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The Trump administration claims that the children of immigrants who are born here only inherit their parent's legal status rather than becoming citizens. And they claim they can revoke legal status at any time, even for those who become citizens. Since everyone in the country has ancestors who weren't citizens, the combination of these two ideas would mean that anyone could be deported.

Well, that and anything is possible when you can deny do process. The next administration could round up everyone from the previous administration and deport them to Atlantis. Hope they're good swimmers.

When do they start asking for forgiveness?

I have to wonder why the pattern must be lost in the process of materialization. I'm not saying they should keep them forever, but if they can just not delete the patterns when sending people on a dangerous away mission, they'd leave open the option of restoring them to a back up state if they get killed (or worse).

Of course, while that would raise a lot of questions to be explored in a single episode, it would lower stakes and fundamentally changes the stories they can tell, so I'm not surprised they writers don't do it.

Am I the only one here who looked at that picture and thought "Oh look, the rhino's giving birth."

Less often and not by as much. Big studio game from a year or two ago? 75% off. Indie game I put on my wishlist a decade ago? 40% off.

They stand by him through fraud, treason, rape and murder. They line up to support him as he strips them of their authority. They go to insane lengths to help him dodge accountability for pedophilia.

Why the fuck would you expect them to draw the line here‽

The incentives driving them are different.

It's more efficient to film 20+ episodes of one show than 10+ episodes each of two shows, and a single series is more likely to retain viewers over time, both of which make the longer form more appealing to broadcasters. Every time you swap out one show for another on your schedule, you have to win over the audience again.

Streaming doesn't have to fill a schedule, they just need to have something that will bring in new subscribers and retain existing ones. A new 10 episode series is about as much of a draw as a new 20 episode series. More new shows is more novelty and more chances to peak someone's interest. If something's a big hit they can give it another season. If not, it can just fill out the catalog and give the appearance of value.

Oh absolutely, this is everyone's problem. If it only affected the knuckle-draggers that made the decision it wouldn't be an issue. If it only affected them and their unvaccinated kids it would be sad but at least contained. If it was limited to their own community it would be similar to a lot of other egregiously bad policies that make life worse for the people living under them. Instead, what we have is a policy that will radiate harm into the world around it.

All I was pointing out is that vaccines (and masks, and self-quaratining, etc) still help and in the long term, natural selection will favor those who choose vaccination. That may happen slowly over many decades, especially as the current generation of nurgle worshippers gradually age out and die. Or it may happen rapidly due to some particularly nasty strain of something sweeping through the population. You never know when the next pandemic will hit, and if something particularly deadly comes along while these asshats are still adamantly opposed to literally anything that reduces their own risks, we might see that timetable accelerate considerably.

Sooner or later this problem will solve itself. It's just a question of how long it will take and how many people will have to suffer and die needlessly before that happens.

Mike Johnson is so afraid of sinning that he has his son policing his masturbation habits. And yet he seems to have no problem bearing false witness.

I mean, he's also ignoring all the parts about seeking justice, and how to treat the poor, the alien, the least of these etc. But that's all policy and I'm sure he thinks that doesn't count because it's not him doing it personally. But when he lies about his opponents he is personally, intentionally breaking one of the commandments. Not that I expect any better from that humanoid shit stain, but it's worth pointing out. One more hypocrisy for the pile.

And of course, it's even more telling that he feels the need to lie. He can't acknowledge what the protests are about or why the shut down is happening because he knows that most people would support those positions.

Sort of like how most people would prefer he not dismiss congress early in order to shield pedophiles from justice.

Electricity is basically magic. It only seems mundane because we take it for granted. If sorcery, the force, investiture, or any other fictional magic system you could think of were real, we'd harness it, get used to it, and stop thinking of them as magic too.

Dont let familiarity diminish the sense of wonder. Understanding doesn't make electricity less magical, it just makes you a wizard.

I am not saying that we will necessarily go down the road to fully automated luxury, or that if we do that the journey there would go smoothly. The current "AI" bubble is an unsustainable mess which is causing a lot more problems than it solves. In the long term, we are looking at the development of incredibly powerful and dangerous technologies that can potentially reshape society.

I mainly just wanted to highlight the weird, shortsighted reasoning behind this post. The argument that we need to keep cashiers so that we have a human connection feels a lot like arguments for going back to an agrarian lifestyle. It's a losing argument that requires glossing over a lot of downsides and ignoring much better alternatives.

People should have to work shitty service sector jobs so that I have someone to talk to. Because obviously I will never encounter other humans if they aren't being forced to trade half their waking hours for money. What am I supposed to do, talk to people who aren't being forced to put up with me if they don't want to lose their income?

The "AI" being pushed on us now is trash, but if we do eventually get to the point of being able to automate away the vast majority of jobs, we ought to use that to free people from the need to work. Give us UBI, make robots do the shit that you wouldn’t do for free, and let us all have free time to do the things we actually want to do.

Sort of like how RFK Jr could just dismiss sexual assault allegations from when he was in his mid 40s as being part of being a "very rambunctious youth."

The press only had a presence in the pentagon because it was advantageous to have them there. The media isn't disappearing just because they are no longer given easy access. They will just have less of a relationship with the department of defense. Yes, it's bad for the journalists, but it's worse for the administration. Those reporters had been there so that they could spread the official talking points. Letting reporters become dependent on their easy access and maintaining a reasonable working relationship makes it a lot easier to seed stories, to ask for small favors and to give off the record comments that shape narratives. Ol' Whiskeyleaks is failing at coercion and in the process is sacrificing influence. That he doesn't understand this is amazing considering he was (theoretically) a journalist until less than a year ago.

As with so many things, they are destroying what their predecessors spent the last century building by being both malicious and incompetent.

Off the streets and into the Whitehouse.

The headline is underselling it. The settlements were part of the deal. They were literally bought off.

When covid first spread worldwide, I had hoped that it would ultimately save lives in the long run by teaching us important lessons and forcing us to take actions that would leave us better prepared for a much deadlier pandemic in the future. It never occurred to me that a significant portion of the population would look at humanity and medical science struggling against a disease and choose to side with the disease. But unfortunately, that's the stupid fucking world we live in.

So instead of coming out of the pandemic in a state of readiness for any future threats, we've seen a concerted effort to dismantle our public health systems and eliminate anything that would help us respond to the next threat. And that was before we made wormbrain the secretary of health.

Thanks to the political influence of the Nurgle evangelists, we are absolutely fucked when the next pandemic rolls around.

At this point, there is no position so indefensible and abhorrent that I would bet against the Supreme Court ruling in favor of it.

Not to mention that the bullshit in AI videos made by the left would absolutely get called out in every propaganda outfit on the right. It would just give them more ammo (without the usual lies).

But even more important, it will grant legitimacy to everyone who responds to damning video evidence by claiming it was AI. We don't need to make shit up, the reality is already horrifying. All AI will do is make it harder for people to believe their own eyes.