This is really disappointing because there is not a point in our country's history not marred by systemic racism and/or imperialism. I'd like for hopeful politicians to want better than "global hegemony with a racial underclass". Or at least admit that time wasn't "America's best days".

They're barely even quoting him now. He could come out and say "we're gonna wipe Iran off the face of the map" and the headline will read "Trump planning productive restructuring of Middle East powers".

AI is being sold to the capitalist class, not the workers. So the pitch isn't "you'll have to work less", it's "you can pay less people to create even more (low quality) content". It's "post-work" in the sense that it drives lay-offs.

What happened to American culture in the 1860's?

I keep thinking about Dr. M'Benga's daughter on Strange New Worlds, whose condition was so debilitating that he had to keep her suspended in a pattern buffer. He never found a cure for her before she was taken in by an advanced alien being.

If I don't pay the one, does that just draw more cards off the deck?

Even if we take them at their word that an AI is a person, their argument boils down to slavery of that "person".

Does Bondi think her work as Attorney General has boosted the stock market, and therefore she gets to skip a few dozen cases of sex trafficking?

They're typing 5318008 into a very expensive calculator and laughing their asses off when they turn it upside-down

Another big reason is they can play 3 Card Monty when agents go "too far". Can't punish any bad apples if you shuffle them all up and reassign them randomly. Of course, that just means every agent gets the maximum punishment when consequences finally do come down.

I love a bot whose alt mode is 50% thigh

It's simple, really

So their claim is they have staffers posting clips to the official account at 11pm, unmonitored?

Wow a whole 5% off?