Ertebolle @ Ertebolle @kbin.social

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They already passed it, but it's designed to target DAs who don't prosecute abortion cases, not to stop Willis; it works through a panel of former DAs/judges and a number of them are appointed by the governor, who has no great love for Trump.

If you think this is fun, just watch what happens when his Fulton County codefendants realize nobody's going to be paying their legal bills; the only question is whether Fani Willis decides Rudy's testimony is more valuable than the satisfaction of watching him go down.

Cool, now we just need to convince Americans 50 years ago of that and we might manage to save the planet yet.

Paraphrasing an old meme:

Fahrenheit - how hot humans feel
Celsius - how hot water feels
Kelvin - how hot atoms feel

It’s a micro USB drive, he flashed it and all the cheerleaders giggled

“People in rich, heavily resource-consuming countries should have fewer babies” is a hellscape take now? Have you read literally any news article this summer?

People already do watch AR porn. People already do use interactive fleshlights. People already do talk to and make requests of performers on OnlyFans and lots of other places. None of these things seem to come with much more stigma than regular porn; I don’t think the use of AI changes that.

I'm cool with this, we need a lot fewer humans anyway and particularly so in countries rich enough for people to be able to afford VR sex rigs.

True, but people already do 80% of that - I don't think the stigma attached to "AI-generated porn that talks to you and responds to your requests" is likely to be meaningfully greater than the stigma attached to regular porn, or to an OnlyFans where you're doing the same thing with an actual woman but clamoring for her attention with a bunch of other guys.

Honestly, if the combination of AI porn + good AR + haptic fleshlights gets us to a point where horny single men with limited real-world romantic prospects can have fulfilling sex lives without having to bug any actual living women to attain them, I think the world will be a better place.

My understanding is that a big part of the reason car prices are up is that everybody wants luxury brands + high-end trims now. So a lot of these delinquencies could be for people who would have had no problem affording a $300/month car lease if they'd opted for a cheaper car.

The one thing Twitter was still sort of useful for was getting feeds from news organizations that aren't on Mastodon yet, this is going to kill it for that.

The commission can't even start processing complaints until next July, and the governor - who doesn't like Trump at all - has a great deal of say over its composition. And it's made up of former DAs (I think one of them also has to be a former / experienced judge) - they might well be able to find / appoint a couple of those who are willing to remove another DA from office for prosecuting Trump, but it's not going to be easy.

I believe the main intent was to stop prosecutors from refusing to prosecute abortion-related crimes, not to stop Willis - it's very well designed for that first job, but if they were trying to give themselves the ability to remove prosecutors for going after Trump, they would have made it start up a lot faster + staffed it with fellow politicians.

A number of food additives don't contain any carbon atoms; if you follow the links from the Wikipedia article on food additives you can find a bunch, for example sodium bisulfate which is a color retention agent.

There are also some interesting cases like the antifoaming agent Polydimethylsiloxane (found in trace amounts in, among other things, Chicken McNuggets) which I believe is technically a hybrid organic/inorganic polymer.

Too bad so sad

Am I allowed to make a joke about France being bacon here or is that déclassé now?

Nah, they're going to murder him in the first debate - he's the highest-polling candidate who they can attack without pissing anybody off, it'll be like that Simpsons joke about how at the start of a nuclear war every allied power will bomb Springfield simultaneously to test their weapons.

Sure, but again, it's open-source - couldn't somebody not legally affiliated with Mozilla offer a version of it from a server outside France with the blocking code removed?

Sane, no, but sufficiently rah-rah troops / in the pocket of defense contractors to care about getting military promotions through in a timely fashion, yes, I think there are.

This wouldn't be that hard to fix - would only need 16 Republicans to join every Democrat in passing a temporary rules change to eliminate the ability for any one senator to block UC requests for military promotions; could automatically expire at the end of this Congress, so it wouldn't be permanent, and they could still block it them with 2 senators if there was any particular promotion they had a problem with.

So part of me suspects that the Democrats are just as happy to have this in their pockets, because if there's some sort of election-threatening military setback in 2024, now they can blame it on the GOP and Tuberville.