Come on, buddy, pull up. Pull up, Cougar.

The textbook definition of "liberal and woke" is anything that is not a conservative talking point.

Grok is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

The elites don't want you to know this but the whales in the ocean are free. You can take them home. I have 458 whales.

you got papers for that bucket and shovel working on site today?

Alcohol duty, levies on cigarettes, gambling, sugar taxes etc are considered "sin taxes" and are certainly micromanagement.

“taxing the tool” makes me think of transaction taxes, like a tobin tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax

Well, fuel duty is a better example then

To me it reads like a (sensible) argument for taxing the income of a corporation equally to the income of a human.

Sounds like regulatory overreach attacking small businesses and innovation.

Anthropic are using Ai beyond the chat window. Without external information, context and tools the "magic" of Ai evaporates after a few minutes.

> I'm sure NATO has drone swarms all over Russian bases right now

I'm pretty sure NATO doesnt have drone swarms all over Russian territory right now.

NATO has been buzzing the borders of Russia all my lifetime with aircraft erc and beyond (Gary Powers anyone?) I doubt they ever stopped and have moved onto drones by now.

Even in Cold War Berlin each side tried to test out the limits of the other although the Red Army was allowed into a couple of places in West Berlin by agreement like a war memorial.

They don't even fly close to Russia in the Black Sea, I think, after an expensive US spy drone was involuntarily landed into the sea.

I would hazard a guess the last time a NATO member flew missions over Russia was when a miision went bad in 1960.

Both sides have been chancing their arm most of my lifetime. We get reports of Russian planes and ships round here all the time. The west does it to them as well... and it is no secret that British and American folk have been involved in the Ukrainian conflict. It allows both militaries to justify their spending so it is mutually beneficial as well as being brinkmanship.