Phlogiston @ Phlogiston @lemmy.world

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“He had been sent to the plant to examine whether the machine was working properly.”

It doesn’t sound like it was

I’m worried about it AND I’m worried of the framing that holding one branch is at all enough. Look what Rs have done in states where they want to block governors.

They really don’t care about anybody but their own tribe. They are not “conservatives” and have openly make constitution defying motions beyond the coup attempt.

I think I believe them about this. All of them have been wildly wealthy their entire life. Super duper wealthy and cavalier about how they experiment with spending it (what more careful people might call “business ventures”). I figure their father leads by example.

I think they really might spend their time do stupid shit, signing papers people that hang around them give them to sign, look for media opportunities and basically ENJOY being fucking stupid wealthy. It’s possible they’ve been cosplaying at being successful business people.

If thats the case then why would they remember how things went down? How big a penthouse is? Or anything. I think they’re fucked because Trump cares about his actual wealth and has probably seen it go down over his lifetime way more than he wants. That core fear is might be why all the bluster and cons and fraud?

And what happens to the old engine? Does it get refurbished somewhere slow&cheap and become a crate motor for step 2 a few months down the line? Or thrown out?

Yeah. This is the real issue here.

Sex work should be legal and the morality discussion here is about people lying to their spouses and if anybody is being forced into sex work… all interesting topics.

But anybody implicated in this situation needs all security clearances and access dropped because they are high risk morons.

I’d argue we haven’t “recovered” from those at all. Racism of still very much a factor in our politics and culture and, sadly, indigenous people are a small enough group that we kinda ignore the embarrassment without really doing anything about it beyond it contributing to relative small racism and legal battles.

I don’t know that the GOP would dump him. I think they’ll do whatever their base does and if that means doubling down on a convict then there we go…

For keeping my mind off “stuff” I do the headphones and constant audio. Both books and podcasts.

It’s an escape but I also feel like all the problems are still there — and at some point I still need to deal with them. Thus I listen to a lot of books because I’ll need to starts a new one right away.

Interesting listening to a good book again is great when I’m stressed. It keeps me from thinking random bad thoughts but, since I know the story, it still lets me relax or let my thoughts wander a bit.

This is what strikes me most about these types of posts. I see two totally different people where I can totally identify with one picture and totally not with the other.

Then I think about being forced to look like the person I can’t identify with.

Congrats OP.

LLMs are just regurgitating shit AND that’s most of what we do all day too.

(Speaking from a job as an innovator in a high tech field. Most of us are just doing engineering w/ concepts invented elsewhere. )

this implies that servers should focus, like on news, tech, extreme sports, or whatever. rather than trying to be the hub for all topics the way reddit and others are?

Yes.

I think this was the strategy. “I was just following orders” aka ”I was just doing my job “

The first step would be getting the judge to buy the basic argument - and then try to use it to get off scott free.

Read dragons egg. It’s a little dated but a great story.

Naw, terrorists put jalapeños on their Hawaiian pizza. This is just a normal pizza lover.

I’m a little amused that in the comic both viewers are correct relative to their frame of reference. An extremely powerful concept that significantly advanced physics and about which famous people are household names.

He won't be at the center of the action. He'll be sitting and shutting up and letting his lawyers talk for him. And of course trying not to look guilty when the prosecution details his crimes.

I too have avoided listening or watching him. This might be a really different thing.

Can anybody explain why thats a logistical nightmare. Seems pretty simple to me: he's in a fucking jail cell in a secure building and the secret service protects him like they do in any other place; except easier because its a secure location.

Sure, he can't be in general population. But don't they have other inmates like that? Just do what they do then (I guess he gets a cell to himself; maybe gets his meals delivered).

I don't see why thats more than a minor paperwork glitch. Surely we've had inmates before that need to be reasonably protected from other inmates. Heck, I'll bet gitmo is ready to handle it.

How in the world do you expect to function in a group if you can’t or won’t communicate with people in real time?

wow. i thought it was just me.

I've got really good people on the team -- but only if you trust them go do stuff with zero communications and then the pop back up with completed work. Which is kinda ok if you don't need to do any team projects. Its driving me nuts and I totally see why some managers are like "fuck it, get your ass into the same room". Its simply easier than coaching people on how to be slightly better than a chatbot.

I second this. Its horrible and sad that so many people are evil, or more to the point, can be led to an evil position which they’ll embrace and defend with all their intellect.

One of the scariest things about this shift is a realization that this is how countries do horrible things. A mob of excited people can make group decisions, and will follow horrible leaders because, well, because people can driven by emotions and group-think and localized social norms.

If the current Republican Party maintains its cohesion and membership I think what has been a generational lapse into authoritarian insanity could be a permanent shift in the American psyche. Thats even more terrifying than seeing so many people vote for Trump.