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I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.

-Al Franken

"Here's the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz: I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz."

• Al Franken

"I do not like that man Ted Cruz..." - John Oliver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-wckRIrz2w

If you want to see how ignorant some voters can be, there is really no better evidence than Ted Cruz.

I followed his recent Senate race in Texas. In a campaign speech, Cruz said he was fighting the elite.

• His father owns an oil company in Canada.
• He attended a private prep school in Houston. His classmates were Bush family kids.
• He attended Harvard University and Princeton
• His wife Heidi Cruz is a top executive at Goldman Sachs

This guy is fighting the establishment? Are you kidding me? 🤦🤦🤦.

After all the shit you're giving us to deal with in Canada this would be the final straw that leads to war. He's a product of your culture and his power comes from you, he's your creation.

So unless my math is wrong there are 100 senators. And if the only yes vote was my own lovely senator Tillis, Cruz voted against his own thing?!?

And how does anyone vote for something that's 99-1 unless you happen to be the first? Some things you should make a principled stand sure, but that's not this.

So... Ted voted against his own bill?

Wasn’t there someone else who created a bill and voted for it, but told others to vote against it?

Of course. Also, thanks Obama!

I'm sorry, but that's bullshit. This would have been the inverse of how a federal government is supposed to work. Rather than keeping individuals from being exploited at the state level, the exploiters are now at the federal level creating policy. They've had a plan in place since Trump's first term, and they don't want blue states interfering.

Governors of states are already looking to remove federal safety regulations to build small modular nuclear reactors in order to power these dumb fucking data centers they will likely be using to store very unethical surveillance data.

They are also planning to use AI to more efficiently build nuclear reactors. While removing federal oversight and safety regulations that have been in place for 50 years... What could possibly go wrong?

No, that's the rationalization. They admin wants to use palantir to collect data on American citizens, including giving ICE mobile camera installations to do face tracking. They want to do a 1984, and they don't want any speed bumps from the states

Also, AI companies gave Trump money and there's talk of restricting their power/water access to data centers to prioritize the people living nearby

I don’t buy it.

A diversity of regulatory approaches especially in such a complex subject really does need the 50 state laboratory.

In fact because states are smaller markets, it might encourage the development of more smaller companies. A complex regulatory landscape gives an efficiency edge to players who focus product development in specific states.

Anything to keep this shitshow happening in a more democratic way is fine by me. Anthropic and that Altman fellow seem so desperately out of touch with humanity, I welcome any disadvantages we can give them.

i honestly don't give af about states that like ai fuck them. ai should be abolished everywhere.