People theorize that they’re installing extensions to the presidential bunker.

Oh no, lots of companies rely on the ESTA as well. Good luck going to the US on business trips.

Add a lanyard and a polo shirt with a logo and you’re effectively invisible.

And by extension, setting precedent on repealing laws based on procedural nitpicks rather than substance, meaning a LOT more laws might be up for debate.

They’re already priming this pump with Megyn Kelly questioning “well if the kids had started puberty, was it really pedophilia”. There’s a shocking amount that are also being led either to “well what if the child consents” and the more common “children shouldn’t have any rights at all so it’s effectively a property crime”.

That’s my point. He is enough of a fan to know the connotation. He knows what the name implies, and company names are a deliberate choice that imply things about that company.

While this is true, job opportunities for remote markets are drying up. Those markets in rural areas went big because everyone was working remote, and you can do that from anywhere with an Internet connection. Now that everyone is being forced into RTOing, people are selling those nice little rural homes to move back into apartments in the city, or else trying to find business opportunities or something out in the country.

There’s also just the fact that “weapons grade” just means it’s useful for a fission weapon. Nothing’s stopping you from taking that cobalt-60 you found in that Therac at Daryl’s junkyard, strapping it to an IED, and using that as a dispersal device to give a lot of people radiation poisoning or whatever (the traditional “dirty bomb”).

So officially it’s just ACCESS. You’re not carting it away without an escort or a clear idea of where it’s going, and it’s still technically controlled by the DOE. However, since the levers are all ripped off by the administration cutting everything to the bone and then some, this is effectively a cash injection to OpenAI by financing some terror organizations and rogue states.

One use I’m honestly fine with on the whole. Fleecing your company is always morally correct.

I really suggest you read up on the weaponization of psychology. It wasn’t that long ago that being anticapitalist could land you in a mental facility. Being a suffragette or anything vaguely feminist got a LOT of women lobotomized. Being gay got a lot of people committed, and it was officially a mental disorder in MANY places up until shockingly recently (and still is in some places), same with being transgender or nonbinary or genderfluid.

Fraudulently claimed, as in “people who aren’t supposed to get it”.

The good news is that nuclear strikes have to be authorized by the President. The bad news is that I’m pretty sure he’s running his decisions through The Validation Machine too.

Yup. Look at the Palace of the People in Romania. Buildings are expensive to demolish properly, expensive to put up, so it’s easier to just leave them up if they are or can be made to fit a purpose.

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Too “Christian” and not enough “Nationalist”. Most of the admin who thinks like this, it’s National Christianity - that is, the religion is a cudgel, not the end goal. The end goal is monarchy and feudalism. Religion is just a useful tool to force us poors back into our hovels where we belong.

Who knew kiting worked in real life?

AGI, at our current tech level, is arguably impossible. None of our LLMs can “think” or “reason” - they’re basically just really advanced predictive text, like when you start typing on your phone and the phone “predicts” what word it thinks you want next based on statistics. We’ve emulated VERY, VERY simple minds - bacteria, invertebrates. Emulating a thinking, living, INTELLIGENT being is a whole other order of magnitude harder. We barely even know how thought works, or physically how memories are stored, or a multitude of other things that would be very very important to actually building a thinking non-human intelligence.

Besides, what they think is going to happen is incredibly dumber. These techno-cultists think that simply by dumping enough data into their LLM model, somehow, through some measure, it’ll just spontaneously develop intelligence. By dumping enough processing power and data into what is a glorified chatbot, it’ll somehow manifest as either some form of incredibly intelligent life, or a real actual Machine God, omnipotence included (because we all live in a Simulation, and this Machine God will basically be the Architect, Neo, and Agent Smith rolled into one).

Many fundies, especially Prosperity Gospel folks, see God as a vending machine - prayer goes in, whatever you ask for comes out.

Soup kitchens and food banks are not usually looking for more food, but they’re ALWAYS short on hands. Food Not Bombs is also a good one if there’s a local chapter in your area. There are often tenant’s rights orgs out there that can use time, money, or expertise in legal matters (sometimes also just handyman skills).