You’re literally talking about hypothetical people and saying they’re just as important as actual people.

The Cybertruck specifically, or Tesla in general?

I will happily admit that Tesla helped demonstrate that there is a viable market for EVs, which pressured other auto-makers to produce them. The auto industry has become very risk-averse over the last several decades, so convincing them that EVs weren’t a risky R&D investment was a big step.

The Cybertruck has been a phenomenal failure. Sales have been far below what Tesla projected, for a number of reasons. Not least of which is that, in the time between their original announcement and actually getting the thing to market, other parties released EV pickups with much more conventional designs and, more importantly, better value.

Uh… about 1600 people were charged and over 1200 were convicted of crimes related to the Jan 6 insurrection.

Trump pardoned them all on his first day in office. With a Republican-controlled congress that wasn’t inclined to do anything to stop him. But saying nothing happened is a ridiculous over-simplification.

Dude just loves to be the center of attention. Even if it’s negative attention. He eats that shit up.

Some states already use ranked choice voting, because each state gets to decide how to run their own elections. Alaska does, for example. I’m honestly not sure what happens if we abolish the electoral college and just count votes directly. If some states use ranked choice and some don’t, how do we count those votes fairly? Would the federal government have to take over presidential elections from the states? Would that require a constitutional amendment? Given what’s going on with the federal government right now, is that a power we would want them to have?

Welcome to the beginning of understanding why so much of our society is dysfunctional.

No single candidate can. You need a controlling majority in both houses of the legislature to get anything significant done.

Same. He played a nerdy kid that spent more time interacting with the adults around him than other kids, even if they didn’t always take him seriously. I identified with that a lot. And it never hurt that Wil is only a year or so older than me in real life, and had a lot of the same interests. I grew up seeing him as both a peer and a role-model.

I didn’t want to speculate out loud, but yeah I was wondering. I also live in a state that allows assisted dying. If the writing was on the wall and I knew I was about to start losing my faculties, I might choose that path to spare my loved ones having to watch me die one little piece at a time.

He was a terrific Gurney Halleck in Lynch’s Dune.

And honestly, from everything I’ve heard about the man, he was just an all-around lovely person. Caring and supportive of anyone who had the good fortune to know him.

After Rockstar brass suggested earlier this month that they’d be open to letting workers have a union if they really wanted one, workers and the company have hashed out a voting period.

This sentence confuses me. Are the rules different in the UK? Can the company choose to veto a union? In the US, if enough workers sign a public statement saying they support a union, the company can choose to voluntarily recognize the union without a vote. The vote only happens if the company chooses to oppose it (which they usually do here).

That would not be an accurate headline, since A) it’s an appeals court with multiple judges, and B) they only ruled that it would be inappropriate for them to step in before the lower court has had the chance to consider the case.

I would have thought that, as successful, powerful lawyers, more of those firms would be smart enough to realize that the executive orders targeting them would be immediately ruled unconstitutional in court.

Besides, giving a bully what he wants doesn’t make him your friend. He’ll take it and proceed to fuck your shit up regardless. Then he’ll come back for more.

I would argue that Ticketmaster prefers it this way. Ever since they restricted resales to the marketplace they control, they’re basically double-dipping on every ticket the bots snap up.

vaccines

Measles

Okay, mate, we’ve decided to give in:

I’ve been trying to move my retirement accounts into funds that are better insulated from an AI bubble pop, but it’s challenging. I mainly moved into funds based on international stocks and low- to mid-cap stocks. The high-cap stock funds are almost entirely AI-fueled companies right now. They’re making crazy returns, but I just don’t trust them.

Nobody mentioned punch card ballots.

The closest thing would be a hernia check for boys, which is generally considered optional. There is no corresponding check for girls. They may be asked if they are menstruating, and if it is regular. That’s about it. And none of that information would be communicated to the school. It’s just for their medical history. There is no part of the form where the doctor is required to verify the existence or nature of someone’s sex organs.

I’d also like to point out that the initiative provides no source of additional funding to cover the processing and keeping of records it will force schools to gather. Consider that girls sports already gets significantly less funding than boys sports. This will widen that gap considerably.

And keep in mind that they’ve done nothing to actually verify that A) the people they’ve arrested are not citizens and B) that if they are not, that they actually registered to vote. In their own words, the list is of “likely non-citizens.” So basically, they have a list of people who are permanent residents. If you, a citizen, happen to have the same name as someone on that list, and you’re registered to vote, you are at risk of being arrested. Or, vice versa, if a person on that list has the same name as someone registered to vote, they might get arrested even though they did nothing wrong.