The hilarious part is that they think the rule of law actually still applies in America. It’s already dead. The message just hasn’t yet traveled from the nerves back to the brain yet.

And yet already, doctors have been letting women in Texas and other states die mid-complex-birth-trouble for fear of losing their license. The moral code of life, at least in America, is long gone in many states.

I like the cut of your jib.

Really wish these companies would stop with the pointless UI “reimaginings” - the point of a user interface is to interface with the user - yet they think stupid new shapes will give people boners.

These terrible colorless undefined icons are so annoying as well. I like icons having shape and color, so I can go, “I want to go on the web, where’s orange fox circle shape?” “I want to send an email, where’s blue envelope rectangle?” Not neon screaming colors, but some subtle difference beyond “gray starburst with straight line versus gray starburst with weird symbol.” Might as well just do away with icons entirely and just use hieroglyphics.

Until the AI hype train finally falls off the tracks. Of course, then there will be something newer and dumber they’ll all set their sights on. Tech CEOs are all lemmings with goldfish memory capacity.

They’ll never open the API, they closed it specifically for control. This has been their Android plan all along, and why AOSP slowly loses more and more functionality with each release. They wanted the perception of “open” while actually ensnaring users.

Best to abandon carrier messaging at this point except as a last resort and use something decent like Signal that doesn’t leak telemetry to Google.

Android really should be divested from Google due to conflict of interests. They will never have users in mind when data mining is the top priority.

Cats actually get some of their moisture from dry food. Old dry food will be more dry.

Go to a pet store and buy 5 or 10 single serving flavors of decent quality. Might be $10-15 for the experiment to land on something they like. Plan and accept that a lot of it will be thrown out. They also might love it, but not day 2 when refrigerated.

That’s SOP for government contracts. The US government, and others, have had access in the past. NDA blah blah blah.

The numbers are all made up, and they’ve not kept track with inflation or the economy in a long time. Things like “minimum wage” simply lingered to allow those better off that sometimes have a conscience to sleep at night, thinking there is a system in place for the less fortunate. Our Federal government has been failing us longer than Mango Mussolini’s presence, he is simply baring and accelerating the asshattery.

Reminds me of a scene in Fight Club when Robert Paulson accidentally becomes a martyr. The crew partially took his death as, “we are all Robert Paulson,” we are all this martyr.

There is a nation of Luigis, and it’s everyone. Everyone just has to stop waiting to die. It need not be violent or deadly, either. One way would be merely: Everyone just has to stop. Doing everything. At the same time.

Probably a good time would be around when the supply chains completely collapse in 10 or so days from now.

Too little, too late. I’m helping everyone I can get away from Google services as fast as possible, including that terrible store.

That is the most accurate and concise summary of their position I’ve seen to date.

Losers for a whole bunch of reasons.

Try Quake LAN parties. You also gotta drag that tower around and belt it in. Oh no, it slipped on the expressway and knocked you out of 4th gear into neutral!

and a party of “the adults in the room” that don’t have the juice, the wherewithal, or the drive to do anything about it

Worse, that party is taking advantage of the distractions of the time to push all the authoritarian wet dream rhetoric they’ve ever dreamed of. It seems while the Rs were slip-n-sliding towards Fascism, the Ds were rollerblading towards Authoritarianism in parallel.

The Ds see Authoritarian control as a way to “regulate” and “clean things up” “for the children!”

It’s as if the political spectrum is but a donut, and as each party circles around the donut, they both exit centrism, neutrality, logic, freedom, and go directly to a Hellscape from either side.

Neither party knows what America was meant to be, nor understands freedom, nor the Constitution. They just want control, for opposing but similar reasons.

I consider LLMs basically high-frequency StackExchange trading. You gotta be exact and not keep the thread alive too long or driftrot is real though. Much faster to parse, though.

Also, the ones that can access the web are great for “I want specific lib x version y to solve a weird problem, what support libs are needed?”

What happens when you feed your chia pet after midnight.

A narrative the manufacturers push, so not surprising that the thought pattern developed that way.

The or was more from hope at this point, honestly. Although we really need a first-world free nation to stop that El Salvador shit. Unfortunately, that will probably be the trigger for WWIII the morons in the US federal government are hoping for.