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I was going to say as much. WV flipped hard in 2000. But it’s simple to understand - WV has always been pretty socially conservative, but was Dem because of the unions. They flipped because the Dems decided to turn on the biggest union industries in the state. The coal miner’s union isn’t a good base for your power when you’re overtly talking about actively working to destroy the coal mining industry. To be clear about how much WV cares about coal, it’s the state rock and there’s a coal miner on the state seal. The libertarian bent of a lot of GOP doesn’t hurt either, Montani Semper Liberi and all.

There is no profit generation in the industry.

That’s because we’re in relatively early R&D and are trying to speedrun things in a way we generally don’t with most tech. To compare to tech you understand and are familiar with, where we’re at currently would be equivalent to like the internet in the late 80s/early 90s, except we’ve all seen how that went and everyone wants to be the Amazon, Microsoft or Google of the AI market when it moves from high R&D and little to no profit to becoming a mainstream part of everyday life.

That transition point will probably be when bipedal robots that can do most tasks as well as a human while running a local model get cheap enough to be sold as industrial equipment. It’s why Asian labs (especially Chinese ones) keep showing off bipedal robots doing tasks that require either significant agility or fine motor skills involving predicting where body parts are (like doing needlepoint without being able to see it’s hands or doing dance routines).

and you’ll get kicked out of orgies for revealing the truth.

I’d say you could host your own flat orgies, but I wouldn’t want to attend. I like the round bits on the ladies too much to enjoy that scene.

Despite it basically being plot exposition because Shiloh needs to get hit by the plot exposition fairy to get things moving, Zydrate Anatomy is one of the better songs in it. Likewise Terrance Zdunich as the Graverobber is easily the best role in it, though attention needs to be called to Paris Hilton as Amber Sweet, not least because it never would have been released at all without her involvement (she was apparently so about this movie that she helped cover budget shortfalls to make it happen).

12 seconds

A lot of bills are very complex, often too complex to explain to any degree in 12 seconds (even the Death Note gives you 40s for a cause of death, and 6:40 for details). Maybe give them a few minutes. Otherwise, no notes.

For any kind of industrial facility I’ve always felt like whosoever is most directly responsible for the safety and negative externalities of the facility should be required to live in the area most affected by them.

You responsible for safety at a chemical plant, our ass gets to live wherever will be most hit by a spill of whatever your most deadly product or reagent is.

You responsible for a data center, you get to live where the water and power issues are most felt.

At least those can be easily moved. Imagine having to fuck the copier just to get a dick pic!

Yep, and it’s always done as a civil case so that the cops only have to demonstrate that it’s slightly more likely than not in order to keep the stuff. The costs of defending your property are high enough that it is usually not worth it unless the thing is irreplaceable.

Once the term became popularized, it fell out of use by the psychological community, as it was used more commonly as an insult than as a psychological term.

Any term for something that is likely to be a target of scorn or mockery has this problem unless it’s so bloodless, detached and clinical that it is effectively only usable as medical jargon and barely has any meaning outside that context. George Carlin once did a bit on this.

Related is how therapy language seems to increasingly be seeping into literally everything.

The cause of the cultural behavior usually has a purpose though.

Yeah, but not necessarily one that is still relevant or even ever actually worked towards whatever goal there originally was. Cultural inertia is like that.

So it probably at some point had a purpose, but that purpose (whatever it was) might or might not apply any more or even be total nonsense.

Except it’s almost certainly technically possible. Like I can guarantee you that human level intelligence is possible in a volume of less than 2L of hardware and running on just a few W of power. The idea that human level intelligence cannot be exceeded without needing to match those space, power, or materials restrictions is kind of absurd.

We’re not deleting the old copies. You’ll always be able to go and rewatch the original versions of these works.

…yet. Remember, you’ll own nothing and be happy with it. Or else.

I still find it amusing that the first time Amazon stripped people of a book they had purchased and remotely instructed all Kindle devices to delete already downloaded copies was a version of 1984. Couldn’t have been more fitting if they tried.

Obligatory Tim Minchin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw

Covering parking lots has the benefit of also protecting parked vehicles from sunlight and weather, meaning your car isn’t blazing hot when you return to it and you can unload any purchases in peace.

Why would installing panels over a parking lot be many times more expensive than installing them in any other open, flat area? Is it having to bury the power lines?

Yeah, but then you’ve got the weirdos who don’t feel that way unless it’s a white character being cast differently and the other weirdos who think it’s only acceptable when it’s a white character being cast differently.

All of that is fair, except for one thing: you absolutely can see phenotype. It being observable characteristics is literally part of the definition. The pheno- prefix has a Greek root meaning to show or display, same origin as in phenomenon. A phenotype is thus categorizing something based on how it appears.

It’s easy to see someone holding up a camera or cell phone making it obvious they are recording.

Really? I routinely keep my phone in my breast pocket whenever I wear a shirt with one, and enough of it sticks out for the camera to see above the top of the pocket. I’d look no different recording or not, let alone it being obvious if I’m doing it. It’d be shaky body-cam style footage, but that’s not the point.

She was suggesting women should be codified to have more rights. He wrote back something like, “As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh.”

Now I’m curious what rights she felt they should be codified to have.

People doing drugs? They should be allowed to. Banning them doesn’t work; the government should just properly regulate them. Like how the EU is dealing with cigarettes. And in that case people would be less inclined to hide drug use.

Yeah, but a business doesn’t want someone to OD in their public bathroom - it’s bad for business.

pedophile supporters.

G.O.P. - Guardians of Pedophiles