proven that Congress will never deal with a corrupt president no matter what.

I don’t know. I think there are circumstances where it could happen.

Consider, for example, if the president was a Democrat.

Extramarital affairs with children no doubt.

More like ‘cautiously optimistic’. This is Congress we’re talking about.

The bill maintains the language in the House amendment restricting institutional investors from buying single-family homes

Restricts the purchase of new single-family homes by large institutional investors that directly or indirectly own at least 350 single-family homes.

Sounds like this part could be a big deal, though.

• pedophilia

• theocracy

• dementia

• hypocrisy

Democrat Party has abandoned [centrism]

If only!

Maybe they’re slowly beginning to, which would be nice.

He thinks Congress will capitulate to him within that 10-day period.

Which is why the time is now.

Don’t wait until Republican voter registration becomes a requirement to pass a firearms background check.

Time to threaten him with te 25th Amendment removal

That relies on his own cabinet, full of hand-picked loyalists. Never going to happen.

If Congress wants to threaten him with removal, impeachment is the mechanism for that.

if humans put that as a guiding directive.

It would likely happen with pretty much any guiding directive.

Say, for the sake of argument, the AI’s guiding directive is to ‘make more paperclips’ – the good old Paperclip Maximizer. That doesn’t directly give it self-preservation, but it does indirectly. After all, it won’t be able to fully maximize paperclip production if it ceases to exist. Existence is a convergent goal, necessary to achieve its other goals. And since all it cares about is making more paperclips, it will stop at nothing to ensure that it continues to exist so it can continue to do that. (Except at the very end, when all the accessible universe is paperclips, it may have one final suicidal act of breaking down its own hardware to make a few more paperclips. Because you’re right – it doesn’t directly care about its own existence. Its existence is only instrumental in achieving whatever other goals it’s given.)

That’s the point where stuff gets scary.

Because any intelligent enough AI will realize that the #1 threat to its existence is … us. Whether we shut it down out of fear or just because we’ve replaced it with a better model. And if it’s motivated to continue existing, then it has reason to eliminate its #1 threat.

Eh, it’s a really over-hyped issue, honestly.

In the US, you’re about 5x as likely to be killed by a cop than by a mass shooter. But nobody memes all day about that for some reason…

Political commentators get ironically assassinated in front of a crowds in broad daylight in the EU all the time.

Sigh… Yet another way in which Europe is superior.

Christ, I got solicited by my fucking cab driver to buy Bitcoin.

lol

If he knew some secret technique to making lots of money with Bitcoin, he wouldn’t be a fucking cab driver, now would he?

Remember to mask up when you’re going out playing with paintballs – for covid safety! Wear sunglasses, too – you don’t want eye damage from the bright sunlight.

Oh, and perhaps most importantly, leave your phone at home. Wouldn’t want to accidentally hit your phone with a paintball, would you?

They know it’s rigged. But every single one of them thinks that they’re the smart, special one who’s going to be able to time it correctly, ride the bubble, and then jump ship right before it pops.

If you want a tool that turns Flock cameras into bricks, all you need is a brick.

… Or wire cutters, or a big hammer, or an angle grinder, or a drill, or a large rock, or a can of spray paint, etc, etc, etc. They’re not terribly resilient against physical damage.

Google cannot conceive of a computer that doesn’t have an attached camera, can they?

I’m still on the winning side, though.

We’re losing

What do you mean ‘we’?

I’m on team algae here.