No no no! I don’t know who started this fucking thing, Cincinnati chili has never contained cocoa. I literally live here, and I’ve heard it from tons of transplants and natives alike. No chili parlor here uses it, no recipes I’ve seen use it.

Same as “President has speech for if astronauts die on Moon”. Pretty easy to prep ahead and simply fill in the blanks, so to speak.

Ehhh, the idea predates Cyberpunk pretty well. Digital immortality was a theme in some sci-fi going all the way back to the 50s with Asimov’s “The Last Question” (though that was more Matrix-style consciousness upload).

Bingo. You use ML to narrow down results, not to give you answers. I have a friend who uses ML models to analyze radio telescope data, because it’s really good at the mind-numbing work of throwing out noise and junk from broadcast satellites and known radio sources. Then you go through the narrowed stuff to see if anything in that is more interesting.

It’s the question between sifting a million hits or a thousand.

This isn’t always just limited to produce either! Several CSA farms near me do livestock as well, from chicken to lamb to venison and everything else.

There’s also the fact that there’s an enormous machine of conservative think tanks and funding groups and PACs and corporations that will fight every and any change tooth and nail. The obvious ones like abolishing ICE? They’re an enormous source of revenue for dozens of companies, from tech to defense, not to mention that private prison companies are running the concentration camps. They’d need to be ready to effectively run things as a true dictator in order to get anything done, because large portions of the economic sphere have been retooled to rely on things continuing the way they are.

Remember that one of the biggest internal dangers to average people in Nazi Germany was literally children. The Hitler Youth and the girl’s group that I can’t remember the name of literally turned kids into snitches against each other, against neighbors, against parents, everyone. This was all dressed in the clothes of “being a good citizen”.

No no, you can’t call it that because Kavanaugh hates that they’re associated with him.

So do it as often as possible and remind people of it.

Might be a nurse, too. I have met some nurses who very clearly weren’t taught to do things like solve problems or think critically.

All of those are MORE expensive, at scale. If you can just hand 1500 kids a $200 Chromebook that fulfills ALL those functions, that’s $300k, vs 1500 e-ink readers at $40 a pop, 1500 digital typewriters @ $100 apiece, etc. Hell, that scientific calculator ALONE might be $200+ in some markets because Texas Instruments practically has the market cornered (to the point that I had to go to the administration of my school district to show them that the Casio I had was functionally identical).

So many donations and funds for schools are earmarked, you can only spend them in specific ways. If you spend them in ways that don’t align with the earmark, it’s incredibly easy for the donors or the state to claw them back. So that $40mil your local suburban school district spent on a new football stadium? That was likely earmarked SPECIFICALLY for football, they can’t really just swish the money to better textbooks, or whatever. Same with tech funding - you get $250k to upgrade your school district with Chromebooks or whatever, you MUST buy within what the funding packet tells you you can buy, and you can’t really do anything else with it.

That doesn’t even get into the cartelization of textbooks and school software. There’s so few real options that it’s incredibly easy for these companies to collude without really looking like it’s collusion.

The SAM episode was a little meh, personally, but I like that they’re dealing with the shorter season format and still doing episodes based around each character.

IIRC a few African groups have legends of people trying to tame zebras as long term mounts or livestock, and these legends rarely end well for the attempter.

A lot of PDs and federal forces get taught by the IDF, who are notorious for targeting genitalia and eyes.

I too would like my public execution be at an unknown (to me) time and place. Like Burgess Meredith in The Obsolete Man.

Consider that a lot of these kids are either poor or nonwhite or both, as well.

He’s the one kid at your birthday party who’s upset they’re not getting attention too.

And it requires you to STAY in that power and wealth. These sorts of treatments require a lot of regular upkeep and maintenance injections and monitoring.

I can’t see them conducting it so close to a city, unless it’s meant to be a show of force or some bullshit.

Hell yeah we need the USS Admiral Kuznetsov.