Damn, Elon’s company town is barely a week old and others are already introducing scrip. I knew it was going to be inevitable but this is way faster than even I anticipated.

Worst part is I went “Oh yeah, I saw this story yesterday” and then realized that no, that was about a Texas jail, this is Ohio…

Yeah unless your stomach is producing aqua regia that gold’s coming out the exact same way it went in.

For real. I explicitly append “give me the actual objective truth, regardless of how you think it will make me feel” to my prompts and it still tries to somehow butter me up to be some kind of genius for asking those particular questions or whatnot. Luckily I’ve never suffered from good self esteem in my entire life, so those tricks don’t work on me :p

Precisely. We like to think of ourselves as rational but we’re the opposite. Then we rationalize things afterwards. Even being keenly aware of this doesn’t stop it in the slightest.

I keep hearing that for all new EVs you practically pay 20K for the batteries alone. No idea if that is actually cost or just extortion.

NGL, I’ve been thinking about ways to scam magats on their own social media platforms. They’re clearly the most gullible group of people in existence, so they’ve already self-selected for inability to think critically. Despite that I can’t bring myself to actually do it. Scrupules they obviously wouldn’t bother with if it was the other way around…

I’m 100% sure they already have the data, they’re just now creating a “legal” framework in order to be able to use it, parallel-construction style.

Same age, same disposition.

I try to take it optimistically though: there’s no way this body lasts another 40 years, so realistically we won’t have to suffer for that much longer.

Who needs they shrussy ate?

Satire is well and truly dead, isn’t it?

Just ordered a new video card to replace my 6-year old one simply because I fear prices are going to go up with 20-35% across the board for all PC parts worldwide. Without this threat looming I would definitely have held off for another year or so.

Interesting point. In the past, “fair” ways to divide a heritage often led to split kingdoms and fast power loss. That is why societies with “unfair” division rules, like the Vikings where EVERYTHING went to the first-born son, so no divisions, absolutely rocked hard in their primes since they weren’t prone to being weakened every time their ruler died.

Because it’s primarily a way for (old) societies to foster a war-ready populace. If most women are taken by just a select few men who can afford to, that leaves tons of young males without a mate and prospect of a family.

Those are absolutely prime candidates for the military. So if you know your ideology has a stranglehold on the culture, this is how you generate “unlimited” soldiers for your cause.

That’s why I smoke. Can’t inhale unhealthy ambient air if I’m the one actively poisoning it myself!

Why bother? I’m sure for the right price it’s for sale. Might require a trip to the Mar-a-Lago bathroom though.

Nonde godver

Amen. Added to that I have an extremely common name (both actually) so even if someone were to find that out, they’d still have to sift my shit from all my doppelgangers’.

I think we have to entertain the very real possibility that most of these judges are under duress. I bet some of them received a few pictures or videos of themselves or their family members during candid moments…

When I found out my GF was being unfaithful in high school, it damn near killed me. When I found out the exact same thing of my SO at age 22, living together, I felt like you do now. Indifferent. I did feel betrayed and I did leave her (duh) but emotionally, it never really registered the way you would expect it to. I assume this is a human self-preservation mind trick that the “lucky” ones among us experience in these harrowing situations.

Regardless, my condolences. I know no one died, but eventually it will feel sort of like it.