I wouldn’t be surprised if there was something there, but that’s different than a fact.

So people who don’t live in swing states should vote third party until there’s enough of them that the state is in danger of going to trump (or whoever)? If they’re successful at some point that’s a threat.

How do we actually get third party candidates to win, not just “oh, Ross Perot Jr got 3% of the vote”?

However you slice it, we’re looking at like a 20 year struggle minimum to get election reform, and it would be at least the same length to elect a third party candidate to the office of president, but that’s a one off thing. (Or more likely that third party would be the new one of two parties)

If we’re committed to the struggle of improving things, we might as well improve a reusable process rather than have a single go at a third party presidential candidate.

Right, but do you have any evidence? Otherwise it’s just an accusation

“THE CHILDREN WILL BE SAVED!”

I didn’t take the image to be showing a macbook, it could just as easily be my computer or probably many others.

You’re right, doesn’t sound great. In the example they shared, sounds like the issue wasn’t that the car couldn’t drive around the fire truck, but that it couldn’t break a programming rule about crossing into a lane that would normally be opposing traffic. Once given the “ok” to follow such a route, the car handled it on its own, the human doesn’t actually drive it.

I could imagine a scenario where you need one human operator for every two vehicles. That’s still reducing labor by 50%.

Obviously they want it to be better than that, they want it to be one operator per ten vehicles or no operator at all.

And the fundamental problem with these systems is they will be owned by big corporations, and any gained efficiency will be consumed by the corporation, not enjoyed by the worker or passed on to the customer.

But I think there’s true value to be found there. Imagine a transportation cooperative - we’re a thousand households, we don’t all need our own car, but we need a car sometimes. We pool our resources and have a small fleet that minimizes our cost and environmental impact, and potentially drives more safely than human drivers.

Seems like a company that initially differentiated itself by hyping 3D printing, and once they realized that won’t work they’ve got to pivot without spooking everyone.

Yeah who cares

This is pretty exciting

Devils Tower is really cool.

Interesting thought. Do you have suggestions on how to counter nationalists seizing the label “pro-natalist”?

Vance is doing a tour where he follows Harris around to the same cities where she has rallies. Most recently he was doing a press stunt on the tarmac trying to approach her plane. (Presumably so he could sniff her panties)

Biden is one guy. Including him here makes no sense

Not everyone wants to torture, even people who have been wronged. And having been wronged doesn’t give someone license to do wrong in turn.

Got to say, these fuckers have been subjected to extrajudicial torture and no due process over the last twenty plus years. Clearly what they did is fucked up, but I don’t think it’s right to handle things this way.

Remember you need two thirds of both chambers to pass an amendment, followed by three fourths of states. In our current environment that’s nearly impossible. We should be throwing everything at the wall, and if one thing is rejected, that may sway people who haven’t been tuned in, which could be crucial in applying further action.

There’s also value in doing fucking anything. Why should people support a party that won’t fight for what’s important? I refuse to just complain, or to accept hopelessness. I expect that something will be done, and I’m going to vote and act accordingly.

You don’t need to convince me. I’m talking about gathering critical support for something like a constitutional amendment. Nothing wrong with passing a bill first. Amendments are hard.

The constitution doesn’t even give the supreme court the power to declare things unconstitutional. They just decided to do that early on and everyone went along with it.

Suppose the court does declare such a law unconstitutional. Imagine how it would look. Yes, such a law might not be the end of things, but if it was declared unconstitutional it would be a clear call for hobbling the court, because it would demonstrate they’re corrupt.

Won’t this be a challenge for Ukraine? I got the impression they rely on consumer drones a lot

You’re right, he would be fairly on point if he was just talking about resources and not people too.

Besides the obvious issue of treating people like things, he also thinks the government is lying to us to… get our women? Who in the government is getting the women? Also if the lie is women don’t need men, then how will these supposed liar feds sway the women to them after they abandon their existing men?

And he presupposes that the only way to “acquire” women is to either convince them their man sucks, or that they don’t need a man. Why not just find an unattached woman? And/or become a more desirable man?

This is a guy who needs someone to blame when things don’t go his way.