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- Comment on Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile 1 week ago:
Thank goodness John Henry has taught us Americans that machines will never beat humans, so we obviously know how this will end. /s
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 2 weeks ago:
If you habitually use it on simple or clear turns or empty roads you will habitually use it when there are people around. That’s a good habit to have.
Lights on always and signal whenever you’re deviating from your current lane.
- Comment on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design. And he didn’t even wear it to the venue. 3 weeks ago:
These the same guy’s that let the Nazis have a rally?
But a shirt that says “Ban Dolan” is “offensive in nature” and makes “threats against an MSG executive?”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Nazi salutes and internment camps sure are a good place to start!
Then there’s selling shirts with swastikas on them and talking about poisoning the blood of our people.
Beyond that there are a lot of scary similarities like book bans, transphobia, and attempts to overthrow the government.
Oh and of course, rubbing shoulders with Nazis and not bothering to criticise them!
- Comment on Liberal women 'least happy and loneliest', according to new survey 2 months ago:
People aware of how fucked the world is and how much they are looked down upon don’t like it.
- Comment on No wonder they lost so bad in November 2 months ago:
Meanwhile the other guy had already attempted to ignore the will of the people and install himself as president and told people that if they voted for him they would never have to vote again.
- Comment on Israel Is Blocking 11 American Doctors and Nurses From Leaving Gaza 2 months ago:
It’s totally not an occupation though.
- Comment on Trumo Hatred 3 months ago:
Dude has been breaking all sorts of laws his entire life. Including during his first administration. His policies consistently hurt the majority of his constituents for the sole benefit of himself and his cronies. His behavior and rhetoric have made America even more of a laughing stock on the world stage and his campaign promises have near single handedly strengthened America’s “enemies” and pushed away our “friends.”
Trump did 3 good things in 4 years of office:
- Legalized Hemp
- Banned bump stocks (overturned by the judges he appointed)
- Expedited the covid vaccine production (botched everything else about the pandemic response including vaccine distribution)
Trump has flirted with a presidential run in 1988, 2000, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 under the Republican, Reform, and Democratic party tickets. It was only the republican party that he found bolstered enough support for him to win. He left the Reform party for the Democrats after involvement from David Duke. But later refused to disavow a direct endorsement from David Duke.
What does that tell you about Trump?
It tells me that he shops around looking out only for ways to bolster himself, his wealth, and his power. He doesn’t have a consistent moral and he doesn’t stand for America. He stands for Trump. His next administration is the wealthiest in history and his announced policies will siphon more money from the working class to him and his oligarchs.
He’s talked about invading our closest allies which has led directly to an increase in military recruitment not to fight our common enemies but to fight us directly.
He’s talked about blanket tariffs on all foreign goods. These tariffs will be paid by the American public. This will encourage American companies to raise the price of their own goods to: 1) recover the extra cost of imported materials, 2) close the price gap between their own goods and the now more expensive foreign goods. This will also encourage foreign governments to establish retaliatory tariffs on American exports which will also lead to American companies raising prices to make up for lost sales. This won’t just affect things like toys or electronics. American food is imported, lumber for home construction is imported, oil for gasoline is imported, electricity is imported. Literally everything in America will cost more if his tariffs go into effect.
I can afford that–can you?
Trump found a group of people that will blindly follow him and he manipulated and lied to them to convince them to give him power once again–even after getting our spies killed, leaking our nuclear and security secrets to our enemies, attempting a self coup to remain in power, and botching the plan to leave Afghanistan.
Trump supporters are not necessarily stupid people and I don’t think someone is necessarily stupid for supporting him, but they haven’t taken the time to look into and understand the effects of his claims, they were lied to, used, and led astray by a populist strongman who doesn’t care about them and who will actively work to better himself at their expense.
- Comment on The Browser Choice Alliance - an Alliance to allow Windows users to choose there browser 4 months ago:
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale is live for you to empty your wallets, Steam Awards open for nominations 4 months ago:
It’s called “Fall” cause price fall down!
- Comment on Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely' 5 months ago:
“Safety” because they are incapable of uploading a clean game to steam?
1000005417 Also, this used to be on their website before they realised just how much data they could hoover from PC sales.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 5 months ago:
Billiam Bakesale
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 5 months ago:
An ape could though.
- Comment on Biden stumbles through event, refers to former Rep. Giffords in past tense: 'nothing wrong with me' 5 months ago:
It’s a good thing Biden ain’t running then! You should see the other guy though . . . embarrassing and weird.
- Comment on Donald Trump 'Could Make History' and Break 20-Year Record—Election Analyst 5 months ago:
There’s a lot of “could,” “can,” “might,” and “potential” in that article, but what does it say about our electoral system when a party that does not hold the most popular views continues to amass power via technicalities?
Also there’s not even been 50 presidents yet, every election has a historic first.
- Comment on 'The worst thing I've ever heard': Holocaust survivor blasts Harris for comparing Trump to Hitler 5 months ago:
- Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
- Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
- Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
- Supremacy of the Military
- Rampant Sexism
- Controlled Mass Media
- Obsession with National Security
- Religion and Government are Intertwined
- Corporate Power is Protected
- Labor Power is Suppressed
- Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
- Obsession with Crime and Punishment
- Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
- Fraudulent Elections
I can think of 2 former heads of state that that describes.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 5 months ago:
Eh, congrats! New Job?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 5 months ago:
When was the last time you got a 63% raise?
- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 5 months ago:
At some point the electrical signal has to be clear at a hardware level. Companies can make it harder, but if they’re streaming any info to a device in your possession someone will be able to extract that clean electrical signal and reproduce an acceptable feed.
- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 5 months ago:
What I mean by “on your computer” is not that it originates on your computer, but that some form of it exists there–namely this is going to be images, text, links, etc that the ad company hosts and a website will normally download temporarily along with the rest of the site’s content. Once your computer has that site’s information you can do anything you want with it. Importantly what exists on your computer is a local copy of what the ad servers host. If you decide to color ads blue on your computer that only affects your copy. The original ad, and everyone else’s copies remain intact.
- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 5 months ago:
To put it another way:
- If you want to see something it has to be clear (unencrypted)
- If you want to see something on your computer it has to be on your computer
- You can control your own computer
Therefore, any media that is viewed on your computer is clear, on your computer, in a realm that you control.
This is also why ad blockers work. You can send me ads, or requests to fetch ads and my computer just ignores them.
Companies will never be able to stop this, cause at some point you can always just intercept the data feed at a hardware level and reconstruct the stream.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 5 months ago:
Realism wasn’t necessarily the end goal of a lot of painting. When you look at old Christian art one thing to notice is that different people can have vastly different sizes. The virgin mother may be most prominent, some patron saint smaller, and the artist themselves or the commissioner may be included as smaller figures. This play of scale was a device to show what was important and being sure to capture and portray that hierarchy was a more important goal than realism.
