Sounds treasonous to me.

That has absolutely nothing to do with taxing Bezos. Unless, of course, you suggesting that rich people like Bezos would hold the country hostage over their billions.

The only way that‘s going to happen is to get rid of the vast majority of our politicians. The republicans are fine being fascists, the dems are fine with losing to the fascists as long as they get reelected.

Oh, it’s worse in the US, but it also varies wildly by State. Boston roads are defined by the most negative possible combination of local knowledge, horse buggy trails, and fuck you. New York? Turn lanes can fuck right off, let’s make sure one car can block an entire lane of cars trying to pass by. Also, let’s cram as many secondary roads into one short highway as possible that is the only way to go a certain direction so that it’s at a near standstill for 15 hours a day. Make sure it’s under construction for every 9 out of 10 years. Oh, and that’ll be $8 toll for the luxury of the experience. Texas? Make each direction on a highway 6 lanes wide with everything from scrapyard clunkers and 10 foot tall brodozers going 80 mph, and they‘ll shoot you if you say anything. Midwest? Hope you have good suspension to cope with all the potholes and missing chunks of bridges. California? 14 lanes wide and at a dead stop in traffic.

Last breath? It’s the Balrog whip coming up and snatching Gandalf off the bridge in Khazad-dûm. They’re taking everything they can down with them and much of it is completely irreparable. It will never return. The rest will take decades to repair, assuming the damage hasn’t altered our government so badly that we’ll become Russia 2.0 with nothing but one shitty authoritarian after another treating the country like their own fiefdom to be exploited among oligarchs.

Convicted felon.

Didn’t even have to make it to the pedo part. He was already convicted. Nobody had the balls to sentence and jail the man.

Why would you say that? C’mon, Captain Sarcasm, use your brain.

Consoles pay for proprietary GPUs from Nvidia or whatever supplier. Just like they used to before they designed them to upgradable. You couldn’t think of that?

Some reports have trump pulling in over 1.4 billion dollars for himself this term so far.

According to Google, all presidents over the last 100 years in office including trump’s first term added up together made 22 million dollars.

Dude is fucking the world and raping this country for money on his way out. He absolutely doesn’t give a fuck, he’s gonna be dead soon so he’s setting everything on fire.

I kinda agree with that, except that there are plenty of side characters that are far more interesting and better written than Pulaski, yet they might only get a few episodes to establish themselves vs Pulaski’s year.

So I definitely think it falls in the writing/directing/actor’s purview that the character seemed so shallow and controversial.

The technokings are concerned the peasantry might have feelings of unrest if the LLMs can’t pacify them.

Thank god the tornado destroyed my neighbor’s house and not mine.

Thank god those kids in poor countries are starving and not me.

Thank god for killing kids with cancer.

They never attribute to god the things that a god could prevent, or in fact deliberately willed to happen, but they’re sure happy to strip someone of their accomplishments and effort by attributing them to god’s will.

It was the writing and acting. Garak was well written and acted, the character was ambiguous with loyalty and had an arc to it.

Pulaski was fairly flat, constantly seemed angry or strident, and yes, was attacking a fan favorite character. Not very well written despite the sense the character made.

It wasn’t about any good or bad deeds, it was how the characters made you feel while watching them.

Exactly.

They’ll push everything to consoles so they can control the hardware format, save dev money on not needing to code for the hundreds of variants of PC hardware, then force you to pay for everything from online gaming access to a proprietary game store and their cloud gaming service. They’ll remove upgradability so you have to buy a new system and pay for new subscriptions all over again.

They want you trapped in their walled garden to extract the most money from you.

I’ve heard this a lot. I cannot think of anyone who actually thinks they have a shot at being a billionaire. Maybe a shot at winning the lottery, which is still crazy, but the taxes are predetermined for that so it’s not like they’re going to increase on a winner after they’ve won and already paid. There’s always the steady drumbeat of “taxes are evil” from everyone living in a fantasyland that modern civilized life will continue without them.

IMO it’s more of a fear thing. We’ve been told they’re the “job creators” or whatever (even Musk has only created 100k jobs out of 163 million jobs despite being the richest person in the country). You’re already getting their “preferential treatment” and people are afraid they’ll withdraw their favor, as meager as it is, despite the damage they do to everything else.

Because that’s a profit motive, and for better or worse, you often need to have money to hire a lawyer and file a civil suit to get money as a victim which is a deterrent to filing frivolous suits.

If the State prosecuted crimes for you to get financial compensation I can assume you can see how problematic that might become.

‘You Could Double the Taxes I Pay’ and It Won’t Help Anyone…

…I’d make sure of it”

I don’t follow individuals, no one person is worth that, I don’t do that kind of allegiance or need to interact with a crowd of sycophant followers. So that eliminates a lot of social media right away. Threads, substack, instagram, whatever. Not interested in individuals.

I was on reddit for over a decade. Towards the end the subs became…meaningless? Reposts, bots, hive mind, karma whoring, and generally if you weren’t first to post you got zero interaction at best, at worst someone just wanted to disagree with you and downvote. Ask a question and you were stupid for not knowing the answer. Not worth it, and them came all the API issues, forcing the app, getting rid of Victoria, quarantining some subs while letting shitholes like T_D carry on… death by little cuts.

I much prefer forum-like settings, where most everyone can participate with everything and the Fediverse offers that. So here I am. Yeah, it’s not perfect, defederating is a thing, some servers are ideologically heavyhanded, it has some similar issues with users and mods as the other place, but at least the stupid Karma whoring isn’t a compounding factor.

I still use some facebook groups for hobbies, they just don’t exist here or have zero activity. But that’s about it for my social media.

Used to. Had to have the radio going on low or a fan running during the summer. Not anymore. Any chance you’re adhd? Sometimes The noise in the head is hard to shut off so you can sleep.

Fully enclosed.