Quite frankly, Democrats just aren’t going to rally behind a candidate the way Republicans do. Republicans can promise much less and still expect a decent turnout.

The first female president will be a Republican, a nightmarish ghoul, and the source of a significant amount of right wing deflection. Everything liberal women are saying now, justifiably, will be twisted in to an evil, disingenuous retort. And that will only be a distraction from the nightmare president this woman is going to be.

The first female president will have no way to climb the ladder without being horrifyingly competent. Savvy enough to know when to look like an idiot without ever being one. Manipulative enough to not only work a crowd but work a room of powerful people.

Men can get by knowing the right people and being charming. Women have to know the right people, be charming, and absolutely crush any opposition to their ascent.

ahem

Create value, by taking it from whom?

The stock market was invented to make it less risky to plunder the everloving shit out of Non European countries.

It’s always been about extracting value.

They are not. Realistically this is not possible. And may never be.

Complexity is a real problem here. The more different things you want your machine to do, the more human intervention is necessary.

Let’s give this idea the best chance at success and say it’s raw materials and simple components are available to it. Basic fasteners, copper wire, sheet metal, etc.

This robot will undoubtedly have a motor, which would require a bunch of copper wire wound around a magnet, and assembled in a ring. This task is already done by robots. At least, the winding part is. The assembly is too, but it’s a different robot. And let’s say there’s even a robot that can transport the wound magnets to the assembly robot. Such robots exist at least, this wouldn’t be logistically efficient in this particular process but we’re building a self replicating automaton here, sacrifices are necessary.

Anyway this one task requires at least 3 robots AND at present, the raw materials are being initially fed by a human. The magnets might come from a hopper but the copper wire is an issue. Let’s say even THAT is surmountable.

The amount of floor space required for the process is probably something like 300 square feet. Just this process alone. Just to make a single type of electromagnet. We haven’t built the housing, inserted the drive shaft, or any of the other required bits. just the electromagnet.

To make all the parts of a thing that a robot requires is going to be about the size of a factory. and that’s assuming raw materials and basic bits are made somewhere else.

And even if you fully automate a factory, and it can make everything it needs to replicate itself, different machines would be needed to install them all somewhere.

You’re thinking “but 3D printers!”

Stop. No. Just… No. are not that powerful. To be clear, a single metal 3D printer that’s even half as capable as some people have been lead to believe they are could replace about 20 of the highest paid employees in my factory. They just don’t work as well in industry as people seem to think. And that’s printing in a single material. When you try to say, print a magnet with copper wire wrapped around it, you find very quickly that a: this isn’t possible with the current technology, and even if it were, b, the durability just isn’t there. It might be hard, it might be the right amount of brittle, but it doesn’t withstand wear the way you’d expect for something with those properties.

A lot of shows start with this idea. The chef goes in to it with the idea that they’re going to show people how to make good food with what they have that they can afford.

Then when they’ve kinda done all they can with that in a season or two it starts to go off the rails.

Then eventually you have Alton Brown lowering an entire turkey in to a boiling 25 gallon pot with a ladder and a pully system in the back yard of his studio house.

Because these shows are entertainment first, cooking second.

I HAVE REPORTED YOU TO THE INTERNET POLICE.

CONSEQUENCES… Will NEVER be the same!

“Carl over here is really good at making wheels. But he’s only made the 4 of them. Won’t make any more unless we give him a reason to… Ideas?”

Annnnnd 5000 years later; mortgages, wage slavery, and “let’s have an all hands to realign with our core paradigm”

Why is every field on my phone just NULL VALUE now??

I didn’t have prime for the streaming and hardly used it. Until Christmas when I just wanted Christmas bullshit on in the background and prime decided to cut in mid sentence to run an obnoxiously loud ad. So that’s how we finally cancelled prime.

Also, paying to watch ads was how cable worked.

Ah, so it was brought up in bad faith.

The problem is that the specific argument you point to is often brought up either in complete ignorance or straight up bad faith. Communism bad, look at (insert one of like, 5 events here)

But let’s ignore the untold millions slaughtered, enslaved, or maimed in the name of profit.

I suspect the guy in question was identified as somebody who might try something stupid, not competent enough to pull it off, and possibly encouraged to try by an undercover agent.

I used to have a roommate that paid me their part of rent through PayPal. After a few months without issue, PayPal didn’t let me withdraw my funds because of an arbitrary limit placed on my account. It was like 520 dollars and they wouldn’t let me do more than 500 a month.

It’s my money, they’re just holding it, and they don’t get to tell me how much of it I use. The gal on the phone said she’d waive the limit as a one time courtesy and that was the last time I used PayPal. That was almost 20 years ago.

This is not an isolated case. PayPal does this crap all the time.

PayPal is not a bank, they’re not regulated, and they can arbitrarily decide your money is their money.

Do not use PayPal.

“because it’s an actual bank and we’re just bullshit. If they sue us, they’ll win even if they are committing fraud, so fuck you.”

Hey wait a minute.

It’s not Tuesday

You are much less likely to to be robbed by some random crook than you are a police officer. By almost a factor of 10.

There were 1300 cases of armed robbery in the US in 2024.

CAF resulted in 2.5 billion in assets seized in 2010, 11000 cases of seizure were for non criminal offenses.

Liberation comes at the end of a gun.

That’s fucking funny

Steam believes I’m somewhere between 62 and 126 years old. I don’t think Steam’s birthday gate is going to qualify as age verification

This one literally just tacks it at the end of the proposal. As it gives no purposes other than “and for other”

Going in reverse up a hill with a full load