I wasn’t very interested either but I ended up enjoying it. They did the suspense pretty well and it was a solid enough story. The part I disliked was watching the shitty cop attitude and behaviors at all. But an undertone was that you can’t tell normal police behavior from the criminal police behavior they’re highlighting.

Like they’d talk to me.

Putin Fettermans at that

Way too many think that, yeah. The muscle bound AI images of Trump are actually how they view him.

I wonder if these red states are going to get their white flags from Amazon when this is all over with.

You’d think it would matter, but it doesn’t. Reality is not the flex it should be. They live in delusion (hence why many Republican men think Trump could beat them in a fight). They have layer upon layer of cognitive dissonance and though they constantly discuss things that are fact -based like the facts matter, the facts really don’t matter to them.

No. I’ll do layoffs and slowly hire them back at lower wages. “Can we add a helipad to this fifth yacht?”

As the national founder of antichomo I figure my days are numbered but glad to see I’m only on the list for most of my beliefs and activities.

There is value in the effort and challenge. There was recently a YouTube video about this, I forget by whom, that made the point really well. I’m as big into tech as anyone I feel. I love automating my home. I love the convenience of lights just coming on when you need them or fans or AC running exactly when the temperature dictates for efficiency.

I started self hosting and I stream my own music to everything. But I have found that my older Ford Focus having just the right song on my extremely large but definitely limited USB drive is so much more gratifying than streaming. Even over my own streams. I get why people are going back to CDs and cassettes. Well, kind of.

AI is also making the wrong things easy. I’m sure everyone has seen the meme about AI writing and making art when you want something to clean so you have time to make art. That’s really it. We need some form of struggle to make us creative and skillful. Not to mention, the way the technology jumped onto the scene has prevented the more creative people from finding the best use cases for the technology as we go along. The purveyors of AI are just the most ambitious (greedy) not the most creative or talented. So what could be good implementation is making slow progress by the people creatively applying it. Meanwhile, an ambitious person is using AI to improve AI so they can corner pieces of the market which cuts off that real-world creativity.

How they end?

Username would be Krasnov I think

It doesn’t have any thoughts about your math problems.

You say that but I feel judged sometimes.

I love this for him

My advice is very unromantic.

What you’re seeing is their best face. They’re not who you imagine they are. They could still be a good person and maybe a potential romantic interest, but it won’t be the person you’ve created for them. If you don’t just let them go, one day you might meet in person somehow and you’ll have this one-sided parasocial relationship that will either freak them out or they’ll never catch up with.

I suggest not pursuing the friend request. If it’s a limerance scenario, you might be fine now. You might browse their profile occasionally. But what about when you’re feeling exceptionally low? What will you do? Add a couple of their friends and try to slowly ingratiate your way into their life? Message them with an admission of infatuation?

Some of my fondest memories are of people I never pursued. And they’ll always stay that way.

All of those are true but the likely biggest reason that he’s also a Russian puppet. No one wants a destabilized NATO more than Putin does. Putin obviously can’t make Merz say disparaging things about Trump but he can certainly play Trump’s ego and get outcomes he wants when things are in motion.

I’ve known how I felt like five times in my entire life.

Okay, that would be shitty but no empathy for the guy using fucking Waymo.

She sells sea shells by the Epstein Files

It’s a valid comment and a concept that is fussed about everywhere in hand craft circles. I do woodworking and I use a CNC machine sometimes. Woodworkers without a CNC say that’s not woodworking but most who have one say it absolutely is woodworking, because you have to know what you need the wood to be, you have to know how to make the machine do it and you have to know what the limitations are, etc.

I think the concept you’re looking for is mass production or corporate owned production. To me, that’s what differentiates. If a person in their garage is making something using a machine, it’s a lot closer to someone using hand tools than a corporation buying or building machines to crank out things while paying others to operate the machines as cheaply as possible.