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Absolutely.

But it’s a bit more than that too, because it doesn’t just have to be race. It’s just differences, and race, religion, gender, regionality, politics and more all play a part in it.

It gets a little confusing for folks because most people (rightfully) aghast at the situation latch onto the issue most close to them as the primary one, but when dealing with bigots, it’s usually more of a grab bag.

For example, did people not vote for Kamala because she was black, a woman, or a Democrat? From data it’s likely most people’s order of disgust went Democrat - > Black - > Woman, but that’s definitely not all of them.

For Mamdani, for most people who hate him, it would appear to me that it’s because he’s Muslim. The fact he’s brown too is just icing to them.

Exactly. This just leads back into the avacado toast and Starbucks (who are also killing Christmas) rant.

Definitely a cracked screen. Also, only takes a charge if the cable is at a specific angle.

You should just get a new phone.

Sincerely, every uncle this Thanksgiving.

If you intentionally break something while telling everyone it’s broken, you are technically correct, but still an idiot.

Wow, Salt is so good even Slugs vote for it? That’s how you know Salt is good.

/s

One of the best computer game series of all time. I know some people prefer EV Nova, but Override and the Frozen Heart story-plugin will always be my favorite.

• Civ V
• Breath of the Wild
• EV Override
• Master of Orion
• Mario Kart: Double Dash

No particular order, but these are the games I always come back to

The real reason isn’t that they can’t turn a profit, it’s that they don’t have to.

They don’t have to be profitable because they aren’t fueling growth with profits, they’re fueling it with debt and investment. Like many have noted, they cannot do that forever and will eventually pass that cost to consumers. A significant portion of their existing cost is driven by research, which they can scale back by lobbying for legislation, so that peers getting a leg up is more difficult and small players catching up is almost impossible.

Also, both Anthropic and OpenAI have planned IPOs, where they will inevitably raise a ton of cash. It’s a game of chicken though. How long can they fuel growth without being publicly accountable to balance sheets and shareholders? Whether we like it or not, they will almost certainly transition to being profitable businesses, but only when it is advantageous for them to do so. Right now, it’s not a priority; the priority is growth to the point of diminishing returns.

You can call that feudalism, among other things.

But that’s because it’s intentionally hard to tell if it’s feudalism in a capitalist hat or capitalism in a feudalism hat. That’s what oligarchy is.

Capitalism in itself is private enterprise, which is where capitalism defenders usually start trumpeting that capitalism isn’t actually evil. I think you can maybe make an argument that totally unregulated capitalism isn’t evil, because it’s basically anarchy. But the reality of human greed hits hard and always leads to self-regulation (collusion) and external regulation (coersion), which muddy the waters and lead to oligarchy and feudalism regardless as politicians and businessmen consolidate power.

An infinite number of podcasts would appear commenting on who was white enough to survive the race rapture.

I’ve always loved that the covers of books are specifically designed to allow you to judge the book, especially if they have a synopsis or something on the back.

Judge that town.

The cheapest PCs are ones that didn’t make the cut for Windows 11, so I’d look for 6th or 7th Gen. RAM is cheaper as well. Then you can build something cheap, and iterate from there.

For a beginner, check out Unraid. It’ll do 99% of what you want without being a hassle.

What do you call a Nazi collaborator?

Any smartphone is the obvious one.

But, the first black hole was confirmed in 1971. The fact that we’ve taken a picture of one would be incredible, not to mention directly imaging planets in other solar systems.

I guess this is the place to remind everyone that we did not save the cheerleader, so we did not save the world.

She’s dead.

Oh for sure. It’s the same logic applied when you beat your wife, so she leaves you for your neighbor. It’s obviously the neighbor who ruined your marriage. Wife as well, because a part of you knew she would cheat, because leaving you is obviously cheating, and that justifies the violence.

My grandma won’t drive on the interstate. These are the same.

Wait until a reporter asks Sleepy Don about the Monroe Doctrine.

He may be rich enough.

He seems like the kind of guy who has a couple couches though.