I don’t like smoking. I think I ought to be free to decide that for myself. I can’t, or by proxy, make that determination for anyone else - even though I don’t think they should be smoking if they choose to.

If it didn’t make so much money, kids wouldn’t be vaping. It’s an integral part of the American performance that, “nothing we can do about it”, is just what everone sees, and therefore thinks. We could prosecute parents for letting their kids have them, prosecute the gas stations for peddling it, prosecute the companies making them cheap and disposable. All of that would turn off the faucet on a billion dollar industry though, so it becomes part of our performance in one way or another. We have fundamentally bet that our world is a better place with smoking children in it, than without. That is what Capitalism does, that is how it does it. That is why it needs to be controlled like a rabid dog on a leash.

I’m aware

False dichotomy. \thread

The undernet is growing as the overnet is bloated and dying of it’s own poison.

These changes, awful as they seem, are effecting me less and less as I use the platform less and less. It’s like, “oh you’re getting worse? Carry on then”, then I go back to my Plex server.

Here in Missouri the bike lanes are just painted on existing car lanes. Sometimes right down the middle. I actually applaud whenever I see a cyclist acting safe. The performance of most cyclists I see is insane at best, deadly at worst. I don’t think most cyclists realize they can be run over and the cops would likely just rule it an accident, unless there’s pressure and evidence to suggest otherwise. If I hated cars so much I didn’t want to use one, the last thing I would do is pick fights with them on crowded streets. The best cyclist is the one that isn’t there.

I wish bikes just took the whole lane like a car. Half assing it either way is really the problem.

Real question is how does this affect MDT? Will it still pull that information, will vendors supply it?

Unless it’s capable of using GPU for actual CAD and not just rendering, I may stick to FreeCad.

No dude i don’t and never will. It’s just more shit, and shit to feel nostalgic about.

Future of all media at this rate honestly

This was intentional. Eventually they’ll pass another more aggressive law to “do something about it”.

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Realize 80% of people aren’t reacting to GTA shit. This article is for the 20% who just can’t help it. Those people run to their podcasts, YouTube channels, tiktoks, and just repeat it all verbatim. All back to the same 20% who wait for another drip of controversy to repeat the cycle. It must be exhausting

Capitalism creating situations that won’t outright be responsible for murder, but will definitely increase deaths among vulnerable people.

Evolution selecting for good capitalists.

The Metaverse could’ve been a platform free of AI, offering a protected version of the Internet for people to be themselves. It’s kinda where we may be headed anyway. Instead we got this…

It’s not like any Google docs script wasn’t already fed into the AI. I think most AI models have to be overtrained, meaning we’re never having any sort of privacy again. Gg

Regular dishes are bad enough, huh

I liked owning clear cups and dishware so I could see if it was too dirty to reuse. Checking for spots made it easier to clean, after-all it’s already in my hands. The drying rack was the clincher though, it gives them a home between uses.