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A top-two runoff system is considered democracy. A system where the two parties are just the same thing, like in North Korea, is not.

Americans consider their two parties as very flexible about what they stand for. If there is a big enough group not represent by the incumbent, the other parties’ primary will be biased towards this group.

What we saw this time around, though, was two incumbents running against each other with no room for the non-represented group to be reflected. Thus, to that group at least, it felt like there was no difference (at least in the represtation).

Those that believed that there was no difference are now finding out how much of a difference it was - and they are now yearning for another vote to fix things.

So, the question becomes: does a particular charity have a shortage of tech people working for them or a shortage of money? Which would be easier to get?

Wait, I though the man survived a record 100 days and then got a normal heart. Is this the same guy or a different one?

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Step 1: Connect all base commodities prices

Step 2: Find tech that makes one (most likely power) cost approximately nothing, causing all the other base commodities cost roughly nothing

Step 3: Though Makerspaces with tool loan libraries/DIY/AR goggles with open source AI/ETC… make it so that anyone with base resources can make anything they could ever want

Step 4: No more need to work for stuff.

Excel isn’t a problem unless all of it was done on one sheet and the only function used was sum()

Put it on a badge and make it so when you push on it, you say who you want call and it calls them.

Also make the badge the starfleet logo.

Take anything created, ffmpeg it into frames, then run it through this script’s stereoscopic mode:

https://github.com/thygate/stable-diffusion-webui-depthmap-script

I tried search the web for a particular comic - I think it might have been smbc - where the person’s prediction of when the singularity was inversely proportional to how long they had to live, but I can’t find it.

The last panel was an old guy saying “The singularity will arrive by Friday! Hopefully before 5…”

By 2045, there will be virtually nothing a human can do that a machine cannot do…

True

… better for a tiny fraction of the cost

False

Trump: “I’ll run the USA like a company!”

How business people run companies: Fire all the competent people and replace with cheaper new hires. Report huge short term profits due to reduced payroll. Stock goes up. CEO ditches company and sells off stock before all the new hires completely wreak the company and tank the stock price.

Why wouldn’t the stock market be up at this point?

Well, yes, but it was a very weak case - but people were so sick of Bush that that was enough.

There is saying things, there is not doing things, and there is doing things.

Trump could say: “What if there was one day where there was no laws and people could just do anything, like the purge…” and… oh, he did say that during his first term. And democracy still survived. Saying things just make people loose respect for America. It is why Obama got the Nobel peace prize. Cause he stopped saying the shit that Bush was saying.

What people should be worried about is actions and inactions. It takes competency to do things. The more fascist a thing Trump wants to do, the more competent people leave and the less likely it is to be done. The true problem is it takes no level of competency to not do a thing.

So Trump’s end game is “Ask not what your country can do for you … because it can no longer do that.”

Shareholders can sue if the board doesn’t do the thing that will maximize shareholder value. Probably the basic underlying problem with companies that sell stock.

defusing bombs in VR

Someone has a virtual copy of “Keep talking and nobody explodes” and a Quest headset and by jobe they are going to use it.

Musk is currently reviewing it for DEI terms. Also Trump just fired the Sony board and declared himself president of Sony.

Just don’t buy meat directly - especially if you are hungry for bat and live in China.

If you can use AI in a way that people at the AI company can’t tell that you used AI, then they need you working at that AI company.

Think the only ways to stop this is passing a bill prohibiting using money on GITMO like the Republicans did with the prohibition of spending money to close GITMO.

Or lawsuits.