Moving from lemmy.world.
Our property taxes suck ass in IL. My house and property looks worse or doesn’t change year after year, yet my taxes never seem to somehow increase YOU. Gonna keep saying it, but for being wealthy, I didn’t have high hopes for Pritzker, but he’s been great!
Doubt Tesla will fail in the next two minutes, so sure.
Because they’re too dumb to realize how dumb they are.
Our leaders have a history of letting them live to stop the killing. They did the same thing after WWII. Thanks to nuclear bomb wet dreams, many of those nazi’s ended up in high positions within the govt., eventually.
We won’t make the same mistake this time.
Fascism is just ultra capitalism in a trenchcoat wielding a flamethrower!
I lost all interest in the entire series when they were chasing the fleet and shooting lasers in an arch…to combat wind resistance in space, I guess. Oh man, I laughed (unintentionally) when I saw that. I almost walked out of the theater.
Oh shit, good point. People were worried about this very thing when they did that. This country is so fucked…
Please stop smoking weed. The alcohol industry is suffering. Won’t someone think of the alcoholics!!
Decent aim with a paintball gun will take some of that surveillance out for a time.
Luigi could jump the highest of all the playable characters in Super Mario Bros 2. He was always my go-to character for this reason. Those egg flinging dinosaur fucks be damned!
Jack Black would be very cross with you if he was here!
Im dying on it either way.
To a self-driving car, no less!
It’s only possible to do this if tRump has some sort of respect for the person. He’s so desperate to be part of the big league that he either falls over himself trying to butt into the spotlight with world leaders or capitulates to flattery from them. He doesn’t see Democrats as anything but temporarily-alive opposition.
I just don’t think it’ll work out for Democrats the way it can work for world leaders.
We need to follow David’s advice about primary-ing corporate Democrat incumbents that won’t do anything except fight progressives and their candidates. Notice how that proposal got the Democrats to perk up and denounce that idea immediately? They literally prove, everyday, why they are unfit to represent anyone but themselves and their monied masters.
Chuck giving up leverage and other Democrats voting for tRump cabinet picks are all reps that need to go. Resign or we will make you resign! That’s if we have free and hair elections again.
being smart is definitively not a prerequisite to be a billionaire
Bingo! They just need to be ruthless narcissists with no empathy and money to continue buying their self-worth.
These inexperienced tech bros are not writing regs and laws, though. They’re using generative AI to identify existing programs to gut. You are talking about legislative changes to keep up with the times and that’s not what they are doing here, to the detriment of the whole country.
The best description of humanity is the Agent Smith quote from the first Matrix. A person may not be evil, but they sure do some shitty stuff when enough of them get together.
Exactly! However, to little too late his ravenous base will already have been spoon-fed their next scapegoat. In the words of Gandalf the Grey, “hold on to your butts.”
Considering Israel is said to be using such generative AI tools to select targets in Gaza kind of already shows this happening. The fact so many companies are going balls-deep on AI, using it to replace human labor and find patterns to target special groups, is deeply concerning. I wouldn’t put it past the tRump administration to be using AI to select programs to nix, people to target with deportation, and write EOs.
I just hope one day we can replace austerity with taxes on the rich. Also, I had the same thought voting for Pritzker, the first time.
I was so glad my defeatism and low expectations turned out to be wrong.