But you see, when these rule were being framed bad actors PLANNED on exploiting the checkerboard to expand their effective control. (Or at least it seems so obvious of an issue that I have to imagine _someone_ was scheming along these lines).

Which venta are you referencing here?

They are referencing https://www.venta-air.com/en_us/product/lw45-original-humidi...

I also have one and love how easy it is to clean.

For $500 it better clean itself

I bought two Ventas well over a decade ago, and they still work as well as the day I bought them. They're an expensive initial investment, but IMO worth it over the long run.

They are also mechanically simple, so I trust that if they ever break, I will be able to repair them.

That instantly kills the patient -- "But you asked me to remove his pain"

You're absolutely right! I did--in fact--fail to consider the obvious negative consequences of killing the patient to remove his pain. I am truly horrified about this mistake. Let's try again, and this time I will make sure to avoid intentionally causing the patient's death.

Oops--you're absolutely right! I did--in fact--fail to remember not to kill the patient after you expressly told me not to.

Just because they're better at writing CS algorithms doesn't mean they're taking steps closer to anything resembling AGI.

Unless AGI is just a bunch of CS algorithms.

Kinda depends on how much is "a bunch" and how fast that AGI is

The president isnt going to personally enrich himself and his cronies by _divesting_ power from his offce

Apparently popular enough to get him elected. It's not like his supporters were under any pretense who or what they were voting for

I think the GOP, the right, etc. do propaganda very well. And they’re good at spinning scandals into things their voter base wants to hear. Or just burying them in a way that makes it hard for their base to find.

Even the centrist TV networks are still treating Trump like a normal president. News like the NYTimes does the same, while platforming horrible people in their op ed section.

Edit: anec-data - I have an embarrassing number of family members that voted for him. I asked why and the surprising common thing among all of them was they just didn’t know. The felonies, convictions, scandals, the racism and transphobia. They were just surprised. And they’re not very good at thinking critically about much of it.

Instead they’re voting for some nostalgia and the idea that they felt safer and more secure in their country when they were younger.

Ross Douthat makes me (figuratively) vomit every time I read his nonsensical garbage.

But it's not like AI did any of that...

Right we had a functioning labor movement to thank for productivity gains being distributed to the working class. When that got undermined beginning late seventies early 80s with offshoring we see wealth just flowing to the top without significantly benefiting the working class.

Past innovation did though.

I mean you can't fault them for that approach.

Obviously we would all like a full post mortem from the home dept side, but in today's litigious shareholder-value-driven world their response is the correct one.

Because defending civilians who Israel is targeting is, in today's world, considered antisemitic

How about we just stop socializing with Israel and its supporters while we're at it