And what was being pardoned:

“In what may have been a first, Trump pardoned a corporation. The company to earn that distinction was a cryptocurrency exchange sentenced to a $100 million fine for violating an anti-money laundering law.”

Setting a precedent of excusing money laundering really does just feel like “I want to destroy the country” with not a whole lot else going on.

“News outlet” is a huge stretch. It’s a crypto currency blog pretending to be news.

My point is it’s already for sale, both in bankruptcy proceedings and potentially in less legitimate spaces

https://www.404media.co/23andme-hack-christmas-gift/

What’s stopping you from doing it now?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/end-of-phoenix-sex-offender-treatment-program-puts-public-at-risk-lawyers-say-1.3862939

Less than 4% recitivism is pretty impressive compared to the average prison stay.

That said, I think sheltering those unwilling to take accountability and change is a disgusting abuse of the ‘justice’ system. I think criminals unwilling to enter/engage with rehab programs should:

1. Not be released from prison regardless of term

2. Not be separated from Gen pop in prison

Pedophiles and child molesters are literally the most hated and shamed people on the planet.

1 out of 5 to 1 out of 10 children are sexually abused depending on what numbers you go by (it is likely even worse based on report rates for sexual violence and commonality of trauma related amnesia).

Shame doesn’t help anyone. In fact it’s one of the biggest reasons why victims don’t speak out.

Shaming doesn’t work. It just makes people hide and get worse.

Doesn’t this just increase the value of the already for sale 23 and Me data?

I don’t think “depleted stocks” is good way for saying there are tanks available but not usable but I also don’t know what a better wording would be so maybe it’s accurate. Thanks for elaborating regardless.

Even without assuming they’ll use low quality examples, the article also says

According to researchers, only about 1,200 tanks can still be relatively easily restored after major repairs.

It sure sounds like the title is BS.

Wrote down not off.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/02/x-twitter-stock-falls-elon-musk

Debt is written off when deemed unrecoverable.

Assets can be written down when the value is lower than expected. Often this is due to more rapid depreciation of capital assets due to damage or impairments to goodwill (brand failure).

But none of that matters because private equity valuations are all bullshit and mean nothing anyways.

https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/private-equity/private-equity-is-a-joke

Ah yes, the thing that commonly helps shutting down movements the state doesn’t like- martyrdom.

Denmark has not kept pace and devoted the resources necessary to keep this base, to keep our troops, and in my view, to keep the people of Greenland safe from a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China and other nations," Vance said. He gave no details of the alleged incursions. The U.S. vice president said Russia, China and other nations are taking an “extraordinary interest” in Arctic passageways, naval routes and minerals in the region and the U.S. will invest more resources, including naval ships and military icebreakers that will have a greater presence in the country.

It sounds like there is one one group doing more aggressive incursions.

The human operators are there for when the AI gets softlocked in a situation where it doesn’t know what to do and just sits there, not for regular driving.

It doesn’t even need to be a side quest, just a second screen activity lol

They’ll do it for pennies an hour for 12 hours a day.

No, because it’s speculation.

It’s far more comfortable to think it’s being done for some malicious reason rather than out of stupidity or fear.

The system will only scale if there are enough desperate poor people. Otherwise it quickly become too expensive.

You can also get MMORPG players to do it for pennies per hour for in-game currency or membership. RuneScape players would gladly control 5 ‘autonomous’ cars if it meant that they could level up their farming level for free.

The game is basically designed to be an incredibly time consuming skinner box that takes minimal skill and effort in order to maximize membership fees.

Not only can you get a private taxi for your burrito but you can get it on a payment plan…

“I’m available for a call, but you know, we’re going to talk on our terms as a sovereign country, not as what he pretends we are,” Carney told reporters in Newfoundland on the second day of a general election campaign.

Carney is so snarky and bitter, I love it.

Gotta love loading a mobile webpage and 20% of it is readable text and the rest is advertising.