One of the GOPs major goals, I believe, is to do exactly this nationwide: spend public money on religious schools where their operatives can indoctrinate students, phase out public education altogether, except maybe as a prison pipeline for minorities.

Was ist Loss?

Dang it I thought they were finally making a modern Battletoads game!

Pretty good: I finished reading Fauna which was wild. Spent the night in a nearby hotel with the family because of this hurricane: our house is surrounded by huge trees so we were worried.

Ah yes just like the "perjury trap" we heard about so many aeons ago... The kind of trap where you just get called on your bullshit and then.... then that's it. That's the trap.

Last night I grabbed a bunch of audio files for country songs that contain the phrase "ice cold beer," then I edited them together so that all the "ice cold beer"s lined up amidst the cacophony of about 5 songs being played at the same time. I thought that would be funny but it just didn't sound as good as I thought it would. Maybe if each song faded in one by one... I dunno.

Pay billions for a userbase, then drive away the ones that aren't Nazis or bots.

Unlike capitalism, which is a bunch of random people climbing on eachothers back and when one gets to the top he is not expected to pull the others up.

Where I work just switching into a TTY would be enough to keep anyone out.

Even worse, just making money isn't enough: you also have to become a fucking global monopoly.

That is by far the most likely scenario. Hell it's already happening with the AI we do have. Teslas driving into walls, facial recognition mistaking an innocent person for a criminal (mentioned in the article).

Doomsday science fiction is fun to toy with but it usually involves a lot of hand waving.

I've been getting into primitive technology lately. It all started when I looked at my back yard and thought hey, if we call it red clay, then I should be able to make it into pottery. I take dirt from my yard, levigate it, add grog and wedge, hand-build pots, and fire them in my fire pit. Been making sharpening stones from river rocks. Crafting replicas of Roman machines. That sort of thing.