Biden isn’t quite as bad as the soundbites make him seem, but he is slowing down (physically and mentally) in his old age and was just generally an extremely uninspiring candidate. Trump, if anything is worse than you portray. He’s way more senile than Biden, in addition to the blatant corruption, rulebreaking, childishness, and being horrifically and openly racist and sexist. He has literally quoted Hitler! No decent and reasonable person who is paying the slightest attention to what he says and does would think he is remotely qualified for any position of authority. The fact that he is polling roughly evenly with an extremely qualified and intelligent person like Kamala Harris is indeed an absolute clownshow.

This is an important part of it. The other part is the fact that success in politics is very hard without money, and most rich people aren’t progressives.

It’s still censorship. The distinction is that most private entities can’t enforce their censorship with violence.

Yes, the ones here (California) can be set to keep pumping automatically until the tank is full and then stop.

Giving a for-profit corporation direct access to your brain sounds like a great idea with no downsides whatsoever. I love the thought of worrying about my brain implant having a glitch or facing planned obsolescence.

Edit: OH God I actually read the article and this thing connects to exterior devices. Imagine your brain literally being hacked.

To be specific, this is a pilot program, with the full launch coming later.

If you google “electric lighter” you can see a wide variety of lighters that work by either making an arc of electricity or just getting really hot.

Nothing to see here, folks, just Elon Musk, business genius at work.

Technically the vegan thing is possible if someone figures out a way to make lab-grown meat work. Definitely more realistic than a non-violent Nazi.

That’s very shocking. All of Elon’s other companies have such a strong reputation for reliable engineering. /s

Wait, they actually made that thing? I assumed the project would be canceled after everyone laughed at the reveal.

Not legal, unfortunately.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft–Hartley_Act

The Taft–Hartley Act amended the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), adding new restrictions on union actions and designating new union-specific unfair labor practices. Among the practices prohibited by the Taft–Hartley act are jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns.

I was surprised to see this wasn’t an Onion headline.

Is this hypothetical artist an Israeli settler in the West Bank? If so, I certainly would not give them my money. Otherwise, if we’re just talking about some random Israeli then there’s nothing inherently objectionable about that.

Oh, yes, please do. Just put that bullet in the skull of Twitter’s zombified corpse and end its suffering forever.

I guess it makes sense that Dropbox in particular would be cool about this.

I had the same question, so for anyone who doesn’t want to dig through the article:

To defend its 2017 repeal of net neutrality rules, the Pai FCC argued that broadband isn’t a telecommunications service because Internet providers also offer DNS (Domain Name System) services and caching as part of the broadband package. A judge said the Pai FCC was entitled to deference on this opinion—even if it didn’t make a lot of sense.

Basically, Trump’s lackeys legally classified broadband as an “information service” to screw the American people and the question is whether the Supreme Court will go along with this blatant nonsense.

“Our company is like a professional sports team, except we are definitely not going to pay you like actual professional sports players.” - a guy who makes way too much money

It’s important to note that DC have denied that Willingham can do this, so the first person who tries to take advantage is going to get sued. That alone is probably enough to scare off most people, regardless of who is technically in the right. We’ll see how this goes.

I can’t get over the fact that this is the guy who was supposed to be some kind of tech genius.