Are they automating their jobs away to let the rest of humanity live lives of joyous leisure, or will those non-owners who no longer provide utility to the owners just be starved to death?

They should also make plans to fund a Radio Free America, for once the corporate US press starts fully parroting the party line.

The key to popularity and success is to be yourself—after you have ensured that your self is likeable and not creepy or offputting.

Which is also how you spell Putin in French. (I did a double-take when I first saw a French newspaper headline mentioning the Russian dictator.)

Doesn’t Roko also have some unpleasantly authoritarian political views?

Operation Prairie Storm

This is my surprised face

Ooh la la

“My body is a Lutheran church” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it

Hundreds of millions of dollars in punitive damages, resulting in bankruptcy. The IA shuts down immediately, their assets are auctioned, and soon fragments of their server racks appear in trophy cases in the lobbies of intellectual-property enforcement organisations.

Any ranking Democrat would be far too committed to trying to manifest norms by acting as if they were still in force to even consider such an action.

Belarus did this a few years ago with a flight from somewhere else to Lithuania that was carrying a Belarusian dissident. The few minutes it spent in Belarusian airspace was enough for the air force to intercept it, force it to land and arrest the dissident.

IIRC, there was a huge outrage, which didn’t help the dissident (rogue states gonna go rogue and all that), but since then, no EU/western flights have overflown Belarus.

Depends on how well Starmer fares, and how good the right’s data microtargeting game is. If left-leaning voters stay home due to Starmer tacking to the right (and, in key electorates, precisely targeted Facebook ads inducing disgust in just enough voters), while the right-wing papers keep going on about Labour’s loony-left socialist programme driving Britain off the cliff (illustrated with photos of empty shelves in Venezuela), Labour will find itself falling between two stools.

Judging by their mugshots, they were perpetuating a longstanding family tradition

They could well eclipse the Tories in the next election, especially if Tufton St. switch their allegiance. A Reform LLC government is not less likely than a second Trump administration in the US.

It is Whittier.

Distributing a lactose-based food as charity to low-income neighbourhoods, when people of colour, who are most overrepresented amongst the poor, are also most likely to be lactose intolerant, has a certain energy.

Not quite, but they have a town that is entirely in one big building.

You know how a lot of DIY gadgets have slogans like “trans rights are human rights” on the circuit boards? I wonder if the Modretro has some fascist slogan similarly inscribed. Perhaps “Deus Vult” or some particularly authoritarian Bible verse number, or maybe just a couple of plausibly deniable 14s and 88s.

He’s been fash for a long time