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It’s happening A LOT in the US too. Mainstream media just doesn’t seem to find it that newsworthy.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting...

A fine doesn’t undo a lie that’s already made it around the world.

Although given Brexit I’d question how useful the ASA actually is. It seems Russian funded politicians were free to spew endless lies at the average citizen with no repercussions.

>I think the American First Amendment would obliterate this government body and probably the whole institution if it was ever tried.

I think this is exactly the kind of thing Trump is trying to slow walk us into while everyone is distracted by his war in Iran.

First consolidate the networks into the hands of a few loyal supporters (you don’t need a body to ban a commercial The networks refuse to air), then use the FCC to clean up the remaining opposition.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/trump-fccs-equal...

> Voter suppression is not a large scale problem in American

So you aren’t a person of color who lives in the south I assume? I could also make a couple educated guesses about where you consume news from as well but I’m refrain.

Needless to say, it absolutely is an issue exacerbated by Supreme Court actions pretending it wouldn’t quickly become one.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/its-very-much-a-racial-issue...

And yet, after “striking down” the tariffs they not only didn’t go away, they increased.

You’re making an awfully big assumption that Khomenei being dead is going to result in a better situation for the average Iranian.

> Trump will be out of office in a couple of years, and hopefully Netanyahu as well.

Trump has said numerous times he’s going to run a third time and there’s no indication the Supreme Court has any ability to stop him.

We’ll see how democracy holds up when people intentionally are derelict in their duties.

Israel? Or the US? Because it would seem all three countries are run by fanatics that just believe in a slightly different version of the exact same story that they call a religion.

I take that back, Trump doesn't believe in anything but himself, but he's surrounded himself in a blanket of Christian nationalists.

Op didn’t say they were connected. They were referring to two distinct but impactful events.

I believe that’s related to Israel’s genocide of Palestinian children and America’s unending unconditional support of the same.

FIFA might be the one organization that can go toe to toe with Trump I’m corruption. And I mean that in the worst way possible. Qatar was using literal slave labor to get stadiums built and the organization just shrugged when informed like it was just another Tuesday.

He could drop a nuke on Greenland tomorrow and they’d probably say they don’t want the sport to be tangled in political disagreements and if anything the World Cup can help everyone heal.

I just want to point out how 1984 fascist dictatorship it still feels to call it “the department of war”. That’s not normal. None of this is normal.

I think China is about to step in and take every last bit of non-ai market share, and then when the bubble bursts companies like micron and samsung are going to be begging governments for a bail out.

We have actual proof this isn’t true. Waymo is light years ahead of Tesla despite spending less.

Tesla is spending upwards of $6B/year to Waymo’s $1.5B. Only one of these companies makes an autonomous robotaxi that’s actually autonomous.

The phantom braking issue with auto pilot tells me it can’t. A shadow from a tree doesn’t trigger your brakes locking up at 70+ mph when there’s a lidar sensor to tell you it’s not a physical object.

“Just buy FSD” isn’t a reasonable answer to a problem literally no other automaker suffers from.

You’re currently arguing dropbox wasn’t novel because you could do everything it could do by hand.

99% of the general AI utilizing public has no desire to build and maintain what you’re doing.

We have Mets glasses now, you don’t even have to pull a phone out.

The idea that an individual can look up and case they want is the same thing as a bot being able to scrape and archive an entire dataset forever is just silly.

One individual could spend their entire life going through one by one recording cases and never get through the whole dataset. A bot farm could sift through it in an hour. They are not the same thing.

The claim wasn’t ads not being controversial… the claim was that the marketers intentionally made an ad that would outrage consumers and incite them to not only not buy the product, but actively abandon already purchased product.

The justification was marketers at large corporations don’t mess up and that’s both ridiculous and provably false.

> Those companies will then destroy those clothes, reporting them as sold to consumers.

This isn’t going to happen. But if it did, they would 100% sell them in local markets, not destroy them.

> I have worked with many and they are incredibly sensitive to negative feelings/reactions.

And yet there are countless examples that show the exact opposite.

This made it through one of the largest marketing budgets in the world…

https://youtu.be/uwvAgDCOdU4

But that’s not what is happening. The Republican Party is following project 2025 almost to a t. Their goal is a complete dismantling of government because they think the country should be ruled, not governed.

A lack of government functioning isn’t a dysfunction, it is an active plan perpetrated by the absolute worst kinds of people And if you feel disillusioned and like “government doesn’t work” - that’s by design by exactly one party. The democrats frequently don’t help themselves, likely because they know they still need money to win elections. But they aren’t actively trying to subvert democracy.

Ultimately we either overturn citizens united, and ban basically all lobbying, or the only way i see this ending is unfortunately through violence. Over the last two months I think a lot of Republican representatives are starting to feel the same way.

So the interconnect costs cover the infrastructure buildout to generate the additional power demands, or that’s spread across all consumers in perpetuity? Because the interconnect itself is the cheap part afaik. And all of our rates go up to cover the costs of the additional generation whether it’s another solar farm or another ng plant.

They don’t generally just have GW of power sitting idle for a rainy day (I’m not talking about the capacity they reserve for hot july days).

What do you think happens to the money when it gets distributed to low income people?

They spend it, it gets injected back into the economy and the economy grows. It doesn’t sit in a hidden bank account to avoid paying taxes on it.

Which would be hilarious if it weren’t so infuriating.

All they can talk about is how they’re all going to leave the state if it happens, but then are more than willing to try to spend more stopping it than they would just contributing their fair share in taxes.

Don’t like it? Great, leave - but stop trying to buy elections.

I mean, the vast majority of parts for the vast majority of cars can be ordered from:

https://www.rockauto.com/

Ordering parts feels like less of the issue than the ability to fix and service it yourself.

Has tesla started supporting third party shops doing battery replacements for instance?

Not to be pedantic but it’s just Ukraine. It is an independent country.

Russia calls is “the Ukraine” because they think it’s their territory and not an independent nation.

Not to nitpick, but the title should have AS capitalized. It’s confusing with the current capitalization.

You don’t believe it? It took until the early 2000s for Microsoft to take security seriously and they were a money printing machine.

A shared knowledge of factual information is the enemy of a fascist state.

Not that that has anything to do with the current administration deciding to kill a useful apolitical resource that has served countless people for 80 years.