I wonder if he flipped through his bible that he never read during the verdict.

Sure, I can agree there about the special election and not officially being part of the whole 2018 blue wave thing. I also remember saying it wouldn’t last because I already had my doubts because come on, it was Roy Moore. Still I do remember the media and tons of people inside and outside of social media saying all these things I stated above.

As for this is different, man I really don’t have outlook given how fickle we’ve seen the American electorate is. Sorry but I really see this nation as a nation of idiots, reactionary, and made up of adults that always took the marshmallow as a kid. I mean we are a nation that has a that on average reads at or below a sixth grade reading level, we’ve shown that we’re just as susceptible, worse even, to populist bullshit propaganda when we elected Trump and Republicans in non-consecutive terms.

But hey, I’m still hopeful that this will be a permanent change, I’d like to believe, but just color me skeptical.

How about no gerrymandering at fucking all and requiring all states to redraw there maps before the next election to un-gerrymander everything.

I’m going to remind everyone and you should also remind your friends that we had that “Blue Wave” in 2018 too, elected Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama, everyone and their mother was “Generational change!”, “The South is going Blue”, etc.

One election cycle later, we have Tommy “Name three branches of government” Tuberville elected right back in and remains there to this day.

You aren’t going to keep these seats if you don’t actually try to keep your promises to the electorate and conflate this win as a endorsement of Democrats and Progressives instead of a repudiation of Republican policies and actions.

You know, Haley Stevens (R-Mich). She ran in the Democratic primary after being selected by Democratic leadership.

The article lays it out pretty clearly on why if you read it.

It is unclear how these AI-generated songs will affect the royalties Spotify pays to artists. The company is reportedly already negotiating with record labels, but how high or low the payments to artists will ultimately be is not yet known. Spotify is also reportedly struggling to persuade some artists to agree to the use of their music by AI. According to an analyst quoted by the Financial Times, around 8 percent of all Spotify subscribers could be paying this surcharge for AI-generated songs by the end of 2028.

Money, it’s always money. That’s roughly 25 million subscribers that would be predicted to sign up for AI slop at 5 bucks a month. Combine that with what I’m sure would be looking to pay the artists a lot less and only having to pay for computing resources instead of people, that’s still a fuck ton of money for them.

I’m sure they wanted to but couldn’t find any laws from the 1700’s to blame things on witches and highlander quickening to quote and use as a justification.

1. Woosh.
2. And what does your question have to do with the article?

Also, do you have any inkling of what is used to train these LLM and generative AI models? I’m sure that these companies buying literally tons of books and then shredding them is to “protect” independent authors like good stewards of AI they are.

Also something of note in the article:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed for another wave of strikes on Iran after the U.S. elections, according to two regional officials and a third person familiar with the matter.

I guess all of these AI companies buying literal tons of books is just protecting small authors. LOL!

Pretty much. Regardless of AI, workers, white, blue, even managers, are nothing more than a cost account to the majority of corporations.

What a waste of tax payer money. Nothing they’re doing is illegal and Republicans know and ballot stack all the time.

The reaper is just trying to make 2026 another sad year for good people passing.

You’ll be sorely missed good sir but thank you for all the memories and all of your impressions of Brent Spiner.

Yean, two distinct issues that does compound the issue like a shitty anti-voting Captain Planet.

To be fair, I mean the US literacy rate has us pegged at 54% reading at or below a sixth grade level so…

In this and a lot of other cases where you’ve got this kind of underhanded ballot stacking, there’s a lot of crap that just doesn’t pass the sniff test. You’ve got same name just like here, that’s happened a few times already, a candidate that has had no previous political history that just up and decided to run in a high profile election last minute, and literally like in this case and the case in Arizona in 2010 by Republicans, the paper work to run wasn’t even filed by candidate themselves but by some political consultant from another party.

Plenty of signs of ballot stacking shenanigan bullshit in these kinds of rare-ish occasions and who’s even talking about restricting who can run for office here? No one. I certainly didn’t. I did say make ballot stacking illegal but never suggested that we restrict who can run for office based on party affiliation.

Republican’s probably wouldn’t even entertain that idea, they’d just get rid of voting completely and do a military coup with Kegseth.

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I mean if they don’t like underhanded ballot stacking practices then they shouldn’t do it themselves but better yet, let’s criminalize it and force the Republicans to not be ballot stacking dicks.

Okay, let’s take a look at your sources here.

Let’s just go over your first one:

While 2013-2016 had on average 38 federal charges involving threats to public officials per year, that average sharply increased during the period of 2017-2022, with the average number of federal charges increasing to 62 per year. It seems the clamor of threats to public officials has grown louder since 2017, with gradual, steady increases.

The next figure states 42% of them were against elected officials. Okay, fair.

Of those offenders who displayed an ideological orientation, the majority were anti-government, anti-authority violent extremists (AGAAVE) or racially motivated violent extremists (RMVE) in nature. Of the total count of ideologically motivated threats, 43 percent were motivated by AGAAVE ideology. For example, in 2016, a Huntington, Maryland, resident threatened to kill President Obama and multiple members of Congress including Senators John McCain, Mitch McConnell, Hillary Clinton, and Orrin Hatch because of “government corruption out of control” and what the perpetrator described as “treason against America” by officials who “sold out America.”29

Okay, there’s maybe some equal opportunity stuff here…

Moreover, a portion of the threats were motivated by both AGAAVE and RMVE. Related to what other scholars have observed regarding composite violent extremism,30 23 percent of the ideologically motivated threats analyzed involved both AGAAVE and RMVE extremism. For example, on April 16, 2019, a Tamarac, Florida, resident communicated a threat by telephone targeting Representatives Eric Swalwell, Cory Booker, and Rashida Tlaib, expressing anti-Black and Islamophobic racism along with anti-government sentiments. The perpetrator also claimed the government was planning a gun confiscation while using racist and xenophobic language to describe certain groups of people.31 This particular example and the overlap between racially motivated and anti-government sentiments more broadly reflects the long-standing co-mingling of anti-government and white supremacist extremism as illustrated by the founding role white supremacists played in the late 1960s with the emergence of the anti-government Posse Comitatus Movement (which argued that any authority beyond the local sheriff is illegitimate). The Posse Comitatus Movement had spillover effects32 that influenced both the emergence of the Sovereign Citizen and Militia Movements during the 1990s and more recently.33 The intertwined ideological and organizational histories of white supremacist and anti-government extremism renders distinctions among types of threats difficult and sometimes misleading.

Finally, racially motivated white supremacists have been designated as the most persistent and lethal ideological extremist threat in the United States, and 19 percent of the ideologically motivated threats to public officials were solely classified as RMVE.34 While the authors did identify salafi jihadi orientations and issue-specific (e.g., animal rights and environmental-related) grievances in the cases, those were clearly much smaller in number, representing six percent and nine percent of the ideologically motivated threat cases, respectively.

Hmmm…wait, this doesn’t seem like BoTh SiDeS here…

Me thinks you should maybe actually read the sources and get a actuall understanding the sources you’re using to back up your claim that violent rhetoric on the rise is irrespective of a party or ideology here.

My guess, they’re selectively apply the Controlled Substances Act on her. Since it’s still on the books as a schedule III drug, technically anyone running a dispensary is breaking the law and can be prosecuted federally.