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They also walk more and their portion sizes are way more reasonable.

To be clear, the bills that are supposed to 'ban tiktok' would also enable regulation of any other media simply by claiming that managers or owners of said media are 'rival influenced'. So you could go after Twitter e.g. because Musk posted unflattering claims about Ukrainian war and the only reason for that is that he's Russian influenced. The bill said "owned or controlled, directly or indirectly". That seems incredibly broad to be honest.

You'd only be able to challenge this law in a specific D.C. Court. Good luck!

Mashable has reviewed new data collected by third-party researcher Travis Brown, who compiled basic account information on all of Musk's more than 153 million followers via a meticulous process that respected X's rate limit parameters.

Is Travis Brown, an antifa activist, a source whose data you can trust ?

a person subject to the direction or control of a foreign person or entity described in subparagraph (A) or (B).

Reminder that they stole $500 million from Trump for the crime of possibly exaggerating the value of his Florida club, which they valued at $18 million dubiously and then turned around and declared that the club if seized is suddenly worth hundreds of millions for the purpose of paying off the fine.

Direction and control seems extremely broad statements, so unless you can provide some legal definition for that, it's rather sinister..

Not to mention going after Twitter for foreign policy views is a glaring 1st Ammendment issue. I think this is a fantasy.

Haven't you been paying attention, at all, to what the state is doing? E.g. the Biden laptop suppressed using national security excuse, which turned out to be a lie.

The end run over 1st amendment by making their proxies in Brussels pass a law that'd require censorship of global networks and set the default. etc.

I'm not watching the films until using generative AI someone fixes that. Fremen not being a single race after spending thousands of years isolated on a planet with no caste system of their own is ludicrous.

Also Zendaya has to go. It's not that she's half black, it's that she's actually ugly. Incomprehensible casting decision.

DJs are still out there no ?

I've listened to at least six hours of ranting on how a certain bank's security policies prevent their devs from working.

And how it's easier to actually develop software than to configure the system to build said software. Everything is MITM'd by security, mangled by weird proxies and getting something to even work requires 20x the effort of doing it at home..

why? The fremen routinely catch worms and travel a thousand kms in a few days.

They're easily as mobile as 20th century populations.

ach has a profusion of unique places, and traveling between them is a constant process.

Mind you, traveling in Star wars is depicted as easier than in the Culture. The only inexplicable thing is why there isn't a 2000x more starships because clearly they have intelligent droid technologies so what stopped someone commercially minded from turning some metal-rich system into his own private automated shipyard ?

Imagine how much money you could make if you turned a planetary core into starships via self-replicating labor. Not just generational wealth, galactic wealth!

The true extent of Chinese espionage in the US is only going to become apparent following the war.

If China doesn't have an extensive illegals program where it sent fake dissidents in the US to raise US born Chinese who could then get top secret clearances and get into the right places I'm a Mormon.

Obviously they do have it, and obviously US is not up to task to rooting this particular kind of spy out. Obviously even if they caught one it'd be kept quiet because no one wants a paranoid spy mania aimed at all the POC democrat voters and competent MIC personnel who thankfully aren't toxic white males.

True. She looks almost passable in some of her more glamorous photos. But you know, 4.5 at best.

She's a 3 in my book. 1 would be someone with say, acid burns or other unfortunate injury. You know, where you start gently suggesting that maybe it's a good idea to wear a mask as much as possible.

Not really. But the fact that he was, generations before it became trendy, is an interesting datapoint.

The song's not harmonious. It's way the singing is way cruder sounding than the many AI dubs that have been all over youtube.

Can it a clear sounding song ?

People were such optimists. One of Egan's quaint stories (Silver Fire) set in US flyover country, in which rednecks after losing their religion went pagan instead of socjus took place in 2022, and had car radios that could compose music on the fly..

She has a very broad and unpleasant nose.

Why are we so afraid of the likelihood that we are every bit as bizarre as the quantum world; that we possess fantastic capacities that we have so far only allowed ourselves to imagine in science fiction and fantasy literature?

Because it's bullshit.

Because if through I dunno, extreme sensations you could tap into supernatural abilities, people would be doing it all the time. Various cultures routinely subjected their own to transcendentally painful initiation experiences. I recall others but this is the one I remember most.

Any tribe that tapped into something like that and got a useful ability out of it would have kept doing it, and this would have given them an edge and spread. We've got 40,000 years of essentially modern human tribes existing all over the planet yet no useful custom of this type appeared.

Meanwhile, the useful custom of marriage was a human universal until very recently.

we haven't had 4000 years of easy global travel. Merely 100 years, in most parts of the planet not even that.

almost all game writers are D&D geeks who almost exclusively read science fiction and fantasy garbage

I've no idea where you get your ideas about 'science fiction' and 'fantasy' ? Bottom of the barrel WH40k or Star Wars novels ? But generally popular and acclaimed writers of either can write. I'd argue that SF writing in the last 30 years completely pwns "Golden Age of SF" writing. Standards have risen.

Problem isn't what they read, problem is they don't practice writing much. Which is why they suck.

I don't know about you, but the ICD classification system we use in Czech Republic only classifies psychopathy as a disorder it causes problems to the person or others.

You can be a completely conscienceless type, as long no one's upset you aren't classified as a disorder.

At this point, anyone who has anything to say re: UAP is presumed to be a hostile bullshitter. I'd not believe in UAPs even if videos of them were shown all around mainstream media.

I'm willing to give a pass to people who say "come and see this crazy plane on saturday, it can pull 50 gees" or "here is 50 gigabytes of top secret data showing anomalous craft, here are military personnel who collected it".

he just betrayed his country

So.. do you really ly believe Americans owe allegiance to thoroughly authoritarian, secretive institutions that have usurped power in their republic and acting in the spirit of the US constitution by fighting against unaccountable tyranny is a betrayal ?

Is that a reasonable summary of your position ?

Like last year's anti-tiktok bill, this one is a deceptive. Although not as horrible at quick glance.

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1767525209064558954

It'd allow executive impose incredible civil penalties ($5000 times monthly user) on all websites and apps excepts places like Yelp (primarily reviews) if they have at least a 20% stake owned by someone from an 'adversary country' (at present Russia, China, Iran, N.Korea). (1)

Or if I'm reading it correctly, any company whose management includes someone who is 'controlled' by any entity that falls under (1)

Note that list of 'adversary countries' is determined by secretary of state.

https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20240311/HR%207521%20Updated.pdf

Once again, it's kinda bullshit.

y, but the government seems to regulate those things just fine.

If by 'just fine' you mean shut down and prevent their use from delivering benefits, sure.

Reminder that if we had a halfway sane authoritarian government anywhere in the west, nobody in that country would be burning hydrocarbons for heating or cooking unless they were out camping.

It's the nose. If she had a normal or cute nose she would be somewhat above average. She doesn't have a bad jaw nor a horrible skull shape. Nose though..

Mouth maybe a little too big. I can't stand Julia Roberts either on that account.