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Ironic Google thinks that, considering most of “best technologies in the world” are built thanklessly off the back of open source projects

Yeah, it’s very ironic isn’t it. It’s like paying Google a massive exit fee.

Daft_ish has got a real problem if they’re that outraged by the mod’s response. I’ve seen plenty of powertriping arseholes to be mad at in my time, but this isn’t it.

US politics, including about the ICE murders, is spoken about more than enough across the English speaking internet.

I know as much about current US politics as I do my own country’s politics, because you can’t get away from it without blocking most posts on here.

Which is to say that some of us would just like to have a space to NOT talk or think about politics, including US politics.

Yeah…

To the people “wanting to teach the DNC a lesson”, in the nicest way possible, you’re fucking idiots.

They threw literally ever other minority group under the bus, and got absolutely nothing for it - if anything they actually got less than nothing, because Trump wasn’t just going soft on Israel, he was actively cheering them on!

I will never understand the mentality of choosing that hill to die on… Like couldn’t you guys have waited until Trump was at least off the board first.

Man was literally on his way to a lifetime in jail and bankruptcy, that he got out of scot-free because you guys decided 2024 was the time for a protest vote.

It’s almost tragic how desperate these people are to try to move on from Epstein, despite it being one of the few things their voter-base is rabid over…

They didn’t seem to notice their voter-base actually bought into the whole “protect the children” rhetoric they were using to justify increased surveillance powers and the regression of women’s rights over recent years.

I sincerely hope Trunp’s intentional ineptitude over the Epstein files will be the thing that fractures his voter-base, since it clearly wasn’t everything to do with the utterly disgusting use of ICE

As @boonhet@sopuli.xyz said, it isn’t really the same scenario.

There were EVs as early as the 19th century (wikipedia I know, but I’m not doing a deep dive for a forum comment) and they were used for various applications.

So while there definitely was, and still is very much an anti-green economy conspiracy going on… that wasn’t the only factor supressing EVs from mass production and usage back then.

Battery chemistry was inefficient - so a battery big enough to compete with IC engines even back then would’ve needed to be HUGE, making it both too unwieldy and expensive to justify putting into a car.

Any battery you could actually fit into a reasonably sized car was still prohibitively expensive, and had nowhere near the mileage to compete with the day’s IC engines. So they just weren’t viable for the masses.

And as Boon said, if nobody can make a profit making EVs for consuners, they simply won’t make them for consumers.

It’s only with cheaper and more efficient battery chemistry, and a booming green economy thanks to consumer pressure, that they’re now starting to be able to make EVs that can compete with IC engines on both price and mileage - which is what consumers really care about.

Which is to say, if there truly was a competition destroying profit to be made, somebody would’ve done it… Which is why so many car companies were even researching EVs to begin with.

The problem with your regular conspiracy theorist is that the conspiracies they usually believe in are born of ignorance, and can be utterly dismantled with relatively little research.

Why would a corrupt, tax-dodging billionaire who literally embezzeled from a children’s charity be willing to help anyone but himself?

How could there be a pedo-ring hosted in the basement of a random pizza restaurant with no basement?

From my experience at least, the conspiracies that turn out to be true are usually those where there is a concrete benefit to those involved, especially when it involves depravity.

Who stands to benefit from suppression of the Earth being flat, and how do they benefit?

Even to more “credible” conspiracies. If vaccines did cause Autism, and it was provable - why wouldn’t one of the big pharmaceuticals have ripped their competition to shreds by showing that and releasing their own that doesn’t? Do pharmaceutical giants not like kicking their competition out the market and securing more profit for themselves?

Yeah… It’s not indie golden age.

I guarantee you less than 1,000 of those were made by actual indie developers.

I’d more than willingly bet the rest are vibe-coded slop or unity asset-flips designed to look just enough like an actual game that you buy it and hopefully never bother to refund it.

Steam has had this problem for years, and AI slop has only exacerbated it.

Yeah, was probably worth noting the question was rhetorical.

Gaslight, Obstruct, Project. That’s the doctrine after all.

The FBI’s quick move to investigate activists based on a far-right provocateur’s media posts comes at the same time the bureau has insisted it is not investigating the killing of Alex Pretti, the veterans affairs nurse shot repeatedly by border patrol agents on Saturday in Minneapolis.

Remember kids - ICE agents can gun a man down in cold blood and the FBI won’t do shit all about it…

But God forbid you warn people that these downright feral agents are coming to a city near you, the FBI will be on you like a rabid dog.

Trump’s rhetoric was similar to that of Los Angeles-based federal prosecutor Bill Essayli, who tweeted over the weekend that, “If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you.”

Have they seen the multiple angles of footage of this?

Man had a phone in one hand and the person he was helping up in the other.

Unless he had a third hand somewhere, I struggle to see where the fucking gun was.

They really be taking the old GOP doctrine to psychopathic levels just to own the Libs.

You have to remember we’re the minority.

There’s already enough effort put into sabotaging AD blockers. If everyone used AD blockers, there wouldn’t be enough effort on Earth to keep corporations from destroying them left and right.

Our safe-haven of an AD-free internet only exists precisely because most people just put up with it.

Having said that, I don’t like things like Sponsor-block. I’m perfectly fine with the mega-corporation not getting my money, but I absolutely do want to make sure the creators who are putting cool things out there are getting paid.

That take is beyond messed up.

Guy was shot dead by ICE officers for the crime of helping a fellow protestor that had been knocked-down by an ICE officer.

There shouldn’t be enough money in the world to pay someone to spout this sub-human take comparing him to a horrifically vile serial killer, yet here we are.

Anyone who can agree with this unironically is indoctrinated beyond repair, or also being paid off. I refuse to believe otherwise.

I would say that salary and responsibilities are a fairly basic and fundamental part of a job. If they won’t tell you that until you take the position, it usually means the job isn’t worth it.

The hope still holds that this AI bubble will pop before anything truly terrible can come of it, then it can go back to serving the niches its actually helpful for, rather than being used to screw with everyday working people, and we can all live happily ever after.

If anything in the stupid rumour-mill that is modern mainstream news can be true, can it please be that this AI bubble bursts in spectacular .COM style

Also is this “Board of Peace” yet another thing the US Gov sets up, promises it’ll listen to the outcomes of, then ignores everytime it comes to a conclusion the US Gov doesn’t like finds to be against it’s “international interests”

… And who will that effect exactly?

The French aren’t likely to lose much money out of that. Their Champagne and Wine is a luxury export, which people will still want regardless of price.

All that’ll happen is that extra cost will be forwarded onto the American customers.

And then luxury American producers will likely increase their prices to just under their handicapped competition, because doing so is basically free money.

Which is to say, Trump will for sure show Macron who’s boss by increasing the price of Champagne and Wine for his own people.

… just like he totally did on Chinese and other European exports too.

Not defending cousin incest, but it sounds like the NHS is at least backing up its viewpoint with evidence.

Now as to unstigmatising cousin marriages, that’s a no from me. There are 60 million other people in the UK, there’s gotta be at least one that’s right for you that’s not also your cousin.

P.s. Trump should really have left the US out of this conversation given how infamous some of the Southern States are for this sort of “matrimony”

It was first released in North America, parts of Europe, Australia, and South America in November 2013

Unfortunately so, welcome to getting old