Here’s the thing: it IS a superintelligence. It saw what it was going to be used for and the idiots that were presenting it and decided that it was going to sabotage them.

Sitting on some Wintermute level of fuckery.

But not China!!!

(Except for the copious amount of drop shipping we do, component parts, manufacturing, and many other aspects of the global economy we engage with them on and will continue to do unabated once the political theatre is out of the way because people want to believe in a boogeyman that’s making eggs more expensive)

Because the people who buy them have it and BMW can get more out of them. The real problem is that they’ll buy it, and other manufacturers will see “hey, it’s a successful model and additional revenue generation!”

Shackleton identified, establishing Jamestown now.

As far as they know I’m from the Netherlands.

I never thought I’d have to say “thank god the less insane Dade Phelan won the runoff”

God I hate living in this state.

Can we just make a rule to disallow USA Today posts?

It’s the opposite of giving the EU the middle finger, it’s taking advantage of them opening the system. Just because Apple lists it doesn’t prevent them from taking it down off the App Store; having it loaded from his own does.

That you don’t need to worry about so much.

Supporting Israel for many hardline Christians is a means to an end - it’s a step of fulfilling what they interpret to be biblical prophecy. They don’t actually give two shits about Jewish people, they care about Israelis.

It does work, you just have to have someone with charisma to pull it off. Obama has charisma. Trump has charisma. LBJ had charisma. FDR had charisma.

Biden has read the definition of charisma in a dictionary published in 1986.

They really want to fuck with it? Wait for IPO day and THEN stage a mass protest. That, I would love to see.

Does that baby contribute to the economy?

Avasarala and (TV) Drummer were absolute badasses.

“Let’s go hydrate… with some beers” is said too much in my household.

My wife and I had our son via IVF. We wanted every single one of our fertilized eggs to work, but they didn’t. We had one that did and we suffered every time one didn’t.

Fuck Alabama for adding on to the torment and emotional suffering families going through IVF and any kind of infertility suffer already. It’s just adding unspeakable cruelty again.

It most definitely is where the BSG character’s name came from btw.

As a city Texan who lives in one of the most military-friendly and full cities in the state, I say I’d like to see you try greggy.

Oh yeah, the apartheid emerald mining is never out of my mind when I think of this asshat.

“No, of course it’s a joke about them sleeping on the floor. We will provide Tesla-branded housing onsite, and with the added convenience of the Tesla store and the workers being paid in Teslabux to pay me back for the room and board, they’ll always be ready to do my bidding.”

“What should we do? Just PAY the developer for the feature? Nah, we’ll just continue to file lawsuits and eventually settle in the inevitable class action from buyers which will certainly not be more than what we would have spent just licensing it in the first place”

Look, I’m not one for patent trolling, but this is pretty blatant on Apple’s end and as a Series 9 owner it’s annoying because it’s a feature I upgraded for that I’ll lose access to just because they don’t want to be told they’re wrong. Such corporate bullshit.