You are right. That’s why making it HARDER for people to create new data that hasn’t already been sold is an interesting choice.

No, it isn’t an invasion. Google bought and owned this land, then started construction before getting the permits to do so.

This is like you buying a small vacation land by a lake in another country, then starting to build a cabin on it before getting permits to build. You aren’t invading that country.

Funny, my only reason to go to Reddit anymore is to lurk on my local soccer team’s threads.

What words did you use to come to the conclusion that his doctoral studies are in philosophy? The story doesn’t even say Ph.D., let alone the word philosophy. Even if it did say Ph.D., that is just a title and rarely has anything to do with philosophy. Engineers, Physicists, Mathematicians, etc all get Ph.D. titles when they go for a doctorate.

The timing doesn’t sound in the least bit suspect.

Step 1: Sell Google access to all of your data, which is the only thing of value your company has.

Step 2: Google uses your data to bypass traffic away from you.

Step 3: Be confused why nobody is going to your site anymore.

I mean, it says the thieves are sending the hardware to China. That can mean anything from gaming black market to state-sponsored funneling of hardware to Chinese AI companies. It might be less Robin Hood and more… I don’t know, some Jackie Chan movie where Triads are operating in the US and working with a Chinese diplomat to help some mega-corp.

What about past comments on a server that was public before this change came into place? I have no idea if any of the servers I commented on roughly 6 years ago were public. They were free servers for people playing WoW, and some had passwords and some didn’t. I didn’t make any controversial comments, but I also didn’t (knowingly) consent to anything I typed being publicly searchable.

It was like PopRocks, but better.

The worst thing Biden ever did was refuse to push harder on Trump. He had four years to get one of the prosecutions (plural) settled, including the one where we have publicly released phone call recordings of Trump committing the crime. Yeah, the Georgia prosecutor fucked up, but they slow rolled it before the fuck up meaning there wasn’t time to recover from the fuck up.

Biden also had four years to release the Epstein files, but he didn’t. Even if he knew the prosecutions would not have been successful and was playing a political game of “we’re doing this the right way and not doing a knee-jerk witch hunt,” releasing the files in their full would have gotten this ball rolling in a very different DOJ and FBI environment. It also would have given the public more time to see the connections.

Used to work IT at a university during the transition time from Win 3.11 to Win95. The amount of emotional hand-holding (not even so much technical support) involved in getting the admin staff through the process was unbelievable to me at my young age. Now I understand, but back then I was expecting way more “this doesn’t work” or “I can’t find this program” and way less “I don’t know how I’m going to do my job.”

Which is a further metaphor for how Republicans handle… basically everything.

I’m saying that it shouldn’t be in the least bit surprising that the moon sets at a different rate from the sun. The moon is orbiting Earth at one rate, while the Earth is orbiting the sun at a completely different rate. Why would anyone expect them to set at the same speed?

Look, I’m the last person to judge them breaking something. I am clumsy and careless and break shit all the time.

But it’s just so perfectly emblematic of Republicans. They look at this old globe of the world how it was 80 years ago and think it’s so nice and they should have it for themselves… and then they break it out of carelessness.

Yes. That is the status of legal cannabis in the US. Regardless of what the states put on the law books, weed is still controlled at the fed level. Even after rescheduling from Class 1 to Class III it is still a Controlled Substance.

Two takeaways here:

1. I thought billionaires would leave the state if we taxed them?? Are you telling me there is a compelling reason that either they or their companies might want to stay located in CA? Who would have guessed?

2. I’m OK with this. It is basically a corporate tax now instead of a personal tax. As long as CA gets the billions of dollars it needs from someone, I don’t care where it comes from. We should be taxing corporations more and should be taxing billionaires more, but it is a start. Also, this fucks the shareholders who might maybe possibly think of restricting pay packages for him.

The moon rotates around the Earth, as opposed to the Earth rotating around the sun, and at a much faster rate than once per year, so it is more surprising the timing is as close as it is.

What’s better than taking millions of dollars in deposits to build a crappy car? Taking millions of dollars in deposits to build nothing and have a no-interest loan with no maturation date.

I’m not drinking anything. Like I said, I hate Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX more than nearly anyone, since I have been personally involved with them as part of my job. I’m upset because all of you are acting just like the far right when they don’t like about something. Yes, you have a valid reason to hate Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter. Yes, you don’t have to care about this and can think it is unnecessary and stupid and dangerous. But saying “turned it to 11” is not some praise of something. It is just a fact. Like saying “adding a specialized housing to turn a 10 megaton nuke into a 100 megaton nuke is turning it to 11” is not praising the people creating a nuke. It is a statement of fact.

This isn’t new tech. F1 cars have been doing stuff like this to keep their cars on the track. This is just taking it to an extreme and demonstrating what they knew was possible but didn’t have any reason to do so.

She wasn’t charged with disorderly conduct for standing. She was charged with it for repeatedly moving and for ignoring officers’ commands to stop moving.

If she did that to you while you are trying to get to your office for an important meeting, how would you feel about her actions? If the robot did that to you, how upset would you be?