It’s not just the US, it’s been happening for years in other countries like the UK as well.

Traditionally there has been one party that is for working people and another for capital and the owner class.

The right has been getting further and further into far right authoritarianism. That posed a problem for the Dems going back to the Clinton Presidency: do they stick with being the party of working people or do they try to have their cake and eat it by tacking to the center and assuming that the working class will continue to vote for them no matter what?

It largely worked for a time and gave Obama two terms but ever since then they have been susceptible to criticism that they’re out of touch, elitists, entitled, and that they look down their nose at working people whilst still assuming that they will get their vote, which opened the door to Republicans.

You can’t serve two masters for very long, you can’t be the party of working people while being run by upper middle class graduates. You can’t claim to care about the people with the least while cozying up to CEOs and megadonors. Sooner or later it all falls apart, as it did with Hillary Clinton’s run, where working people disliked her elitism and she didn’t have enough support from elsewhere to make up the shortfall. That should’ve been a warning. Instead they doubled down.

The problem in the US is that there are only two viable parties. The Dems won’t go back to being the party of working people because they wouldn’t know how to do that even if they wanted to. What happens when the Trump Presidency turns out to be a disaster?

Yorkshire Tea Gold, a little agave and a splash of milk.

What size is the membrane separating one point in time from another? If the membrane is the size of the observable universe we wouldn’t see a difference. If it’s the size of your living room you’d be fucked because your living room only exists at any given point in space time for a very very short time.

See, this is why I rent.

Good call.

After the diner scene in Reservoir Dogs when Little Green Bag kicks in.

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You’re changing your whole workflow to bend to their will.

No, you’re plugging it in for 10 minutes if you somehow manage to forget to leave it plugged in overnight once in a while.

Terminal: sudo systemsetup -setrestartpowerfailure on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork#"Bork"_as_a_verb

And then actually shooting something into the sun is harder than just blasting it out of the solar system.

This is fun to play with: https://trinket.io/embed/glowscript/6642756b52?toggleCode=true&start=result

$599.00 - isn’t that the same as the previous model?

256GB storage is also sort of a joke

It really is but adding cheap external storage will help.

They can’t do their AI stuff and devote enough memory to the user’s tasks with only 8GB. I’m glad they’ve finally upgraded the base spec.

I’m not sure you understand what AGI is, and why we’re not going to invent it any time soon.

Interesting.

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07p40y7/the-daring-journey-inside-the-world-s-deepest-cave

It’s way cheaper to build storage than new nuclear.

Posting this again because some people don’t realize just how expensive nuclear really is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity

That’s something I’d love to do too but I worry about the carbon footprint needed to visit a place that’s already halfway fucked through climate change. I guess flying to Australia or Chile is just as bad though.