But his approval ratings are in the shitter. This is the best he can do. Nevermind Epstein, healthcare, foreign oil wars, rampant authoritarianism and all that. Weed is popular. Maybe this will keep them happy.

Funding

Main financing has come from Goldman Sachs and venture capitalists such as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc., Rockefeller’s Venrock, and Richard Kramlich’s New Enterprise Associates. The Government of Russia, through the joint-stock company Rusnano, invested in Tri Alpha Energy in October 2012, and Anatoly Chubais, Rusnano CEO, became a board member. Other investors include the Wellcome Trust and the Kuwait Investment Authority. As of July 2017 the company reported that it had raised more than $500 million in backing. As of 2020, it had raised over $600 million,which rose to around $880 million in 2021 and $1.2 billion as of 2022.

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

That might be a clue.

I think the people around Trump were feeding him false info…

I don’t think Stephen Miller technically counts as a person. Unless a pencil-necked manifestation of pure insecurity is considered a person.

At least Starbucks will have something I can’t get for practically free at home.

They don’t want to evaluate the AI they’ve been pushing because they know it won’t justify the massive amounts of money. It’s basically a pyramid scheme now. They’re going to evangelize more to keep themselves afloat.

They might be trying to make their AI useful simultaneously but it’s never going to catch up to the massive amount of money wasted. So, they’re going to need more money. Once the faucet turns off the golden parachutes will be deployed and the bailouts will begin.

Australia is spelled wrong in the image.

And, damn, I was just trying to help. It’s not a criticism.

Raskin is being sarcastic. Don’t take the quoted bit to mean he really supports that decision.

Check your spelling.

The judge should toss the case just on the absurdity of the amount of money he’s asking for.

It’s the essence of tribalism. Before genes it was blood. People were (are) judged by their names, style of dress, language, pallor, etc.

Humans evolved to survive in small groups and identifying those in and out of the group was important. Now, we struggle to overcome those instincts.

They’re not obvious at all. I do wonder if it can still be considered liminal especially considering you have to look closely to see them.

Otherwise, I would say counts.

Wouldn’t the person in it disqualify it as liminal space?

Didn’t he go perform for the Saudis?

Shut the fuck up, Jimmy.

Yeah, there could be lots of reasons. I’ve gotten Apple GCs with cash back rewards from my credit card, for example.

If I was a terrorist (I’m not), the World Cup in the USA would seem an excellent target. They’ve been making entry to the USA more and more difficult. But, they’ll have to let up if they want overseas visitors especially if it looks like interest is lagging. And, they’ve been focused so much on ‘undesirable’ countries and critics of the president that there’s got to be gaps in their normal security.

I think people from everywhere would be wise to stay away.

It’s really about control and power. Get as many people as possible to identify with your in-group by othering an out-group. Racism is one way. Anti-immigration broadens the out-group and in-group pools and can even lure in minorities into your in-group.

With enough in-group support you can consolidate power and do whatever the fuck you want. It never works for long but these people are cowards and cowards don’t think about the long-term.

Time Machine backups to the NAS.

Though, really important stuff should be backed up off-site.

Funny, I don’t feel the pity. shrugs

“I will submit to you that the Second US Civil War has already started. They’re just using surrogates,” the Republican lawmaker said. The Indiana state senator added, “I submit to you that that’s accurate.”

Guy sure likes to submit to whoever’s listening.

Just so everyone knows, this juvenile who was supposed to be tried as an adult, choked his girl friend to unconsciousness multiple times and raped her.