“He’s not hurting the people he’s supposed to be hurting 😡”

Guarantee the lady that said that in 2019 voted for him again. Twice.

The Nobel Fell For It Again Prize would have just… so many contenders with red hats.

Its chin all the way down, baby.

The fries are vegan in Australia ever since they stopped cooking them in beef tallow - around early 2000s iirc.

However, their own website says they offer no menu options certified as vegan or vegetarian, due to cross-contamination being something they don’t wish to deal with.

Understandable as additional prep areas would be quite expensive, but also it’s a pretty weak copout when they could go to the effort of labelling their vegan/vegetarian items (with the asterisked proviso that they may have cross-contam)… I suspect it’s really to allow them to change up menu item suppliers to cheaper alternatives whenever they like, because they also do not bother to label any menu items with allergen info - and that’s very standard across even small cafes nowadays. To find allegen info you have to dig through a PDF that they update every few months.

My thoughts are that the USA is in a far worse position now to shoulder and recover from the coming bubble pop, crash, and financial crisis that the mass implementation of AI is about to cause than they were in 2008-2009 when the last crash hit.

Could be wrong though. Maybe all the datacenters will get built on time, and be powered by a sudden breakthrough in nuclear fission, and maybe ~44% of people on the earth will sign up to paid plans with OpenAI so that they can become profitable.

Well, it’s not really meant to be impressive. If you read that list and you’re like “he seems fine to me”, then let’s just agree we have very different opinions.

“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.”

– Plato, Republic book 1 (translated) circa 375 BCE.

Its a CIA-style listening device that people pay for and proudly install and display in their home, gathering data on them, sharing it with Amazon and anyone they care to sell or make that data available to - including police.

Ostensibly all to provide short voice answers and actions they could do privately with their phone in seconds.

Nah, he has a long history since 2012 of being quite conservative and posting dumb takes on Twitter, then in 2016 he stopped pretending he was a libertarian and went full MAGA. Only gotten worse since.

I don’t celebrate his death, because I feel like he is pretty insignificant compared to the real government and social media monsters (Meta, Google, etc) currently shaping the world into a worse place. But I won’t miss him one bit.

Some context and examples : https://cartoonwiki.toonsmag.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Views

I know, tbh it’s only 50-50 I wash my car - but hey, new year let’s be optimistic.

Wishing you a good one.

• AI bubble will pop when the datacenters that are financed to be completed in the first quarter fail to meet their deadlines, and continue to fail to meet them mid-year. Banks will pull loans, and rapidly, the dominoes will fall. I doubt OpenAI will survive 2026 (fingers crossed), Nvidia may, since theyre actually shipping products and making sales off the bubble - they’ll take a big hit, as will Microsoft, Google, Facebook. It will cause a worldwide recession if not a financial crisis. 75% chance by EOY.

• Trump will die. His health has circled the drain for years, and there’s only so many medical interventions that can be applied. 50% chance.

• I’ll finally wash my car (been putting it off all 2025), 95% chance.

Prudism. That’s the take.

Rather read Oglaf any day than this pearl-clutching nonsense.

Least fucked option.

Reddit: fucked. Twitter: fucked… Meta: fucked since forever. Bluesky: signs of future fuckededness. Mastodon: not what I was after.

Lemmy: hey, these people seem to be my kind of insane.

ICE agents are federal law enforcement officers, working under the DHS.

Anyone calling ICE agents ‘officers’ is stating fact.

“But he is right about diet”

They wrote unironically, about a man with a well-documented history of hosting a tapeworm that damaged parts of his brain, due to eating poorly sourced and poorly prepared pork.

Internet Copilot One X.

No, no… that’s fair, they are dumb motherfuckers and we are all fucking tired of them.

Fair and reasonable. I don’t use it often and have nearly finished moving entirely to Linux, otherwise I may have done the same (its Windows-only).

So, wait… pay for search, which we need you logged in for and ‘we swear is private bro, honest - but oh hey, if you want a search that’s definitely actually private and we promise it (harder)’, pay them more for a Professional/Ultimate/Team plan to unlock Privacy Pass access … that is uhh, a fresh red flag.

Further, you can’t access Privacy Pass (PP) searches via their standard search engine page… you can only access it by installing and using their closed source browser, or their closed source Android app, or their closed source browser extension… So again its just ‘trust me bro’ but you’re paying them more, and each of the technologies they require you use to access the Privacy Pass can theoretically track all of your data in far more detail than a search engine alone? Mate, from my perspective it’s privacy red flags all the way down.

I mean I get it, how do you have a premium search engine that your users pay for to avoid ads, while also identifying that they’ve paid, while guaranteeing their anonymity/privacy? That’s a tricky thing to solve, but the way they’ve opted to solve is arguably even more suspicious. Open source client code (at least) to validate the server service could not be using the PP tokens to link to a specific user would be a right way.

I didn’t downvote, but probably because they’re a young USA-based search engine that requires login to use - which is usually a huge red flag for privacy, and their privacy of user searches is claimed but has never been verified by any kind of audit - another significant red flag.

Why trust another for-profit Palo-Alto search company with your search data, assist their (potential) tracking by logging in, and pay for it in the process?

I’ve never seen ads and I use the usual free TeraCopy at home. Are there supposed to be ads? (I don’t have a pihole or anything that’d be blocking the ads at the network level)