Nah, that just helps to normalize it and let people think it’s just harmless and fun.

It’s easier for the news and the government to deepfake things like “huge mobs of Mexican narcoterrorists just over the border” or “there’s a nuclear missile silo in Iran” or whatever with this.

This is called “goetta” here in Cincinnati. Usually you toss some spices in the mix, fry it up and serve it for breakfast. It’s delicious. I know Pennsylvania has a similar thing called “scrapple”.

Now, without the spices, yes, terrible.

The dude likely never commanded more than 1000 guys at a time before this, and he legitimately just doesn’t have the training or the temperament to be in the position of running the ENTIRE military. There’s a reason you make generals and admirals your SecDef: they actually have training in things like strategy, and have enough experience to know what actually wins a war.

Guys like Hegseth, who don’t really have experience in high command, think “muscle and grit and cool guys with guns” win wars. This makes him more popular with actual soldiers, but it doesn’t win you wars, and his insistence on culture war bullshit over actually doing things that work is rapidly losing him the soldier support too.

Different method of action, but yes. Turns out coating your entire GI tract in an impermeable film for a day or so is a bad idea.

Maintenance Phase did an episode on it a while ago, well worth a listen.

See, here’s the thing, we would’ve heard about it. Trump and all his ilk can’t keep their fucking mouths shut and would’ve been lording this shit over us. Someone would’ve said SOMETHING, because none of these people can keep a secret.

Many states also don’t (usually) require old plates to be turned in when designs change. My state’s gone through two design changes since I started driving in 2010 and I still have my original plates. I’ve seen people driving with plates from the 80s.

Not to mention the payload reqs on this. All the radiation shielding and heat management is gonna need a new Sea Dragon-sized rocket.

I’ve actually asked one of the software devs at my company about this. The answer is “typing is too slow” - the idea goes that you can dictate 2-3x faster than you can type, and since the current software market is focused on FASTER FASTER MORE SPEED MORE CODE NOW, and your performance is often only measured in how many lines of code you produce, the only way you can stay competitive is to dictate to your dozen AI agents, with you just auditing and debugging the output when needed.

This feels like them trying to “it’s just a joke” a topic into local public discourse.

I expect this to show up on that fascist Pioneer Woman’s website in about a month.

Well of course, first you invent the ansible.

Anthropic just knows it has political leverage, that’s it. Large parts of US infrastructure and business now rely on Claude models to even function the way they do with the staff they do, and you can leverage that dependence into political action and retaliation pretty easily in the name of “national security”.

I was about to say, you nod along with Ted until he starts into the racist bits.

Not if they’re hit with a missile or another satellite. Debris could pretty easily be rocketed up into a higher orbit from a military strike.

If an insurance company refused to carry a cop, they’d be sued out of existence by every police union and booster org in the nation.

Especially with the recent East Wing argument, the lesson is “if you do it fast enough and ignore other people getting angry about it, you can do whatever you want.”

Can you count, suckers?

For doctorates, sometimes. For Master’s students, the answer is usually no.

Yeah, a situation like this can easily wind up where even if you’re asking for consent on every little thing, and making them know they can say no, there’s no real way to KNOW certainly whether or not they’re actually consenting eagerly, or just think that saying no isn’t allowed or whatever. They might even justify it in their heads that “I signed this contract” or “I’ve got nowhere to go” or whatever.