Surprise! Taxation without representation is upheld by conservatives.

If the judge is even remotely put together on the law, not a corrupt right winger like so many of them are now, and not bribed yet, it’s definitely a mistrial.

It’s a beauty queen/model turned insurance lawyer who got appointed to the DOJ by being a pretty MAGA nutjob running the prosecution. She’s never run a federal grand jury or trial and is doing very very illegal things along the way.

Duh. People are finally noticing just how bad it’s gotten. Even the well off middle® class are feeling just how horrible prices in the US have gotten.

You’re sitting on the Chinese Translator problem, and to some extent the basis of the Turing Test (mostly the translator problem).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Knowledge != Intelligence

Regurgitating things you’ve read is only interpolative. You’re only able to reply with things you’ve seen before, never new things. Intelligence is extrapolative. You’re able to generate new ideas or material beyond what has been done before.

So far, the LLM world remains interpolative, even if it reads everything created by others before it.

But they were put in there 14 years ago after they were left alone with him at his mansion.

Some of that footage felt directly out of a Doctor Who Cyberman episode.

The first 5-7 Honor Harrington books are a phenomenal read.

Was it a group of well identified law officers with a warrant and identification or a gang of heavily armed, masked, and aggressive people trying abduct someone?

These days we only see the second group and they should be treated as the criminals they’re acting like.

It’s the richest country in the history of humanity and all we did with it was oppress other nations, build a massive military, and sell the nation off to the rich. So far it’s not a winning plan for anyone outside of the top 1%. Same shit, bigger piles of gold.

The city I just left is almost through that entire arc. How did you guess the history of a city you’ve probably never looked at!?!

The latest wave of city council leadership is actively trying to build out more public transit and it’s amazing just how horrible people can be when you ask them to make a tiny percentage of the roads (often 3+ lanes wide in the city core) have a bike lane or even a few blocks of bus priority lane so the busses can arrive on time during rush hour.

At the same time it’s in the top 5 most dangerous cities for pedestrians in our state, but the mutilation of fellow city dwellers is okay as long as people can drive fast through downtown to get to the big box store 20+ miles away. Strangely, the City Council’s old members keep yelling about how the city downtown is dying because we added a few bike lanes and therefore people don’t want to be there since it’s harder to drive (but only during major rush hours).

What did this regime do to both insulin and insurance prices?

But at least some people could lose some weight along with their lost insurance.

Of course they’re not. They’re just annoying noise on your site.

I go to places for chatbots, but having them randomly replacing real services or human interaction is bullshit and a waste of your money.

This post feels like a bot wrote it as pro Microsoft spam.

In 2021, writer and game designer Alex Blechman inadvertently created a meme:

Sci-Fi Author: "In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale."

Tech Company: "At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus!"

AI is a big component of the new and improved Torment Nexus which is coming along nicely.

The first one has already been floated. The second just comes later. They’re looking at doing an end run on slavery by declaring anyone a criminal, refusing due process, and sending them to work on a farm for nothing.

It relies mostly upon people feeling shame about being denounced. Being impeached is mostly about an official denouncement.

If you don’t care, then it means nothing to the individual. It then falls upon the citizens to actually give a fuck about their country having leadership who is more positive than negative. What we’ve learned in the last handful of years is that about 30% of voters would vote for a king if that king hates the same people they do. Another 30% don’t care who runs anything, so a king is fine with them.

So… A ruling monarch the US will have. It’s nearing the end of the Republic and Orange Fürher has crossed the Rubicon. Apparently no one cares enough to really deal with it, but we’ll surely see lots of walking around on a weekend as to not cause any inconvenience.

Yes, I feel No Kings is the right message, but the actual wherewithal to enforce the Republic isn’t visible yet.

It’s kind of a vote of no confidence that then requires the US Senate to hold a “trial” on whether to remove. Essentially, the House (a more general populace representative body) says "he is bad and should be reviewed’. Then the Senate (which more represents the states, not the public) decides whether to agree and then a removal happens if they do.

Otherwise? It’s just the Senate saying “he’s fine and we’re okay with it”, which is what the Republicans are. They’re okay with crime and hatred of fellow Americans as long as it’s their people doing the hating and criming.

Someday the USA might be as good as Iceland or Lithuania. Of course, if it slips a bit more it’ll fall behind the international diplomatic powerhouses of Romania and Bulgaria.

But only to decide the color of the cover on the report we might write!