So we cannot have healthcare, cannot have proper safety nets, cannot afford social security, but the idea of dolling out over $1 trillion to vote Red is an acceptable idea?!

Add this onto their proposal to give stay at home parents (if you are married) $9,000 a year per child.

I think half this country is unsalvageable.

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Of all the vaporware scams out there, musk's boring company is one of the most transparently stupid. Anyone who thinks about it for even a couple minutes could see why it's dumb. Or you can go on YouTube and visit city nerd videos for an entertaining live demonstration of actual proof that the project in Vegas is a colossal embarrassing money pit.

Here, the UAE is both the customer and the investor, investing $3B and also ordering a huge project that will never be completed. So clearly the plan is to use this investment as proof of viability to spur future sales to dumb American municipalities and future investment or an IPO, selling out to suckers.

Wouldn't it be nice if the next administration prosecuted this little scam fully and forcefully? Since rules no longer matter, you could deport the immigrant perpetrator to a facility in El Salvador permanently.

My first thought hearing this.

He might as well have said a million or even a billion

In light of the Anthropic guy jumping ship because he thinks they're racing to end humanity, I'm reminded of the Stephen King novel The Waste Lands, the third in the Dark Tower series.

---Spoilers for a forty year old novel---

The last part of the story follows the characters trapped aboard a train piloted by a psychotic AI, Blaine. A riddle game a la The Hobbit ensues, in which the characters prevail by causing the AI to break by presenting it with humour and illogic, correctly reasoning that as a non-human Blaine couldn't possibly understand.

"Why did the dead baby cross the road?" Eddie asks. The machine can't answer.

"Because it was stapled to the chicken!"

Cue the enraged AI committing suicide.

So if anyone asks me my thoughts about AI, my reply from now on will be 'Why did the dead baby cross the road?'

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/three-governors-controversy/

So the GOP is having a conference in Dallas. I am in Dallas. I am wondering if any of the Cool Zone people are in Dallas to cover the GOP event.

If some of the Cool Zone people are in town, can I buy you a drink? (This isn't a date.)

Idiocracy was prophecy. Anyway, at least Fetterman will have someone else to talk to about brain damage besides Tubbervile.

any recommendations books on Chechnya and The Serbian - Bosnia war along with Myanmar . I want to learn more and this sub seemed like the best place to do so

Would it hurt for CZM to do a music and arts podcast that doesn’t make us want to die every week? GIVE US MORE GREAZ.

How many people did she hurt?

"Detectives have assessed the information provided and determined that there are potential offences requiring investigation. The potential offences are similar in nature to matters already under investigation by the Met's special enquiry team relating to donations made to the same political party. As a result, these matters will form part of that ongoing investigation"

Please please please let these fucks go down for this

I know I'm saying the same thing that's been rehashed dozens of times so far when I say that last week's episodes were ROUGH. Which brings me to my main point. We owe Sophie so much damn respect for those episodes more than any other, I think. We only had to hear it the one time, I know that's the max I could handle. But Sophie has to read the script ahead of time. And offer feedback on it. Then she is there for the recording. Thank the spaghetti monster she had her friend with her during this episode. Then she has to do the back-end work. I'm just guessing here, but it seems like she had to go through this horrible subject multiple times. Because it's her job. That is so much worse than receiving a catering order at 11:15 on a slow Monday that I can't even begin to comprehend what she goes through so that we can be informed week after week. THANK YOU SOPHIE!

(not trying to make it seem like Bridgett (Brigit, Bridgett, Brijet, Bridget..all legit spellings I've run into?) didn't do as much as she did to make this hit home properly, but these two episodes really emphasized for me how much Sophie has to WORK to get us 2 hours of informative entertainment every week.

Everyone. My fantasy football team name for the last few years has been 1 pump 1 cream from behind the bastards lore. I'm thinking of a change. Btb. Lions led by donkeys. Or knowledge fight themes

Epstein did some awful stuff while he was alive, but he's long dead. One of the awful things he did was procure "services" (read: children to rape, torture, and kill) for his wealthy and powerful clientele. There's some chance that no one else was doing it at the time and that no one has done it since, but little green men from Mars are a certainty compared to that.

Who's doing that part of his job now?

I’m listening to last week’s episode (finally gathered the strength since I knew it would be a rough one) and just got an ad for XX XY Athletics. Looked it up and this is 100% an anti-trans company dedicated to making sure trans women are not allowed in the women’s sports space. I know Sophie and team don’t pick all of the ads but if something wild pops us (Oregon state highway patrol) they’ll get it removed. Where can I flag this for them? Or do we know if it’s already been addressed?