Power trip? Bratan those were paid marketing / influencers.

“we can make enough money without it”

Entrepreneurs are in the business of building new, better worlds. So even if the fact that phones are making the world dumber is depressing, it’s important to face it.

No they’re not, they’re in business to make motherfuckin money, and it’s clear that they DGAF about externalities like making everyone dumb and phone addicted.

Hey now Kirkland brand is respectable, usually premium brands repackaged. Such as how Costco vodka was secretly (“secretly”) Grey Goose

“was”?

I think “is currently” is the correct read.

Hitler was a WW1 who served and was gassed in the trenches. He had some combat training and was a pretty intense dude.

Elon is a rich kid who got booted out of most of his startups for cause, but made enough of a golden parachute to go around buying up other people’s successful businesses, e.g. Tesla. He’s never been in a real fistfight in his life.

Great whilst on a ton of mushrooms

A game will release a bunch of DLC that is bundled together or due to come out at the same time.

“Well sell you all of the DLC that came out 1 year after the game. Other releases are on you”

Decades of very effective propaganda combined with intrinsic ideological biases.

Leaking fuel is generally a bad thing. It may not hit the differential but let’s say the exhaust or muffler is banged up and pointed downwards – still gonna have a nasty fire

NHTSA

Project 2025 has explicit targets for reforming NHTSA. It is unambiguously in their sights, just lower on the priority list.

The very real origin of the Fight Club joke about not doing a recall

I thought this was a big deal because it’s Open Source – is it not possible to see what is causing these blocks and censorings?

Guns are the only alternative to the tech oligarchy.

You think they can’t buy, manipulate, or just crush decentralized social media? If anything they can do it easily, divide and conquer. FOSS ain’t gonna free you, esp. when the largest contributors to FOSS projects are big corps.

Greater than 50%, mostly due to the complete spinlessness of the greater USian population. People used to riot for less, and often.

I used to use this setup for pen testing

Used to. Why no longer?

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity

Blockchain is a joke

CI/CD and a lot of container fuckery is entirely unnecessary for like 80-90% of orgs

The jobs AI will eliminate are managerial and their hustle to implement it will their own death sentence

One of the takeaways of AM being hacked was that a ton of accounts were fake, and existed to create the idea of a busy site, to add social proof and validity-by-numbers.

The AM hacks were like decade and change ago, and Tate’s fanbase is mostly younger. I’m sure there is some overlap but probably small.

Wonder how many were bots, like Ashley Madison, that exist to pump numbers and increase engagement