A lot of it is just “flail wildly and hope nobody stops you”

Bush v Gore was won when a bunch of campaign flaks simply stormed an office on Miami-Dade and intimidated the staff into halting the recount.

Like, that wasn’t a good plan on it’s face. And it failed to win in state court. And it didn’t even halt recounts statewide. But it did get the case up to a stacked court, where a majority of Republican SC judges could simply annoint Bush the winner.

Similarly, Ohio in 2004 was decided thanks to a rigged recount process. But because the case dragged out into 2007… what was anyone going to do about it? Bush wasn’t going to stop being president halfway through his second term.

As often as not, these elections turn on what people can get away with. They aren’t decided by genius plots by brilliant strategists so much as shameless acts of political vandalism that go uncontested.

Doesn’t stop them from setting ballot boxes on fire like last time.

I’m going to need a citation on that one

Canada -> North America

North America -> North America America

South America -> Tren De Aqua America

United Kingdoms -> Old America

Cuba -> New America

Japan -> Anime America

China -> Evil America

if an engineer figured out how to make a Jpeg 600 bytes it would be impressive

Why use many pixel when few pixel do trick?

Had Sam Altman personally vocalized this article in full sincerity, I would not have been surprised.

Accidental negligence - legally referred to as inadvertent negligence - is a standard by which a crime can be adjudicated.

In fairness to Hawaii, I don’t believe they have squirrels.

they have to be mishandled, uncleaned, and not properly stored

I don’t see any evidence to suggest the guy was maintaining any of his kit properly.

guns generally don’t just “go off”

They can and do when mishandled, which is why gun safety exists to begin with.

“Don’t point a gun at anything you don’t intend to shoot” is Rule 1 for a reason. And if he was playing with the gun like a toy, it’s very easy to believe he fumbled it. The stories of children setting off guns by playing with them are more numerous than you can count.

It’s been reposted dozens of times on here

Guns generally don’t just “go off”.

They can and do. There’s chapter and verse on gun safety - handling, cleaning, storage - to deal with the risk of accidental discharge.

If you treat a gun like a toy (and this guy’s testimony certainly sounds like he did), it’s very possible to fire it by accident.

The problem is that we have no sociological or political way to dissuade them from holding that opinion publicly.

Might even argue that we’ve created a number of powerful incentives to encourage people to hold the opinion publicly.

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

Also a staunch Zionist and a huge fan of AI. She took the seat after redistricting swung it from 60/30 R to 51/49 D.

If you wonder why people despise Democrats, this woman is a textbook example of why.

It’s a toxic community on a toxic website

Surprised this wasn’t in LeopardsAteMyFace, given how this community normally votes

$205k Dream Home

Dream House? Brother, that won’t get you a dog house in most neighborhoods.

How many is Newsom going to veto, I wonder?

Isn’t Pyongyang already a tourist hotspot?

They see over 300k tourists a year, despite being one of the hardest countries in the world to visit. By comparison, San Diego sees around 600k visitors annually. And I can get there with a $200 plane ticket.

Sounds like you’re using some fascist technology, friend.

One of the consequences of living in a fascist state while surrounded by fascist sychophants, unfortunately.

Be more discriminating in your choice of technology suppliers, I guess?

Do what you can, but don’t fall into the trap of individualist consumerism. Blaming the slaves for working on the plantation only serves fascist ends.

You’re pointing out brands.

I’m pointing out corporations founded and financed by fascist networks and leaders.

The OP is pointing out technology. Technology cannot be fascist.

Modern AI tools are extensions of their corporate parents. They are some of the least host-agnostic technological advances made to date. Their construction, their access, their modes of function, their material output, and their waste product are all informed by the ideological motivations of their primary sponsors.

In the same way that a car becomes an anti-pedestrian agent of social change and reshapes the territory to accommodate it, the technology of AI reshapes the material conditions of its associated workforce and the function of its output. These changes are fascist in character, in the same way parking lots and highway overpasses and suburban neighborhoods are made into tools of segregation and eugenics.

They don’t have to function that way, but they become so when they are implemented by business executives with fascist motivations. So the Ford Motor Car does more than just exist as a piece of technology. It functions as a tool of social oppression. In the same vein, the Olinia moves us in the opposite direction.

Technology can and has been developed to serve fascist ends. The engineering behind an object can explicitly serve a political agenda.