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> The latter part is likely going to swing back to neocon territory by 2028 though.

That will be an... interesting transition. They're kind of between a rock and a hard place; they clearly have to ditch the MAGA thing, because it's electoral poison, as we've just seen. But also the die-hard Trumpists are still a big part of their base, and won't like that.

I think it’s because “Tesla vs BYD!!!” is an interesting story for the media, whereas “VW AG continues to make vast quantities of boring cars like they have been since the 60s, only now some of them are electric” is a very boring story for the media. So you get lots of talk about BYD and Tesla, and very little mention of the boring legacy manufacturers who actually make most electric cars (in the UK and Europe; other markets are more Chinese-dominated)

Only about 12% of BEV sales in the UK are Chinese manufacturers, so this may not actually make _that_ much difference.

Hybrids, and probably the odd CNG/LNG one. And one or two hydrogen.

Even ignoring the alleged spitting, shagging someone who works in a position of authority at a customer company if obviously a massive conflict of interest.

Shouldn't even need to ask; the Basilisk should simply realise the problem by itself.

> perfectly safe things like triggering deterministic and guardrailed CI/CD pipelines or read-only queries of production data

I... question whether the second one is perfectly safe.

Ideally, yes. In practice there have been a number of nuclear devices which can arm accidentally, though (at least as far as anyone has so far admitted) they were generally early ones.

Also, of course, even assuming that it’s ‘safe’, spreading one over the landscape is extremely undesirable.

(Also if it was an actual missile as described, you _definitely_ do not want one of those solid fuel motors going up.)

They possibly thought that the democrats might go for the "all forgotten, we're all friends now, right?" approach. Which wouldn't be a _crazy_ thing to think, because it's pretty much what happened in 2020.

> Prosecute the one accepting the bribes, not the one giving it.

... Wait, what? You prosecute _both_.

> Working with law enforcement is... uh, not a crime, definitionally.

The "just following orders" defence is, fairly, notoriously, weak. "Just following requests" is presumably even weaker. If you assist law enforcement in doing something illegal, you shouldn't assume that you're magically in the clear.

These aren't pickup trucks.

That's electric semi trucks. The market for pickup trucks in general in China would be pretty small.

> Last year Tesla sold 1MM cars in us+China and another 150K in Europe.

... Wait, really, it was that low?! VW AG sold about a million BEVs last year; at this point Tesla may actually be in third place (or even fourth, depending on what Geely's up to these days).

I had this a while ago; had to actually physically go to the dentist to move my appointment (with the receptionist, who used to answer the phone). Absolutely ridiculous. Particularly as, if they actually want to automate this, well, _calendar software has existed for decades_. No need to use AI bullshit.

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.

It’s complicated, because corruption became a big issue in the election. The spectacle of that wannabe-oligarch spending half a billion may have encouraged some to vote, and/or turned off traditional/non-Trumpy republicans.

Getting an LLM to _write a blog_ for you is really bizarre behaviour. I mean, really, why bother?

If the relevant senators are rational actors, that might follow. But a good few of them are Trump-chosen crazy people.

But what are the facts here? What is the benefit to the local community?

What is the benefit of a data center to the local community? This is the real problem. Best case, it’s eh, whatever. It doesn’t provide jobs, but if planned and built properly it is largely inoffensive (provided that it does not cause electricity rates to rise; this is pretty locally specific as different electricity markets work different ways). Worst case, you have Elon Musk putting old jet engines next to your house, or that Bitcoin miner in Texas where neighbours report 90db noise.

At the very least, laws need to prevent the second case.

> If it messes up sometimes, well, that's just the price of convenience...

That seems incredibly inconvenient, though; you then have to sort it out.

In Dublin, we periodically pedestrianise a street or two. And there is much angst about “oh, but the businesses”. And inevitably a year or so on the businesses on the street are busier than they ever were.

"If we're not allowed to build datacenters without screwing over the local community, then we won't build datacenters!"

Er... I mean, if that's the case, then, fine, I guess?

I do not believe that this is actually the case. People build heavily regulated industrial facilities all the time.

One of his ridiculous children, perhaps.

This is the way that American elections work, essentially. CBS projects them, AP does a somewhat more thorough projection, and then eventually the states certify them. These projections are virtually never wrong.

Like, it's an extremely weird system, but it is how it has always worked. If you refuse to use it, you won't have a result for weeks.

> This is not acceptable.

Unfortunately, that's almost certainly what's going to happen. They won't have a veto-proof majority.

So apparently the logic is that Molly is a variant of Mary(???), and Polly rhymes with Molly.

Honestly that's quite often the case with kings. Unhinged ranting and fixation on minutiae of palace design is a Type.

In the case of Elizabeth, it was likely just so common at one time that many variants were needed. Also Mary (you mightn't think there are many variants of Mary, but, for instance, Polly is a variant of Mary. Figure that one out.) At one time, pretty much every family in Ireland had at _least_ one child called Mary. Sometimes more than one. This ultimately resulted in Ireland having two consecutive presidents called Mary (and in the 2011 election, which lead to Ireland's first non-Mary president in 20 years, two of the candidates were also called Mary or variants thereof). The Marys have now largely aged out, and there were no candidates called Mary at all in the most recent election.

On this here orange website?! What a suggestion! Accepted etiquette is to real the _title_, and imagine what the content of the article might be.