The US Americans are so screwed. Just take a look at Russia if you want to see the future of the US. Widespread poverty, endless war, crony capitalism with a strong and untouchable oligarchy, all ruled by an incompetent but brutal dictator and his loyalists. At least Russia has history and an intellectual class, the US is devoid of anything grounding it. It’s going to be an unending clown show of horrors.

So they’re really going for it, ey?

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Yeah, good luck with that.

There are many, many layers of stupid stacked here, but at the same time, this bill is quite sweeping and potentially dangerous. You might be opposed to the idea of manipulating atmospheric composition to fight climate change and it’s certainly not something we might want to just go ahead and do, but it is a possibility that’s worth exploring and ultimately might become a necessity. This bill kills any attempt to even experiment with this kind of technology, at least in the affected legislature.

As a European I am very glad these criminals get exposed. It’s a nice cleansing shower.

Financial trickery is what this is. Rolling one failing business into the next, Tesla will follow soon. It’s incredible that this is even legal, but of course nothing matters anymore in Trump’s America.

Alternative headline: Linux market share increased by 30% from november to january!

Does it feel “great again”?

I totally forgot about those! Just let me hop into my new roadster and drive to the hyperloop station to get to the Starship launch-pad in New York.

People will die, rather quickly, and that will be the end of it.

Right next to the one million robotaxis and autonomous robots, I presume.

And yet, the stock barely reacted. It’s really a gamble on Elon’s ability to keep the scam going and growing at this point. Wouldn’t recommend for investors, would recommend for idiots.

From the Wikipedia page about elections in 1933 Germany:

The resources of big business and the state were thrown behind the Nazis’ campaign to achieve saturation coverage all over Germany. Brownshirts and SS patrolled and marched menacingly through the streets of cities and towns. A “combination of terror, repression and propaganda was mobilized in every… community, large and small, across the land”.[1]: 339  Irene von Goetz wrote, “In a decree issued on 17 February 1933, Göring ordered the Prussian police force to make unrestrained use of firearms in operations against political opponents (the so-called Schießerlass, or shooting decree)”.[4]

To ensure a Nazi majority in the vote, Nazi organisations also “monitored” the vote process. In Prussia, 50,000 members of the SS, SA and Der Stahlhelm were ordered to monitor the votes as so-called deputy sheriffs or auxiliary police (Hilfspolizei) in another decree by acting Interior Minister Hermann Göring.[4]

Full page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election

Holy… that was fast.

What are you referring to?

My expectation is that extrajudicial killings by ICE agents will become normalized within the next four months.

Yup, Niagara is a dream. I hope it stays this way forever, but even if it doesn’t I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.

One of the crazier parts:

On Friday, the White House announced the board’s initial executive panel would include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

What is this even supposed to accomplish? Will they offer US military intervention for a price?

Really? We’re still doing the “LLMs are intelligent” thing?