While I hate being cold to peoples suffering, didn’t most of them vote for the face eating leopard party. They asked for their corporate overlords personal profit to be protected from their lungs, their environment, any consideration. They asked for billionaires to be above the law.

They are clearly being wronged here, there should be heavy fines, shutdowns and even jail time but my empathy is in short supply

It’s clearly a conflict of interest, by definition.

Maybe you could argue it wasn’t a quid pro quo or a bribe since there is no proof, but it’s awfully suspicious

Ai is here to stay. There will be winners

Many companies will take huge losses but the real losses will be communities with huge dead buildings and unrewarded tax incentives. Power companies with wasted investments trying to feed datacenters that no longer exist and the rate payers that have to pay for it

I think there will continue to be a free tier: Apple is a great example of using small local ai to do useful things for their customers. However the latest models will be have to be much more expensive to cover the business case. Scale matters, so there’s a good chance the winners won’t just dominate in a country but globally

As far as I knew they are mainly to tell a seeing impaired person where not to walk into the street.

They also seem effective at encouraging everyone else to step back a little

But the dot version is standard where I’ve seen.

Aside from it being nonsense …. Destroying evidence is also against the law. Sometime the investigation starts with legally you must preserve all records

I’m sure they’re getting compensation. The question is always whether it’s fair compensation. I’m sure they’re claiming they’re just using an easement on the back of the property while they’re saying our entire lives are here and we don’t want to live under power lines

So Louisiana will have a business that’s not in New Orleans (and not a refinery)? Employing dozens?

Yes we have the population density to support bullet trains. Obviously not everywhere but pretty much every major city is the right distance from another major city for rail to be a good choice. People focusing on the rural areas and current long distance trains are using the exception fallacy: no one is arguing that. We easily have the density for rail service to well over half the population.

The problem is some sort of inbred need to fund highways to the exclusion of anything else. That’s a longer argument others are making and there are many videos exploring it.

China is an interesting comparison when you consider rural areas.

• The US interstate highway system intentionally covers rural areas where the population density “is not worth it”. It was understood to be good for overall mobility and development
• China seems to follow similar logic with high speed rail: important for bringing together the country and encourage development, even to areas where the population “is not worth it”

That’s a great idea, but I’ve never seen that before. I’ve only seen the dots

I used to intentionally go off peak but my current grocery is only stocked during peak hours

I’m fine with them going their own speed and I’m fine with being stuck behind them when there’s a legitimate blockage. However when they can’t afford me the same courtesy of going my own speed, when they unnecessarily block the aisle, they’re the assholes.

The crazy part is they even manage to get in the way at Costco, where the aisles are so much wider

They are perfectly welcome to walk at whatever speed they prefer …. As long as they allow me the same courtesy

It’s very rare to find a grocery with aisles less than three carts wide so you need an extreme lack of self-awareness to become an obstruction. I’m patient with slowness, but why should I be patient with obstructions: they chose to obstruct, not just go at their own speed. They chose to be rude to everyone else

They can deport you for free

Remember this is “unified”, it’s not like you can upgrade, nor is it available in the “cheap” packaging we’re used to.

You’ll get whatever Apple puts on the SoC, and you’ll be happy with it

Our tax system overall should be more progressive

Tax brackets are the fundamental way that income tax is used regressive: the higher your income, the higher percentage you pay on that (marginal) income

In addition to “income” shenanigans available to the wealthy, the highest tax bracket is at $750,000 (couples filing jointly). While that’s certainly a lot of income, the percentage never goes higher. Someone earning that pays the same percentage on marginal income as a ten millionaire or a hundred millionaire or a billionaire. It stops progressing

This is social security,

A big reason US taxes seem lower is because there are so many different taxes and we usually don’t aggregate

Google says you’re specifying the Dutch income tax rate, so it’s not comparable and the Dutch social security tax’s is “only” 27.5%

Out of all the currently known Things we need to do to mitigate climate change, can you name any that corporations have done willingly?

As far as anyone knows gas stations have a very competitive market and most have low profit margins. It’s not as simple as someone just deciding to take less profit.

It’s pretty shady to hide how this is being paid for

• illegally skips gas tax?
• illegally does not meet gasoline standards?
• illegal misuse of campaign money?
• illegal Trump-related slush fund?
• other illegal misuse of government money?
• illegal import of sanctioned Russian gasoline?
• corporate funding in illegal expectation of quid pro quo from Trump administration?

There has to be a way for law enforcement to investigate election fraud. However we always trusted the investigators would be legitimate and investigating actual fraud, rather than being the ones perpetrating fraud