Microsoft and a utility company want to make a deal to restart an old nuclear power plant,

to power LLMs (bullshit generators, which it likes to call "artificial intelligence")

which it will use to enshittify its search engine and other "services".

That plan includes a contingent gift from the US government. Worse, a nuclear power plant's cost tends to increase enormously. If that happens, they would ask the US government for more money and use the "sunk costs" fallacy

to manipulate the government into granting that request,

The government should respond, "Ask Microsoft to guarantee this loan".

But since enshittification harms the public, the ideal course of action is to prevent it from happening.

A proposal to entirely disconnect assisted suicide from the medical system and medical practitioners.

I think it is a reasonable idea. The criterion of a terminal illness has always seemed arbitrary to me. Intractable pain clearly should be considered a valid reason.

However, that is not the only situation which is a good reason for suicide. If I were sliding into dementia, and the most I could hope ever to achieve by living was to have occasional moments when I could be aware of what was happening, I would want to give an order to dispense with my body's life when I myself (my mind) was fully dead.

Global heating is speeding plants in Antarctica.

*JD Vance's debate lines were so polished you could forget they made no sense.*

This is the most deeply dangerous thing about the wrecker/Rants team: they have developed s way of forming their public discourse out of pure bullshit, treating real issues with contempts.

This is what makes them enemies of democracy in the US.

The most significant real point Rants made was the one he made by refusing to acknowledge that Biden won the 2020 election. They and their followers talk like gangsters (at least fictional ones), making statements to threaten us, veiled with a pretense that we're supposed to see through but gives them deniability.

Californians will vote on whether to abolish the practice of forcing prisoners to work.

That practice is bad for people outside prison, as the state collects a low wage for the prisoners' labor. If not for that, people would do those jobs by choice and get a fair wage.