We could have had that. Now, we might not even have an FTC.

The election emboldened some very shitty people to go mask off.

Strictly speaking, the energy it consumes is the gravitational potential energy of the ore they’re mining, which would be consumed anyway in the form of, well, gravity, acting on the ore on the way down. They’re just using it productively instead of dissipating it as heat from the brakes. Using only energy that ordinarily would have been wasted is of course very neat, but it’s not breaking any laws of physics.

Do you have the same problem with all adjectives that describe a majority? Heterosexual, right-handed, etc.?

Not too long ago, this would be a career-ending display of corruption.

Trains are extremely convenient. You optimize them for convenience by adding more trains.

That just means you value your own ability to evade blame over the lives of real people.

Oh he’d act. He’d assist Russia and be the other Axis power.

Fuck embargos, invade and liberate us. Return the favor we did for Germany 80 years ago.

2 years. Immediately after the midpoint of the term, he’ll get 25th’d, giving Vance the remainder of the term and leaving him eligible for two more, which he’ll win due to the 2028 and 2032 elections both being North Korea style shams, intended to compile lists of suspected dissidents rather than decide anything.

Trump is just the useful idiot to install Vance, who’s essentially a Musk proxy.

Sure. Let’s just apply that consistently then. Atoms are binary, the vast majority (with fewer than 1% of atoms being exceptions) can be accurately identified as one of two distinct elements, hydrogen or helium.

Yep. Same software, same hardware, just different config files.

So where are the “Republicans are good for the economy” voters now?

I think it’s because it’s stupid looking enough that the brain doesn’t even classify it as a vehicle, it’s just some weird contraption that isn’t supposed to act like a vehicle does, so it’s an uncanny valley effect.

You know there’s a significant Puerto Rican population in New York and Florida, right?

Pigs are also more likely to side with the fascists.

The worrying part is the implications of what they’re claiming to sell. They’re selling an imagined future in which there exists a class of sapient beings with no legal rights that corporations can freely enslave. How far that is from the reality of the tech doesn’t matter, it’s absolutely horrifying that this is something the ruling class wants enough to invest billions of dollars just for the chance of fantasizing about it.

90 F to Kelvin, halved and converted back, is approximately -190.

It’s difficult to find data on what exposure to that temperature would do, the threshold for an extreme cold warning (meaning absolutely do not go outside without heavy protection unless you want necrotic frostbite) is about 150 F warmer than that.

Which raises the question of why he would create a planet with the illusion of age and send you to hell for falling for his own trick.