Quick poll: how many Americans here have been terrorized by violent criminals, gang members, drug traffickers or human smugglers lately? According to the MAGA leaders it's a huge problem, so I expect lots of people will have encountered it, right?
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Ah yes, Elon Musk deciding who gets government contracts to build spaceships. Move along, no conflicts of interest to be seen here.
Wittingly or not, it's quite clear they are.
What a well-chosen photo at the top of this article. Two utterly uninspiring men with no ability or will to relate to ordinary people and their problems.
"We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights," Schumer toldThe New York Times earlier this month.
That's a more accurate metaphor than he intended. The fascist train will not even slow down as it runs over him.
Jon Stewart had an hour-long interview with Hakeem Jeffries the other day, and it's just painful to watch. Jeffries resolutely refuses to offer even a single hint of anything the Democrats intend to do beyond expressing vague sympathetic feelings towards unhappy voters. It becomes quite clear the Democratic leadership has no intention of even trying to take part in the resistance the USA needs, and would rather drain the energy of any such movement into their morass of vapid messaging, meandering non-promises and wearying inaction.
The senior Democrats have no intention of fighting for the people. Any effective resistance will have to come from elsewhere.
but it will protect itself.
Or, facing conditions where it can no longer do this, it will boil off into fascist autocracy, which seems to be where we're headed.
Yes, and I've heard people say "It'll be OK; the strain that goes pandemic won't be as lethal as the current strains." There's some truth in this, that extremely deadly viruses will tend to burn themselves out by killing their hosts so not spread so widely. So perhaps bird flu transmitted from person to person would not sustain the extremely high death rates this type of flu has shown in people in the past. But as the 1918 flu and even the COVID pandemic show, there's a lot of wiggle room for a virus between utterly deadly and utterly harmless, and even something that's far from the worst can still go pandemic and cause huge amounts of death, disruption and misery.
I agree with the taladar@sh.itjust.works elsewhere in this thread. Corporations are the dangerous artificial intelligence, and "line go up" is the paperclip problem. We're already facing it, and it's destroying the planet and everything we depend on to stay alive.
it is just a matter of very carefully the drive before booting it up
I'm curious about what the missing word is. Cleaning? Inspecting?
What are the chances the hard drive would still be readable, I wonder?
And keep backups, folks.
But how can techbros get rich from bees? Bees just make themselves for free then serve the greater good, the little buzzing communists.
It should be noted that Hugenberg didn't ever suffer any real consequences for what he did.
You'd think that 10% would be enough to make it difficult for them to do so. Throw in everyone else who hates what they're doing and there ought to be enough for an actual popular resistance.