Apocalypse Watch

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They seriously need to stop trying to build the near-futureā€™s murder machines. :slightly_frowning_face:

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Seriously. Who watched the Terminator movies and thought, ā€œThatā€™s a great idea! Letā€™s build that!ā€

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The current dumpster fire in DC, perhaps? Iā€™d also thing rich bastards might like the idea of murderbots, but lack the self awareness that they, too, ultimately will be murdered by their evil machines.

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No. Each ā€¦ murderbot has a preset ā€¦ murder limit, so they can smply send wave after wave of their own serfs at them. And they know theyā€™re so much superior, of course their serfs will agree.

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You suck!!!

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I can see someone not having read the Berserker books by Fred Saberhagen. But didnā€™t they even see ā€œThe Doomsday Machineā€ episode of the original Star Trek?

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State Sen. Jerry Hill (D) is looking into legislation that would break up the stateā€™s investor-owned utilities or turn them into public power utilities following reports about how equipment owned by PG&E and SoCalEd may have started the Camp and Woolsey fires, KQED reported Sunday. [bolding added for emphasis]

Golly gosh, maybe they shouldnā€™t have privatized them in the first place. :roll_eyes:

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and, 8 months later:

Mar 26: 8145 dollars
Dec 1: 4221 dollars

with loans that canā€™t be discharged in bankruptcy.

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On the other hand, thereā€™s this:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/college-students-use-financial-aid-money-to-invest-in-bitcoin.html

(Editorā€™s note: A spokesman CNBC cited for this article from Student Loan Report, Drew Cloud, is not a real person, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education and confirmed by CNBC. In an article published April 24, the Chronicle reported that Cloud was in fact a fake entity created by the parent company of Student Loan Report, Shop Tutors, which also does business as LendEDU. In an effort to provide transparency, CNBC is preserving the original report published on March 23. Here it is:)

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Some problematic visual effects, especially during the denial timeline, but:

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so much winning

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And on the east coast the rain is at record levels w/flooding. A water-company engineer friend couldnā€™t come to a party on Sunday because he was on dam watch. Our back yard was a lake.

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