I know the point of this is probably just intimidation but 35 companies? Are there 35 social networks that moderate content? Why is Apple included? Is there some conspiracy theory that they’re censoring conservative App Store reviews?

A unprovoked war, I guess, would be an obvious one for me. A debt default would probably lead to one since everyone’s retirement account would be fucked.

I mean, I’d join one now if unions and major non-profits organized one. But I’m self-employed so it’s not a risk for me. I get why a lot of people can’t take the risk of being fired.

They didn’t charge him.

How can you be a fan of Dolly Parton and homophobic? One of her best stories is when she entered a drag queen Dolly Parton look-a-like contest and lost. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/claim-dolly-parton-entered-look-130000474.html

I feel like Trump voters knew exactly who and what they were voting for. Everyone told them, including Trump. Project 2025 was available for everyone to read but Trump even said, “To me the most beautiful word in the dictionary is 'tariff’.” There were no secrets this election.

There’s no organization called “Antifa,” though. It’s just a concept. There’s organizations calling themselves “Black Lives Matter” but most of them are (or were) just trying to (a) organize or (b) get donations and do nothing. Both are just ideas meant to unite disparate groups.

It’s like saying there was an official organization called La Résistance in France during WWII. It’s distributed, small, independent groups with similar ideologies that got a name in retrospect. There’s no central organization.

I think it’s largely about a lack of opportunity for, especially but not exclusively, blue collar workers¹ and a perceived loss of status. There seems to be a lot of young men across the West and elsewhere who are struggling to build a career in the modern economy and being rejected by women (in part due to their anger) when, to them, it feels like just a generation or two ago, they would have been handed a middle class life and been the breadwinner for a family already.

Nevermind that a generation or two ago, that status came at the expense of others. To them, it feels like lost status. So, they’re easily manipulated by the far right saying, “It’s not you. It’s [insert scapegoat: women, immigrants, whatever]. We’ll give you a sense of purpose.”

¹ I only say blue collar because of the shift in rich countries from manufacturing to services, whether high paid or low paid. But whole white collar professions have disappeared just due to computers.

I was maybe 13 or 14 when I smoked the worst weed ever out of a pipe made out of a Coca-Cola can. And then I went to McDonald’s and ate like 4 Cajun McChicken sandwiches.

An invasion of Canada would result in so many Americans defecting and fighting for Canada or not cooperating and probably a Civil War when the west coast states (and possibly New England) secede. I imagine the military leadership would sooner stage a coup than cooperate and invade/occupy Canada. Plus, the entire world would side with Canada.

It’s the ramblings of a senile buffoon. There’s absolutely no one else calling for this (or invading Greenland/Panama) and no support from 80% of Americans — and close to 100% with people of fighting age. Even most MAGA idiots are isolationists.

And don’t forget, basically every major U.S. city is extremely blue. When you look at a red state/blue state map, remember that it’s actually an urban/rural divide. Port cities are especially blue. (Look at Louisiana for an example. A deep red state but Orleans Parish went 82% for Harris/Walz. Good luck winning any war with 90% of the port cities in full revolt.)

Yale claiming lack of funding when it’s got a $40 billion endowment is pretty laughable.

A smaller phone with flagship-level cameras and a headphone jack. I know I’ll have to charge it more often or it’ll be thicker. I’m willing to make that trade-off.

And not a slimmer phone. Make it as thick as a wallet full of business cards. I don’t give a shit. I use my phone for reading text, listening to music, and taking pictures. Just make the fucking camera top of the line and let me use my good headphones. If it’s several millimeters thicker, so be it.

This is the opposite of what worked in the Good Friday Accords (and many other peace deals). It might not feel great but turning a militant group into a political party — which was already happening in Lebanon — is how lasting peace gets made.

I’ll go with .zip because it’s so stupid, it’s funny. It’s like selling .pdf or .docx and expecting zero shenanigans.

But in all seriousness, I like .website. It’s short and to the point. This is my website.

Doom had IDKFA that just basically gave you all the weapons and keys. I was a pretty young kid when that game was popular and all I wanted was all the guns.

It’s not a code, per se, but the method to get unlimited money on SimCity for SNES is forever in my brain. (I didn’t always use it but sometimes, I just wanted to make a cool city and not do the tax and budget stuff.)

I second Bitwarden. It’s open source and automatically copies the number to your clipboard. Migrating can be a pain in the ass but once you’re done, it’s great.

The good news is that if SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son backs it, it’ll fail in a matter of months.

To paraphrase Mayor Quimby: if the winds of change are blowing, never let it be said that Mark Zuckerberg does not also blow.

I kind of suspect this is as much about A.I. progress hitting a wall as anything else. It doesn’t seem like any of the LLMs are improving much between versions anymore. The U.S. companies were just throwing more compute (and money/electricity) at the problem and seeing small gains but it’ll be awhile before the next breakthrough.

Kind of like self-driving cars during their hype cycle. They felt tantalizingly close 10 years ago or so but then progress stalled and it’s been a slow grind ever since.

It’s easy to write a bot. You just ask ChatGPT DeepSeek for the code.

This is a bigger deal than I suspect people might realize. The reason there’s been destabilizing civil wars in Syria and Libya is their Russian bases. Now they might have to go through NATO country waters for basically everything in the Mediterranean.

Whether it’s wise is going to be up to history. I’m not saying that. I’m saying you could have predicted who would have a civil war 15 years ago with a map of Russian bases.