Clearly, anyone against war is not a Nazi \s.

Most of this would happen at the state level. That’s where most of the mechanisms of voting are handled.

But yes, this just moves the problem into state legislatures.

Incidentally, Republicans have also made moves on ranked choice voting. They’ve banned it in Florida.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/09/11/florida-has-banned-ranked-choice-voting-but-advocates-say-theyre-not-giving-up/

But someone will be around to tell me more about how both sides are the same.

Maybe she’s into that. Or maybe she’s just attracted to power.

Trump knows Jackson, actually. Jackson is one of his favorite Presidents. Jackson was also a raging asshole, so that makes sense.

That Jackson portrait that was hung up during Trump’s tenure? They made sure it was there when Trump met with Native American leaders, and the intended insult was heard loud and clear.

It was Washington. However, Washington also tended to side with Hamilton against Jefferson in practice, and those two would quickly form political parties that are the ancestors of the modern ones.

The “Founding Fathers” were far from a monolithic block of philosopher kings like American mythmaking likes to portray.

Duverger’s Law was developed in the 1950s and 60s, so it wasn’t understood way back then.

Companies are expected to make money, not revolutionize the world

I’d like to believe that, but I don’t think investors have caught on yet. That’s where the day of reckoning will come.

AI is a field that’s gone through boom and bust cycles before. The 1960s were a boom era for the field, and it largely came from DoD money via DARPA. This was awkward for a lot of the university pre and post grads in AI at the time, as they were often part of the anti-war movement. Then the anti-war movement starts to win and the public turns against the Vietnam war. This, in turn, causes that DARPA money to dry up, and it’s not replaced with anything from elsewhere in the government. This leads to an AI winter.

Just to be clear, I like AI as a field of research. I don’t at all like what capitalism is doing with it. But what did we get from that time of huge AI investment? Some things that can be traced directly back to it are optimizing compilers, virtual memory, Unix, and virtual environments. Computing today would look entirely different without it. We may have eventually invented those things otherwise, but it would have taken much, much longer.

. . . with 10% increase in performance rather than 50 or 60% like we really need

Why is this a need? The constant push for better and better has not been healthy for humanity or the planet. Exponential growth was always going to hit a ceiling. The limit on Moore’s Law has been more to the economic side than actually packing transistors in.

We still don’t have the capability to play games in full native 4K 144 Hertz. That’s at least a decade away

Sure you can, today, and this is why:

So many gaming companies are incapable of putting out a successful AAA title because . . .

Regardless of the reasons, the AAA space is going to have to pull back. Which is perfectly fine by me, because their games are trash. Even the good ones are often filled with micro transaction nonsense. None of them have innovated anything in years; that’s all been done at the indie level. Which is where the real party is at.

Would it be so bad if graphics were locked at the PS4 level? Comparable hardware can run some incredible games from 50 years of development. We’re not even close to innovating new types of games that can run on that. Planet X2 is a recent RTS game that runs on a Commodore 64. The genre didn’t really exist at the time, and the control scheme is a bit wonky, but it’s playable. If you can essentially backport a genre to the C64, what could we do with PS4 level hardware that we just haven’t thought of yet?

Yeah, there will be worse graphics because of this. Meh. You’ll have native 4K/144Hz just by nature of pulling back on pushing GPUs. Even big games like Rocket League, LoL, and CS:GO have been doing this by not pushing graphics as far as they can go. Those games all look fine for what they’re trying to do.

I want smaller games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less, and I’m not kidding.

Let me guess, you also think mushrooms are addictive.

She wrote the papers on General and Special Nugget Shape Theory.

“Pagan” is a very broad term, and I could see a form of athesist paganism developing. Nature exists, and you can start with that. Rituals would be purely an expression of appreciation for the natural world around us.

Plus, you have an excuse to run around naked in the woods. Which is the actual goal here.

I’m questioning the morality of the god that cares about high school football games more than starving children.

I don’t like brick houses.

He was also wrong even in general. Negotiators are trained specifically because you do negotiate with terrorists. Not to give into their big demands, of course, but to try to end the situation with minimal bloodshed, especially to hostages and bystanders.

“We agree to pull back the perimeter by 15 feet. As a gesture of good faith, could you release three of the hostages? You’ll still have five more.” Or “Let’s do the exchange this way” which will just so happen to perfectly line up all the terrorists to give snipers a clear shot. That sort of thing.

Violence or the threat of violence by non state actors. Yup, fits perfectly.

He’s a power behind the throne kind of guy, but he’s well known in wonkish circles.

He once didn’t know what to write for his regular column, so he ranted about how blue jeans are a blue collar symbol taken over by elite coastal liberals.

Goth girls grow up so fast these days.

They’ll try, but you need just the right personality to do that. Usually, when the personality at the center dies, the whole thing collapses and goes away for at least a few generations.

It’s true. The basics of fascism are that you need an outgroup to blame for everything. If you somehow kill the outgroup, you have to invent a new one. Otherwise, people start asking for actual solutions to societal problems, and fascists don’t know what to do with that.

People used to care a lot. The GNU utils absorbed everything all the old Unix vendors did. This made them comparatively heafty back when a high end workstations might have had 64MB of RAM.

Now that Chrome takes up gigabytes per tab, nobody cares except a few old Unix curmudgeons.