Gestures vaguely at 2011 socal and then vaguely at today socal

More specifically Maga didn’t exist and conservatives were far less damaging, or at least less overtly damaging such that it was less socially acceptable to overtly despise them.

But again, I was a child and that at least colors my memory of 2011

The recontextualisation of this piece 14 years later is crazy

We were so naive (with the added context that I was still a child when this came out, lol)

Weird. You called me evil when I suggested it as the correct way to pay creatives and everyone else. Maybe your problem with my argument is your own reading comprehension.

Lololololololololol. No. Unless you have a massively expensive GPU, no. The image is not being generated by your device. It’s being generated by a mile wide server bank that churns through petrochemicals like a city all on its own. That’s the part of AI people are talking about when they reference it being bad for the environment. And if you do own a massively expensive GPU and generate AI images offline, you are not part of the conversation because your activities are an ounce in an ocean.

It’s to make him look less round. He can look like a child or the obese old old man he is. Looking good isn’t one of the options

No one is losing anything. Faith in America is dead. Any lag we’re experiencing is the time it takes to figure out the complexity of smoothly divesting from America. It’s simply impossible to trust this won’t happen again. You can’t put it back in the bottle. The US is fucked

Yes. Actually go further, anyone who doesn’t argue there is no innocent US president is disingenuous or a total idiot.

Abraham Lincoln’s long term solution to race relations was genocide by relocation. He wanted another trail of tears to whiten the US, there was just a pesky war in the way. Freeing the slaves was a punishment for white people, not a benefit for black people. There is no “good” US president

We have these in Lansing MI too! Part of the Satanic Panic back in the 80s involved kids playing D&D down in parts of the steam tunnels under MSU, which, I’m told, is much harder to do now unfortunately very fortunately since children don’t know how to look out for a superheated steam leak and it was only a matter of time before a child got fucking bisected

Ftfy

He’s certainly not fucking innocent

Yeah… Because China is big into encryption

but that wasn’t his last reply

“free” when you find it on the side of the road, but expensive to actually maintain without having it die on you.

The download is free, but pay for it or it’s going to die.

Interesting! Though it’s not actually Russia specific, they’re just the most recent ones. The exact same thing happened before the American revolution. Everyone blamed the administrators working for him in the new world thinking they were deceiving the king. Actually, the king making his distain for the colonists clear was a major motivator towards revolution for many people

Point being naive monarchism happens anywhere people believe their leader is divinely inspired or otherwise perfect and loving of them. Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug

And by 2027 it might even function!

Genuine question because you absolutelyalready took the time out of your day to clarify the intent with your parenthetical at the end there: is this an ego thing? Like what is it about tone indicators like “/s” that you hate so deeply that you feel the need to go out of your way to create a bespoke, alternate tone indicator which was 10x longer and 100x whiny-er? Where did these feelings come from? Clearly you understand that they’re needed, so why do you persist in this nonsense?

Only one way to find out

Lows is the same distance from home. What a The fuck are they thinking?

Tearing down monopolies is an inherent good independent of the fact that the entire industry should be torn down with them. Be happy the court is willing to exercise their power to break monopolies at all. Doing so here normalizes doing it elsewhere

Slazers’ point that is is pocket change to apple however is an excellent point. If it forces compliance then it’s still a win. We’ll see what happens

Your plan is sound. Just make sure whatever you use as a brace underneath doesn’t naturally warp in the same direction

Yah, nope. Still completely fucking lost. You suck at writing my dude. Maybe take a class? Idk, but your teachers failed you hard. I said we because I’m not op supergenius.