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A long time ago it was mentioned on the old forum that there were plans for an alternative ASB ending. Was that ever posted?

The interesting thing is, at least in text and language generation it's not high quality automation, but merely what has been called "David Brooks like" and "mediocre computing" that's promoted as "autocomplete for anything". So, at least it might to able to remove some of the meaningless toil...

"The most boring dystopia possible" reminds me of Jaron Lanier's "Planet of the Help Desks" scenario, where AI and Big Data turn out to be much less automating then people thought and the majority of the human race becomes employed as help desk technicians for these systems: "Another computer...

Mostly likely the National vote is the Olympic Peninsula and Tacoma exurb vote combined.

Fear The Moon 2.0 Presidents of the United States (2009-2020) 2009-2017: Barack Obama/Joe Biden (Democratic) 2008: Def. John McCain/Sarah Palin (Republican) 2012: Def. Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan (Republican) 2017-2020: Donald Trump/Mike Pence (Republican) 2016: Def. Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine...

Mirage Men by Mark Pilkington

There's at least one author who argues that the U.S intelligence community encouraged UFO conspiracies as a way to cover up sightings of classified aircraft...

Fear The Moon Presidents of the United States (2009-2022) 2009-2017: Barack Obama/Joe Biden (Democratic) 2008: Def. John McCain/Sarah Palin (Republican) 2012: Def. Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan (Republican) 2017-2022: Donald Trump/Mike Pence (Republican) 2016: Def. Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine...

Crap list that I made just for the meme at the end, inspired by a post on the Politiyank Discord about Palpatine: Prime Ministers of Italy (2016-present) 2016-2018: Paolo Gentiloni (Democratic leading Centre-left Coalition) 2018-2019: Giuseppe Conte (Independent leading Five Star Movement-Lega...

Milky Bois 2017-2019: Donald Trump (Republican) 2016: Def. Hillary Clinton (Democratic) 2019-2021: Mike Pence (Republican) 2021-present: Seth Moulton (Democratic) 2020: Def. Chuck Grassley (Republican), Mitt Romney (Independent)

Based upon this comment on an Ojeda Presidential ad by black angel : "wow that... ad.... has... too much testosterone and too much creepy authoritarian strongman" Presidents of the United States, 2017-2025: (in an ASB ATL where Ojeda stays in the military) 2017-2021: Donald Trump...

The Scientific State Presidents of the United States of America (1969-1984) 1969-1973: Richard Nixon (Republican) 1968: Def. Hubert Humphrey (Democratic), George Wallace (American Independent) 1972: Def. George McGovern (Democratic) 1973-1977: Gerald Ford (Republican) 1977-1981: William...

Elections On A Small Island: 2003 General Election Aftermath May 5, 2003 OOC: Note that this is in a slightly different, more realistic universe then the actual Elections On A Small Island one. That was one heck of a result, wasn't it? Now that they've had the weekend to digest everything...

Update: The book club has finished reading part one. Some comments: "did you get the feeling that the book was almost made for tv or something?" "It's interesting how there are little changes hinted at in this world's history" "It's almost jarring how quickly it's moving from setting to...

First comments: "It’s been an easy read so far." "Started on the book last night. I have no idea who any of these politicians are except for the people from “The Crown”"