Great. I assume there are riders on both:

• also kill all poor people

Or

• also kill all poor people of color

Fitting that

Ah, well I doubt that'll change if for no other reason than "Flock" is quicker & easier to say than "ALPR". Plus it kinda rhymes with "fuck."

I just meant as people talk about it

Less than a month from election. This is meaningless as I can guarantee it'll never become law. It's just performance for votes.

The article says something like "and other ALPR cameras" pretty much immediately.

We need to reframe this from "flock cameras" to "all cameras". Otherwise all they have to do is rebrand and the regulation goes bye bye.

"There’s no question that in four or five years’ time, we’re going to use a lot more fossil fuel,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Ezra Klein

Yes yes, let's use more fossil fuels so we can buy this guy's products, so at some unspecified point, his product will magically reverse climate change.

Fuck these guys.

"On tape," eh?

“Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever.”

My heart breaks for him. This is a dark time for our people.

I’m pretty sure most of the world left skinny culture…………

This is like reading about tariff wars in the early 20th century and being like "how were people so stupid back then" except then im like "wait that's still exactly how stupid they are today in the year 2026" fml

Does this moron think an AI data center is a plant that will have hundreds of workers on site? Don't answer already know he doesn't think just spews bullshit out of his mouth.

Just attach some type of racist-antitrans political messaging. MAGA will line up for it.

A year late, these people need to go.

Killing anyone on purpose and not in immediate self-defence is murder, isn't it?

Johnson is a fucking idiot.

Shouldn't be too surprising. As someone who works in the trades, even the limited amount of data center construction happening in my state is keeping us busy. I can only imagine how busy it is in Northern Virginia. Having said that, no one enjoys working on these things. The pace and scale of the projects are very demanding, and everyone has something to bitch about on any given day. Work is work, though. I hear that a lot of firms are struggling to find work in other states, so data centers may very well be a life raft for some unions.

See? The government doesn’t work!

Meanwhile they got a literal dead guy for a senator.

Then do something.

It does matter though, it's not a strict thing obviously, but it matters that people of all colors see people of all colors in positions of fame and power. Antiracism is NOT race blindness, it's race acceptance -- understanding that we all have different colors and appearances, and not just race obviously other factors too -- and as highly visual creatures it matters that we see that represented throughout all walks of life. Ultimately in the long term, maybe yes, we should discard race as a concept as it has no basis in biology, but in the short and medium term, the myth of race has acquired powerful real world characteristics that do matter for now and the forseeable future.

I received this sort of race blind teaching when I was younger. I've noticed that the effects have not stayed with me, but when I was able to talk to my dad about these sorts of things when we were older, he tended to try and deny that racism even existed anymore. This in itself is pretty dang racist. Race blind teaching teaches that the lower rates of admission to universities among black people is their own fault. Or the disproportionate areas of poverty among black communities is also their own fault. It ignores the long long history of white people subjugating other races in the United States and assumes that everybody starts off with the same level. Of course this isn't said or taught or even derived, but there is a weird emphasis on merit in school. Like with the SAT or other standardized tests.

When I was in high school wrestling, I went to different schools for wrestling meets. When I was there, I saw that my school was very well funded and theirs were not as well funded. You could see it with the crumbling plaster or old equipment. Broken furniture or grimy floors. Not to say that the school wasn't functional, but it just wasn't as nice and I imagined that the kids there don't have the same resources that I did. I realized it was probably tougher to grow up there than it was in my community. I'm sure the other people could adapt to it, but it was certainly a measure of visible wealth inequality.

Something that is actively taught in some white households is that the status quo is good. There used to be problems with race in the past or discrimination against other minorities in the past. But today we're doing really well and we don't need to prop up other people anymore. It breeds a very unsympathetic person concerned with one's own welfare instead of the welfare of all people. It leads to people supporting law enforcement instead of systemic reform. And in this way, it perpetuates racism. Not a loud, boisterous and riotous racism, but an insular and patronizing racism.

Race shouldn't matter, it does matter to some people, but that's bigotry, not a real difference in value of people.

But I don’t think the author realizes how recent the nuclear family is as a concept.

That's a good point that I didn't think of.

Spontaneously caring for other people is joyous. The fact that capitalism has warped it into a miserable transactive hell is by design.

Agree 100 percent.