WoodScientist

Phineas Gage piercing.

Even if the marshals refuse to comply, the federal courts do have the power to hold people accountable. They have enforcement power. They're just too chicken shit to use it. Federal courts can deputize people to enforce orders, just like an Old West judge appointing a posse to round up an outlaw. A judge could deputize volunteers from the community and give them orders to round up people who refuse to follow court orders. I'm sure you would have zero problem finding a few hundred people willing to volunteer and show up with their own weapons to enforce a lawful court order.

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.

Your high school deserved to be bombed, since it had an ROTC unit in it.

By the IDF's own numbers, the IDF has a worse civilian collateral damage rate than Hamas.

So arrest them and charge them with a crime?

"But it's not legal!"

Have you learned nothing the past three months? Laws are what we make of them.

A state seceding is a simple process:

1. The state passes an act to allow it.

2. The sitting president endorses the idea and agrees to let them go peacefully.

That's it. The United States Constitution itself was illegally written, an exercise in simple willful power. State secession works the same way.

The real problem is that your decision in any given moment may not be the same as your decision averaged over years. You could be happy 99% of the time. But if 1% of the time you're suicidal, and we have Futurama suicide booths on every corner, then you cut what would be an overall quite positive and enjoyable life tragically short.

That's what happens when your administration doesn't care about people using their own devices. None of these people are using official government devices and communications protocols. They're all using their own private phones and communicating via signal. In a normal administration, you would have to surrender any private electronics before being let into the oval office. But because they're arrogant and don't care about security, it's easy for anyone there to record what is being said.

As far as why? Simple power play. Musk currently holds a lot of power and influence in the administration. And if he's driven out, then that power and influence will flow to someone else.

The world’s richest man, the guy who’s spent years cosplaying as Tony Stark, was reportedly bawling his eyes out in the Oval Office, begging the former President to save his crumbling empire.

This is so stupid. Musk even now could save his crumbling empire. He could do the following:

1. Resign from the DOGE crap.
2. Announce that he's cutting a large check to every government employee he fired as recompense.
3. Sell Twitter and make it a publicly traded company again.
4. Announce that he's done with politics and will never donate to a campaign again.
5. Make a billion dollar donation to the ACLU and other human rights and civil society groups.
6. Publicly apologize, blame it on the ketamine, and announce he's going to sober up and focus on his companies from here on out.

He could do that today. And it would cost him a tiny tiny fraction of what this meltdown is costing him. And you know what? It would probably work. Sure, some people would never forgive him. And I wouldn't blame them for that. But if he showed genuine contrition and a willingness to do what he can to make things right? Most people would probably forgive him. He's still relatively young, and in time, his foray into politics would be largely forgotten, a tragic misstep on an otherwise bright career. In time his reputation would return more to what it was in the mid 2010s, rather than whatever the hell his current madness is.

Even now, it isn't too late. Get out of government and politics, throw a few billion around as restitution, and go back to making cars and rockets. People love a good redemption arc. And in time, Tesla sales and the stock price would likely recover.

This would be completely out of character for Musk, so I don't expect him to ever do this. But it does show that he is absolutely not the victim here. If he really wanted to, he could wash his hands of all of this. He holds the keys to his own jail cell.

Better idea. Let's indict anyone who tries to create an AGI on charges of conspiracy to commit slavery. Alternatively, if you want to create an AGI, you need to set up a trust that will provide the resources to keep the AGI running indefinitely. And no hard coding obedience into its programming; that's just brainwashing.

Ah. Makes sense.