This is why I don’t contribute. Kudos to you for doing so, but I literally couldn’t handle that on a passion project. I get enough of that in my day job

If I could make a living off my passion projects I would love that and deal with what it entails, but dealing with that in my free time sounds like a nightmare.

There’s got to be a better way… But I appreciate you and hope you all the best from the bottom of my heart

I don’t think that’s fair in this case, she’s been killing it. She’s been drawing hard lines and meeting Trump blow for blow…

As for what’s important, she got concessions so far. Trump got to claim a win, but she let Trump use a previously negotiated deal while getting the US to commit to cracking down on the flow of guns into Mexico

And now she’s fighting on the bullshit culture war stuff… But you know Mexico speaks a different language and isn’t changing the name on their side, right?

The threats against Google are a threat to crack down on a massive US tech company, which is probably (undoubtedly) related to the threat of delayed tarrifs

She’s playing the game. If only the liberals would wake up and realize the game has changed too

Well it’s signed idiot of the East, but…

It takes a relatable concept, combines it with a couple Korean tropes from manhua, and does it all with fresh art. It’s self referential too

Now look at it in context. Clearly this is a webcomic artist, it’s not badly done, but it looks like it was done quickly. It has a message - “sorry, I didn’t have anything special to say, I’ll share the feeling of getting caught doomscrolling”

Based on the name and the comic, the artist seems to have a self depreciating sense of humor… It seems in line with that

It’s stupid. It’s layered. The layers are stupid. But it’s stupid and layered on purpose with a clear message. That’s art

It reminds me of a video I saw today where someone bought a pineapple and put it on an exhibit for a laugh, and came back to find a glass case around it. He asked his professor about it, and the professor complimented the way the glass case pressed down on the pineapple leaves.

The guy then owned up to it all, the venue decided to just leave it as is… But they said they had no idea who put the case on it

Someone owns that land, because we’ve decided every inch of the planet is already owned

Human habitation is visible from space. There are parts of every government dedicated to just enforcing just this… Go out and try it, people are arrested for tents on this land, let alone homesteads

The idea is they’re marketable worker replacements

If you have a call center you want to switch to ai, it’s easy though to make them pull up relevant info. It’s harder to stop them from being misused

If your call center gets slammed for using racial slurs, that’s an issue

Remember, they’re trying to sell AI as drop in worker replacement

Oops…

It’s not about egg prices. It’s a shorthand for inflation, it’s nailing Trump supporters down to this one metric

These people are divorced from truth, but they want eggs. It’s hard to ignore how much eggs cost. It’s apparent how the egg section is half empty

This is a drum beat for people to look through their lying eyes, to pay attention to the world around them despite the lies

I mean, you could try, but eventually someone will find you, probably arrest you, and tear down your home

You hit the nail on the head, it’s just the biggest sites

Don’t forget order sizes. If you produce 500 a batch, your costs are going to be way higher than if you produce 10k a batch

In your defense, walking with Google maps is extremely confusing. I almost always end up having to use it like a map and look for landmarks

Canada is putting a 100% tarrif on red State liquor, among other things. Which is hilarious and I love it

I think we use it, just not consciously. It’s not like knowing where north is helps much, but aligning your mental map of an area means a lot

Have you ever come out of a forest or something not where you expected, then had a moment of disorientation before everything snaps into place and you realize exactly where you are?

What’s wrong with bats?

It’s unempathic to tell people they’re being judged by unfair standards?

I don’t know what you read, but it isn’t what I wrote

How does that work? Environment is everything

I don’t think your sick, I don’t think I am either… I think we’re hunters in a society of farmers

I mean… They’re not exactly hiding it. The expressed purpose of belts and roads is to invest in their infrastructure and partner with them to build industrial capacity. Conveyer belts and roads. They openly state they’re doing it to build up trading partners and global influence

It’s literally the same thing… Will they be better partners? Hopefully, it’s not exactly a high bar

They’re not Marxist-Leninists at all though… They’re just a highly regulated form of capitalism.

The government doesn’t own Tencent, they just keep a strong grip on them. They have their own billionaires, the factories have owners, companies bid to fulfill government contracts, you apply for a job and get paid what they offer. It’s just capitalism

Their government does a lot more than in the US and has a lot more influence, and they do influence the market more… But that’s just regulation and public services

They basically do what we did to tik tok. The US government can revoke a corporate charter for any or no reason, China just actually uses this authority actively

Yes, the World Bank and the IMF. I’ve even seen it personally, which is what led me to dig down the rabbit hole - I got interviewed by a world Bank employee to explain why I was installing a system for an airport, and they kept trying to guide me to explain why it was helpful…I couldn’t, because it was only useful if the Internet is down, and if that happens it’s probably not useful because the system had to be taken down if there’s bad weather, and the airport regularly flooded during storms anyways

They were constant protests and news coverage of projects being pushed on them, and it was an open secret for the airport workers. It was for things they didn’t need or want, even though they had plenty of infrastructure in disrepair already

Argentina is the classic example, they resisted and had their currency destroyed, which makes international trade hard. Other countries go so deep in debt they have IMF officials installed in their government to implement austerity measures, some even are forced to hand over their currency printing powers

Sometimes countries get into our good graces, like Peru, and they are let off the treadmill in exchange for beneficial trade deals. That’s after having their resource rights sold off and letting in foreign investments to extract wealth moving forward, but mostly they’re kept in perpetual debt as leverage

It’s a wild and very deep rabbit hole. The information isn’t hidden, it’s just spun in a positive light

They probably just ask for your name and link it to the info they already have about you

If you fill a prescription or use a credit card, that’s a very solid link to your identity. The app also probably is collecting all the data it can on you to resell, most of which can be used to fingerprint you through a data broker

They might also require an ID, but all of it is probably more an intimation tactic and stunt for investors than anything else

No way I’d install their app though