Man, I really do commend the effort you put into this. I'm so far into cynicism land that I don't think I can find my way back.

I just can't help feel like you're wasting your breath trying to reason with ozma (as is evidenced by his hilarious reply to the same comment I'm replying to)

They changed it to a black box with just a chat last time i was there, although maybe the scrolling chat would count?

Maybe you should pee on it for good measure?

I find it very amusing that you compared them to an entire clown and not some fractional amount of clown

Good luck man! I quit adult pickup like 5 years ago and miss it so much. Dont forget to keep your head up and those feet moving!

Hauling trash, debris, or brush works way better in a pickup. I want to be able to hose the shit off and not have it inside with me lol But i agree that a van is better than everything else

You're right. I have no idea how to do that, though. One could argue that the solution to that problem would also serve as the solution to the problem of people losing their jobs to automation/AI.

If it were up to me, there would be some sort of UBI, paid into by corporations that replace their employees with AI/robots/whatever, that would support people who have lost their jobs due to automation (and then maybe everyone else after ramp up). I hope that someone young like you can run for office one day and make it happen

I'm very conflicted about this. I'd reckon that the majority of us working on these AI and robotics systems do so to try to make the world a better place; so that maybe one day people won't have to slave away in warehouses all day and pee in bottles because they can't take the time to use the bathroom. Those good intentions always get corrupted by corporations and greed. So do we stop trying to push the envelope? Do we not try to make the world a better place for fear that it'll be corrupted? I really just don't know

Your idea doesn't sound too difficult to implement but I don't know if people would want to store all these messages locally when the vast majority of people are used to having their shit be stored elsewhere. Additionally, if you wanted to target enterprise users, they would want to likely have all their messages centralised for auditing purposes

Other than that, I think its a pretty neat idea

I always learnt it as Xtract Zee File and to make a tar ball, you want to Compress Zee File

You sure the heading shouldn't read

Loonie leads House GOP push to award Tump the Congressional Gold Medal

Cause that feels more appropriate

The bear cause he died of starvation, duuuh

#sidehustle

Maybe they mean privilege wrt education? As i understand it, it takes a non-zero amount of knowledge about nutrition to substitute meat completely and not be deficient in something. But I'm a life-long omnivore so I may be wrong

I got one of these. I dont understand why theyre going after us now. I thought their issue was all the money they were making off of "promoting piracy".
Im guess im not surprised

Person was too powerful so god gave them a debuff to make it fair for everyone else

Mr. Biden said in February about the report that he was "especially pleased to see the senior special counsel make clear there's stark differences between this case and Donald Trump." But Mr. Biden later said that "there's even a reference that I don't remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn't any of their damn business."

The transcript of Mr. Biden's interview shows the president was unable to identify the precise year, but that he correctly named the month and date. "What month did Beau die? Oh God — May 30th," Mr. Biden said in the exchange.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/special-counsel-robert-hur-testify-house-biden-documents-report/

So it should have been carved into a giant lightning bolt since that's what ended up destroying it then? /s

Sounds like the tree was due to be felled. This artist arguably saved the tree by turning into art. While he did oil it to keep it from rotting, he oiled it using a plant based oil safe for proximity to water ways. This sounds like as close to a win as anyone's gonna get in these circumstances

Classic

What do you think needs to happen for them to stop being attracted to the hate?
I've seen a similar thing: rural people talking about all sorts of progressive ideas like UBI, student debt relief, and other policies for helping others (sometimes without even knowing that they're talking about progressive ideas) yet always go back to "immigrants this" or "elites that".

I wonder if the guy who lived as a goat for a few days has goat dreams...

https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/the-man-who-lived-like-a-goat

Portland Maine has some amazing restaurants. Not sure what that guy's talking about

Shhh don't tell the paying customers that!

Moi aussi j'ai vue l'article genre on vous a volé votre vie : avant on pouvait faire vivre une famille de 5 avec un seul salaire, être proprio d’une maison et être confortable mais je l'ai pas du tout compris comme ça. Peut-être je suis naïf mais je l'ai compris comme pourquoi que même avec 2 salaire aujourd'hui on ce sens tellement pauvre?. Mais après j'ai lu vos commentaire, ça ce peut que j'ai pas lu entre les lignes assez originalement...

That's a great point. I was being kind of reductive.

Perhaps religion's most zealous followers tend to be people who have trouble contextualising information? That would certainly help explain why the "I got mine proceeds to pull up ladder " attitude is so prevalent there...
Anyway, I don't want to come across like I'm arguing with you.

I wonder if the concept of religion itself is conservative or if it just attracts that kind of person? My understanding is that most religions' holy texts are effectively just guide books on how not to be a dick to others (not that religious people actually read them that way). I wish someone would do a study to explore this cognitive dissonance in more depth

Police officer in florida discharged his entire magazine into thin air after an acorn fell on the roof of his vehicle

As someone who always has a lot of questions (and is generally clueless about most of -waves hands- this stuff), I appreciate people like you

Au Québec, we already parlent franglais donc ce n'est pas a problem for nous! 😉

Dear god don't put ideas into their heads

Is CRT in the room with us right now??

Holy shit the fact that this document has more than 40 footnotes is mind numbing

Accidents and suicides are the problem in Maine, setting aside the recent event.

cries in hairloss

This sounds like it could be the premise of an episode of Veep

Hmmm UTC-5, i'd say. Or maybe -6? With daylight crimings, its hard to keep track of

Been following this game for almost 2 years! Can't wait for their public beta

I hear water is wet, too!