Of all the people that could buy that shit pile, I think he’d be the best. Kinda the least smelly turd in the pile.

Remember back in January when it was wild to see Elon talking to radical right wing Germans?

Ann McCaffrey’s Pern series. Teleporting time traveling retro futuristic dragons.

Probably followed by either Footfall, invading octopus elephants, or Ringworld. Which is Halo with 2 headed 3 legged 1 hoof snakes.

Fauci should sue him in civil court for security costs. No pardons, and lots of news coverage of a president threatening the life of an American.

Sorry, those are blocked on my network.

Yes, England or Spain. Refitting my boat for the crossing now. The boat has done it before, but I haven’t. It’s going to take some work, and the financial side is brutal.

I haven’t seen any pro Hamas protestors. Anti-Israel and pro-Palestine all over the place, but no Hamas.

I am always sarcastic, it’s just my nature. That said, where you are on the food chain is the basis of all power to affect the world/universe. That’s who ‘gave’ us the power to decide if another species should go extinct. We took it, as all power is gained. There was no giving involved. Once that power is gained, giving it up, is giving up your position on the food chain. In a very literal sense. Otherwise you’re not giving up the power to kill another species, you’re just choosing not to. Which in most cases is the best choice, and also is what gives you the choice of tolerance.

As for motivation to interact with the world, that’s personal. In the long run we’re all space dust decaying to barely perceptible heat. In the short run, finding your own contentment might require some adjustments to the world around you. Even just enjoying the day may come at the cost of tomorrow, so choose your actions well.

Power is never given, it is taken. Might makes right is the only law of the universe. Who gave a cheetah the power to eat a gazelle? Who gave a fungus the power to kill bacteria? The question of tolerance or intolerance is a question of when to use, or not, the individual or collective power of a person or group.

As to when is it right to extinct a species, would you save the dinosaurs from the asteroid? Bear in mind, you extinct your own species if you do. And who gave those dinos the right to use up a whole planet’s worth of resources, that mammals are obviously better suited to make use of. Extincting a species is making ecological room for other species to evolve. It’s just that right now, humans are demonstrably horrible at choosing which species should be around, or not.

Also I highly recommend Dr. Who for the hidden morals wrapped in often ridiculously stupid sci-fi fun.

I’m still partial to the general philosophy of Dr Who. Killing is to be avoided even at extreme cost. But when survival is put on the line, it’s time to put a bullet in someone, or blow up their entire species. When you reach that point, go as far as you have to, in order to make sure you don’t have to again.

Diesel, bear spray, propane, and gasoline don’t care if you’re wearing a bulletproof vest.

Just pointing that out in case it becomes relevant.

It also depends on Russian nukes not being made of cardboard. Or Trump selling him the US arsenal.

Our industry is pretty convinced the worst case is all curriculum goes to the states, and all the funding parts get shoved to another department. After all major GoP donors feed off the ED titty, and they’ll cry a lot if that gets cut off.

Teachers biggest problem is that the public school system will buckle, which is the point of the whole change. Charter school teachers won’t be better off, they’re going to have to fight for more of the voucher money than the administration and investors in the schools, while politicians will be trying to cut that budget. And charter schools aren’t going to have the union protections that public schools have.

Education Department. They used to be Department of Education, but they lost the battle for the DOE acronym with the Department of Energy, apparently nukes win.

Every department has been told to shut up. Just got off a call with ED that had the same orders, and no idea when it would change. Because the idiot in chief let the monkeys out of the heritage foundation cage.

Ask an AI to make an image with a word on it, lemme know when it can actually spell the word right. Because right now it spits out the concept of a word, which really isn’t the same thing.

Hurting families is the purpose. They need horror to fuel their calls for martial law.

It’s reasonable other than the scale. Getting that much tungsten is no problem with half a million dollars. Making it into a cube would be like trying to cut steel with tools made of sharp cheddar cheese.

Be like Han.

I haven’t seen any corroboration of it yet, but it is exactly the fight they were having over TikTok. Not that China is stealing private data, that they would use the algorithm to affect the election.

And none of this is new people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

They’re just putting into practice what they already learned and super charging it with AI agents.