It depends on what kind of weird shit you're into.
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China's ability to mix and match the worst of communism and capitalism in a single dystopian package never ceases to amaze me.
Who said anything about Christianity? Eggs and rabbits are symbols of fertility, and [insert your favourite fertility goddess] will be worshipped.
Probably the only newspaper in the world that didn't have this article already written down and refined over the last few years.
The US federal government pays by check?
Exactly. I don't know American laws, but I would submit my resignation by registered letter (I assume there are still doormen to receive those), and if they kept paying me I would put the cash in a savings account in case they ever remember to read the mail and notice they were paying me after quitting.
Moving around in "peaceful" should be ok as a playground for learning the controls.
Ackchyually... Bikini Bottom is (probably) in the Marshall Islands which have free healthcare - mostly paid by the US at that.
What? Is there going to be another Russia's Final Warning?
If they have red lines this needs to be it. If they allow the Republican Party to send people to a concentration camp without due process, especially when they claim they can't get people back, the Supreme Court might as well fire themselves and lock the doors on the way out.
Don't both GNOME and KDE send sigterm first on shutdown?
Before we even get close to have this discussion, we would need to have an AI capable of experiencing things and developing an individual identity. And this goes completely opposite of the goals of corporations that develop AIs because they want something that can be mass deployed, centralised, and as predictable as possible - i.e. not individual agents capable of experience.
If we ever have a truly sentient AI it's not going to be designed by Google, OpenAI, or Deepmind.