In many ways, the Clinton Administration is when Democrats started giving up the Overton Window to Republicans. The trend of “self-regulating industries” went into full swing with things like the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Not Reagan or the first Bush. Clinton.

FISA, the court that rubber stamps warrents for wire tapping, became a rubber stamping operation under Clinton. I’d have to dig it up, but there’s actually an ancient freerepublic.org thread where they hope Bush undoes this. Instead, Bush ignored it completely while freerepublic.org cheered him on.

This is all to say that when Nader said both sides are the same, there were a lot of people on the left who agreed.

Bush then takes less then a year to show how utterly wrong that was, and it didn’t even start with 9/11.

The past President in question was Trump.

Then you read it wrong. This is a place where it really isn’t illegal when the President does it, because the President is allowed to simply choose what is classified in the first place.

40k Orcs work like that. It leaves open the question if Orc burgers are vegan or not.

He was more conservative than he let on.

https://jacobin.com/2021/10/norm-macdonald-anti-politics-anti-comedy-snl-subversion-stand-up

Notable figures of the online right did the very same thing, some of them claiming Norm Macdonald as one of their own. While they may have overstated their case, it can nonetheless be difficult to square appreciation for Macdonald’s comedy with his ambiguously conservative politics.

In an era when right-wing comedians claim to be “truth tellers” smashing liberal taboos to get laughs, Norm Macdonald considered himself no such thing. “I guess there came a time, and I missed it, when revealing everything started to be considered art,” he said in 2018. “But I’d always learned that concealing everything was art.” Macdonald didn’t enjoy political comedy and on stage spared his audience his personal opinions on political matters: “Let’s not get into this shit, man,” he told Marc Maron in 2011 when the topic of politics was broached, “I can see people not laughing now.”

Macdonald’s concealment was a smart call by a canny performer, but it was also a deference to his audience and their enjoyment, and perhaps we should see that as a kind of generosity. And without understanding the extent of this self-concealment — something many of the obituaries missed — we don’t fully appreciate Macdonald’s life, art, and politics.

I used to think Giuliani was. They had been around the same social circles, and Trump overlooked a lot of Giuliani’s failures during his four years. The collapse of the 2020 election cases seems to have ended that, though.

The treason here would be in the moral sense, not the legal sense. He was President at the time he handed over the lists, and the secrecy of these lists derive from the power of the executive in the first place. He could hand out whatever classified documents he wanted to anyone, and it’s 100% legal. Even without the Supreme Court recently expanding the “official acts” coverage, this would be easily covered.

Congress could have impeached him for it, but we all know how that would go. Voters rejecting him is the only real remedy.

He did not have the right to keep those docs at Mar-a-lago, however.

The media should be giving this far more attention than they ever gave to Hillary’s emails.

I’ve had people straight up say “Gilead is perfectly reasonable given the declining birthrates”. Bro, you can’t think of a better way to solve declining birthrates than ritual rape? Gilead doesn’t even solve it very well in-universe, it does a bunch of stuff that is actually counter to that goal, and there’s no particular reason to think it would do any better in real life.

It’ll be a step up from the 7800x3d, but how much is a question. The 9000 series in general has been a disappointment in terms of the gains that were expected, but it does show some kind of gain. There’s reason to think those issues are fixable. Linux performance does show a decent uplift, for one, which has not been the case with Intel’s Arrow Lake chips.

And we have another path for that. We really don’t need nuclear at this point.

Not quite sure which way you’re pointing. Nuclear is ridiculously expensive up front. It has to run for a long time at 100% to make any kind of economic sense.

OK, then we just deploy a whole lot of storage capacity as fast as we can to support solar and wind. Nuclear only makes sense if it’s cheaper than that, and it’s not.

Since I’m not an anarchist, I’m not going to give a detailed answer. The various threads of anarchism would give different answers, and I’m not about to cover it.

But I can say that there’s plenty of theory out there, and you might be getting downvotes because you don’t seem willing to engage with any of it.

So I don’t consider myself an anarchist, but the various types of anarchy have come up with answers to this question. Generally, they rely on more social cohesion to enforce social rules. Private property would not be a thing, which cuts out a lot of laws in itself.

No. Anarchy is the opposite of hierarchy.

Not really. People unknowingly ingesting THC is not cool no matter how you label it.

This is the actual problem with these types of retirement plans, though. People are expected to know a lot about managing the investments themselves. There’s a whole industry whose job it is to give you bad advice. The real advice is “drop it in a mix of an sp500 index fund it and bonds according to your risk level” and the rest is bullshit.

He doesn’t think that. Newt is evil, not stupid.

It was a bad take. Intel has not been using TSMC long.

That said, it’s pretty broadly agreed that Intel needs to toss its manufacturing arm into a subsidiary, and then possibly make that subsidiary completely independent. That’s what AMD did with Global Foundries, and it worked very well for them. This process seems to have already started at Intel.

It’s funny to see Godzilla in weird contexts.

No, I don’t think that’s a particularly good reason for it all, either.