2040-2041, give or take.

I’m not even kidding.

For anyone rushing to “It’s Terminator 1!” panic, these are all human-controlled. It’s the land version of a predator drone, and Russia has them as well.

“We need the fossil fuels to get more fossil fuels to move the fossil fuels just to take the fossil-fuel thing to the fossil fuel store to get more fossil fuels!” -people that sell fossil fuels

You don’t suck at reading comprehension, this is difficult to understand.

I’m not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. This depends a lot on your mother. If she’s a Naturalized citizen, then if she’s de-naturalized for fraud or anything that invalidates the naturalization application, then you would lose your citizenship as well. It’s basically just Uno Reverse. However, it seems like if she’s simply the target of some current administration retribution and is a one-off, targeted de-naturalization, or she rescinds her citizenship, as long as you’re in the United States, you should be able to keep your citizenship.

The degree to which “skeletons in the closet” are bad is relative to how it affects her naturalization application, and if that would constitute fraud on that application. If she simply spent 5 years running turtle races at a beach resort and feels bad about it, probably not a big deal. If she spent 5 years in prison and escaped, then said on her naturalization application she was working at a beach resort all that time, that would be bad.

If you are concerned that your mother might be de-naturalized, then it’s worth talking to her about it using secure methods, such as Signal.

This IS legal advice: DO NOT post anywhere online the specific reasons why you are concerned about her citizenship. Anywhere. Do not send it in an email; do not send it in a SMS or Whatsapp message. Unless you are contact with a lawyer, DO NOT put the specific concerns in text anywhere.

Sadly, the number of stateless people on this planet is around 4.4 million.

Countries can and do prevent people from holding a nationality all the time. You’re just not used to seeing it is all.

On top of this, it’s not like voting locations are set in stone forever. Moving a polling place shouldn’t immediately equate to voter disenfranchisement. Regardless of why or how that change happened, innocent or practical or nefarious, educate voters if you’re already talking about a candidate you want them to vote for. The county/state isn’t responsible for going door-to-door to tell people about a change like that, and even if they sent out a mailer, that’s easily ignored.

Hey now, Boomers didn’t invent anti-intellectualism, they just think they did. Because they’re stupid. Then social media put those views out there for other idiots with baby brains to see and identify with.

“I guess…I mean, YOU maybe. Not me. And not your kids, because we’ll send them to Iran before anyone gets a chance to do anything here.”

Yeah, exactly. They don’t make it hard to not tie personal data to them if you want, you just have to actually DO the thing to take advantage of it. These people seemed to think it was magic, which seems to be how a lot of people think Proton or Tuta works.

What I meant is that it functioned similarly to an open primary, but yeah, I see your point. Sorry, it’s been 23 years since I saw the ballot until I just found it on wikipedia. What a shitshow that was.

Mother fuck bucket, I came here to find a silver lining, not this!

Really, this headline should be “Organization so poorly organized that they messed up having relatively secure email.”

Isn’t this the plot of C-SPAN?

lol, that’s exactly how Schwarzenegger ended up governor. The ballot had 135 people on it.

Worth it

To be fair, that is how primaries work. In many states only people registered with the party can pick who ends up at the binary vote. Which forces people to denigrate themselves by capitulating to a party in order to be allowed to run in their primary and get money.

And of those that do, I’m sure there’s large corporate contracts, negotiated with OpenAI and not going anywhere. Which is why they tell you how many paid subscribers they have, not how many contracts and then individuals.

The US government subscriptions would account for maybe 1 or 2 million paid users alone, and that might not include Palantir’s use of OpenAI models in their systems which then get contracted out.

This random website claims 44,780 companies reporting using ChatGPT. So entire small companies of 5-10 people might be using it, and then a thousand people at larger companies, that might get you to 10 million users right there.

“Luke, at that speed will we be able to pull out in time?”

You’re right, though. It’s a baby scarecrow. A…scarefetus? That’s literally its one job, scare away fetuses from implanting.

Isn’t that the trap? “We’ll give you all the upgrades for free! Upgrade yourself deeper and deeper into the dark forest, farther from the light where you paid once for apps. Now those apps that works under Windows 10 years ago are no longer compatible and you’ll need to pay $1 a month for MS Paint.”

If the OS is free, and then the “modular” aspects are how they nickel-and-dime you into paying $100/mo for the things you used to pay $130 for once.

From the story:

Some features of Windows 11 might also be locked away behind a subscription model that are expected to be “advanced AI services”, but the core OS will be a one-time purchase only.

And if you already paid for Windows 10, then you don’t pay. Easy-peasey. But, with new hardware requirements to run CoPilot, there’s going to be very few machines that could run Windows 10 that would also run Windows 12. So that lie will fall apart anyway.

So if you want to make CoPilot less stupid at everything but spying on you, you pay. Want to use your GPU? Subscribe to “Gamer Bundle!” Want access to CMD? Subscribe to “Developer options!” Want to turn off ads? Subscribe to Ad-free tier! Want to change the desktop background? Subscribe to access a custom fucking JPG on your computer! Want to change the theme? Subscribe to a color scheme! Want to use a printer? Subscribe to “Print Plus!”