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I thought that had already happened several years ago

Exactly. They may not have directly said “child” psychologists, but we can put 2 and 2 together

Exactly - note that it does not say GOOD reasons. Just because you can argue with the reasons that actions were undertaken, it doesn’t mean they were undertaken arbitrarily. You don’t have to like the reasons for them to have existed. Arbitrariness is not the same thing as bad decision-making.

I don’t think you understand what the word arbitrary means

Skywalker, obvs

A lot of those are the same people

Some guy named Karl

I had to watch the Wire’s first episode 3 separate times before I had any motivation to continue on with it

Season 2, Episode 23 is the “real” start of the show IMHO. It’s the episode where Chris and Ben arrive, Mark takes a job somewhere else, and the gang celebrates April’s 21st birthday at the Snakehole Lounge. Also, most of the show’s eventual couples are also paired up in that episode - Leslie/Ben, Ann/Chris, April/Andy, and even Tom/Lucy.

Not to mention that the sycophantic “personality type” that chatbots display appeals to the egos of CEOs and other executive types - “Finally, my genius is being properly recognized and I am being shown the appropriate the deference I deserve”

Hell no

You tax the money they borrow against their stock holdings as income, and allow them to deduct money used to pay back those loans. You could also tax a percentage of their wealth, which they can pay by selling some stock.

100%, although I think I might rather see her take down Schumer for his senate seat and then become majority leader…

Mathematically speaking, each of them is half as bad as one Trump voter

I think that it is less about the ad revenue and more about decreasing the total proportion of streams that they have to pay royalties for. Spotify pays people to churn out AI music that they own, and they place that music on their popular playlists (to increase plus from actual listeners) and also have bot armies streaming it endlessly. Since royalties are not a fixed per-play fee, but rather a calculation based on the total amount of subscriber money divided by the total number of plays, massively increasing the total play count with music that does not require royalty payments means they pay out a lower proportion of what they take in each month.

The plural of anecdote is not data

Sand People is their preferred name - Tusken Raiders is the slur

We all do. If we all banded together, we could probably actually make it happen…

My biggest objection would be that he’d become a martyr, and MAGA would gain adherents. I’d much rather he have a very public massive coronary, preferably as soon as possible. That, I would celebrate with no guilt whatsoever.

I was actually thinking it reminded me of the infinity gauntlet