Rhaedas

I’ve seen this movie.

“The only way to keep things from crashing is to plug Skynet Grok in.”

I don’t even disagree with your points on where the party was or is, or how left Obama really is/was, but the neutering of the ACA to what we got wasn’t Obama’s fault. It barely got through even as a Republican-based idea, and from then for two terms on any other efforts were subjected to “just vote no” mentality.

A public option would have done more.

Yes, it would have. Damn it, Obama, why did you vote against…oh wait.

Not only doesn’t understand what a tariff is, he thinks it’s some magic word to make anything change and him get credit for it.

If he didn’t have full blown dementia I’d say he’s an idiot. The ones around him going along with it, they ARE idiots.

A) I’m just commenting on it being labeled as rage bait and not a call for action(s)

B) Absolutely go after the root cause as well as find alternatives

C) There are always alternatives

How about both? And while doing so, use applications that aren’t yet subjected to those rules.

Rage bait, or a line being drawn? The excuse that it’s just for certain type content, only some features will be limited, etc. sounds like “it’s just a little bit of Orwell, why you so mad bro?” Let the free market sort it out, if most people are fine with limitations (and future additions to those) then so be it. There are alternatives right now, so make a choice.

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It doesn’t have a basement?

Given that “interesting” is how the Chinese curse goes, we’re in interesting rimes now. So more of the same as far as how humans behave. Climate far worse because again, we aren’t going to change. More dystopian, corporate rule (the cyberpunk novels had that spot on), AI better/worse depending on your perspective (more advanced, used everywhere). Internet far different than it has been, with familiar niches holding out here and there. Possibly recovering from some major disaster, maybe large scale even.

It’s safer to expect pessimistic results and be surprised. I don’t doubt there will be some good things to happen too, great advancements and maybe even big societal changes that help people. They’re harder to predict though.

“Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.”

A good lesson is to look back on predictions made for the future 50 or 100 years ago. Often times the technology is the guessed the closest right, but how it is used, and how it affects the social structure of society is totally wrong.

Help is only on the subscription version.

How many nukes going off does it take to ruin everyone’s day? One. Modern rationalization is “maybe if we make it small enough”, no, it’s still one. Not only because it’s an environmental disaster even if small, but it crosses a line and once crossed, lines move around a lot. The last thing needed is a nuclear detonation and the world’s countries analyze it and determine, “well, it was terrible, but not THAT terrible. Maybe two is the limit.”

What do you call someone who sits at the table with a fascist? Even if they verbally disagree with them.

It’s so out of character. If only we had decades of history to judge how a person is.

Well, two that get reunited. The rest though, tragic.

Wow, I’ve been busy with a lot of stuff. That I haven’t done. The glory of VPN (that doesn’t keep logs) is you’re behind the noise of anyone else. Sometimes it’s better to not be hidden, but be in the crowded plain sight.

Given the period, there is an unwritten sigh at the beginning. With maybe a presumed pointing at their name that Brian either missed, or doesn’t know.

“Why doesn’t anyone want to trade with us anymore?” - Trump

I don’t know, man. Can’t be anything you did, right?

The best thing to pipe into an observation lounge is the tower/ground frequencies. Watching planes doesn’t have to be a Disney experience with a soundtrack.

All I can remember are the few times where he was asked a question along those lines and was completely unable to answer the question.

Unable to answer the question, and blamed the asker for a “nasty question” and some agenda to find fault.