I think it would take a bit of getting used to

As opposed to taking a bit of getting used to twice per year at the beginning and end of DST?

What name(s) are your books under? I’d like to make sure I don’t accidentally buy one.

Who’s going to push the button ?

I suspect there will be a line.

This is the USA. Locking someone up may well be a cruel punishment, but it is by no means unusual.

From the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli. Ratified by the Senate which had just recently approved the Bill of Rights, and signed by President John Adams.

“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religious or tranquility of Musselmen, and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”

Musk’s claims include breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment.

Seriously. A billionaire is accusing another billionaire of unjust enrichment ? Every billionaire ever is by definition guilty of unjust enrichment. There’s simply no other way to become a billionaire.

The company, which is aiming to build the world’s first fusion power plant, does not generate any revenue but has been valued in the private market at $5.4 billion.

This is honestly insane. A company that produces nothing and is almost certainly a scam is valued at $5.4 billion? Valued by whom?

Per the article, this won’t help young people’s muscles. Young muscle tissue is not deficient in palmitate and oleate so supplementing them wouldn’t help.

I think it pretty much did, though perhaps the article has been updated since you posted.

Eatherly, 28, turned his body “in a bladed stance” toward Fox and reached for a firearm in his jacket pocket, after which a “physical altercation” happened, the warrant said. Eatherly fired his weapon and Fox was struck multiple times, according to the document.

The physical altercation occurred after Eatherly settled into a fighting stance and grabbed the gun in his pocket. It seems like that was be the provocation for the physical fight. Even with it being Tennessee, and Fox being black, it seems unlikely that a jury will find that Fox provoked the altercation verbally and justified Eatherly using lethal force.

I want Smarter Glasses. I’m thinking something like the smart glasses, but it only uses it’s camera to locate and highlight other camera lenses. It then activates an infrared laser that the wearer can focus on the other lens to discreetly blind it.

No, no… It’s not like a normal person who might get caught stealing a loaf of bread or something. That person obviously would have to go to jail. But this is a business, you see. They got caught stealing $150,000 worth of water so they just had to pay the regular price for it and now everyone is happy now.

I genuinely cannot believe that they think this is a good idea.

They probably don’t care if it fails. I imagine that on some level it’s just a high tech version of The Producers.

The owners make this announcement then start to harvest piles of money from gullible investors. Once they rake it all in, they piss it all away on their own paychecks and benefits packages as well on payments to suppliers and consulting firms. Of course, the same people also own the suppliers and consulting firms so all that money goes into their pockets as well. And it probably works out better if the product bombs because then those gullible investors won’t expect to see any profits.

Wrong. Poor people will be forced to give birth to every child conceived. Those children will grow up in poverty. They will have limited educational opportunities as well as very limited financial opportunities. Social support for these children will be limited at best, or more likely, completely absent. All this means that crime rates among these people will skyrocket and the prisons will be crowded with the new slaves that these policies will create. Prisons full of free slave labor is exactly what these people want.

According to the article, they are mainly intended as defensive devices. Think of them as anti-drone cardboard chaff.

AirKamuy Chief Engineer Naoki Morita said that the cardboard drone was mainly envisioned as a counter-drone device. The idea is to fly a swarm of drones in front of other targets and absorb blows. “This is regular cardboard, so no special foam board or material, so every cardboard manufacturer can make this plane,” he said.

But other uses are possible. Naoki said that the AirKamuy 150 could carry around three pounds, which is just enough to carry a small amount of supplies or munitions to a target and it’s not hard to imagine swarms of incendiary cardboard drones slamming into targets in the near future.

“I’m still innocent. I’m still not afraid,” Comey said. “And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary, so let’s go.”

The independent federal judiciary is in the process of disappearing. Your belief in it is as irrelevant as your innocence. Thanks for shepherding in this era of fascism, you fuck.

but also maybe we shouldn’t turn running full speed into a house of religion, no matter how hokey that religion may be, into a trend?

No. The whole thing was started by a bad sci-fi author who felt he could make a lot of money by inventing a fake religion. It’s just a scam to rip off gullible people. Hopefully, enough mockery will make prospective joiners think twice before they get taken for all their money.

“You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.'” - L Ron Hubbard

He knows all that. He was a lawyer.

The later is not absolute evidence for the former. There are lawyers who are also morons. Well known example: Rudy Giuliani. I sincerely believe that Patel may not understand the hole he’s dug for himself.

the European Commission is increasingly focusing on ‘winning the global AI race’

How can so many people be so gullible? The only thing winning this race will get you is a wrecked environment and economy. There is literally no upside to this and it’s obvious to anyone who can think about anything other than the size of their bank account.

Heh, when Trump sees this, some UberEats driver in DC is gonna get a 2:00 AM order to bring 10,000 Big Macs to the Strait of Hormuz.

As has been said, an army marches on its stomach. Imagine being fed this on deployment while knowing that your commander-in-chief was a draft dodger who now lives in luxury and has every delicacy known to man available at his slightest whim.

Data shows 85% of those infected in the state have been not vaccinated against measles as dozens are hospitalized

The data also therefore shows that 15% of those infected were vaccinated. That means that these anti-vaxxer twats are causing responsible people to catch dangerous diseases that they would have otherwise been shielded from by herd immunity. People who refuse to be vaccinated should be banned from public spaces like planes, trains, busses, etc.

They should also be banned from businesses and other public venues unless those venues specifically and publicly advertise that they are open to the unvaccinated. That was the rest of us can avoid going to places where we may be exposed to pathogens that could overwhelm out vaccine derived resistance.