unlocked.bsky.social
Software developer from California
Things I like: democracy, manga, typescript, public transportation, military assistance for 🇹🇼
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P3 was honestly a bad game and not fun to play if you didn't have the nostalgia factor, but P4G is still a perfectly good game for new players. A remake was completely unnecessary.
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And the governor can give a conflicting order and make the CA National Guard decide whether they stand with Californians or against them.
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You have literally no evidence of any of that. None of us know what's actually going on on the ground. It's very possible that Newsom doesn't even know what's going on beyond what the Trump admin has announced, and is just making a public response.
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Newsom needs to mobilize the CA National Guard to keep the GOP invaders out.
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You should read your own bio, not everything is a conspiracy. If those 2000 troops show up in LA, it won't be because Newsom did something to allow it, it will be because he did nothing to prevent it.
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You think they're actually following the process dictated by law?
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Chain of command is irrelevant here, both because Newsom _is_ at the top of the chain of command (what Trump is trying to do is illegal), and because chain of command is not some immutable law of physics. If both Newsom and Trump give them an order, they have to make a choice on who to obey.
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The National Guard isn't mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. It was created by Congress and functions according to the laws passed by Congress.
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He can give them any orders he wants. He has a mouth, doesn't he?
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He can give them a conflicting order and make them choose who to obey. If they obey Trump after that, there's nothing Newsom can do about it. But if he doesn't give them an order at all, they're not going to disobey Trump on their own.
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He can give them a conflicting order and make them choose who to follow.
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He can say no regardless. Make them choose who to follow.
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The answer is to force everyone to make the choice of which side to take rather than just letting the 35% walk over our country.
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That depends on whether Newsom gives them opposing orders or just sits by and does nothing.
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Newsom needs to make them choose whether they hold fealty to the people or to Trump. By saying nothing he makes their choice for them.
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Newsom needs to take this seriously and not just stand by. Order the national guard to defend protestors and ignore the president. Force a showdown.
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With money you have bad incentives. Without money you get exploitation. And removing the NCAA entirely just leads to more prospective professional athletes skipping college and not having a degree in the 98% scenario that they fail to make it big. The whole thing sucks no matter what you do.
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First they came...
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Elon has even worse approval than Trump. Any Democratic strategist who thinks that would be a good idea needs to be fired immediately.
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The bar is literally underground.
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There really is no "80% in the middle." So-called "independents" usually consistently side with one party or the other, they just don't want to be explicitly affiliated with the party. The number of true swing voters is small (though significant in close elections).
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People aren't celebrating Musk as a person, they're celebrating the infighting.
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It's certainly better for the nation than the two of them working together.
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Trump's meme stock also isn't doing so hot today.
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Cutting the FAA starlink contracts is fine because those never made sense to begin with, but the SpaceX rocket contracts are good. Though if we could somehow force Elon out of the decision-making process at SpaceX so he doesn't inflict any more of his stupid ideas on Starship, that might be good.
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That's also not to mention the fact that SpaceX has removed our reliance on Russian rockets (which we were using after the space shuttle program shut down), and has lowered costs from other companies by providing competition, further saving us money.
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SpaceX has been promised ~$20B total from the US government for all projects, with less than half of that actually paid out so far. SLS alone costed more than $20B for one flight so far (with an estimated $2B per flight after that).
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The public complaining about every test rocket that explodes and treating it as "waste" that needs to be eliminated is precisely why NASA has been unable to operate at the efficiency of private competitors. Crewed launches need to be successful. For everything else, it can be priced into R&D.
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That is objectively true, but a large factor in NASA's inefficiency is also the fact that Congress tries to micromanage them constantly. Accountability isn't antithetical to progress, but performative accountability and grandstanding sure seem to be, and I don't know how we get rid of that.
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Adames has been awful for over two months and he's still in. Yaz put up enough offense early on that he's still at >100 OPS+
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Or to put it another way, Americans could pay trillions more in taxes, and instead of getting public services in return, they would get stagflation.
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Good?
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They apparently do not understand what "bill" means.
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I'm not too concerned about that. Maryland can revoke bans fairly easily if it comes to that. Revoking ownership is harder.
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This is not authorized by Congress. It is not a valid visa.
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AI is a field of computer science that includes far more mundane things than LLMs. They are unequivocally "AI". _Strong_ AI (aka AGI), requires a generalized form of intelligence that we may never achieve purely by nature of "general intelligence" being an extremely poorly-defined concept.
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No. Well, some maybe, but in general, no.
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I can't wait for the supreme court to rule that bribery constitutes a binding contract and must be followed through on.
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If he loses in court he'll take credit for the economy (partially) recovering once shipments resume.
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Let's hope it works.
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"Companies do that all the time" is not the same as "that is what's happening here." It would be extremely dumb for Nippon Steel to spend $15 billion just to shut down a competitor in a region that they aren't leading in. Other major US steel companies would benefit most from that, not Nippon Steel.
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It would make no sense for them to buy out US Steel only to tear it down. It's not like US Steel is a major competitor that they want to force out of the global steel market. They just want to leverage US Steel's existing infrastructure to expand their operations in the US.
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If the steel is produced in America it isn't imported, regardless of the nationality of the company producing it.
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However, it's not the job of the courts to enact that policy, it's the job of Congress.
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I have suffered mental anguish from how the media constantly downplays Trump's fascist actions. Can I get a court judgement for that?
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He won't go 0-9 on anything. It'll be 2-7 at worst while Thomas and Alito remain on the bench.
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Turns out Posey is not the amazing GM fans wanted him to be, his two big moves so far seem to have been duds. Even if Adames does get better, it will be hard for the first year of his contract to be worth it given that he is currently sitting on -0.3 WAR.