There will be an activity called an election. It won’t be free, or fair, or allow everyone to vote. The simplest method would be restricting voting locations to those deemed ‘safe from insurrection’ aka counties that voted for Trump.

Insurrection is grounds to declare martial law, remove those in power, and halt elections. He has to push hard enough to force people to fight back.

No, for rubbing up against.

Because other humans will pay for the feel of genuine humans.

Just think what a company could do with a full motor control interface to their workers. The worker themselves could be asleep or in a virtual world and not have to worry about all that pesky work.

Same situation with cybernetic implants. The rich would have infinite eidetic memory and computation power built into their skull. The poor would be forced to have muscle implants if they wanted a job, or worse, much much worse.

I’d much rather have a US electric car company that actually made affordable cars. But seeing as that’s not an option, we may as well get some for ourselves.

I grab my go bag and step outside to wait for the fire trucks. Lived on a boat for years, so i always keep a waterproof go bag handy.

Sounds like time for some very extensive road work to get started. Might have to pause for winter with the road closed, but you wouldn’t want to get it wrong that close to a military base.

The way you do that is by winning the primary. If progressive candidates can’t win the primary, they can’t win the general. That’s what makes a candidate like Zohran in NY so important. At the end of the day though, if a progressive fails to take a seat, then a corporate dem is still better than any Nazi.

Absolutely vote for whatever your personal issue is in the primary. Make your voice heard and let the candidates know about it.

Come general election, you vote against the Nazi. I don’t give a fuck if the Dem doesn’t like your issue, I’ll even donate to change their mind, but damn well show up and vote for them.

On the one hand maximizing design for material conservation also tends to increase costs, creating shortages.

On the other hand ignoring the externalities of production leads to environmental costs causing collapse.

In the gripping hand is our ability to create and manage an economic and political system capable of deciding where that balance is.

The expense of a delivering the nuke is negligible in comparison to the cost and effort of building a nuke. So much so, that large rocks are more economical than building a nuke at this point.

Use a bigger rock. I might change the cost by hundreds of millions, and still be less than the billions in development and production for a nuke.

Yes, but at this point it would be cheaper and quicker to have spacex fly to orbit, capture a 5 ton rock and drop it on a city.

There’s a reason Iran has been ‘weeks’ from making a bomb for decades now.

That’s not like new, it’s dull as shit. And really hard to sharpen.

They’ll use ai to do pattern matches on available data to assassinate leaders of dissent or those capable of organizing resistance. Knowledge of encryption is uncommon enough of a population to be an acceptable cost.

It is real, they did the same for inception and poltergeist. It’s a practical way to let actors walk on walls and such.

Yeah I think the one that shut them down best was the BBS reporter asking ‘If Hamas was holding the hostages in Israel, would you still be bombing them like you are in Gaza?’

We could attach a choke collar to them to pull them away from politicians.

Except someone would have to stand there and hold it, that’s too much work. Just tie it to a tree.

Except they would just untie it, so we’ll have to tie it to a high branch.

Hey wait a minute, if we use a high enough branch, this problem solves itself!