Here I had completely forgotten about shrillary and now I’m miserable again.

Bernie is one of the better democrat leaders. I wish the 2016 election had been between Bernie and Carson instead of Bernie and Trump.

Getting rid of Schumer doesn’t fix the democrat party but it’s a good start. If they pick better people before the 2028 election they could potentially nominate an actually good person for president. Now is the time to do it.

I pray to god that they put people in power whose #1 priority is addressing the cost of living crisis. If they keep pushing idiots who are more concerned with identity politics than the well-being of the American people, this powder keg is going to explode.

There can only be so many young men who are unable to find a job and unable to afford a house before you end up with a civil war. Trump completely ignored our economic problems. If the next administration does the same the only outlet will be violence.

This would be perfect. I hope the GOP impeaches Hegseth, and then the democrats impeach Trump when they take office in January.

Let the heads roll.

I want a new 5.5" smartphone with graphene OS that costs $200 or less. I don’t want tablet sized phones and I don’t want expensive thousand dollar phones. All I care about is that the phone can make phone calls and respects my privacy.

When the lawnmower was invented in 1830 it created the unrealistic expectation that all well-heeled properties have carefully manicured lawns with flat cut grass. Suddenly even people who had no desire or interest in gardening were expected to own lawn tools and do yard work to adhere to the new expectation. That expectation spread across the world and now lawnmowers and yard tools are a multi-billion dollar industry that consumes everyone’s time for no good reason. It’s just part of human culture now. Every year all the supposedly intelligent, free-willed humanoids living on Earth dedicate their scant time, wealth, and resources to cut weeds near their domiciles only because it is expected of them. It accomplishes no positive benefit. It is a net waste of time and energy. It is a purely harmful thing to do. But if you ask anyone about it, they will initially be convinced it’s a good thing because they don’t actually think about it with logic. They just keep doing it because for the past 200 years we have all been doing it.

It’s very possible AI will turn out to be a similar thing.

Lemmy, X, and Reddit:

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

Games don’t become better when you dumb them down to appeal to the IQ 80 crowd.

I was excited for this up until I found out they replaced the amazing “create a class” system that Archeage 1 had with a boring ass Warror/Mage/Priest system in this one. It’s just lazy and uninspired and killed all my excitement. I’ve been looking forward to this all year and probably won’t even play it now.

With a majority in congress and the senate, they will of course push to impeach Trump. But whether or not that effort succeeds depends on if they can get some republicans in the senate to vote in favor of impeaching him. They need 67 senate votes to succeed.

Considering how unpopular Trump is right now, and that it’s the last two years of his last term in office, some of the republican senators might realize if they cooperate with the effort they might have an easier time in office for the next 10 years. I think the next president will be democrat and they will likely be in office two terms. The GOP won’t have a chance for a comeback until 2036. Do they want to have a target on their back for the next 10 years, or do they cooperate and turn over the idiot that just torpedoed their whole party in order to achieve political survival for themselves?

Every senator is a veteran politician who climbed up the ranks and knows how to play the game. I don’t think they are going to sacrifice themselves to protect Trump. If stabbing him in the back ensures they stay in office as part of a tolerated, minority party then they will probably stab him good.

Honestly he deserves it.

itch and gog are both great storefronts and I continue to buy games from both of those. At this point the only person who can defeat Steam is Steam itself. You might laugh but I’ve seen a change in leadership absolutely destroy companies before. Let us all pray that Gaben lives forever. The next person might run Steam into the ground to make himself richer, just like all our American CEO’s.

It’s just bread and circus. The popular vote doesn’t matter. Our politicians are bought out by corporate lobbyists. Our leaders are hand-picked by political machines and haggled over by billionaires. The MSM coverage of the election and the whole voting process is a way to entertain and appease the masses so we don’t rebel against an oligarchy wearing the bloody sheepskin of “democracy”.

The USA sixth amendment has the confrontation clause, which gives the accused the right to face their accuser in court. If this were to happen here then we shouldn’t have to play their games and hand over more of our personal information. We should be able to take the company to court for slander - they have accused us of a crime - and we should demand they present that evidence in court to justify that slander. Either they submit the evidence - allowing the accused to disprove it - or they don’t present the evidence and the accused wins their slander case against the company.

That’s how it should work. I don’t know WTF the judicial system is going to do with AI lobbing criminal accusations at people. Maybe we end up living in a perpetual panopticon where AI is studying us every second of every day looking for some way to charge us with a crime.

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Local LLM is really the only way to chat with naughtybots. There are naughtybot websites but paradoxically they all enforce censorship, limiting what you can do with the bot. As if you’re going to break a law or hurt its feelings or something. IDFK what they think they’re doing. Once you install LM studio you’ll never pay money for another token ever again and that’s what he is really scared of. They shot themselves in the foot trying to enforce their arbitrary rules onto our fantasies.

IMO this will hand the election to the GOP again. The democrats need to stop pushing unpopular women into the oval office. They want to get their landmark “first woman president” victory and it’s blinding them from actually winning the election.

Agree. Fuck hasan piker. He’s a piece of shit.

100% hard agree. Not launching an IPO is the single best thing Gaben has ever done. Letting in corporate executives would utterly destroy Valve and run them into the ground to fund their golden parachutes. It’s happened time and again. Professional “executives” do not run companies for the benefit of the customer they run them into the ground to make themselves richer. Kudos to Gaben for being intelligent enough to recognize this and keep Valve private.

When the smart car was released in the USA there was a 1 year waiting list because so many people wanted a cheap $7,000 car that they sold out everywhere. Then they stopped making small economy cars and forced the SUV down our throats.

People absolutely would buy a cheap economy car in the USA. There is sky-high demand. It’s just not fulfilled because our auto industry is a racket and they know that if only crazy expensive cars are sold in the USA people will have no choice but to buy them. Transportation is a need, not a luxury. It’s like pricing water at $100 a bottle when everyone lives in the desert and your $100 water is the only water.