I’m so tired of unelected people making rules for my life.
When people ask if I trust the government on any conversation that things like this come up I tell them my motto is “Don’t trust the government, unless it means trusting a corporation. Then DEFINITELY don’t trust the corporation.”
I think the United States as we knew it is dying
I grew up in the US south.
This IS the US as I’ve known it.
The rest of the country got complacent about the people that supported the splitoff faction that wanted to own people as backwoods hicks and not as a viable threat despite them infesting many of the states that literally sent men to die to stop them. Laughed when they said “The south will rise again” despite them having an outsized power in politics and when called out were nice when they said “It’s heritage, not hate.”
They were ready to arrest those who went against the president during Bush Jr era. Nixon welcomed them into the fold after LBJ pissed off the Dixiecrats by signing in the Civil Rights Acts and every Republican since, just as the Democrats did before. The country never finished the job and now the house is infested.
“we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it”
I use that so much I legitimately forget the whole “cross that bridge” when I’m in serious conversation.
Hey! I’ll give you credit that sounds like you might have been one of the rare unicorns on it when you were one. Honestly with Republicans I’ve heard the same “hate cops” unless the cops are going after people they like then they love them. Republicans treat cops like soldiers, they say they support them… riiiiiiiiiiiight up until supporting them individually. But yea, definitely on the war front is a nice change of pace.
I agree on the unrealistic and awful… I in a lot of theoretical ways like the libertarian concept, I’m very much a “leave me alone” type, I just know too many that didn’t have the support when they were growing up that if there is nothing to help them… it feels cruel to do the “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” mentality.
And I definitely understand where you’re talking about on growing up and the expectations. I’m a white middle class guy, grew up in the area surrounded by confederate flags that is the exact area where “God and guns” is aimed at so expectations of me being a Republican. I just was raised by an old school bleeding heart liberal so like my dad and I talk I comment it’s funny I’d hear “You’ll be more conservative” as you get older and I’m over here going man… I was WAY more conservative when I was in high school and college.
I’ll be blunt, I’ve never actually met a libertarian by the definition of libertarian.
I found the easiest way to find out. Ask about gay marriage and abortion, they’ll want them outlawed, want the government stepping in.
Libertarians were just Republicans who wanted to smoke weed, and now that Republicans are cool with weed they don’t really have anything left.
It’s amazing how many people cheer for corporations. There’s few consistents in the world but a big one is corporations are not your friend.
I don’t work near the tangerine, I can’t stand listening to him, I wish I never had to hear his voice again.
The only I didn’t expect in this was that he was in the room with the Japanese PM. Not even really a surprise, just didn’t know that was happening.
Nah, they’re learning the lesson that they should have learned the first time he was president. He will stab EVERYONE in the back. No one is safe from him backstabbing if he thinks it’ll get him something better.
This is exactly what I was thinking.
I’ve owned exactly 0 playstations. The last new(ish) system I had was an N64. Could afford a laptop that could play games but also do schoolwork or have a console, so stuck with computers ever since.
The only time I’ve played Sony based games is when they’re on PC. So… guess Sony is losing my money. I know it’s not much, but interesting to get rid of the small revenue stream in hopes to get people back on console but I guess I don’t understand how fishing for whales is the winning task.
I have found a couple times an LLM being good for searches. My example is scooters in the US, because of commute I’d like to find an electric scooter, the kind like a Vespa. But you do a search, you find all sorts about the standing scooters, look for electric motorcycles and they start getting to car level prices or aren’t street legal, it gets to be a mess. Chat GPT turned that search into a relatively quick one that I could find a local place that I’m going to check out when there’s not ice on the ground. But the important part was making it require links. As a tool, it can have its uses.
So all of that said… Google and other searches doing AI did fuck all and nothing to help on this, and I agree 100% I do not want AI on the search for DDG
The trouble with that is the blue states would be the coasts, and the red states down the middle…
Ehhhhhh… I don’t have faith in it. The manufacturing sector has been in the process of getting worse back when I tried to get into it in 08, and finally gave up on actually finding work in the industry and moved to healthcare. I know people who’ve quit welding jobs because they hit the ceiling on pay and it’s still not making living wages here in the midwest.
Yet that’s an industry that has consistently anti-union my entire life. They just buy into the foreigners taking their jobs. I fear the programming sector will drink the same koolaid, just Indians instead of Mexicans.
Ugh… so many of these, and I look around. I know I’m at minimum 4th generation US on both sides of my family.
I have multiple of the bone conducting ones. The main ones. The backup ones for when I forget them. The backup backup ones that was two generations ago and the microphone crapped out on that lives in my desk at work in case I forgot the backup ones.
10 mm sockets
This is a lie. One will never suffice. That thing will disappear the second you look away.
I agree on the tricking them, but there’s another part I look at. Basic fucking pattern recognition. The jobs have stopped being the in demand for a while now, and they’re not so much on the negotiating power. But the idea of a union is still apparently more anathema and are shocked at these mass layoffs that keep happening.
Don’t worry, we won’t get a Blade Runner-esc hellscape.
Because Blade Runner for a movie had to give us a fascinating world that was interesting that even as a hellscape there was a “Man, it’d be cool to be there.”
No, our hellscape is going to be more like how fast food restaurants all look the same now, the corporate architecture version of taupe agreed to by committee.
I have a friend in programming. He says it’s baffling that the entire industry is anti-union and tends to be pretty pro-corporate.
Only super tangentially unrelated, I had a friend ask if he should get me a lockpick set. I told him I tried to learn, it’s not my thing, it doesn’t make sense in how I feel. He asked what if I needed something open.
“I have a sawsall with a demolition blade. There are very few things I cannot open.”