every effort to control access to guns (even those the majority of Republicans want

The only people relevant in this discussion are the lobbyists who buy the politicians who ensure that the NRA’s bottom line only ever goes up.

https://xkcd.com/927/

Again: nobody is complaining that you can make AI spit out their training data because AI is the only source of that training data. That is not the issue and nobody cares about AI as a delivery source of pirated material. The issue is that next to the transformed output, the not-transformed input is being in use in a commercial product.

Well now you got something black on white that you can cite and point to for collected evidence. That’s… something?

The issue isn’t that you can coax AI into giving away unaltered copyrighted books out of their trunk, the issue is that if you were to open the hood, you’d see that the entire engine is made of unaltered copyrighted books.

All those “anti hacking” measures are just there to obfuscate the fact that that the unaltered works are being in use and recallable at all times.

Grab them by the sacred places. When you’re rich, they let you do it.

Harris would be center-right in any other developed country, but in the US, any position left of hunting the homeless for sport is immediately decried as communism, so there’s the internal impression that in comparison to the ultra-extremists that make up the right, she is - relatively speaking - progressive.

He would have the vast majority of the nation’s wealth on his side, due to the tax cuts and permissions to strip-mine the environment. Having half the nations capital on his side translates to like twelve people in total but as we all know, corporations are people (when convenient) and the worth of people is measured in $$$.

Him going off on a tirade doesn’t take any trolling. That’s his default state, unprovoked, regardless of what his own, actual plans were up until ten seconds ago.

But if we’re honest, the real crime is “daring to aspire to be more than a cheap, husband-adjacent taxpayer factory”.

“Your delivery will arrive on a day between a point in time and a different point in time. You better be there when the driver pretends to check if someone’s at home and leaves without ringing anyway - not like you have anything better to do you lazy fuck.”

Picked two bad candidates.

Just wait and see: all it takes is for a judge to tell him not to do it - ten consecutive times, THEN threaten with actual consequences, and THEN you may or may not see him become more circumspect about his transgressions in order to skirt the legal line a tiny bit less obviously!

After all: everyone is equal before the law!*

*Unless you bought the highest judges and make them declare you an absolute ruler immune to criminal law.

By definition, he cannot “do something that will make him lose support”. Those who still support him like what he does by default, because HE does it. It literally doesn’t matter anymore what it is that he does.

Just be be completely safe from airborne toxins, they should make it a completely airtight cage of bulletproof glass.

Bananald J. Trump

Honestly, I’d be just as fine with him running with his tail between his legs. Tells you all you need to know either way.

Trump seems to think so, considering how he’s already finding excuses why he can’t debate her. And not just like he was preemptively finding excuses for losing before the last debate.

This time he’s crapping his pants because Biden’s style was politely waiting his turn until Trump finished and then presenting his version of one of the 50 false statements Trump had delivered in rapid-fire mode before.

So far, Harris gives the impression that she’ll go straight for Trump’s felones.

Why would he? In his fantasy world, Biden is his easy opponent, he’s perfectly innocent and not a convicted criminal at all, he is actually the smartest person alive, instead of just the smartest person he’s ever been. Why would he join us in reality when his imaginary happy place that’s shared by millions of FOX viewers is so much more attractive?

Go easy on them, they have to fulfill their quota of slaves free labour to deliver to the private prison industry just like any other honest job does. How else could they uphold their profit margins if they had to, like, pay for labour? That would not be very american, would it it?