And we’ll do it again!

Isn’t Lemmy a type of social media? I know they meant the popular apps, but in my opinion Lemmy is still social media.

American’s are still welcome to Canada, just leave the MAGA bullshit at the door. We’re still sibling states. Even though our older brother is increasingly hateful and violent, you’re still our brother. We’re worried about you. We won’t tolerate any of your abuse though.

I’ll say two things that I have actually found useful with ChatGPT, helping me flesh out NPCs in the tabletop RPG campaign I’m running, and diagnosing tech problems. That’s it. I’ve tried to program, have it make professional documents, search things for me, all of it sucks compared to just doing it myself. Definitely not worth poring a significant chunk of the global GDP into.

‘The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi’ isn’t left-wing propaganda, it’s what my grandfathers taught me. Those men were definitely not “Left-wing” lol!

Add on all the bullshit they hide in their contracts to cover liability. Fuck Disney saying that their customers can’t sue them because they paid for a Disney Plus account. Should be legal but apparently it is.

Oh man they’re totally going to do that. It’ll be like China’s housing boom but with commercial construction. Anthropic and OpenAI will start building data centers with the promise of putting a data farm inside. Except there will never be enough hardware to fill the space, that won’t matter. They’ll be able to sell investors on the promise of data dominance.

It’s the best option, and if you can figure out a way to do it I wish you all the luck in the universe. I won’t be holding my breath. No offense.

Well like, what other options are there? Most retirement communities have been bought out by Atria or Life Care Services, stripped of anything that made them special and unique, then had their prices jacked way up. For elderly people they can either A) spend the money all the they could give as inheritance, and take on debt to live in the only places capable of supporting you, or B) kill yourself, give your children as much inheritance as possible and hope that you making that decision means your kids might not have to do the same when it’s their turn.

Yeah but have you ever tried to care for aging parents outside of a retirement community, sucks all your time, money, and energy leaving nothing else for the rest of your family. End of life care is a great place to extract wealth if you’re heartless. People are their most scared and vulnerable, they’ll pay anything to feel normal for just a little while longer

It’s legal because the people who decide on what is and isn’t legal decided it’s legal. That’s it. There is no moral high ground, no social norm to defend this from. It’s morally wrong but the law isn’t about morality, it’s about power. Maybe the law should be more moral and less powerful but we don’t live in that world yet.

She literally can’t, ICE agents are federal agents which means they have civil immunity from lawsuits that are a direct result of their duties. Unless they’re doing something that a reasonable person would understand to be a breach of the law. That said the federal courts seem to use Donald Trump’s circumstantial definition of a reasonable person and only his. So fat chance there’s a legal solution to this.

And now we have arrived at the tragedy of the commons. Why should anyone care about common interests over themselves?

Obviously not. They don’t want to bring prices down, they want to bring profits up. Representatives and senitors don’t give a shit about your safety in a car, but do care a lot about the big three car manufacturers stock buyback options. We’re less than worthless. We’re annoying voters they don’t need anymore, compated to a stock but back you’re a nuisance.

To be fair to Musk (LOL!) NASA was chock full of former Nazi scientists back then. You don’t believe me? walk into NASA sometime and yell “Heil Hitler!” WOOP! They all jump straight up! R.I.P Jessica Walter.

I worked retail in those days, it was crazy. It was common for a few fights to break out. One time I remember pulling out a new skid of Christmas trees and I didn’t even get to the main isle before customers mobbed the skid. My manager was so pissed off at me for not stopping them but how can one person stop dozens of people without any help. Black Friday was gross and BFCM is no better.

I compare him to Heinrich Himmler, who was Adolf Hitler’s right hand man for most of Nazi Germany’s existence. They’re both equally pathetic, hate filled men who are responsible for causing a Holocaust. They even kind of look similar.

Not to mention invisible when it does it’s job right. When public health is supported people don’t get sick, epidemics don’t happen, things look good. So some genius gets it in their head to cut public health funding. Why waste money on public health when people aren’t sick. Then public health gets cut, people get sick, people blame the health care industry which isn’t the same as public health. That happenes until public health gets a little more support, and people stop getting sick, rinse any memory of the last time, and repeat.

Right! The regulation states that you need to use standard xxx#### except standard xxx#### costs hundreds to thousands of dollars. Except the law says you need to conform to it. Except only big companies have them because the little ones can’t afford it.

In a roundabout way, yes a researcher does get paid for their publications but not directly. Universities exist on their reputation and their reputation is determined, in part, from the publications their researchers make. So a researcher who publishes a lot of high quality publications has a better chance of being offered a position at an institution with a good reputation, which can offer to pay them more.