I’m more understanding regarding Starlink, because for a lot of people in the boonies it is a lot better than any of the alternatives. There is competition brewing, but right now there’s little choice.
But if you’re buying a Tesla in July 2025 you are making a statement, and it’s not a flattering one.
Things cannot be manly if they don’t cause any pollution. If you’re traveling without owning the libs with your diesel truck rolling coal, what is even the point of traveling?
Now I’m curious what that Quake 3 ad was. Just lots of gore?
But do you have the Tribal Edition?
They’re also happier when you’re not around, Jimmy.
Localized charity like that just increases inequality in the bigger picture. Individuals and individual businesses tend to help the issues they see around them, but they are blind to stuff they don’t know about, and no individual can keep tabs on everything. So people they don’t see (like people who live farther away) are less likely to get help.
Of course, this is a feature to some people, for whom it’s really important to only help people they deem worthy. This unsurprisingly often means only helping their in-group, like their church congregation or their local community. But the people in most need of assistance and the ones the most capable of providing it rarely live in the same area.
It would be far more efficient if a larger-spanning entity (like a larger non-profit charity or government) provided assistance to everyone in a larger area, ensuring everyone has a baseline standard of living. In my experience the Nordic model, where money or subsidized housing is provided by the government to everyone needing it, works quite well. This does not in fact trash the economy, because most people are willing to work to achieve a higher than baseline standard of living.
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Have you ever been tempted to? It was marketed as “the anti-woke AI” from day one, which is just another way of saying that the target audience is bigots and other flavors of dipshits. It’s not like these latest developments are a surprise to anyone who’s paid attention. Making it Nazi was the spoken goal from day 1.
Don’t forget falsifying. If the information was trustworthy it’d actually be a useful tool.
That sounds like something an adult would say. Donald Trump is not an adult.
I was wide-eyed at this, and then I realized that I don’t own a laptop either! I have owned a few, but after my last one died 5+ years ago I’ve just been using my 10 year old desktop computer which doubles as a home server. I do have a work laptop, but I don’t own it.
Is it still a DEI hire if it’s also a glass cliff?
Ohh, that makes sense. When I read “brown bread” I think whole grain, not toast, so I didn’t make that connection.
That becomes more of a philosophical exercise: If a disaster occurs in Alaska when no one is there to experience it, is it still a disaster?
Should I feel proud or embarrassed that I have no clue what “your kids are brown bread” means?
To be fair, it is also a huge state, with a lot of surface area. So it’s not unreasonable that they catch more natural disasters than a tiny state.
What is unreasonable is that it’s handled terribly every time. You’d think all those disasters would eventually gain them some experience.
Makes sense. You don’t get high off your own supply. Norway is all about electric vehicles, too.
Lone Wolf type attacks do have a much lower chance of being discovered, but that doesn’t change that just running at a group of armed agents is dumb. Planting a bomb or sniping them at a distance seems like something with a higher chance of success. Or even a suicide vest, since surviving certainly wasn’t a goal for the guy.
If you’re already breaking up over text, you probably aren’t in a position to worry much about how they interpret your typography. And if they haven’t noticed how you normally write there’s even less reason to worry about it.
Not necessarily how tariffs work if implemented sensibly on select goods you want to keep domestic, but there’s nothing sensible about how Trump is doing it.