Not coincidentally pretty much exactly so.

Sort of the clinical equivalent of a big, blinking neon sign that says, “I am a psychopath.”

I would assume that maritime would be much easier, since battery weight would be more easily dealt with, and propellers and screws can be turned by motors more or less as effectively as by engines.

I hadn’t really thought about it, but aviation is potentially going to be a challenge. Traditional jets won’t work - they’ll need to use propellers or rotors or something like a turboprop, which means lower altitudes and slower speeds.

Hmm…

And this is why DOGE gutted the Office for Vehicle Automation Safety at the NHTSA.

Then next up is to finish criminalizing homelessness so that those people (and many more) can be converted into slaves to the new generation of robber barons.

With any luck, it will kill google.

I don’t see how they can even pretend that it will do anything other than steal website traffic, since the exact point is to provide you with the information you would have gotten if you had gone to the website, leaving no reason to actually go to the website.

So painfully obviously, Google intends to steal the websites’ content in order to steal the websites’ traffic.

Which would seem to me to be grounds for class action lawsuits on behalf of the entire internet, which, if judged fairly, should bankrupt even that foul beast of a corporation.

And ironically enough, that would almost certainly “rejuvenate the internet.” As a matter of fact, I can’t think of a single thing that would do more to “rejuvenate the internet” than killing Google.

There are a number of conservatives who straddle a line such that I can’t be sure if they’re genuinely stupid or if they’re just cultivating that image.

Tuberville isn’t one of them though.

And yet again, while lying assholes pretend that criticism of Israeli government policy is antisemitism, the real antisemites on the right get a free pass.

Um… yeah. Most of us outside of the media’s self-imposed truth filter already knew there’s a reason for it - because he’s a thin-skinned crybaby.

I’m starting to think that 60 years ago or so, a couple of Harvard students humiliated Trump, and he’s never gotten over it.

Israel is a rogue state.

Weird that the Trump administration is trying to collect a national database on people with autism even as they’re eliminating programs to help them or even merely to oversee how they’re treated by other institutions.

If the goal of tracking them down and keeping tabs on them isn’t to help them, then what is it?

(That’s a rhetorical question).

Imagine not recognizing that central authority is the problem.

To the degree that fascism has a distinctive economic system, one of its most notable qualities is a combination of private ownership of the means of producton with government/corporate partnership and a “revolving door” by which powerful individuals pass back and forth between business and political leadership positions.

United Healthcare Group pays off Trump in 3, 2, 1…

I propose a new term - “malscurrocracy” - government by evil clowns.

One of the defining characteristics of this era is the legacy media from time to time timidly noting the possibility of something that’s been recognized as at least nearly certain down here in the trenches for months or even years.

Of course Russia is co-opting far right groups to attack western democracies. Any honest person who’s been paying attention should’ve figured that out by now - it’s not like they’ve been subtle about it or anything. And it’s been commonly recognized for months now (and less commonly asserted for years).

But at this late date, along comes the Guardian, hesitantly saying, "Um… well… you know… it might just barely be sort of possible that maybe…

In a world gone Onion, that’s easily the most Onion’ish true story I’ve seen. So far…

They’re literally suing the company for not being evil enough.

That’s so insane that merely taking part in that suit should be seen as grounds for a psych hold.

Nazi works, but if he’d prefer something else, “technofascist” and “neo-feudalist” are both arguably even more accurate.

Or we could go a different way - “psychopathic douchebag” has a nice ring to it, or maybe “delusional fuckhead.”

Right - it has nothing to do with the fact that Israel has been trying to goad Syria into a war for years now - the nation of minority oppressors is suddenly all worried about someone else’s oppressed minority. Uh huh.