Honestly, this is perfect "reenactment" to reflect what America has become. Afraid of the unknown and trading security for freedom.

You may be asking what happens if it's obviously an abuse with no precedent? Well, the court says that's illegal… but the abuser gets immunity. And the victim gets no damages. So, there's little to no incentive to file lawsuits.

Qualified immunity is probably the worst legal doctrine in the country. It is a blank check for cops to abuse, even kill, citizens, and unless their actions are *exactly* like a previous abuse found to be illegal, they'll receive immunity.

All you need is some empathy when you see friends and family suffering under crushing childcare costs. Mamdani has empathy oozing out of his pores.

Beyond it being exciting to see an important policy being made real in NYC, the other groundbreaking thing about Mamdani loudly and doggedly supporting universal childcare is that it's not coming from a woman or even a parent. It's being championed by a childless man.

So, I assume he's a big proponent of raising taxes on the wealthy and instituting universal basic income?

Right?

Hey, where are you going?

whats so crazy to me is the only job that chatbots could actually eliminate right now is ceo, every company could save millions today right now by replacing their ceo with a computer program that just parrots what other ceos say

Even in situations where you need legs, more than two would be better!

Three or four legs, rollers, etc., would be superior to two legs in nearly all situations. On top of that, trying to imitate humans is downright creepy: they just don't walk right!

It's kind of funny how they're putting all of this effort into making physically-capable bipedal robots when bipedalism is not ideal for nearly all physical activities. They're wasting enormous resources just to make sure the thing doesn't tip over.

No, destroying a bridge or road used by civilians is a war crime. It doesn't matter if soldiers uses it.

This is the justification which Israel has used to being hospitals and enitre residential complexes: "oh Hamas/Hezbollah uses this hospital or some Very Important Leader lives there, so we must destroy it"

Every piece of primarily civilian infrastructure can be potentially used by the military: roads, power plants, refineries, airports, hospitals, even regular homes.

To say that these are legitimate targets because of that potential is exactly what treaties against war crimes are intended to prevent.

Our Interstate system's *primary* justification is to assist with the movement of soldiers across the country in times of war. He's saying attacks on, say, the Bay Bridge is justified in wartime.

Weird, a bunch of corrupt Americans with no experience in foreign negotiations are going to get steamrolled by one of the oldest civilizations in the world?

The ballroom to him is a major policy priority.

Any Democratic strategy starts with expanding and reforming Scotus. Nothing else can happen unless that happens first. It's worth burning all political capital to make it happen.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

The tech behind NFTs is kind of neat. They then decided its "killer app" should be the dumbest thing imaginable.

Just realized I track time by the crises Trump directly or indirectly caused.

"No, the cartel in Mexico must have rioted in mid-February because it was before the war in Iran"

This, too.

Similar to the Epstein death. Like, I'm still mostly convinced it was a suicide, but there's a whole lot of weirdness (which, yes, also could just be explained by rank incompetence).

Look, these people are fucking idiots who can't even quote the Bible accurately. There's no way they could have pulled off a fake attempted assassination.

Not sure who needs to hear this, but hungry service members is a fast track to mutinies and coups.

A good way to afford UBI is to heavily tax the wealthy. I wonder if Musk's also on board with that.

The argument is that nobody else wants else wants the job and the USA will just reassume that role once someone who isn't batshit crazy is president.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view.

Workers I spoke to are pissed.

My doctors always wear biblical robes with pearly light coming out of their hands when they touch my forehead and heal me of all my maladies.

Reporter: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ?

Trump: It wasn't a depiction. I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor. And had to do with red cross as a red cross worker, which we support and only the fake news could come up with that one.

Nobody knows this but Cambodia and Azerbaijan have hated each other since biblical times.