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3. 3 american citizens. He ordered operations that killed both that guys kids also, the latter of which was carried out in the first month of Trump's presidency. They were 12 and 8…

"Withhold funding from the military" it's actually better (or worse) than that. The US doesn't have a standing army technically speaking, it cannot constitutionally. The post war m…

The constitution clearly says that a declaration of war is needed, and only short periods of action that are necessary in the interim can be taken by the president absent that. Con…

Congress, via impeachment. Look, the president can't do something like start a war without permission from congress. Congress basically delegated that authority to the president. I…

This is factually incorrect, the president can be prosecuted for anything, he doesn't even have to commit a crime, but there's a special process for that called impeachment. This i…

I'm the opposite. And I live in an opposite world. Cash is the only way I pay in person. I have a prepaid card and amazon gift cards for online purchases. If I'm in a store, I have…

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the legal system. Law as it applies to the conduct of people and organizations works this way in the Anglo common law world, yes. The con…

Shame? Shame? People genuinely disagree with living under an administrative state comprised of unelected career bureaucrats coming and going through a revolving door to the corpora…

This isn't the end of regulation, this is just the end of unelected agencies making up rules as they please. All this changes is that congress has to do their job.

If there are people there there will be a market there. I do expect that there will be people there within 100 years, probably sooner, if not for any reason, because a really rich …

i keep a list of installed packages and the package manager I used to install them. I don't track dependencies that I didn't manually install. This is manual, every time I type "pa…

I think Hanlons Razor applies here. Terry Davis said it perfectly.

Seriously. This is just scaremongering. Could it happen? Anything can happen. Will it happen? I dunno, but acting like it is a foregone conclusion as justification for escalation i…

There was no market for a second global internet either, it already existed. If you build it they will come. I think we see it time and time again, the steam engine, the internet, …

How so?

I remember seeing a 4chan screenshot right before the 2020 election, I'd guess about 2 weeks before election night, the person was claiming to be an "insider" whatever that means, …

I for one am old enough to remember when this was widely accepted. It seems it's out of fashion now, but I remember progressive people talking about male and female brains and how …

I don't understand the surprise. Corporations are heartless machines. Archival, history, culture, these things are not their priorities. These things are our priorities. If someone…

I think, and this seems obvious to me hut apparently it's not, that what the author is trying to say is that 5G is useless unless it provides a benefit in peoples lives, and so mea…

The problem though is that those marketing this stuff want it to be taken seriously. They have to sell the "I" in AI. They can't tell you "this is a toy and is not intended for rea…

I'm convinced that this guy sees Musk and his outlandish statements and thinks that must be the secret to success and so tries the same thing, but going even further. What he seems…

I tell people, if you know how this stuff works, you'll understand its a fugazi. It produces a statistically likely sequence of tokens (words) that resemble data it was built with.…

If you believe that free people have a right to speak their opinions, which I do, any government action that hinders that is as a matter of fact an injustice. All this language abo…

Maybe I am, but I don't think it's reprehensible for someone to have intimate relations with willing people. Doing other things, like firing people for ending relationships, or har…

You've just described a mechanism for the chilling effect, and why laws like this are to be avoided in free societies. The article is basically saying the same thing, the problem i…