The 5th circuit includes Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi so they can go fuck themselves. You think I’ll live by the opinion of some backwater states? Only a corrupt supreme court would uphold this ruling-ohhh fuckity fuck fuck!
Dumbest car design yet Elon. Congrats. Nothing says cab like a coupe design with gullwing doors.
Find: USSR Replace with: Russia
Their #1 export is band logos I can’t decipher.
The text is phishing and not an actual poll like people have suggested.
I did have an actual pollster come to my door the other day. I forget the organization but it was a political pollster and not a neutral one. Parties do their own polling too. Never asked my name or personal contact info. Just basic demographics: age, salary, children, etc. Then it was just who am I voting for in the different races, what I thought about their policy (favorable/unfavorable).
Then the last question was what was my most important issue for this election. 20 years ago I would have said net neutrality or the war in Iraq. In my older age I am more concerned with services for lower income people. You used to be able to fail and still find work and catch up. Now it just takes losing a job at the wrong time or an injury and you can easily become homeless. There is not the buffer their used to be, finding a temporary room rental for $300/no or less doesn’t exist. So I told them “increase funding for low income services” and that guy looked confused and had to type it in. I would guess almost everyone is answering inflation, war, or border crossings. I was just thinking of something that could do a lot of good tomorrow with less money than the wealth of our richest person.
Piracy and anime are joined at the hip. Even in the 90s before we had streaming, you could walk into any Japanese toy store in New York and guess what you would find? Rows and rows of bootleg anime DVDs. At half the price (or lower) you’d pay and with titles not released in the US. There are so many pirate sites now I hadn’t even heard of the ones in this article.
So after 30+ years of fighting this losing battle why do they think they will win it now?
I think it works well there because they’ve been conditioned to accept it. Anyone that would have spoken up have been dealt with. Now the surveillance keeps them inline. Most just live their life like you say, but what other choice do they have but to accept it. One thing you can still actively see is the rounding up of the homeless. If you don’t have the means they can effectively restrict you from entering the cities. Complete internal control is scary in practice.
Those people are fucking morons. I also love the videos of them walking around tourist spots in Shanghai with the titles “I braved dangerous China!” Like it’s such a challenge to travel there. You should see the editing when they visit a 2nd tier city, you’d think they were talking about Detroit.
Everyone nowadays just looks for the videos that fit their own internal narrative. On the surface an authoritative ruled nation is peaceful, has little crime, only brief glimpses of poverty. But under the surface it is a nightmare, especially if you aren’t Han Chinese. Step out of line and you literally disappear. Unlike Mao’s days they don’t need your neighbor to turn you in, they are watching everything you do, buy, eat and travel to. It’s how Facebook would run a country if they had a chance.
It’s not for you. Its for corporations who want to fire half their staff and replace them with an algorithm. That’s why it has such a high valuation.
I’m in my 40s and I’ve been playing counterstrike since I was in my 20s. I play other games briefly but anytime i’m bored I still hop on CS. It’s a habit like checking your locks 3 times or taking your clothes off to poop
What does OpenAI need a CEO for anyway? Just let chatGPT run the company if they are so gung-ho about it.
I thought the deal I got on my KuKluxKlean was too good to be true!