That money will come out of Musk’s and other billionaires’ pockets. They’ve been dreaming of the day they get to buy their own armies, beholden only to them.

Indeed, Hatred is practically the fiat currency of the GOP.

The US population that would burrow further, will burrow further no matter what Europe does. They’re in a self-destructive cycle that requires no outside catalysts at this point.

The other half of the population would invariably be hurt alongside them, but I don’t think they’d suddenly turn and see Europe as the bad guy. Some of them would probably consider exercising jus sanguinis claims to European nationality, no matter how flimsy, in an attempt to leave their crumbling economy and fascistic government.

If Europe thinks this will merely be another American Civil War, localized to some far away hemisphere, I ask that they consider whether the situation more closely parallels World War II. There may come a day where the US attacks a NATO ally like Canada, triggering an Article 5 response. A Barbarossa in 2 years time, a D-Day in 4.

He accurately observed his fellow conservatives having their cake and eating it too, and thought he could partake as well!

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Hey I have some pretty screenshots too!

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You use AI for literally its most dangerous possible use case. And I assume you used a mediocre translator for everything else. Try DeepL, I found it has good results most of the time.

You might be happy to learn about Misskey, which has a Japanese instance (it’s flagship) in misskey.io and an Italian instance in misskey.social. :)

Room temp IQ but can’t afford the heating bill.

Your usage still gives them justification to continue being global parasites. “Our daily active users is (X + you).”

I wanted to make this joke but didn’t want to downplay the breakthrough they had. But man I wonder what her argument was… How did she manage to convince him?

I don’t think you deserve this many down votes for this take, but I’ll provide a counterpoint. Not being able to afford a real artist is not as large a barrier as you think.

Balatro’s music was created by Spanish musician Luis Clemente, known online as LouisF, after developer LocalThunk hired them on Fiverr in 2023.

https://balatrowiki.org/w/Music

And here it is being played at the Game Awards.

“Ethically, [the] only logical reason is to delete the game from Steam. The girl I’ve been dating for a month made me realize this.”

Make like 38 Special and hold on loosely brother. Keep it up.

The developer gives a pretty decent reason for the deletion, imo:

“I have realized the AI is not actually free, and it has a major effect on the economy and environment,” Rakuel wrote. “Some AI companies can use this game just existing as a reason the get more investment for their AI companies, that benefit[s] no one, but rather suck resources from the economy from hard working people,” he continued.

There’s nothing he can do about Arc Raider’s success, but taking ownership of what he did, I gotta say, respect.

Nice data collection scheme.

the best way to do that is by having a two-way conversation.

Man I hate to tell you this, but here’s how that’s going to go.

“You want my help dismantling the Trump regime and the oligarchy? Ok, I’ll help, but only if you agree to criminalize being gay, trans, black, or brown.”

A. You agree, and forsake LGBT and minority communities.

“Good, so first step- wait, what’s that? A LIMITED EDITION TRUMP 2028 HAT??? Sign me the fuck up!”

B. You disagree.

“Then get fucked shitlib, I’m calling ICE and telling them to fuck you up.”

C. You convince him the oligarchy is the real enemy, not Trump (Requires SPEECH 100) or trans people (Roll Persuasion with disadvantage).

“See, you get it! The globalist Jews…” He carries on and you pretend not to listen. “But when I become a billionaire, I’m gonna do it right!”

There’s nothing left to salvage.

Edit: in this guy’s defense, he did post this in December: https://xcancel.com/smalls2672/status/2005433402485616792

But I would still never trust this guy with running a lemonade stand after what he did.

I feel you, friend

Agreed with most everything you said, but I’ll point out a silver lining on the doomerism:

Germany exists today, is unified, and is by most sane accounts a free and democratic country with strict anti-fascism laws.

It took 50 years of turmoil - war, genocide, calamity, separation, and untold suffering, and even today is not perfect - but it exists. If the fate of America is to be that of Germany’s, then eventually it will improve. I don’t expect to see the terminus of that arc, in 50 years I will likely be dead, but I do expect it to exist and for it to be better than I see it now.