No, because that’s already the constitutional quorum. You could alter or abandon the cloture rule, however.

Changing Senate rules can be done as a simple act of the Senate, with a simple majority of the senators who show up voting in the affirmative (and VPOTUS casting a tiebreaker.)

Don’t hold your breath, however. Unless the 2026 blue wave results in 70 democratic senators who can remove trump after impeachment, the incentive to radically change anything is dramatically reduced.

Eww. It’s a LLM travel agent.

So, the people in companies pushing and making this AI slop treat it like toxic waste, and the author thinks that they’re the problem?

I suddenly want to look at his AI map thingy and see how bad it is.

If we’re talking re-enacting the way the folks who wear historish costumes and blank-fire muskets at each other mean it, then the cutoff is “whatever the last war was fought locally and then ended.”

If you mean it the way the folks who wear even sillier costumes, drink, and walk around with swords mean it, then the cutoff is “whenever the clothes we want to wear were last plausibly worn.”

If you mean it the way a TV reporter, producer, or academic might mean it, however, there’s no cutoff beyond “isn’t happening now.”. (There’s a famous story about someone who won the lottery after playing on a whim, was egged on by a reporter to re-enact buying the ticket, and won again.)

No. I’m a happily married alcohol-and-caffine-only boring dad-guy.

Definitely a computer nerd, though.

Is this a graph of “report negative opinions about homosexuality”, or “think homosexuality should be illegal.”

The former is just freedom of speech (“freedom to say something dumb and bigoted”), while the latter is a public policy concern.

I got all the way to “as I’ve been writing about for years …” before I clocked this as something I won’t bother to finish.

Humans as a species have never listed as the lead quote implies. We’re a shallow species whose interpersonal communication is far more of a handshake than a learned debate. If you go against someone else’s notions you may, at best, get them to remember a short phrase. (And if you’re really lucky and repeat a phrase a few times, it may even be one that accurately reflects your position!)

Sex in heaven is really good, but gets boring after awhile.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/execute

“Execute” primarily means “carry out”, not “kill”. The latter definition is an adaption from the person designated to carry out the act of killing people for violating the law, which presumably at one point was done directly by the hereditary executive.

The article is about decentralization of assignment of IP addresses,.not CDNs or social networks.

It’s like "imagine if you and your friends could just make your own phone system by making up your own numbers without having to rent them from telecommunications companies "

Whatever device you’re using to post to Lemmy can easily handle “thousands of transactions per day”. You’re off by several orders of magnitude before transaction processing is a scaling concern.

CDNs exist to reduce lag and optimize media file delivery. They can be decentralized, and internally essentially are, but having a neutral clearing-house helps solve the “leech” problem that thinks like BitTorrent suffer from.

He can try.

Each of the fifty states literally has its own legal system, which are as a rule very particular about the separation of powers.

If Trump signs an EO directing the FCC to declare AI a.“telecommunications” product.that states aren’t allowed to regulate, there’d be that same week ten to fifty lawsuits by the states asserting that the EO was unconstitutional and had zero effect.

What the AI oligarchs want is for the FCC to decide this on their own without an EO, or for Congress to pass a law. (Although Scotus has made noises about lifting what can be done without Congress in other areas …)

You mean, instead of an eros potion it’d be a portion of agapa, philia, or xenia?

Most likely because “be nice to strangers” or “don’t defile the dead” can be easily enforced with violence without being rapey.

(And, worth noting, modern anti-depresssnts are kind of a philautía potion already, since they help with “love of self.”)

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

“possibly possible” is either redundant or unclear. Try:

• Plausible
• Conceivable
• Possible

“Not Necessarily necessary” is definitely redundant and unclear. Try:

• Not necessary
• Unnecessary
• May not be necessary

(Unless you’re talking about taking antibiotics for anything but a bacterial infection, in which case “wasteful and dangerous” is better phrasing.)

Yeah thats the “middle class”. They aren’t part of the working class (serfs) but also arent the hereditary owners of counties (nobles.).

Rich fucks who have more money than anyone else and yet bitch about how hard they have it has literally always been what “middle class” means.

Washington and Jefferson was middle class. FDR and JFK were middle class. King George, Queen Elizabeth and King Charles are not

The rich 1% are the middle class. America discarded the hereditary upper class when we banned titles of nobility.

In our free society there are only two classes : those with enough money that they never have to work again, and those without.

Why did you say “not your neighbor who voted for Trump” and then provide an example who absolutely [would have] voted for Trump?

As has been said elsewhere about everything Microsoft is pulling:

If your LLM was worth using you wouldn’t need to force anyone to use it.

Fun consequence of this: the ten commandments should be translated into WAY less formal English if want to be traditional.

“No murders y’all” weirdly doesn’t have the same punch when engraved on a stone tablet, though. (And most Americans can’t read ancient Hebrew.)

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