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LOL, good luck with that.

(Inverse ETFs, especially leveraged ones, don’t work the way you think they do. They’re not really intended or suitable for anything but day-trading.)

I feel like this regime might be evil enough to get Joker to quit paying his taxes.

I mean, maybe, but previously when I’ve said that it’s typically gone over like a lead balloon. Even in tech forums, a lot of people have drunk the kool-aid that it’s somehow suddenly too dangerous to allow owners to control their property just because software is involved.

My dad voted for Trump, so if he calls me to help with his Social Security I’m gonna fucking laugh in his face.

Thanks!

It wasn’t even necessarily the majority. Not back then, and not now. What happens is that normalcy bias stops even people who oppose the regime from acting against it until it’s already too late:

But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

— Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

Maybe, if that two-step determination of liability is really what the parent commenter had in mind.

I’m not so sure he’d agree with my proposed way of resolving the dispute over liability, which would be to legally require that all self-driving systems (and software running on the car in general) be forced to be Free Software and put it squarely and completely within the control of the vehicle owner.

Hold the prosecutor in contempt.

IIRC the judge can order the arrests and also deputize people to carry them out.

I can’t wait until Trump pisses off the world enough that they fight back and he is eventually tried for his crimes against humanity. I can’t wait to shit on your grave you evil fuck.

This savior fantasy isn’t going to come true. If you want it to happen, you’re gonna have to do it yourself.

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My parents have an LGB train set that they got to put around the tree each Christmas, and added to it a little bit each year. It was a great memory for me.

IMO it’s a very appropriate scale for that use-case, even if it’s intended to be “garden” sized.

I’m annoyed that they’ve refused to either give it to me or continue displaying it themselves for Christmas, depriving their grandkids of the experience I had.

Because I do journalism, and sometimes I even do good journalism!

In that case, you wouldn’t happen to know whether or not Teslas are unusually dangerous to bicycles too, would you?

0. A legal system exists in which the people who build, sell and drive cars are not meaningfully liable when the car hurts somebody

That’s a good thing, because the alternative would be flipping the notion of property rights on its head. Making the owner not responsible for his property would be used to justify stripping him of his right to modify it.

You’re absolutely right about point -1 though.

Plenty of LGB

I feel like the number of closeted model railroaders might be declining, though, along with other “older” geek hobbies like ham radio, because they’re being replaced with things like homelabbing and Arduino and 3D printing.

That would be punishing yourself compared to switching to Jellyfin, though.

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Or when they commit a crime while black.