if you want to keep your sanity, I suggest silently adding the phrase

     "...for the next 950 days" 

every time you read some politically spiteful news like this

because the next two years are going to become insanely miserable

It’s highly uncertain what will happen in 950 days.

I think it's easy to predict some things that will happen in 950 days

in 950 days there will be several hundred warehouses concentrating over a million people in this country including many thousands of children costing a quarter trillion dollars (already funded)

and the Iran War will still be happening despite over a hundred declared "deals"

and the US will be running Cuba (forcing millions to return there)

statistical noise or the lack of it will be the least of our problems

Maybe some of Earth's oceans came from its rings collapsing (not kidding)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPhwhq-f1Uo

vaguely reminds me of the library massacre at New College

* https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/d4018abd-6789-46ea-83bc-092fddc313...

* https://abcnews.com/US/books-dumped-en-masse-floridas-new-co...

is it just double-dipping the spending (this might be your point)

or it is actually doing an end-run around laws against governments doing the surveillance themselves, instead they get private companies to do it and then it's perfectly legal to buy the data

just like government buys cellphone tracking data and mortgage data from private brokers when there are laws blocking them doing it directly

it's called "government contracting", but you were thinking of "fascism", weren't you?

Fascism does mix state and corporate power, but that's not a definitive part of it. Fascism mixes all powers because the nature of fascism is to only tolerate one power, which is itself. This doesn't mean that every time the government and corporations work together, it's fascism.

don't worry this administration is giving nearly a billion dollar bailout to coal using war powers so congress can't block

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/04/trump-coal-d...

They could have used it to retrain coal workers or help them transition to some other job instead of a handout to plant and mine owners.

But then normal people would have more money, and centi-millionaires would have less.

Apparently, both are against the US government's policy.

The centi prefix means one hundredth, as in centi-metre.

So a centi-millionaire would have only 10 thousand :-)

You mean a hecto-millionaire.

Centipedes are having a bad day.

I'm sure this administration will totally obey that without any enforcement or penalties and pardons awaiting

oh wait, it could still be renewed/recreated

> Democrats have refused to back an extension of Section 702 unless Trump reverses his decision to name Pulte as acting DNI

I guess it's their only card to play but still, how about no warrantless anything considering there's a Constitution and all that

Who enforces the Constitution? SCOTUS is capable of reinterpreting any Constitutional right you have and create carve outs for “national security” boogeymen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavanaugh_stop

SCOTUS has no enforcement mechanism.

This administration has an expiration date.

yeah, it's January 2029. That's how the election timetable works. Assuming there's an election.

Some US politicians were proposing a total ban on allowing cars of Chinese origin into the US, which is rather extreme. They don't want to risk US nationals seeing them and wanting them.

Canadian snowbirds drive their cars and RVs into the US all the time all the way down to the southern states

There's just a limit to how long the car can be in the US

So lease for a year at a time from Canada

Musk himself was an illegal Canadian import so hey only fair lol

You see them occasionally in southern California with Mexican plates

There you go, so someone turn that into a frictionless service

Every year you just exchange the car/lease/plate whatever

Once enough people drive $5000 electric cars they will insist politicians allow them officially

Detroit is doomed anyway once 9 out of 10 workers is replaced with "AI" controlled bots

> Detroit is doomed anyway once 9 out of 10 workers is replaced with "AI" controlled bots

As a non-American, I'd kinda assumed Detroit's car industry was already long-gone. Wasn't its industrial decline the inspiration for a bunch of dystopian films in the 80s and 90s?

I'm still struggling with the idea that 4,400 millionaires are going to be created overnight

(out of 22,000 employees)

Because many of them are going to sell sell sell at least half of their shares

Which then means the value will PLUMMET

College roommate worked for nvidia and cashed out last year and retired in his early 50s. Tens of millions in cash. After tax too. Am I jealous? Hell yes.

I think most still believe in the mission, especially the ones with that many shares. I get selling enough to buy a house and add some diversity to your portfolio, but you really have to have a dismal outlook to sell all your shares, or even half.

I take it you are going to be shorting the stock?

Shorting is not as easy as you think. You have to time it right and you risk big losses.

KNOWING OpenAI et al WILL fail is not enough to make money from that.

considering Iran War is likely to still be happening January 2029, imagine what costs will be like by then

every single day $5/gas is taking a BILLION dollars out of the economy that could have gone elsewhere

but it could be worse, we could be innocent civilian Iranians having the US bomb their water and power plants this week

am I reading that right, 15 minute sustained reaction as soon as 2027?

wow we really are living in the future

I love this PBS Space Time explainer on the final technical hurdles:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAJN1CrJsVE