Its not uniquely American. Plenty of Mexican and Japanese bars have TVs too. Mexican and American bars love putting on a sports game while Japanese ones show a lot of music videos.

May he lose his fucking dairy farm. I have no patience left for these obstinate fools.

They export a lot. A huge portion of it comes from tar sand deposits.

Yeah same. I have a box full of filament just sitting unopened by my printer.

Buy a house and car for every one of my family members. After that I’d set aside a few million to live off the interest and spend the rest on actually fixing problems billionaires and the government refuse to do. Make a robust food distribution system that drastically reduces hunger in the world, build cheap affordable housing in rich people’s neighborhoods, buy out land for the express purpose of installing a proper rail system across the state of California, that sort of thing.

“Do I hear chanting and laser gun sounds?”

• Some NSA agent, probably

Money shouldn’t have anyone’s signature. Such ugly vanity should be illegal.

Why can’t they vote on a ban to do any chat control bills? Stop this nonsense from happening again.

There’s a disturbing amount of full on MAGA doctors who’d be flattered to be accused of being a Nazi in LA. The funny thing is they’re not even white.

1995 to visit my family when they were all still alive. It wouldn’t hurt urging them to invest in Apple stock and Bitcoin while I’m at it.

The Streisand Effect in action. It doesn’t care whether those who want privacy are good or bad. The only way to stay relatively anonymous is to never use tech, go outside, or do anything noteworthy.

Screaming into pillows is the best way to do it from the comfort of your bed.

One needs an income three times over the California value to even have a chance at owning a home. How is barely being able to afford a shitty one bedroom apartment in the state considered middle class?

They propagate far faster than the diseases can take them. While they refuse preventative measures, most wouldn’t hesitate to get treated once an infection gets serious so their stupidity lives on.

This is a culmination of years in which gamers kept getting ignored when they ask for some consideration to their needs like more memory, better Linux drivers, and smaller form factors. Instead we get hit with their server farm AI slop runoff and told this is what we want. To me it’s an insult for wanting something that’s more specialized to gaming and graphical work rather than some LLM platform.

Why does this make it feel like we’re living in Roman times?

The potato is searing hot and will burst, scalding all who are there. The AI bubble causing massive power, water, and electronics inflation and removing so much liquidity in the market that it’s starting to look like Death Valley. Traditional US car companies abandoning EVs in favor of protectionism for their gas guzzlers that are steadily losing out to Chinese brands overseas. A ton of zombie companies propped up by cheap debt. The monopolization of food wholesale like Sysco that can dictate market prices and makes almost every mom and pop restaurant taste identical throughout the country. The housing bubble getting so bad that the number of vacant homes to homeless people is like 20:1.

How I see crowds of ordinary people going out to eat at expensive locations day after day is beyond me.

It’s used by companies for its rock-solid stability in long up times.

Always cover your ass. Take notes of everything, send emails out with important details of who was supposed to do what. It’ll help you avoid trouble when something goes wrong and fingers start being pointed.

If you’re aloof in the office and your campus has several buildings to work at, you can work remote without anyone ever noticing.

I enjoyed the film since it tried to blend science fiction and fantasy elements. The team at Square Pictures should have kept a tighter control on the story to keep it from getting overly convoluted though. It shouldn’t have been called Final Fantasy at all, that only served to confuse and disappoint fans.