Google gave 20 million to the project.

Yeah. Bastards everywhere should feel insulted.

Did you see the video?

Even the AI knows he has issues with his diet.

It’s fine when you’re young.

When you get older, the ability to roll your feet off the bed and easily stand up is clutch.

They shouldn’t be. My internet comes from a WISP antenna network that I help manage connected to Fiberlight.

We’re a small neighborhood across a lake from any meaningful cities, so we have a 150-ft tower on either side of the lake. One side is connected to the fiber and the other has directional antennas aimed at receivers for each house.

My internet isn’t great (about 15 megabit), and HBO has really bad compression artifacts and buffers really often, whereas Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney, etc all do just fine.

My biggest issue with them is their shit streaming quality.

Yeah. This administration has made it clear they will never do the right thing and will violate any agreement. There’s zero reason to negotiate with them.

It’s whybthe Dems CANNOT back off on the shutdown. Trump’s threatening to fire a bunch of federalnworkers he doesn’t like if the Dems don’t play ball, but he’s been doing thay anyway for 10 months. There’s nothing he can threatening he isn’t going to do anyway, so there’s no reason to compromise.

I’m a government official and people can walk in the building and demand to see my text messages and emails, and I have to hand them over (with reasonable, well-defined reactions categories like social security numbers, home addresses of certain officials and citizens, etc).

And that’s a good thing.

I’m not gonna say I enjoy Open Records Requests, but that’s mostly because it’s a pain in the ass redacting shit, and I recently had to do a TON because a very high-profile person had interactions with the city and every journalism outlet in the country submitted slightly different requests thay required me having to do reactions on about 10,000 pages of documents despite the requests only covering about 30 emails between them.

But it’s a pain I’m willing to put up with to maintain transparency.

I think a lot of people who do evil things don’t see themselves as evil.

I think the Bushes were evil people who did evil things and I’ll never forgive them.for all the damage they caused. But I also don’t think they were unpatriotic. They believed in what they did and thought they were making society better.

I think MTG is the really stupid, slightly more evil version of that. She really wants to make things better, but not for everyone. But when she clearly sees that the people she does care about (uaully right-wing racist trash) are being hurt, she wants to make things better for them.

I think the worst part is that the Vice President openly defended them.

If I had a car that had suddenly stopped working due to a careless update, I’d want it to be bricked so I could make the manufacturer pay for a different fucking car.

These guys aren’t ICE. They didn’t volunteer for this bullshit. Guard members are mostly people wanting some extra cash to pay for college and shit that signed up to go to training a couple weeks a year and to help out following a flood or wildfire.

They did not sign up to occupy other states. But now they potentially face the death penalty for refusing to go.

Yeah, they can refuse illegal orders, but with so many Courts having been taken over by the fascists, they can’t depend on that to save them from the firing squad. So they suit up and go stand around for a few weeks. I’d honestly rather have them than ICE, since they aren’t guaranteed to be racist piles of shit.

Trump is essential for the fascists right now because he’s worshiped by idiots. But he doesn’t have an heir who is similarly loved by his fans, and his ego won’t allow him to pass the torch.

Right now the fascism is being propped up by a personality cult. Without that figurehead the movement may collapse.

I think we also need to be careful about what we consider low-quality clones of other work.

Reproduction of research is extremely important. It isn’t glamorous, but it’s how we verify shit.

Yes, but also make it clear why you are leaving. And as dirty as it feels, don’t tell them their actions are irredeemable and they’ve lost you for life.

If you tell them you’ll never come back no matter what, then they no longer have to care about your opinion. You’re essentially telling them that they should start catering more-heavily to the fascists now that the only potential customers don’t mind them bending the knee.

States and cities try to criminalize recording police all the time.

They don’t want the leaves covering up the unnaturally green grass, and if they clog up the storm system that’s someone downhill’s problem.

I work in municipal government, and I have very strong feeling about leaf blowers.

All these assholes blowing all the great fertilizing trulimmings and dirt off their lawn and into the street to clog up the storm drains.

Way too many jobs require degrees to apply as well. Yeah, if you’re a doctor, scientist, engineer, or other specialist that really does require advanced education, you need that level of education.

But I’m hiring a new permit tech to process contractor registrations, take permit payments, and answer the phone. It’s ludicrous that the city wants them to have a degree in “Public Administration, Fiance, Construction Science, or a related field.”