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Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · Jun 11

I'm going to explain everything that is going on with AI right now with a slightly revised movie quote:

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 4h

"Yes, but those Presidents had good taste."

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 6h

He turned The Prefect (which I absolutely love) into a trilogy now - All three books are great. And I've heard rumors that it is going to be a TV show!

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Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 6h

you missed the most important part:

demolishing the white house to build a gold plate ballroom for billionaire guests

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 6h

It's also a total cop out magic solution that is never even discussed before the last few minutes of the game. You didn't work for it, you have no idea what the implications are, the game authors just press it as a magic fix with no info.

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 7h

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Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 7h

I don't know about that, but I always suspected that they wanted to go with the Revelation Space explanation and then someone from legal told them they would get sued if they stole the ENTIRE story. 😂

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 7h

I don't know about that, but I always suspected that they wanted to go with the Revelation Space explanation and then someone from legal told them they would get sued if they stole the ENTIRE story. 😂

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 7h

Also, we desperately want you to pick B. Even though we have never even talked about B before, it has sudden come from a magic McGuffin, and you have no idea what the repercussions of B are.

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 7h

I remember when I was playing it, I would have been happy if it just ended there. You'd done what you could, the combined fleet was fighting the reapers like they had never been confronted before - truly united. I didn't need to know if you won or lost. You gave them a chance.

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 7h

We're getting closer!

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 7h

Just seal it up with concrete.

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 7h

I think he was too afraid of someone just showing it to him right there.

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 7h

My understanding (have a friend that runs a city hospital department) is that they have to have some like 50% medicaid and 50% medicare, because medicaid pays slightly LESS than it cost to keep the hospital afloat and the medicare pays slightly MORE (and this is a very barebones hospital).

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 9h

"Construction" in that list is so loaded. "Small" construction companies can be anywhere from $200k/year companies to $20M/year companies.

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 10h

So we know that Musk has fried his brain on Ketamine. Is there any evidence that ketamine (or some other "enhancement" drug) is responsible for Thiel's decline?

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 10h

Actually, I would say it was a huge public service.

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 10h

I can't even imagine how bad the pre-existing condition war would be in today's predatory corporate world. We would effectively not have health insurance.

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 10h

Isn't Medicaid payouts what makes hospitals go out of business? I think you mean Medicare for all by paying into it.

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 10h

This is an interesting counter-point to a theory that the huge amount of damage caused by the internet was because it let isolated idiots and conspiracy theorist connect - normally the guy at the end of the bar would just tell them to shut the F up and that would be the end of it.

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 10h

He behavior is also explained by the fact that he doesn't care one bit about anyone else, and he knows just how poor his health is. He doesn't think he will be around much past 2028.

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 10h

What cannot be understated is that he isn't just letting people off the hook, he's hurting the victims a second time. Most of the people he has pardoned owed their victims money (usually millions), Trump has further victimized them by taking away that money.

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 12h

Anti- Sherlock

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 12h

The gop will probably be so openly racist by then that his mixed race family will prevent him from getting the nomination.

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 13h

The President is a brilliant satirist.

a man wearing a patch on his eye is sitting at a table with a plate of food and a drink .

ALT: a man wearing a patch on his eye is sitting at a table with a plate of food and a drink .

media.tenor.com

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 22h

I wonder if he thinks all tv is intermittent clips that abruptly end.