I think Android is big enough to be immediately forked. There’s many existing forks already, if they tried to take it private many companies would be invested in a new “Android core” being developed upstream - it’s one of the few situations where open source can work, because businesses would throw money at an org that keeps them competitive

But I’ll be hopeful but pessimistic about a Google breakup. It would be huge, it would be real change

Well I don’t think that’s the real problem here - if you could nuke a hurricane out of existence, it would be a feasible option. The area of effect of a nuke is a lot smaller than media has led us to believe, and if you detonate it at the right height there’s not much fallout. It’s a totally reasonable option… If it worked

The problem is, it wouldn’t work. For any competent president, this was just a bit of brainstorming. It’s creative out of the box thinking, I bet previous presidents have asked the same thing

And that’s the problem. The conversation should’ve gone “can we nuke the hurricane? Have we looked into that?” “Yes Mr President, we’ve looked into it and it just doesn’t math out”. And then they continue on with disaster preparations like a sane person

The problem is: why did we even hear about this? Even the most harsh critics couldn’t make brainstorming look bad, throwing out any idea that pops into your head is the point.

But he had a creative idea, and where most people would feel a moment of disappointment and move on, or maybe even task people to reevaluate the option, he bragged about it in public. He turned “the science doesn’t work” into “they wouldn’t let me”

And honestly, it’s probably one of the best ideas he’s ever had…“if sunlight kills the virus, can we use that?”, “if bleach kills the virus, could we inject bleach?” - it shows like understanding of biology, but a president doesn’t need to know biology. They just need to hear “this wouldn’t work” from someone who understands the science, and move on

But the damaged little snowflake he is, he doesn’t let go of the weirdest of ideas, because they made him feel smart for a moment and he’s deeply insecure. He brags about his brainstorming sessions, which is weird, and then he presents his ideas in public as “they wouldn’t let me” instead of “this was a neat idea, but unfortunately it wouldn’t work”

And that’s far more disturbing. Having a creative idea is good, having it turn out to be impractical is fine, but holding onto it and pitching it to the public is deeply worrying

… What? There are fully integrated Palestinians living in Israel right now, they could just integrate them or let them establish their own self rule in one form or another

All it takes is to improve conditions and slowly increase rights for Palestinians until they’re full citizens. Probably start by making it illegal to mow them down in the streets. If you cut off the flow of new recruits, Hamas will wither. If conditions are rapidly improving, it’s hard to convince people to martyr themselves

And Israel could do that… Just not with an unpopular administration that is using this conflict to stay in power

The m in stem stands for medicine. Maybe your new body doesn’t trust experts, so when doc spoke in an overly educated tone it provoked aggression. Possibly because of overhearing this tone during incubation and while getting the original brain replaced

Or maybe I made a typo

The body. It’s feeding you vast amounts of information every moment, it’s the one making decisions, you’re the AI assistant providing analysis and advice

If you clone a tree, you get a similar tree. The branches aren’t in the same place. If you clone a human, why would the nerves be laid out the same way? Even if it’s wired up correctly, without a lifetime of cooperation why would your body take your advice?

Imagine you wake up. Red looks blue. Everything feels numb. The doctor says “everything looks good, why don’t you try to stand up?”. You want to cooperate with the doctor, but you don’t stand up. You could move, but you don’t. Rationalizing your choices, you tell the doctor you don’t feel like it. You feel your toes, you shift to get away from the prodding of your doctor, but you just can’t muster the will to stand

Imagine you wake up. Your sight is crystal clear, you feel your body like never before. The doctor says “don’t move yet”. With the self control of a child, you rip out the itchy IV to get the tape off of you. The doctor says something in a stem tone, and you’re filled with rage. You pummel the doctor, then are filled with regret and start to cry

Emerging science suggests this kind of situation could lead to brand new forms of existential horror