KEEP the adults (Democrats, sane Republicans, if there are any left) from running the country and paralyze the government. If nothing can get done, then the government isn’t, for example, passing laws to restrict corporate power, or make anybody’s life better. The rich and powerful have no counterweight.

mriguy,

If this is confirmed, I don’t think the Secret Service would be able to protect him from Mossad.

mriguy,

It’s interesting to me that as soon as EV’s are finally seriously becoming a thing, we are told that tire dust, rather than ICE emissions, are really the worst thing possible for the planet (and it’s somehow implied that ICE vehicles don’t have tires). When somebody points out that ICE vehicles do, in fact, have tires too, EV’s are STILL worse because EV’s are heavier than the equivalent ICE cars. Strangely, the fact that for years, people have been driving ludicrously overweight vehicles (the Ford F150, weighing in at 4,070 to 5,757 lbs, is the top selling passenger vehicle in the US, and last I checked, it had tires) was never an issue.

mriguy,

We look at the definition of treason in the Constitution, conclude that unless we can prove she’s acting on behalf of a foreign power, it isn’t treason, call it sedition, which it clearly IS, and go from there.

mriguy,

Anyone with two functioning brain cells does see it. Unfortunately, there is an entire political party for people who don’t.

mriguy,

Worst so far. If another Republican gets into office, they’re likely to be just as evil but probably smarter.

mriguy,

They’re already violent, and getting more so. Appeasing them isn’t going to make them suddenly behave.

mriguy,

Better to just call it “The site formerly known as Twitter” and don’t mention X at all. That would piss him off more.

mriguy,

“Law and order” has always only meant “keep undesirables (minorities, leftists, workers) afraid and under constant threat of violence”. It has never meant “actually hold everyone equally accountable to the law”.

mriguy,

I think it’s actually sedition. You have to conspire with an external enemy for it to be treason (I mean, he did that too, but this is mostly homegrown and easier to prove).

mriguy,

She really needs to meet new people.

mriguy,

The chances that a swashbuckling crew of rogue engineers organized a secret skunkworks project to implement their heartfelt, idealistic vision of an adblocker free web are… low.

mriguy,

Just like every other decent human being.

mriguy,

Going with the “batteries catch on fire argument” is stupid. “Batteries are heavy and expensive” is probably more compelling. But yeah, wires are better solution for things going in fixed routes.

mriguy,

You could argue pretty convincingly that it didn’t. We’re in a much worse place than we were, and the damage is far from over.

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