This is an insanely poignant analogy. At least the Romans had their collosium before they fell. We ain’t even got that.

It’s okay, the boat didn’t have any trafficked little girls for his operation.

Imagine this is your understanding of “communism” and the history of southeast asia.

Would explain some of the unironic tankposting I’ve seen.

I’ll stop short of eating ze bugs, haha. Despite how min-maxed grubs are nutritionally, I’m too squeamish for that.

It feels like it’s been the last decade or so that alternative products like the plant patty and things like hard seltzers have been formulated to taste significantly less awful than they used to. Or my tastebuds are changing, both can be true to some degree.

“We can’t do what we campaigned on because a few of us flipped again.”

Well, I actually like the way the beyond burger patties taste. Maybe now they’ll actually have a shot when they don’t cost more than the actual meat.

Don’t companies usually wait until after their IPO to enshittify their products?

This reads like a broscience fact from one of those how to be an alpha dog manly man online courses.

The browser wars have been kind of strange from the perspective of someone who’s been using Firefox for well over a decade. It’s a bit like hearing about the Civil War while living in Oregon.

But it’s what plants crave.

All they needed to do was not be so scummy with people’s data and I think most would have been okay with the tradeoff. I would have bought one of their VR headsets if I didn’t think they were gonna scrape every aspect of its use and sell my gooning habits to advertisers.

I’m guessing it’s to eliminate the issue of a site not getting clicks because the article you were about to read is already summarized for you. It also opens the door for revenue negotiations for allowing their content to be scraped for that purpose, as the scraper bots would now be identified.

The voter apathy is understandable. Look at Virginia’s redistricting. All that effort to get it passed and the Supreme Court of the state tosses it out on a dumb technicality.

It’s a cut and dry example of people going out to vote and their vote meaning nothing.

I should have bet on the game. Everyone Trump endorses loses.

You can literally kill a guy in another state, get acquitted, then go on a MAGA convention tour signing guns and other crap to make a living, but if you contradict Trump on one thing they’ll kick you out and start transvestigating you immediately.

You’re right if we’re talking about the entire population of Earth. With these local models though, other people have already done all the hard stuff. Anyone with an RTX card and just a minimum level of patience can get going.

I can’t blame them for catering for their largest, sustained fanbase.

Would be nice to see that used hardware for sale rather than it being junked as a writeoff.

I can’t imagine paying for AI when the open source tools have made it so easy to set up a model locally.

Meant it as a joke, but this is still helpful information.