I print toys for my kids, small pieces to fix things and not much else. While I’ve got nothing to hide, but still find this unnecessarily invasive.

Yup, that’s why I said a part of me. The other part understands that ultimately it would be twisted and used as a barrier against “the undesirables.”

Education is definitely a great weapon to combat the oligarchs manipulation but we’re not even funding it correctly currently in the US. It’ll take generations to rightsize and we’d still be dealing with a large amount of stupid people who no amount of education would help.

This is why a large part of me wishes you had to pass some kind of baseline intelligence test to vote. I regularly go on nextdoor to discuss local politics and basically every argument with a conservative feels like arguing with a mentally handicapped person. They only read headlines and aren’t smart enough to question their sources of information.

Recently they were up in arms because the conservative paper claimed the mayor’s office wasn’t being transparent. Actually reading the article it says the reporter requested an interview on the spot and halfway through it an assistant told the mayor they need to move on. Not even noteworthy but it was enough to get the trolls riled up

It’s like this everywhere. Blue cities get shit on by “local” (owned by a mega giant corporation) news, the dummies who live outside of the city go “the Democrat morons can’t do anything right!” Vote against the city’s interests, then line up for a handout as that same city funds the construction of schools and roads for their portion of the state.

That little floating copilot icon in excel is the devil’s work. I’m not a violent person but whoever came up with that should be flogged (IDK what flogging is but it sounds appropriate lol).

The amount of consumers who get a chub for overpaying is way too high. “Look at how much money I have! I can pay $3000 for a $400 product and not bat an eye!” Absolute schmucks.

The fact they don’t think they’re a genius and know their limits suggests they’re probably smarter than average. I’ve found the dumbest people have an unshakable confidence they’re always correct.

We keep entering conflicts with no clear objective because our leadership lies about our reasons for entering the conflict. In both cases we had no hard evidence they were even continuing development of nuclear weapons.

We defeated their military and occupied their countries, but winning implies completing an objective successfully. When we exited Afghanistan the Taliban instantly took control. They completed their objective, they won the war.

Just make it for death row inmates only. Other than that it should just be handled by the courts.

He definitely hasn’t ever read a book for pleasure. Maybe just never read a book.

He’s part of that leadership. He’s part of the problem. We want real change for working people, he just wants to change who’s getting the corporate bribes.

To cool the iss they’re exchanging heat into water pumping to ammonia exchangers then radiated through infrared. The radiators for a space data center would need to be prohibitively massive as I understand it.

People with actual reasoning and intellect will see these numskulls for what they are. Unfortunately the average person has very little reasoning or intellect. The amount of my peers who haven’t opened a book since school ended is too damned high.

100% accurate. I ran a family owned grocery and the owners never shut up about payroll. As soon as I started managing a department it was “you’re overstaffed” every flipping week. I explained my plan to use the extra hours to have the employees trained on how to make more prepared food instead of buying the premade junk. They complained and complained until the end of the second month when my numbers for prepared food in that single month grossed enough to pay for the extra staff need for over half the year.

They still complained I was overstaffed.

Having tried a game with AI NPCs, they’re fucking awful. I don’t want to sit there and have a conversation with irrelevant individuals. Give me that concise “here’s your mission and reward.”

An AI companion who can converse, comment and learn may be cool, but I definitely don’t want anything like what I’ve seen.

Yup, if enough people switch to graphene big G will fuck them over. Exiting entirely is the only long term solution.

Steam decks are expensive and relatively bulky when compared to a phone. I don’t think it’s really a practical solution for most of us.

I mentioned dropping discord in my gaming group chat. Five non political normies and myself. Literally nobody is fighting to stay on discord. We’ll try a few alternatives and even if I’ve gotta fork over a few bucks a month, I will. Any site that requires id is dead to me.

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Ending it suddenly without a replacement would be a catastrophe, no doubt about it. That doesn’t mean they deserve tax exempt status. The majority of charities are pretty decent and get a good portion of their donations to people in need but there are also charities that are basically a way for the wealthy to avoid taxes. I think the government will better represent the will of the people (in normal times), have lower overhead, work faster, and close the loopholes. I’d also be satisfied with closing the loopholes that allow people to take advantage and avoid paying taxes. Donating a few million to the charity you own to get a tax break, while your nephew runs the charity taking a fat check, and makes the area you live nicer; improving your real estate values should not be a thing.