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On a related note, shout-out to the banner image of a neatly spaced rectangular grid of trees, the one part of the book that if I remember right Scooter did actually read and sort of understand, even if he was unable to generalize beyond early modern forestry.

Ironically that review was where I first encountered the work of the late James Scott.

There's also a common argument that the problem in AV accidents is primarily the other human drivers, which is a classic case of "if everyone just immediately changed over to doing things this way it would solve the problem!"

Honestly the most surprising and interesting part of that episode of Power(projection)Points with Perun was the idea of simple land mines as autonomous lethal systems.

Once again, the concept isn't as new as they want you to think, moral and regulatory frameworks already exist, and the biggest contribution of the AI component is doing more complicated things than existing mechanisms but doing them badly.

Because project 2025 and the mass deportations won't actually solve the problems his base is feeling, and at a certain point this kind of scandal will either be his downfall or his only option to scapegoat someone else.

I know we're trying to cut back on the US politics for the sake of everyone's sanity, but Musk getting sneered by his own confabulator is still pretty good.

I mean, it sounds like they did ask how much it would cost, he just bulldozed through the question instead of seriously engaging with it and legacy media is too chickenshit to report it as "Trump apathetic about costs of deportation plan" or "Mass Deportation to Cost Billions Despite Trump's Claims" because putting the things he says in context makes him sound like the madman he is and apparently truth is no longer sufficient defense from defamation.

Yeah, everyone in the traditional media seems to be even more committed to sane-washing than they were in the lead up to the election.

Though the spike doge got today is definitely in the "laugh to avoid screaming" column.

See, if you just learn about this shit when you're in high school and slowly read and occasionally reread the essays over the course of a decade or so it doesn't seem overwhelming at all!

Yeah. It's not the mole people you've got to worry about, it's the moles, man.

I mean, I think actually having to interact with these loons would be a strong incentive to liberalize their theology which would be a good thing.

Wait hang on you only read 2? I'm disappointed, I put a solid fifteen minutes into googling to find those 11 separate links.

I hadn't thought about it in those terms, but this makes a lot of sense. Especially in a 2-party system the election is inevitably going to be a vibe check on the status quo as much as it is a specific election focusing on specific candidates and policies. I'd like to look more closely at the margins to get a feel for whether the Republicans could have run a ham sandwich and still been successful as opposed to the specific appeal of Trumpism.

Not that that changes how rough the next 4 years are going to get for a lot of people.