Sounds like yet another way to gather facial recognition data for the panopticon.

Wine.

The prediction I’ve been making since he got reinstalled is that trump will be out of office one way or another by around March–sometime after the new Congress is sworn in. I should say IF it actually does get sworn in, which is not guaranteed whatsoever–repubs have a trick up their sleeves to use a technicality in the Constitution to refuse to seat them, and if they do, I don’t trust SCOTUS to try and stop them or succeed even if they do try.

Others: Canada and the EU will become closer and both will continue to pull away from the US as well as US tech. They’ll also start building their militaries up more. Russia/Ukraine and US/Iran wars will drag on. Climate change will continue to be unaddressed by anyone.

The AI bubble will probably burst in 2027 but it may take longer. The longer it takes the worse the economic effects will be.

On the positive side,

I didn’t even think of that. But in most cases I’m seeing black ones, as if the color is important.

edited to remove unnecessary personal info. tl;dr I had to see different specialists and it took 2-3 months to get all the work done.

“People hate the Flock cameras so we’ll replace them with a different brand of camera.” Are they really that stupid to think it’s the “Flock” part and not the “camera” part that people are upset about? Or that making them look different will make everyone go, “oh, that’s all right then as long as they don’t look like the Flock ones go ahead and surveil us”?

What they’re going to do is “disappear” or delay mailed ballots based on the party the voter is registered as and/or their district and which way that district tends to vote. Not all of them, that would be too obvious. Just enough of them to tilt the election to the repubs.

Don’t vote by mail at all if you have any other choice. If you do have a mail-in ballot, hand-deliver it to the election center (the place you would go to vote early) in your city or failing that, drop it in a ballot box, NOT a PO Box. If you’re forced to do it by mail, mail it as soon as you possibly can, then I’m pretty sure there’s a way you can call and verify it was received at the election center.

But again, don’t vote by mail if at all possible. And if possible, go vote early rather than on Election Day–god only knows what they’ve got planned for that day. If you can, provide rides for people who need them so they can vote early too.

They certainly have a lot of lawyers.

Jury selection question to weed out biased jurors: “Have you ever had a claim that was unfairly denied?”

Weeks later: “We have been unable to find enough jurors to try the case.”