You want someone at the top of the management hierarchy. You can call that guy a CEO or not, but it’s the same job. You can take away private investment and have the workers own the means of production at that company, but it’s still the same job. You can flatten that hierarchy until it resembles the terrain of Kansas, but it’s still the same job. You can pay that guy only somewhat more than the median wage at the company, but it’s still the same job.
It is bad. We have a society of laws and justice that’s supposed to prevent the need for vigilantism. That system has broken down and favors people of wealth, and thus you have a return of vigilantes being seen as heroes.
Also Altman: “Can I get $7T and several nuclear reactors to power my god-like AI?”
Note that a lot of people who come across like that are probably somewhere on the autism spectrum. Lt Cmdr Data is seen as autistic representation for a reason. Like Data, they aren’t bad people at all, they just function differently.
I don’t know how he got a following at all. Like, a lot of televangelists have a style. If you watch them as a kind of theater, it’s kinda fascinating. Not something I’d recommend on the regular, but you can see how they draw people in. Stage magicians can take notes from these guys.
Kenneth Copeland, though? How does he not creep you the fuck out at first glance? Just watch him doing this blood ritual thing. Copeland would make a terrible stage magician.
That’s good.
I’d almost say to mandate it down to brown paper packaging with the name of the product, dosage, ingredient list, and anything else pertinent to know.
Did they ask an AI “are these pictures of the same person?” and went with whatever it said?
In fairness, the NYPD doesn’t know a lot about guns.
Do you really need to ask why we hate a health insurance CEO?
The state that was run by the VP candidate.
Except, where did that guy go for much of Sept and Oct?
Walz then disappeared for a month. The campaign sent him into the background while Harris made appearances with Liz Cheney.
They threw progressives a bone, and then forgot about it.
Not sure what you mean about pollsters. They said it would be a tight race, and it was. Trump did not have a landslide by any means.
Could they at least stop putting these things in packaging that makes it look like candy? Same for weed gummies.
The Talos Principle.
There are two other factors at work:
Even if we assume they’re just going to bypass the usual ladder up the federal court system, they can’t do that on everything just as a practical matter.
More likely, a lower court shoots it down, and there’s no basis for an appeals court to do anything different. They tweak it and try again. That one also fails. Try again.
Eventually, they get something that threads the needle. This is how the “Muslim ban” went.
How much for information related to literally any other unsolved murder in the US?
Can anyone give even a bad reason for a reward this high that doesn’t involve the wealth of the target? Just for the sake of it, I’ll take even the most tortured argument that doesn’t relate to the fact that he was a CEO.
Could even stop before it gets that far. It’ll be difficult to convene a jury with so many candidates dismissed for saying “nah, fuck health insurance CEOs”.
Even avoiding airports, he could be on the other end of the country by now.
Isn’t there’s something where if the police don’t find a suspect in the first few days, they probably won’t? May not apply when the case has this much attention and the police are motivated.
That is the rub with it. It assumes full employment. Capitalism produces a surplus, and because of it, people just plain don’t have to work very much to get all the basic needs met. Keynesianism was the liberal attempt at fixing this, basically by throwing their hands up and looking for ways to dig ditches to have them filled back in again. The leftist solution is to reduce working hours so you can focus on things that aren’t work, or just letting people not work altogether.
Keynesianism is the only thing that’s kept Capitalism going this long. The right is trying their hardest to dismantle it.