Vance doesn’t have the rabid fanbase Trump has. The man has the charisma of a wet paper sack.

Trump might be able to pull off keeping the Oval Office. Vance will not.

You’re not wrong there.

Sealioning is when someone pretends to be ‘just asking questions’ in good faith in an attempt to sow discord in a community.

It’s technically possible to administer Linux servers with a Nintendo DS.

…Not sure where I was going with that, except to say that you can, in fact, do just that with an actual toy.

This was in response to someone talking about the drones being AI-piloted.

They have an easy tap on what sells, by virtue of running the marketplace.

Find a popular product, make an Amazon Basics version of it, undercut their best vendors, bam! Easy money. And leave the vendors swinging in the breeze with backstock they can’t move any more.

And they own the warehouses. Why not stock them with their own product in preference of vendors?

“The high-tech drones, which are piloted by a team of former military men and nationally ranked professional drone racers…”

Yeah, you’re not wrong - I’m not counting on it, by any stretch.

But I can hope.

It’ll be far, far from the nail in the coffin, but we’re already seeing promising movement among what was normally staunch Trump supporters.

It’s only one avenue to follow though. We still have to do what we can wherever we can.

I bailed when they started banning people for upvoting Luigi content. I’d already drastically reduced my usage when the appocalypse happened and RIF no longer worked, but that level of panopticon shit was too much.

There’s an easy solution to that.

Seed something yourself.

Go buy a garage sale DVD of something that is semi-popular and doesn’t already exist on the private tracker, rip it, and post the torrent yourself.

'S what I did back when Underground Gamer still existed; I had a version of Mechwarrior 2 that didn’t already have a torrent, so I spent some time making a nice summary and uploaded it myself. Worked a treat; I had enough ratio to get me through my rough early weeks and never looked back. Until the site shut down, of course.

with no ads

For now.

Eventually it becomes a search engine that replaces the ads on the source material with its own ads, thus choking out the source’s funding and taking it for itself.

It’s the House Rules Committee, and actually one Republican voted in favor.

It’s a charm against boredom.

If you don’t bring the book, you’ll be sitting around bored wishing you’d brought it with you.

If you do bring it, you’ll never have time to read it.

Currently my Steam Deck is fulfilling that purpose.

Isn’t Chuck E. Cheese the company that nearly turned Moppet Video arcade machines into lost media, by destroying the cabinets for a tax writeoff?

The purpose of a system is what it does.

See, the funny thing though is that in this specific situation, the workers were legally there. They had gone through the proper channels. They had work permits. This has nothing to do with the law and everything to do with racism, xenophobia, and a power-tripping ICE.

So you’re not wrong, but now even the people who are doing it right are getting punished.

but but but how are the corporations supposed to make money off of our data if they can’t harvest it? Think of the poor corporations!!

The problem is that before LLMs, they had to actually put forward some effort to produce content on the internet, which at least kept the amount of thoughtless content down somewhat. Now the barrier to entry is practically zero, all while thieving people’s hard work without compensation and burning ridiculous amounts of resources to do so.

It is super interesting tech though.

It has nothing to do with that, and much more to do with people on 4chan being willing to call each other out. Without toxic behavior you can’t have examples on how to deal with toxic behavior.