They don’t actually care about pissing money away. They enjoy good people getting tortured because they hate them and do not see them as people.

If there was an organized harassment campaign against her I wonder if there is any legal culpability for those involved.

That’s not how it works. You can tell the difference between radiation from a nuclear weapon and a conventional bomb used on radioactive materials. If they used nukes they won’t be able to cover it up for very long.

Mr President, God spared you in Butler, PA to be the most consequential President in a century—maybe ever. The decisions on your shoulders I would not want to be made by anyone else. You have many voices speaking to you Sir, but there is only ONE voice that matters. HIS voice. I am your appointed servant in this land and am available for you but I do not try to get in your presence often because I trust your instincts. No President in my lifetime has been in a position like yours. Not since Truman in 1945. I don’t reach out to persuade you. Only to encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven and that voice is far more important than mine or ANYONE else’s. You sent me to Israel to be your eyes, ears and voice and to make sure our flag flies above our embassy. My job is to be the last one to leave.

I will not abandon this post. Our flag will NOT come down! You did not seek this moment. This moment sought YOU! It is my honor to serve you!

That is some weird shit.

Vance is part of a specific far right hyperpolitical faction of Catholics that he adopted via his patron Thiel.

California does have a regulated market already. If these companies want to participate in the market they can follow the rules like other market participants.

What you are saying doesnt make sense. They established a legal regulated market for cannabis products. It exists now. If these companies want to compete in that regulated market they can follow the rules and do so.

It doesn’t, they aren’t.

How does that make sense? They have a regulated state market that he is trying to protect. Letting drugs from unregulated companies compete against regulated drugs from the companies following the rules has created a variety of serious problems in the market. I don’t understand how you are getting far right out of this.

I missed that Dyson had sued people for calling him out on his hypocrisy. What a complete piece of shit that guy is.

There is no law forcing Nvidia to require accounts to download drivers. I literally just downloaded Nvidia drivers a few days ago without needing an account.

They dont? I’ve downloaded Nvidia drivers many times and never had to create an account.

Potentially yes, if you use existing IP to make music, doing it with a computer isn’t going to change anything about how the law works. It does get super complicated and there’s ambiguity depending on the specifics, but mostly if you do it a not obvious way and no one knows how you did it you’re going to be fine, anything other than that you will potentially get sued, even if whatever you did was a legally permissible use of the IP. Rightsholders generally hate when anyone who isn’t them tries to make money off their IP regardless of how they try to do it or whether they have a right to do it unless they paid for a license.

That feels categorically different unless AI has legal standing as a person. We’re talking about training LLMs, there’s not anything more than people using computers going on here.

Where does the training data come from seems like the main issue, rather than the training itself. Copying has to take place somewhere for that data to exist. I’m no fan of the current IP regime but it seems like an obvious problem if you get caught making money with terabytes of content you don’t have a license for.

More progressive overall but he has a history of making anti-gay statements.

That makes a lot more sense, there was no mention of a stepmom when I read it.

It seems odd his mom is a sheriff given her criminal record. I would expect abducting a child to a foreign country would disqualify someone from law enforcement.

If that happens the economy will break and buying a house will become even more difficult rather than easier. There’s no scenario where Trump seizing the Fed makes housing more affordable.

With the way Trump is fucking up the economy lower rates are looking increasingly unlikely. There’s still two predicted for this year but the tariff chaos is pushing things in the wrong direction for them to safely lower rates and increasing the likelihood that rate increases will become necessary. If he forces rates down it will blow the whole thing up, the independence of the Fed is integral to maintaining faith in the US economy and Trump imposing artificially low rates will cause serious problems very quickly.