Just looks like a click farming site that targets left-libertarians.
She stands in a supermarket aisle, looking at the price of baby formula.
A notification flashes on her phone. Headlines about Trump. Iran. Threats. Escalation. She reads it quickly, almost without thinking.
Then she looks back at the shelf.
Her mind starts connecting things.
Like, this isn’t journalism it’s prose
A bit more complicated than that. But, yes. They did a mass implementation of a technology they didn’t understand and then bungled it’s use.
Glances at AI
I’m sure nobody will make that mistake again.
Idk, did they list their pronouns or open the briefing with a reading from Marcus Aurelius?
It’s an outdated legalism. 250 years ago, the patent office operated as an incentive to record and register ideas to the public in exchange for exclusive commercial license.
Now that simply isn’t an issue
quietly
Stop putting “quietly” in your fucking headlines, you hacks. This wasn’t “quiet”, it was very publicly announced.
That said, there sure are a lot of Teslas and Rivians driving around today.
Toyota outsells Tesla 10:1.
You notice Teslas because they look bizarre, while Toyotas fade into the crowd. Same with Rivians. Ford fully outstrips them by volume, but damn if that chasis doesn’t pop.
If you have an electric car that can recharge in the same amount of time that it takes to fill the tank with gas
You don’t. Even the highest end Chinese EVs need a solid 5 minutes to get to 70% charge.
I’m stick stuck on hybrids for the off instance I need to make a 400 mile drive.
Damn shame they cancelled that HSR through Texas. Would love to not drive at all.
one president signed a bill to move chip production to the US then the next president raided the chip-making facility and arrested all those chip-making people for trying to show the locals how to make chips
Chip making production has begun to migrate largely as a consequence of the Trump tariffs. The Biden plan to send Intel a few billion in kickbacks in exchange for a chip fab industry that wasn’t the laughing stock of the planet only enriched shareholders and executives.
I’m not sure what you’re referring to. Maybe Operation Low Voltage, which was a raid on a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia? I can’t find anything about a raid on a chip fab plant.
In fairness to Trump leadership, a bunch of these workers were, in fact, overstayed on their visas. Although, as usual, Trump sent guys in with shotguns to do what a sternly worded letter would have just as easily accomplished.
But these are the two faces of Western Capital. The bailout and the beat down. Liberals throw money at the problem. Conservatives slap you around on the thinnest pretexts. Neither president seems to have benefited the US domestic consumer.
It’s debt stacked on debt. The money isn’t real, just the consequences of decades of credit expansion.
Now we either deal with a cascading wave of defaults (a la '29, '73, '86, '08, and '23) or we rush in with state credit to bail out all the private lenders.
But there’s very little real money in real pockets. At the end of the day, it’s borrowing power that makes you a billionaire.
But he will be gone soon enough.
The fossil fuel lobby is older than Trump and far more influential, digging its roots deep into both major parties back to the Cleveland administration.
Censorship is never the answer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Formally banning certain forms of vulgar and bigoted expression establish a code of conduct for the community, even if they aren’t strictly enforced.
Teaching values and the corresponding ethics and morals that come with it is closer to the answer.
Morality is as much about proactive and affirmative pursuit of justice as internalized codes of conduct.
If there is no social consequence for immoral behavior, there is no reason to believe the act is immoral.
Don’t think that plane is going to rise again in three days.
People are just so obsessed with cars
It’s hardly an obsession among the vox populi. Highway construction is dogma produced by the Church of the Petrochemical Company. We continue to cling to low density, high cost cement roadways because that’s why billionaires and their lobbyists tell elected officials to pay for.
Where rail exists, people flock to it. But you have to build before people can come.
I’ve been losing money on Dragonfly for months. Unfortunately, the market can be irrational longer than you can be solvent.
In that time, ive taken up muay thai, gratitude practices, doestevesky, and started a new business.
I mean, congratulations, I guess. I’m in Houston, so all of that just sounds like a ton of driving.
From what little ive read, X/Twitter has never been for debate…but instead existed as a warzone.
I’ve yet to hear of any bridges getting blown up because of a Tweet
it’s so hard for so many to just, not use them
Networking Effect is a bitch. It’s like telling someone to stop using AT&T or United Airlines. These are the major arteries of communication for billions of people. Individuals can’t abstain from using them without isolating themselves.
You can delete your account and I promise you won’t find yourself missing them.
Spoken like someone who doesn’t have their entire extended family posting and chatting on the sites regularly. I get calls from extended family, asking me to weigh in on long conversations and exchanges and posting sprees. And then when I respond on the phone, I get a “No, you have to post it, I’m not going to just repeat it to everyone for you”.
Tons of social pressure to just go where everyone else is.
What’s frustrating about this “Your consumer habits are wrong, you should make them better” is that Twitter was (ostensibly) the space for the liberal intelligencia to go for journalism and debate and organizing until Elon Musk bought it.
Does anything stop a billionaire from buying up or shutting down the next social media platform? We can wax poetic about Lemmy/Mastadon as a decentralized and indie-operated environment. But crazy to think Joe Biden/Donald Trump can squash TikTok with a few swipes of the pen, that Feds can play wack-a-mole with ZArchive and Anna’s Archive and Wikileaks, etc, while insisting the main hosts for the most popular indie media sites are bulletproof.
Might as well tell people to stop using the internet entirely.
Well, but that’s impossible. In China, he won’t have any freedom. He needs to stay in the United States where he can pursue research into biology and medic- door bang
shouts of military police
repeated gunfire
screams of terrified research assistants
confused orders from multiple officers at once
more gunfire
moaning from injured civilians
more gunfire
radio chatter from officers
“Yeah, they were armed. Looks like syringes and a bunson burner. Yes. All illegal. Yes, we’re cleaning up now. No need to report this up the chain, they already know. Signing out.”
It overwhelmingly favored Intel, for better or worse. And the early influx of cash did nothing to prevent Intel from axing 15,000 jobs.
I’m not here to praise Trump for any of his trade policies. But what Biden pitched through the CHIPs Act was largely a bailout for under-performing domestic producers more focused on dividends than scaled production or R&D. He’d have been better off nationalizing Intel than just handing them bricks of cash in the form of grants and low-interest loans. That is (kinda) what Trump ended up doing when he ordered the Treasury to take a 10% stake in the firm.