Well, I can recall one time about 5 years ago we’ve seen him take a decisive stand. … Or I meant to say, run.

Fortunately Trump has enough stupid for all of us.

Written from my full-self-driving Tesla on my way to fully functional Hyperloop to the self-sustaining colony on Mars, sent May 12, 2017.

What the heck is the caption about Graham Platner doing here?

The leak is great, but I can’t understand how we don’t already have democratic state legislatures passing laws requiring all ICE and other LEO to show their faces and identify themselves.

If they are doing nothing wrong, they have nothing to hide, right? But Noem, Trump, Miller know that the inverse is true in this case: They hide, so they can do wrong. But no, the people with the state-sponsored monopoly on violence get to hide behind masks, while the law-abiding citizens and residents have to show their ID or get arrested.

I think legally requiring them, under threat of criminal charges, to show their face will reduce their aggressiveness substantially - when there are no other checks on their power, why is this easiest one not top of the list?

So basically, they are our tired, our poor, our huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of the teeming shore? They are our homeless, tempest-tost to us? Certainly we shouldn’t lift our lamp beside the golden door, right?

I believe they were locked out of the federal investigation but eventually confirmed they are continuing to do their own state investigation (announced Friday).

It’s terrible that she has to, but so good that she stands her ground and doesn’t answer their question where she was born, which is meant to create a defensible suspicion post-facto for the illegal stop. And despite the threats that they’re going to “put her in the car” and ID her, they end up walking away.

Also, they take her picture presumably to run it through their facial recognition app and if they ID she was not a US citizen, they likely would use the interaction to claim she falsely IDed herself as a US citizen and arrest her on that basis, even if she didn’t have an existing basis for ICE action.

These people are the worst scum.

That’s… Honestly a good theory.

This might be the most thoughtful and kindest reply I’ve received online. Thank you, I’ll definitely look into her.

Well, great. So looking at 2008 for the most recent model, I suppose that means government bailouts or subsidies using taxpayer money to save the companies and thereby prevent a complete collapse of markets?

I suspect very creative firms of accountants and CFOs are working hard right this moment to identify the next step in the shell game. So I suspect some creative refinance could avoid that outcome. But I definitely hope you’re right.

Yup, agreed. But I think if we ever get accurate history written, Stephen Miller will be shown to have been the near-sole driver of the worst excesses and authoritarian moves right now.

There have been multiple leaks that he effectively controls the DOJ and DHS priorities, is setting ICE procedure and targets, all while Wormtonguing Trump on policy. Trump has effectively lost his higher brain functions and is an Id in a body, Noem, Bondi and Patel are just there to be close to power, the grift and the photo ops, and nobody else in Trump’s orbit has the agenda Miller has.

I’d recommend to dystopia a bit harder - if this type of CaaS happens, I expect you won’t get to lay a finger on any real local computing hardware. I think you’d have a computing equivalent of a Raspberry Pi which is DRM-locked to a specific service provider’s cloud computing services, and a remote desktop or streaming GPU service.

I hope so, but there’s a way that bubble doesn’t burst even if we’re right that AI never delivers competent/competitive quality: that monopolies simultaneously integrate AI into their products and the entire world simply gets worse, while consumers pay extra for those very AI features they don’t want and which produce an inferior product.

Yup, that’s exactly the Dunning-Kruger mechanism at work.

His name starts with an “S” and ends with a “tephen Miller.”

It’s thinking through and planning random things for the most part. It could be a work-related issue, or a random thing I just realized I had an idea about how to do better than I had planned, or a specifically-worded challenging google search I need to do to troubleshoot something.

The thoughts themselves aren’t usually high-stress, but my brain starts working on them regardless. Strategies to take my attention off of them might work for a time (counting, imagining a journey, etc), but even if I fall asleep I wake right back up soon enough. I suspect right now the main mental issue is symptoms of burnout, but I have physical eye dryness issues layered on it (all being separately worked on with different specialists - tried all the drops, treatments, strategies…).

I could go on and on, but thanks, exhausting myself during the day is not a bad idea all things considered. At least it may reduce my physical capacity to wake up.

Morning for me, because actually exercise for me compensates for the lack of sleep, “wakes” me up. But thanks, I’ll try anything at this point.

Thank you, sorry for you as well. I have no trouble getting to sleep, it’s staying asleep that’s the issue. Seems to ultimately stump everyone.