I read once that Chappelle pays off-duty police for security.

And I couldn’t help thinking that he’d become a character from his show: A black American who’s mind is so captured by wealth, so out of touch, that he actually pays the pigs to follow him around.

Comedy comes from being able to see the world clearly, and Dave stuck his head in a bag of money and hasn’t pulled out to look around once.

The problem with conspiratorial thinking like this is it depends on world leaders having foresight, competence, and wisdom.

If you’re not sure, you should wait. The state of being confused is valuable and you should nurture it rather than dismiss it.

You don’t have to have an opinion on everything.

The idea that post-war economic boom provided a middle class lifestyle for the “average” American is such a pernicious myth it can only be called a lie.

The government largess that made that lifestyle possible for the few (Interstate Highway system, Government housing loan guarantees, and GI Bill) not only excluded POC and women from this bounty, but actively worked to put more burdens and barriers against the poor.

The “hoods” were red-lined to exclude them from the loans. They were divided, isolated, and polluted by the same highways that allowed whites to flee to the new suburbs. The black GIs did enroll in college, but only those collages who accepted black students; separate and equal.

The AI that sets your health insurance policy is going to be way deadlier than the one that has a gun.

IDK if we should be calling something that requires so much training and dexterity an “accessibility device”.

With the expense of the hardware, the learning curve for the user, and the friction of wearing all that stuff, this is going to have to solve a compelling problem to be useful. Especially when “good enough” solutions are everywhere and free.

The militant centrist symbol is Jon Stewart wearing a Che Guevara hat. The T-shirt is only available in extra medium.

FYI: direct equivocating chattel slavery and prison forced-labor is an old tactic for confederate apologia. Prison conditions are, as OP points out abhorrent and racist. But they’re utopian compared to race-based chattel slavery. It makes the slavery apologist’s job easier when they just have to defend prison conditions to an audience ignorant of the realities of antebellum slavery.

Saying that prisons are the same as slavery doesn’t make prisons look worse, it makes slavery look better.

Aren’t Nationalism and Socialism contradictory? I mean in one the people serve the State while in the other the State serves the people. Not as dumb as Anarcho Capitalism, but still silly.

I wouldn’t differentiate between OTA and bring-to-the-shop recalls, I’d draw the line between defect repair and threat to life and safety. If the OTA update keeps the car from killing the passengers or pedestrians, It’s probably not a good idea to minimize the flaw through semantics.