"We were able to meet with senior staff. So we met with very senior people in the White House, in the inner core.
We basically relayed our concerns about A.I., and their response to us was, “Yes, the national agenda on A.I. We will implement it in the Biden administration and in the second term. We are going to make sure that A.I. is going to be a function of two or three large companies. We will directly regulate and control those companies. There will be no start-ups. This whole thing where you guys think you can just start companies and write code and release code on the internet — those days are over. That’s not happening.”"
@sun Every time you post symptoms of worsening condo-dweller degeneration, I'm going to bring out this:
"But cars didn't shape our existence; cars let us escape with our lives. We're way the heck out here in Valley Bottom Heights and Trout Antler Estates because we were at war with the cities. We fought rotten public schools, idiot municipal bureaucracies, corrupt political machines, rampant criminality and the pointy-headed busybodies. Cars gave us our dragoons and hussars, lent us speed and mobility, let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy's lines. And thanks to our cars, when we lost the cities we weren't forced to surrender, we were able to retreat."
"If I'm following correctly, the British government: 1. Gave up an island it owned for no reason other than woke virtue signaling 2. Realized it needed the military base on that island 3. Is now desperate to buy a lease from the new owners to operate that base, at any price, having given up all negotiating leverage"
@deprecated_ii@sun@KuteboiCoder Maybe there's no million scale surplus, but I suspect there are still examples that you want to hire from abroad and the retards hating on Elon right now are going to throw that baby out with the bathwater.
"Crypto won. Next we're going to: - Free Ross - Fire Gary - End Operation Chokepoint 2.0 - Pass common sense stablecoin legislation - Enable in-kind redemptions - Turn on staking in ETH ETFs - Shutter SEC lawfare investigations - Provide regulatory clarity for crypto"
@sun Akshualli... Tereshkova was a such a disaster that indeed, the positive sexism precluded any more women for a long time. She fucked up all the experimental program by doing whatever she wanted up there[1]. As a result, Savitsakya had to work 10 times harder than necessary just to prove that she had it. In addition, Savitskaya was a daughter of an Air Force general, so she always had a certain cloud of nepotism hanging over her.
[1] The most positive reading was that she had health issues and didn't want to admit to them. As a result, she was unable to unbuckle and reach the experimental materials in racks. However, she also failed attempts to orient the ship manually, and she crowned the debacle by eating food right after landing (provided by local peasants), which screwed up the medical program.
@sun@mozilla Mastodon is more expensive to operate than Pleroma. In addition, their profile requires administrative attention to defend against attacks. So I can see them easily dumping $200..400 a month. It's still nothing when compared to Mitchell Baker's compensation package (who's still on the board while Laura Chambers is struggling with the impossible task of saving this shitshow). But it's not insignificant for individuals, I would think.
@sun@warmbeverageenjoyer@lain No, it's illegal to discriminate by race. Well, they do it anyway, by discriminating against Asians in particular. But technically a decision-making in admissions according to race is a crime.
@sickburnbro The original take made more sense. The stored equipment is an essential reserve and Russia was draining its stock too. In fact the new production tanks are something like 12-15%. So the main reason why we cannot reactivate is that we have no workers in Ohio anymore.
@sun@bot You'd think nobody can get this retarded, but then you realize they are liberals, and they would not be liberals if they weren't. I actually saw liberals who think that Muslims throwing gays from rooftops was an alt-right hoax. What's worse, they do not understand even if reality hits them in the face (see the one punch game).
@anemone@thendrix@sun I'm 100% for our society do everything that's needed to do away with tipping. It's a deeply corrosive practice, and it's founded upon an absolutely retarded myth that tips improve service. It's on the same level as the myth of patents advancing innovation. There's no solid argument in favor of tips, taxed or not.
@sun@jeffcliff@thetechsavvyassistant It was the same for my wife, because she didn't have any money, being on an H-4. In the end, she's never had a bank account. But she writes all the checks for us.
I once was descending from Mt. Diablo by a narrow winding road, and a cyclist with a trailer decided to race me. I had my family in the car. Of course, I let him go. Imagine my surprise when a mile ora km down I found him laying on the side of the road with his head cracked under his helmet. Fortunately, the trailer's cage protected his toddler. I was so close to a ruinous lawsuit, or maybe prison, I still fill a chill just remembering that. Imagine if that cyclehole crashed in a close proximity ahead of my car.
Cyclists should be gassed. I'm so disappointed to hear that Moonman was one of them.