This makes sense, people were trying to find out how it would impact them (we both are on the same page that we would want them to do that before the election).

Some have already banned, some are in the process of voting.

We lost power for at least a week after Helene. There were plenty of people that weren’t prepared and freaked out, but by and large, I saw people pitching together to share fuel, food, water and company. It was a tough time, but it was nice seeing the kinder side of humanity.

Lol, the random censoring because of short form algorithms bugs me too.

Why did you censor that word?

It’s not even corporate insurance vs doctors. It’s corporate insurance vs corporate hospital who employ the doctors. A lot of doctors are pushed to up the numbers of patients they see by their corporate bosses even when everyone knows that will mean worse care.

My hot take, is that star wars pieces of media are only considered “good” if the viewer was too young to perceive the politics in the work when they first saw it. There are exceptions like rogue one/andor, but I think it mostly holds.

This is a new interpretation of the meme, you would know that if you read books

This made me think about this issue in a new way, thanks for the good comment.

I really liked that game!

Yeah, because the market went from having the opinion of “I’m 80% sure that Tesla is going to do this robo taxi, automaton thing” to " I’m 65% sure that Tesla is going to do this robotaxi, automaton thing". Things are rarely all or nothing with the market.

He’s openly talked of rounding up illegal immigrants, and changing the laws about what makes immigrants legal. If he acts on even half the threats he has made, a lot of people are in danger.

Oh nice, thanks for the recommendations

That definitely makes sense. What’s a good SF book you’ve read recently?

I just had a friend tell me he loved the whole series (with caveats), why didn’t you like it?

My favorite internet video on the subject: https://youtu.be/WlP9aJnzyZw

This and he relayed a story about peeping on women shower without their knowledge, and talked about how he liked trans porn even though he has pushed for extreme anti trans legislation.

As far as I can tell from reading your telling, he has a history of committing violence against women and lying about past events. I hope you recognize this as dangerous.

This doesn’t mean you can’t try to help him, but understand that there are risks.

I completely agree with you. An interesting aspect to this is that when it was still Twitter, Apple was one of the biggest marketers on the site. This was because all of the other online ad venders were direct competitors (google with phones, and Facebook with virtual reality). So having a place that isn’t google/meta to pump ad dollars makes sense to some businesses, or at least it did before the percentage of Nazi content rose so much.

Or the code is the operating system that the application is running on, or the code is the firmware that is operating the GPU that is crunching the numbers to make the neural net, or the code is the friends we made along the way.