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The non-insane ones all got primaried out last year.

But he did so using a made-up currency that threatened to disrupt Big Money, so he might actually get the book thrown at him if only to keep the usual lobbyists happy.

That's still absolute peanuts compared to the thousands people already get for buying an EV.

Hating Congress is something people of all political affiliations seem to be united in, but to their credit, they clearly have procedural rules in place to prevent anyone from splitting the vote, which is more than I can say for our own elections.

$15? Not $15,000, just... $15???

Every nation except the US, I'd venture.

Then they'll just use that as an excuse to jack up prices even more. Sure, they have a lot less to gain at that point, but they'd have even less still to gain if they don't, so they will. As Dan Olson said in his NFT video, diminishing returns are still returns. It honestly seems to me that if...

This is why I've been skeptical about all those tax incentives in the Anti-Inflation Act. Announce that they can get, say, $1000 towards the purchase of a heat pump or new insulation, and the companies that make those things will at best take that as an excuse to raise their prices by $1000, or...

Don't forget everything that happened to Alex Jones this year. And speaking of people who owe a billion dollars to Johnny Law, you can add Epic Games to the list if you're petty enough to resent having to share a planet with Fortnite and the people behind it, like I am.

And as for those cars of his, I believe the standard police procedure is to seize them and auction them off? ...Actually, that would likely result in their total carbon footprint increasing by an order of magnitude, because they'd all be owned by different people and probably used a lot more often.

The fact that I can't even say "out of all two of them" speaks volumes already.

Also, was his original brag supposed to be about how much energy he wastes just because of how many cars he owns, total? Because uh... that's not how it works, buddy. Unless he purposely leaves them all idling when they're not in use or operates some kind of car rental service out of his own...

Does Twitter still have a working API? Because if it does, it would probably save the Archive a lot of bandwidth, clock cycles, and redundant storage space if they just built a dedicated Twitter crawling bot that can read raw tweets the same way third party apps do, and set up a read-only mirror...

No, the Christmas sale hasn't started yet. This is their semiweekly "here are some games that are cheap, probably because they've been out for a long time and nobody wants to pay full price anymore" thing.

Frontiers is already 30% off on Steam. Did it sell that badly?

OK, then the problem is that we did those two things in the wrong order. When I say "mankind was not ready", that's exactly what I mean. If there is a way to stop people from being bastards, then we should be putting all our resources into doing that before we make any more tools they can use to...

Counterpoint: The world would be a much better place if the bad people had never been afforded the means to find one another and coordinate their activities. We can't blame the specifics of how any one particular site works for the fact that they did.

Robert Zemeckis did!

It's possible the entire internet was a mistake, and that anyone who says otherwise is just speaking from a position of privilege and survivor bias.

While the algorithm definitely made things worse, I think the devolution into a rage breeder reactor was inevitable. If I understand correctly, Tumblr never had such an algorithm, always operated like the Latest Tweets tab where you only saw content from people you were following, but still...