Microsoft was trying to build something they could sell for practical reasons as a cheaper alternative to land based data centers. For that purpose it is not cost effective.

Peter Thiel is trying to build something that will not be subject to laws so he can continue to develop horrors beyond human comprehension. For that use case it is possibly very cost effective.

No matter how drunk you get, the horse always remembers the way home.

I usually go with the old tried and true, “Bart’s crematorium you kill 'em we gril em”

This removal won’t happen until just after the midterms. If it happens before that then the reptile won’t get his 10 years of Vance.

As soon as Republicans get slaughtered in the midterms for doing everything that Trump said he would do to disastrous effect they will blame him for those failures anoint JD and then absolve themselves entirely of any responsibility for the policies they enacted during the Trump presidency.

Time to try it out that old Soviet joke again and just sprinkle a little American on it:

A man goes up to a newspaper stand, buys a copy of the New York Times, takes one look at the front page, and throws it away with a disappointed look on his face.

Every day, he comes back to the newspaper stand, buys a copy of the Times, looks over the front page, gets disappointed, and then throws the paper away without opening it.

This goes on for a few weeks, and finally the man running the stand asks him, “Why do you keep buying a paper and not reading it?”

He replies, “I’m just looking for an obituary.”

“But there aren’t any obituaries on the front page.”

“This one will be.”

The original controller is pretty awesome. It was also really really cheap. I love them because it’s the only controller for playing games that were not designed for a controller.

You can’t build a rule from exceptions.

There are those few circumstances of uniquely certain guilt when you probably could make a very breathy argument in favor of executing people, but that is not something that can be easily codified into law and the legal fiction of “beyond a reasonable doubt” has already been reliably subverted in … Every country that currently has jury trials.

I love the idea that evil people get their comeuppance. I’m not so much a fan of giving the state or whatever perfectly ideal synergy of state and people exists in the utopic future the ability to murder without consequence.

To me it seems fairly obvious that that’s bad and that the entity capable of doing it justly is not within the capacity of current human culture to produce.

Unless the state is infallible, never making a mistake in or out of court, AND it is literally impossible to rehabilitate the offender, AND It requires fewer resources to execute a person then to keep them alive, then and only then is it not profanely hideous to sanction state murder.

So… video games are universally bad because some toxic people like them?

Am I allowed to like donuts?

Capital punishment is a barbaric practice that can not be justified by hiding it behind a jury.

This one policy is better in this extremely superficial description.

Neither country has workers rights on par with Europe for example.