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anon_
2d ago
Ooof, I get experimentation for local issues but 50 States with 50 different AI regimes is just feeding money to the PMC and consultant class.
anon_
2d ago
And all it would cost them is telling the Lina Kahn / Elizabeth Warren faction to shut up and vote blue anyway (what are they gonna do, vote MAGA?)
anon_
2d ago
Diablo Canyon is was renewed for another 20 years.
I know this is thin gruel for what might be good news, but it's California and even Gavin understood that green energy has to actually deliver power to customers at reasonable costs. Before they said with the regulatory/green/nimby alliance against it, it would never get done.
So that's one thing of substance in a blue state.
phailyoor
2d ago
Iunno he might be a decently popular pundit but it's hard to tell. It seems that podcast views are a proprietary number unlike yt or twitter views so it's hard to say.
Clementine
2d ago
Thanks for sharing.
This gets close to but never really actually states the argument I always felt was missing in abortion arguments.
I mean I still remember seeing some lengthy debate back and forth about how a museum is entitled to kick out some guy who decided to squat there, and then arguing that babies don't decided to squat, it's decided for them, and that you can't kick our the squatter if doing so would kill them, and none of this was like "well women's bodies aren't actually museums and hosting a baby inside your body is a lot worse than hosting a tapeworm". I kept remembering those arguments when pregnant because they planted so much of my subsconscious belief that pregnancy was just some minor temporary inconvenience.
Like even in this article it doesn't really go do far as to say "is it ethical to torture someone for nine months against their will to save a life?" She still is pretty focused on cases where it's life-saving or where the suffering from the itching is bad enough two people killed themselves over it. Probably because she thinks that's the stronger argument?
anon_
2d ago
It's smart retail politics but it's awful power politics. "The rich" in the sense of owners of car dealerships and dialysis chains and the like have a lot of sway. You'd need to bribe them with something, and we're out of something.
HughCaulk
2d ago
Seems like E having some mental health problems. Not otherwise sure why you’d alienate a large portion of your EV customer base by going so aggressively right/Trumpist, and then burn that bridge 4 months in.
He has successfully made himself the center of attention though! 4D gigabrained play? I’m not really seeing it
anon_
2d ago
I'm not sure the personal (egos) is more explanatory than the lack of a common enemy. The woke left was sufficiently scary to bring together non-allies -- with them gone, it would be a wonder if the tech/MAGA coalition stayed regardless of personalities.
Skulldrinker
2d ago
apparently these days lone people are under suspicion and only groups are "safe." I Only Wanted One Thing, or something. Never mind that Bob-cut was probably after new-years nookie. My best understanding of this is it was White Knight behavior.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2d ago
Fully 2/3rds of my trips happen by electric unicycle these days
Ya got me. I wasn't counting e-bikes and e-scooters as EV's.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2d ago
Do unattended males tend toward more antisocial behavior? My experience is that men in packs are rather the ones to keep away from, or be leery of. Or avoid entirely. Especially when drunkasses. Unless you're in a trenchcoat in summer carrying a duffelbag or something really suspicious. Lone man at bar, since when is that a red flag? Odd.
Clementine
2d ago
Yeah, in fact I did the same till age 8 or 10 so it's jumping the gun. I'm too used to thinking in terms of "a boys room" and "a girls room".
Ugh but closets. Whatever. Need to just resign myself to furniture constellations being something I'll have to tweak and change and tweak and change.
Clementine
2d ago
I'm not blaming men, just noting them as a category of people not talking about it that doesn't fit "well it's because they regret having kids but can't say that so can't talk about it". Men have wives and see their wife go through XYZ during pregnancy but it seemingly doesn't get discussed during public discourse.
Your point re doctors is very true. Expected = irrelevant.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
2d ago
I agree with the diagnosis but it's very harmful. Even 10 years might be too long a timeframe. What happens if there's some sudden crisis or emergency? Covid 2: More Gain, More Function. War with Iran. War with China. War with Russia. A recession. A great big AI arms race.
All of these will require massive borrowing, during a major crisis where everyone is already feeling anxious and skittish. Cutting taxes into a big deficit is not a good idea.
remzem
2d ago
Yeah he's not as influential as Tucker, but still has a decent audience. I don't really understand why Bannon still stans for Trump so hard tbh though. Trump basically tossed him aside early first term and never looked back. Trump really doesn't come close to Bannon's populist levels. First term Trump, Bannon wanted taxes raised on the 5m bracket to bring down deficits. He wants the dollar to stop being the reserve currency to help US production, etc. Trump is almost closer to Romney politically than Bannon at this point.
remzem
2d ago
Who are they even pillaging it for? Dems are more PMC now so they are hardly all low income and will likely benefit from the tax breaks, especially the SALT deduction changes. There are plenty or rust belt Trump voters on medicaid that will lose coverage along with the inner city dems. The military gets more funding which seems to be a requirement of every democrat or republican bill so it's basically bipartisan. I guess the border funding? Seems like pretty lame spoils compared to Biden's term.
Skulldrinker
2d ago
In retrospect, the biggest "win" of DOGE was cutting off some of the federal funding that was paying the salaries of ideologues and activists.
remzem
2d ago
Yeah but everyone knew USAID was just a regime change operation and wanted it cut for that reason. That was the whole point. Neocon Rubio swept in and pretended like we really cared about mosquito nets to Africa or w/e
I might be confusing a lot of things, for a lot of other things. For instance, I might be confusing the abrupt breakup for an indication that Musk needed and didn't get a bailout, but I'm not confusing anything for Twitter drama.
Skulldrinker
2d ago
I assume she was convinced I was up to no good, as an unattended male.
I was new to the city and was at the event precisely because I hadn't made friends yet.
I've been specifically trying to to be more outgoing lately, I just keep getting anxious flashbacks to shit from almost a decade ago.
2rafa
2d ago
Yes, I also thought Bannon was irrelevant but a lot of moderate Trump supporters listen to his radio show pretty religiously.
2rafa
2d ago
Yeah because it turned out that most of USAID’s budget was bribe money to local elites in the third world so they don’t defect to China, which Trump is set on antagonizing and competing against.
2rafa
2d ago
If Trump was smart he’d cut a deal with enough Dems who genuinely want infrastructure / railroad / whatever funding to pass a bipartisan budget that raises taxes somewhat on everyone (but especially on ‘the rich’) that can be framed as an ‘emergency national bill’ by all parties.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
And that's also assuming that cutting spending so drastically wouldn't have negative second and third order effects on the overall economy that lowered tax revenues in the process.
That is not dead which can eternal lie as a government boondoggle
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