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I ended up “buying” it off of Amazon digital. Before I had “purchased” it, it had been variously bouncing around free or ad-supported streaming services like Prime and Tubi. I stopped paying attention to that stuff after I “bought” it, though.

(All that stuff in quotes because you don’t really own it, but I’m at least using whatever I paid for.)

I’ve probably watched all of B5 about 10 times or more. Going through another cycle right now. Just watched the first episode of season 2 today, having finished season 1 yesterday, so this is very fresh. I think if I was going to introduce a friend to it, I’d say to skip season 1 entirely.

There’s a lot of stuff that feels like filler in season 1, even though I think quite a few of those episodes are actually trying to introduce lore in a sneaky way. Like, the Soul Hunter episode feels a lot like hot garbage, but it does put some important lore in your head. Similar with the episode that they find some ancient organic alien technology. Plus, I think everybody will instantly like Sheridan in a way that never happened with Sinclair.

I’ve grown to like season 1, but it took several watches before it stopped bothering me.

Today, we have 0%. At the beginning of the Biden administration, we had 95%. The policies of that administration really caused us to lose practically the entire China market. - NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

The article says that both Biden’s and later, Trump’s policies have decreased NVIDIA’s market share. He’s really phrasing it in a favorable way to Trump. Like, the same way, you could say the following, “At the beginning of the Obama administration, we had zero deaths from COVID. Now, we have millions.” Just skip over the part that is inconvenient for propaganda, right?

However, the loss of NVIDIA’s market share in China isn’t only attributed to the previous administration, since under President Trump, Team Green had to halt the sales of its H20 AI chip temporarily, and they were resumed only after the firm agreed on a ‘revenue sharing’ model with the Trump government. More importantly, with US-China trade relations being influenced, NVIDIA also suffered a significant setback from China, as domestic regulators and authorities began persuading Chinese Big Tech companies not to use Team Green’s AI chips.

Also, Jensen Huang’s statement betrays an insane naivete about China. Newsflash: China always tries to take international industry and make a domestic Chinese version. If you have a 95% share of something in China and you’re a foreign company, that simply means it’s related to some fresh technology, or that it’s virtually worthless. If it is believed to have value, China will have their own stuff before you know it, and don’t expect IP laws like patents or copyright to slow them down. They don’t give a shit about that stuff for foreign companies.

I’d have to go back and look at what it means to be a psychopath, but I think there’s no reason that a psychopath would specifically feel an affinity towards other psychopaths. If anything, they probably feel competition towards other psychopaths. There are exceptions to everything, but you know for example, most serial killers work alone.

If Trump was a Ferengi on Ferenginar, he’d have long ago been sent off of the Tower of Commerce.

You know the rules. Combat slaves are okay. Sex slaves are not okay.

House Republicans created a rule earlier this year that will block resolutions on the tariffs from getting a floor vote.

When I heard it described, they said basically that the House decided to automatically rubber stamp whatever tariffs Trump made.

Here is the first clause of Article I Section 7 of the US Constitution:

All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives;

While this means that they do have the power to create a bill that delegates their authority, it’s hard to see this tariff nonsense as anything but an abdication of their constitutional duties and a weakening of the checks and balances that are supposed to be built-in to our democracy.

Maybe the founding fathers never expected representatives to just hand over their power so easily. Like, no matter how idiot-proof you make something, America will always invent a bigger idiot.

I don’t disagree with you essentially, but 30 minutes is ambitious, in my opinion, to really figure queries out. I’d much rather have a slower person who actually understands what they’re doing than a faster person who is probably just copy-pasting from ChatGPT.

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Once, I applied for a job and all of the technical questions were about SQL, because I had listed that as a technology that I knew. One of many, by the way, and not something that I claimed mastery in or anything. It was just those three letters. Somehow, the interviewer thought that meant I’d have a DBA’s knowledge of the subject.

This reminds me of how police abuse any new tool they’re given.

Like how while trained dogs can actually sniff out drugs, when they’re given to police, they get retrained to simply alert whenever the police want them to, and essentially become a flimsy reason to let police violate your rights and search anybody they want to.

And the police suffer zero repercussions for their actions. If they don’t find drugs, there’s nobody who’s going to take them to court and force them to retrain their dogs or to disallow drug dogs from being used as reasonable suspicion.

I have to agree.

And actually, the pattern they talk about in the article happens in every generation, anyways. People’s values seem to change as they get older. But I think they don’t really change.

I think if you look into the issue, you’ll find that a lot of people don’t really have political beliefs. They just have selfishness and greed.

When they’re young and poor, it manifests as left leaning because they want the government to give them money, and after they’ve accumulated whatever money they can, it manifests as right leaning because they still want the government to give them money.

The first couple of paragraphs are about the UK, but then it says

Across the Atlantic, the pattern repeats. Average IRA balances for Boomers (ages 60–78) hover around $271,105, compared to just $111,524 for Gen X (ages 44–59).

Looking at the article, they don’t actually say, “in America.” They only say “across the Atlantic.” Seems a bit unclear to me, so I understand how you missed it. But most of the article is about America.

There’s not enough evidence? Then why did you call a fucking press conference about it? Imagine you’re a doctor or scientist and you have to work with the world’s biggest moron as the leader of your organization…

Also not to be confused with the decapitated centaur.

“Remember when America was only scary on Halloween?” said the white man.

Since you said, “one more movie”, I guess it has to be a movie actor. Otherwise, I’d probably pick an author like Shakespeare, who was also an actor, and obviously, he’d be acting in something new that he wrote. Wouldn’t it be better to end up with a new work?

Otherwise, I’d choose a universally beloved actor who would be willing to make a serious movie that speaks out against what is happening today in America will authority, conviction, and gravitas. Like, Charlie Chaplin starred in The Great Dictator. Maybe he’d be excited to star in a movie that shits all over Trump and MAGA.

When asked recently if he would invoke the Insurrection Act, Trump repeatedly emphasized that he was allowed to do it. And I’ve noticed several other times when he used the same excuse.

I’ve seen a lot of psychopaths in real life and in the news who had the same perspective. You’ll see it in a couple of days, actually, as it happens every year probably in every city that people will leave a bowl of candy out for Halloween, and somebody will take all of the candy out of the bowl, and if confronted, they’ll just say that it’s not illegal. Or for the news example, you’ll see the guy who killed an intruder, but if you listen to the way he talks about it, it seemed less like self-defense and more like he’d always wanted to kill somebody and managed to find a way to do it “legally”.

Trump is almost certainly a psychopath. He doesn’t have a conscience, and so it is natural for him to think that he should be allowed to do whatever he wants, as long as he doesn’t suffer any consequences. He wants to kill people with nuclear weapons, and so he’ll likely figure out a way to start a war just so that he can legally do so. And if that doesn’t work, then he’ll settle for this kind of shit. Just like a little shitstain future serial killer child who starts fires to see what he can get away with.

He’s so transparent. It’s still difficult for me to fathom that even a single other person, outside of his family and inner circle, voted for Trump in the last election.

According to NewsChannel 5, Bushart lost his job doing medical transport because he was unable to post a $2 million bond to get out of jail.

Corrupt sheriff, corrupt judge, corrupt DA, and apparently incompetent defense attorney.

I sometimes watch good judges on YouTube. I’m not completely familiar with the procedure, but I can’t imagine a good judge who wouldn’t throw this case out at the first possible opportunity. It’s simply not possible for a good judge to set $2 million bail for somebody who reposts something from the president.

Literally, even if he had intended it to be a threat, and he obviously didn’t, there is no decent judge who would have let this case go this long if that was the only evidence.

The recreation sort of looks weird, inevitably, because it’s obvious that the people who are standing are all just… standing there, posing. Not walking, for example. It would be very difficult to do anything about that, though. Especially with getting the boat and the dog to behave so well. With the boat and the dog figured in, it’s already a miracle that they got it so close.

Also, how cool is it that the guy in the red shirt and white hat is taking a selfie (I think)? That’s exactly what I’d do to copy that original.