Matt

that relies on humans not being stupid and self-destructive. I don't see those traits fading away, so limiting the blast radius is the next best step.

AI is really fucking incredible. This translation is spot on from the original, but so much easier to watch. You can watch this at 1.75x and follow along perfectly.

We need to colonize Mars or the moon so this research can be done up there.

Fold it in under DoD and strictly limit it to foreign operations only. Intelligence falls under defense and should be used only for defense.

He did a few good things on foreign policy but did fuck all to attack it domestically. To the extent he can, if he gets back in, he needs to go on a slashing spree. Every TLA should be marked for deletion and need to re-justify why they stay. DoD and Department of the Interior would be my first exceptions. Consolidation would be great also. We don't need DHS and CBP and ICE. Those can all bee DoD departments. CIA/NSA adios. FB buh bye. DoJ, go away.

Nobody's putting that on Trump. He was actually staying fairly true to form and listening to his advisors. That, of course, ended up being a catastrophe, but the whole world was a catastrophe. Except for Florida. DeSantis has the strongest bona-fides when it comes to not fucking up during COVID, but it seems like the country has forgotten all about that shit already. Crazy.

The Bee is going yard today.

NH next week will be telling. Trump voters will walk over a field of broken glass and legos to vote for him, and he barely won 50% in Iowa, a red state. If next week is close, he's complete toast. Dead man walking.

Trump 2024 is the "Red Wave" of 2022 all over again. That worked out great... He's ballot box poison.

Trump won't win the GE. A near plurality of voters in Iowa voted for someone else. Vivek's endorsement will swing Trump maybe 50% of Vivek's base. If 45% of primary voters don't want Trump, and even 5% of that 45% don't "come home" in the GE, Biden walks away with it, easily.

Good Lord Philly is awful. This is just terrible football. When you're on a big losing streak going into the playoffs, you should lose your spot.

That's every DEI department on Earth.

The entire West is littered with morons in positions about which they know nothing. It's glorious when they are exposed.

DEI officer at JH admitted her idiocy in words, but her idiocy needs to be wiped out from admissions too. If I was a patient at JH, I'd insist on having a white doctor since the bar is clearly so much higher for them to be admitted in a country that's 60% white.

The Dems and their media minions overcorrected. They were the dog that caught the car in 2008 and again in 2012. We'd arrived in post-racial America. America, including a huge swath of white voters, elected a Black president. Twice. MLK's dream had been realized. We could finally move on. It didn't take long for the left to realize how catastrophic that was to their whip hand, losing the "America is racist" weapon, so they sprung into action plucking the most militant race hustlers from the DEI cadre and amplifying their voices. Obama, for his part, started throwing gas on the fire with every chance he got. It was sadly ironic to see the man who had proven racism was dead stoking the flames of a NEW racism fire in such a way, an act which continues to present day. What's more ironic is that by promoting this new racism, they've wholesale accepted racism as a positive. It's so fucked up...

The case study is that liberalism is a mental disorder.

Amazing how he checked into a facility to treat his mental health and came out a conservative.

Not the same. GM took some design cues from the work they did with Ford on the half ton transmissions, but the Allison-branded transmission is NOT designed by, at, or with Ford. Let the assistant chief engineer tell you. Designed by GM with input from, and approval by Allison. No changes are made to this design without Allison's testing and approval per the licensing agreement. Built by GM.

Different transmission. The 10 speed from the HD is a completely different unit than the half ton joint development. The HD transmission was co-designed with Allison, including the use of Allison design engineers, testing protocols, etc. It's built by GM and branded Allison, but they are completely different than the Ford/GM half ton units.

That was the half ton 10 speed they collaborated on. GM/Allison is exclusive to GM, same way Ford's 10 speed is exclusive to Ford.

I had one of those 8 speeds in my 2016 Denali. I had the fluid flush and TCM reset done on it last fall after I noticed some very minor shuddering and it was great after that. Mine never had the issues that some of those had, and I towed my 8000 lb TT to WI, CA, and back with it over mountains, etc. Couldn't believe how well the "weak" 5.3L and the "crap" 8 speed worked. But the HD is way better.

I want a 1989 Indy 650. That was the sled of my dreams when I was 9 years old. That's a minty thunnerchicken! Would love a rip on a crusty laketop on that!