I still believe that “defund the police”, is the correct choice. The whole damn thing has to go.

Our politicians don’t deserve to rule.

Hopefully, I will get to contribute to that shortness of breath.

We are going to need to completely replace the DOJ and its rules. It is clear that much of America’s governmental structure is too easy to game, doesn’t punish bad actors, and is just plain stupid.

The house is a rotting husk.

Honestly, the lack of measures against disaster is a likely predictor of how well the Neo-Confederate states would do in a 2nd American Civil War.

That makes me hopeful about the ending of that future history, for rather horrific reasons. 😕

In the future, that last statement may finally come true.

Someday, we will have automated robots with this sort of self management - and an AI will be explaining how we emulate nature to optimize the behavior of robots.

Electronic moose stand atop hills, so that the radios in their antlers can reach the space eagles in orbit, who observe the earth from on high…

Something like that.

No. It doesn’t go far enough.

After a certain point, both personal and corporate wealth should be 100% taxed, with loopholes closed and massive penalties imposed on any who previously exploited them. Government critters should solely live on salaries, unable to buy or sell stocks, nor receive ‘gifts’.

Yet another reason to switch to Linux.

If I was in charge of replacing the police, part of the changes would be limits on serving as an officer and other roles. This would encourage fresh blood to replace the old, and help prevent corruption: Former police officers can end up under the batons of their successors, if they don’t ingrain good values into the next generation.

By breaking up the career and authority of police officers into discrete chunks, we can also prevent power accumulation via social bonds among them. Something like:

1 year of academy -> 3 years as officer -> 1 year paid remedial education -> 3 years as officer -> 1 year paid remedial -> 3 years as officer, etc.

While we would lose raw efficiency due to elections, education requirements, and so forth, I think something like this would help prevent police from becoming a vile cornerstone of society.

I like AI, but I think that Microsoft’s approach was all wrong for handling it. Instead, they should have made a completely new Windows built from the ground up to be AI-oriented, and kept Windows 1X as mainline.

Once the AI Windows was fully cooked, Microsoft could have either released it as Windows 20, or give it an entirely new name when the time to start pushing it out to the public has arrived. This would give time for suitable hardware to arrive and to sort out teething issues, along with just having a platform that is free of legacy spaghetti code.

I try to make it a habit to build a whole new machine when a new AMD socket to accommodate a major memory standard comes out. Way I figure, many people will dump their older hardware, so I can get a bargain on top-shelf stuff of the older standard. So when DDR6 is out, I pick up a 1024gb of DDR5 and a Threadripper of the generation.

While I don’t like the FOMO from not adopting the latest platform, my wallet much appreciates the mercy.

If there are economic bubbles, I am figuring on picking up some gear on the cheap after the big companies start falling apart. For now, I am just buying stuff that aren’t fairly generic and not prone to aging. In this case, a THOR NAS desktop tower. My older THOR V2 chassis isn’t quite right for modern GPU lengths, so hopefully the THOR NAS would be able to accommodate my older hardware while permitting the new stuff.

I got about 20tb of SATA SSD and a optical drive, so I needed a tower with front bays to accommodate those. Plus, I will be trying out this newfangled “M.2” stuff with my next build for the OS & Gaming drives, which takes up further case space.

Some people are injured and disabled, and have to work from somewhere. I wouldn’t fault them for using a bed. Besides, you can use a laptop to speak with people, do projects like scheduling activities for a club, and many other things. Being able to walk around is useful, but not necessary, for being part of society.

On the back is a big picture with two statements: “They aren’t human.” “THEY ARE HUMAN.”

Presumably, the same guy who botched Elon’s junk. It must grate, seeing this doctor whenever visiting the Orange House.

I hope that we get a Star Trek Offline from this. I want to play the game, without FOMO and humanity making me feel miserable.

“It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It.”