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which is precisely why ice must be abolished. and the laws must be changed.

yep, been saying this since I was in high school.

think how inefficient it is identify, track, investigate, monitor, apprehend, imprison, transport, feed, deport and terrorize millions of people who by definition are undocumented (as in, hard to find or process)… compared to a much smaller number of US registered companies with physical addresses and org charts and the names of their owners or boards easily obtainable.

the budget for ICE is now larger than the entire US Marine Corp (citation missing). we could solve the problem of companies knowingly abusing migrants labor in no time with a few thousand federal inspectors/agents/investigators assigned to shutdown known hirers. with a fraction of the budget. but expecting corporations to take responsibility for knowingly breaking the law isn’t allowed in America any more, I guess.

tldr we shouldn’t be punishing individual people trying to work to feed their families (and in the process actual feeding American families). we should be holding abusive employers accountable and also making a path to citizenship (or at least the ability to freely cross borders under a work permit, without fear of deportation while working).

if what the president is doing now is “legal” then the new president can “legally” have the old president marched into a meat grinder.

“sorry bro, but it was an official act of the president, nothing we can do about it”

politics is downstream from culture. and American culture (if such a thing even exists)is deeply flawed.

some of it, perhaps, is because America never fully reconciled its brutal origins or path to becoming a so-called ‘superpower’. nor have the people acknowledged the ongoing systemic violence enacted in America’s name.

progress is possible. America has made intermittent advances in civil rights and select areas where the public benefited. it isn’t all shit though it does feel that way at times.

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it’s a well written article. glad to see more opinion pieces countering the current AI Boogeyman narrative.

By convincing gullible politicians that unmonitored models represent an existential catastrophe capable of destroying the internet, the labs are engineering a regulatory moat to strangle open-source software in the crib. Mandatory compute thresholds, federal licensing schemes, and embedded monitors will never stop a determined foreign adversary. Those regulations simply make it a federal crime for independent developers, universities, and small startups to publish code without government clearance.

The outcome of this lobbying blitz remains in active contention, as deregulatory resistance in the executive branch pushes back against Silicon Valley’s manufactured panic. Even so, the sheer desperation of the campaign exposes the true fragility of the frontier labs. Gullible lawmakers genuinely believe they are debating the survival of the human species, while the corporate executives sitting across the table are simply fighting to erect a legal wall around a commoditising market.

… or banned until we have adequate time to study the long term effects this technology will have on child development.

we already struggle as a society with educating and shaping kids into well rounded, emotionally stable, socially competent adults.

we need to do a better job funding and prioritizing child welfare in general before we sign off on allowing billionaire owned Fortune 5 companies a direct pipeline into the consciousness of still developing human minds. just as a matter of public health policy, let alone performance/utility.

absolutely. essential resources like water should be nationalized and managed with extreme bias towards ‘the public good’. unfortunately in many places the public good isn’t even meaningfully defined and our courts prioritize the rights of capital/corporations above all else. I agree we need to keep fighting and pushing every overreach. poly-crises demand poly-solutions.

100 percent.

polling, for the most part, is just another way establishment media shapes public opinion by preemptively announcing who is “electable”.

all they have to do is keep pushing headlines like “Latest Poll from Dogshit Analytics Shows Reasonable Americans Hate Socialism” and in-group / herd psychology does the rest.

The US Geological Survey says “glacial collapse and debris flow” triggered the deluge - and there are risks of more floods

“glacial collapse”

that’s a phrase we’re going to hear a lot more in the coming years.

counterpoint:

remember how almost a full year ago, before the general public was even talking about flock or data centers… Peter Thiel went on a preemptive publicity tour trying to re-write Christian theology to fool people into siding with his investment strategy.

Peter Thiel: AI Regulation Would Literally Be the Antichrist

article is just a “BUY GOLD NOW!” advertisement.

literally attempts to explain the history of stagnant wages since 1970 as ‘because we left the gold standard’.

don’t waste your time.

I don’t have a direct link to a file but here’s a clip on a regional (Nebraska) news affiliate:

https://www.ksnblocal4.com/2026/07/27/teacher-arrested-repeatedly-clapping-favor-data-center-opponents-during-city-commission-meeting/

pretty boring regular clapping. by the way, the speaker he clapped for right before getting arrested: his wife. literally applauding his wife for speaking up at town meeting.

they probably asked everyone to remain completely silent and had setup"rules" for applause between speakers… knowing that 1) they don’t want people to get riled up 2) it gives them pretense to remove people who say literally anything when not standing at the podium.

this is an insight I hadn’t considered.

makes intuitive sense but do you have any links or references so people can learn more?

I thought drought was a major factor in beef supply drop but it’s probably multiple things

people will do anything except hold companies accountable

hottest *so far *

it only gets worse from here on out

Protect this man at all costs!

yeah, I also liked IW. my only gripe though… the universal ammunition should have been a toggle in difficulty settings

thanks for comment and links to the review. I’ll give it a watch.

not imprisoning Trump in a black site indefinitely (no contact with outside world whatsoever) was the biggest mistake Biden made, imo.