This is maybe a bit too conspiratorial for my liking, but I heard this take:

RFK Jr. has said something about how everyone will have a wearable medical device soon. Him and others also want lists of people with certain medical diagnoses.

Florida has recently immunized doctors from wrongful death/malpractice leading to death lawsuits.

The research institution doing a lot of stuff for Neuralink is very close to this new concentration camp.

To astronomists and cosmologists they are, anything heavier than helium is a metal.

In terms of imagery and associations, it doesn’t hurt that it looks similar to the Cyrillic CCCP (USSR).

In addition to wanting a list of people with “disabilities,” the government and health insurance companies are also pushing for centralized medical records, which are accessible by the government, insurance, and whoever they decide to sell the data to.

Yeah but they’d rather be racist and xenophobic. And maybe it’s all just threats to keep us immigrants in line.

I wouldn’t put it past the US to charge the victims of this the renunciation fee anyway, and keep them on the IRS list as tax persons.

Germany is already preparing to do this.

Yes of course. A portion of wealth, and maybe a community service element could work as well.

I’m in awe of how selfish and stupid people act in their cars on nearly a daily basis.

That said, harsher penalties only work in the way we want them to when criminal justice is reformed, same with increased controls.

One idea for fines is to set the penalty at a multiple of daily wages, thereby much reducing the load on the poorest among us while also becoming somewhat of a check against rich people doing what they want because the fine means nothing to them. Some countries already do this.

If you use Calibre to manage your ebooks (or even if you don’t) I can’t recommend calibre-web-automated-book-downloader enough.

It bypasses cloudflare checks, waits for the download cue, retries on fail, and integrates seamlessly with the calibre-web-automated ingest feature.

It’s always the worst ones who live the longest.

Canadian senators are only good for creating expense scandals and are simple political apointees. Just do away with the whole institution.

Let’s not pretend that there isn’t a faction of the US ruling class that wants this war.

We all probably know Allen Dulles was a Nazi sympathizer.

I often think about that. According to what I remember hearing or reading from Aaron Good, FDR would have charged Dulles with treason after the war. Dulles was literally helping Nazi leadership escape Germany towards the end of the war. Except that of course he died before then, and his nominally socdem VP Henry Wallace had been forced off the ballot for the 1944 election in favour of the more anti-communist and pro-capital Harry Truman. Truman would be convinced to start the CIA and give them the mission to do whatever they want in service of Wall Street, and the Dulleses went into history not as traitors and Nazi collaborators but as accomplished statesmen crucial to the foundations of the empire as we learned to know it since.

Negations are hard. It takes kids until they’re about five years old to start to understand the concept of not.

Haven’t gotten to the show yet but I really enjoyed the book.

I would guess that shipping over a hundred millon devices a year is really difficult for an unknown company.

Oh goodie. Now Anglo LLMs won’t just be neoliberal reactionary, but they’ll have a nice seasoning of eighteenth century classism, racism, and sexism baked in as well.

Trolls aren’t even trying anymore.

GTA home prices have been unaffordable for anyone except corporations for years.

“unanticipated crash in home sales”

Yeah nobody could have predicted that. /s