As hard as it is to believe, we are in the early stages of AI. God only knows what will happen in the future, but doing all those things -- and obviating some others -- is certainly possible. I'm not as sanguine about it as is Elon -- I don't think humans were meant for idleness. But we'll see.

They are running a competition between being the most incompetent administration in history, and the most corrupt. They've already beat all the other administrations in both categories, so now it's just a question of which one of these two comes out on top.

The media dodge the topic by not giving the breakdown, but this is the core of the problem.

Ah, but you see, they DID proofread it. The person who wrote it did it correctly, but the proofreader, hired by Trumpists to check for the political reliability of the ad, noticed the "mistake," and "corrected it."

"Might..."

The embarrassment is the number of people who like this kind of talk, think it means he's tough and serious, and will make those eggheads use "common sense."

Chamberlain was better. At least he wasn't a Nazi sympathizer at heart.

The Lark Descending

THe look reminds me of the Morlocks from the 1960 movie The Time Machine. There are moral resemblances, as well.

Trash sells. As far as I can tell she owes her entire career to selling her own life in print. People buy it.

Her book sales are likely to solve the only issues she cares about: money and attention.

How much $ do you think Trump is going to get from that Saudi prince? No wonder he gets snippy when either one of them is criticized.

nobody is prepared for, and the current generation isn't particularly well prepared for what's happening now, let alone what I foresee as a downward spiral. But what a crap-assed thing to be grateful for! /

He can't stop it, so he's trying to blunt the effect by saying he was for releasing them. But I wouldn't be surprised if there were some kind of illegal shenanigans going on to delete data from them as well, although it seems to me the Epstein estate should have copies of much of them somewhere.

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He counts rest and recreation as working, because it means when he does work he's more efficient. His tweets are so important that they count double.

Because they ARE losing money, and have lost money every year of their existence. If the NBA wasn't already subsidizing them they wouldn't exist. The NBA can do that because the players go along with it. Corporations have shareholders who aren't so liberal with their money.