In a fantasy version of America in my head, the lower trial judges would put President Trump to trial over this and numerous, numerous other corrupt acts, and make their rulings un-appealable to the full Supreme Court because many of the Supreme Court judges are directly implicated by the same investigations into Trump.

Oh no, the organization is going to lose the $150 billion we pulled out of our ass!

I gotta say law professors have better be putting together a book on this because this administration’s representative attorneys are giving out the most hare-brained excuses to justify Trump’s narcissism, con-artistry and lawbreaking and pettiness.

What Democrats could do is fundraise to change an ICE detention facility into a Trump Hotel, a high security jail to put Trump while we have the probable cause of some conviction, deny him bail like he has countless immigrants and have him investigated and tried for his crimes. As a luxury we can serve sparkling Dilley concentration camp water too.

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is also not a car.

My personal take:

More pay for personnel, better barracks conditions, upgrades to the decades old hardware? Great. Future opportunities for civilian logistical training that would help in the event of a war-like situation or disaster? Great.

Billions on shiny new toys be it the F35 or the Gripen? That’s where I think there are way more cost effective ways to wage a war that would be asymmetrical, should one of the major powers (China, Russia or the US) try to engage in one with us. Some are necessary but the whole plan can’t be rested on ribbon cutting for novelties at the expense of the basics.

Do we have the capability to convert our factories, refineries and shipyards to produce drones, autonomous vehicles, mines and short range missiles? Can we learn the lessons from Ukrainian commanders that clearly the current US top brass don’t care to listen to? Can we build railway infrastructure that would be useful to mobilize tens of thousands of troops, so that one chokepoint bridge destroyed won’t sever our national logistical network?

Focusing more on that will free up more room on the other end to make our lives better. The US Israel Iran war shows that spending endless coffers of money on the MIC doesn’t guarantee victory.

Good questions. At a minimum any VPN marketing in MN would need to tiptoe around claims that you can watch region locked content as if you were there.

Personally, I think VPNs that don’t receive or keep customers’ info and logs could have a credible argument that they don’t know whether their customers use it for prediction markets or not.

Here is the relevant text of the signed bill SF4760, make your judgement as you will:

81.23 Subd. 2. Prediction markets; hosting prohibited. A person is guilty of a felony if the 81.24 person, for consideration and as part of a business

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82.14 (5) provides supportive services to a prediction market or consumer knowing that the 82.15 services will be used to identify a consumer’s location, transfer money, or make or process 82.16 payments for the purpose of allowing consumers to make wagers or to settle wagers made 82.17 by consumers in violation of this section.

The offramp is to put your own party on trial for how heinous you have let it become.

He should really be collecting more than $120M in royalties from Republicans using his trademark likeness in naming the Affordable Care Act.

At that time it was still kind of a research project than a “it’s going to take over everything” hype and FUD machine.

His opinions on AI today seem more enthusiastic than I would be, but well clear of the delusional level of AI-boosters.

A better idea would be to exile Ted Cruz and anyone that worked under him (including Chip Roy).

He must have had one too many and thought he’s on the defendant’s side of this case. Yeah, then it’s a layup.

SpiderKash and Kegseth, partners in boozing.

Trump’s sense of humour also involved a fantasy of him dropping his own shit onto Americans.

If neither side can provide concrete evidence of him being in their custody, could the airman still be at large, waiting in the mountains somewhere to be rescued? I imagine he was exfil’d given the amount of resources expended to achieve that but anything the Trump admin says should be met with a massive amount of doubt.

Bondi’s jail sentence could be until the DOW is back above 50 000. 🤣

Ok works great! One bug report, one feature request:

• 4 frigates ran aground from their guard circling… if near the coast they should circle the other direction. Or this is Hegseth’s Navy.
• As an oil tanker can we get a red or green flag/spot to indicate whether our destination is in bound or outbound? I survived for a while but wasn’t sure if I was going the right way and autopilot was going crazy.