Interesting. Wild, but interesting. I consider Mormons to be Christian too, I didn’t realize it was its own thing, I thought it was just the blanket term for religions that worship Jesus.

But Europe has the literal Vatican! That’s where the religion comes from!

Fuck, I don’t want to be a keyboard pervert, but these are some good points

The title makes it sound like the judge put Data and the AI on the same side of the comparison. The judge was specifically saying that, unlike in the fictional Federation setting, where Data was proven to be alive, this AI is much more like the metaphorical toaster that characters like Data and Robert Picardo’s Doctor on Voyager get compared to. It is not alive, it does not create, it is just a tool that follows instructions.

The existence of intelligence, not the quality

I’d settle for reasonable ports

It’s not just this one move. Pathetic and petty describes his entire worldview

Data preservationists are beating back the coming dark age. They’re heroes.

Just totally shut down land trade through the center of the continent? Wars have been fought over less lol

It looks just like the Tik Tok ban to me. Racist/Nationalist nonsense that doesn’t solve the actual underlying problem, which is lack of regulation in the US

“the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-bfs-doge-insider-threat/

I played it back when it was free before Monster Hunter Worlds came out, and it was great then!

He’s about as with it as you can expect the Pope to be. The Catholic Church has never really lead the charge of progress