Just grab em by the dongle

As someone with a bipolar loved one, i can see exactly how this could feed into their delusions. It’s always there…even if they ran out of people to blast with their wild, delusional ideas the chat bot can be there to listen and feed back. When everyone has stopped listening or begins avoiding them because the mentally ill person has gotten more forceful/assertive about their beliefs, the chatbot will still be there. The voice in their head now has a companion on screen. I never considered any of this before but I’m concerned where this can lead, especially given the examples in the article.

I always thought the equipment should all be hooked up to some sort of generator somehow so that the place could turn all that energy being spent exercising into electricity for the lights etc. There could also be pancakes 🥞

Trump, Job Creator 🤷‍♂️

I think that was their sales pitch to the military

It brings me a great sense of joy knowing Leon did this all to himself

certainly the most read misinterpreted and used as a justification to do bad shit

Ftfy

He’s read a few work-emails recently (by accident, naturally) and some of their jargon seems to have stuck with him.

I just imagine he has a giant carnival wheel that’s marked with all sorts of reprehensible things to do and he just spins it whenever he’s bored and proceeds to executive order whatever he lands on

Sorry for the country destruction, that was my bad

times are a-changing a-ching-ching 🤑

The Trump administration has set strict quotas for arresting anyone even suspected of being in the country illegally, with Stephen Miller ordering that 3,000 people be arrested every single day, or ICE officers will face consequences

What the fuck

Ahhh yes, nothing like American Freedom™ (disclaimer: may/may not contain freedom depending on state, court, race, gender, sexuality, et al)

Whoa 😶

It’s weird–Tesla at least projected some sort of ‘higher-end’ quality back when they first started coming around but as time has gone on it’s proven itself to be a very cheaply-made vehicle.

The fact they insist on using their proven-inferior tech for FSD tells you all you need to know: they aren’t looking to innovate or even bring themselves up to modern standards. They are determined to make their cars with the cheapest, shittiest tech and they’ll just grease the right palms in order to proceed as necessary.

Does insurance cover that?

“Bring us your mouth-breathers, your incels, your neckbeards…”

That’s the thing–the actual purpose of the appliances hasn’t changed at all. Every “advancement” is typically proprietary tech made to help comply with energy and water/gas usage standards–or to add perceived value through some half-baked gimmicks. For instance, dishwashers use smaller pumps run for longer periods of time to perform the same amount of work a larger more powerful pump could handle (in many cases a single pump sufficed for a dishwasher–one rotational direction for wash, opposite direction for drain)… I’m totally on board with energy efficiency but the laughably cheap/shitty tech they use to those ends kinda blunt the effectiveness of the energy saving measures (since replacing parts–or more likely entire dishwashers when those pumps fail–is a less energy-saving process than having a stronger, more durable pump that draws an extra amp or 2)

And that made it easy for other billion dollar companies like Ticketmaster and LiveNation to do the same thing in other realms–simply buy the laws, buy the politicians, buy the system that’s supposed to regulate them, and then use that system to remove all competition.

Most notably, actual competition – a supposedly great boon of capitalism that drives up value for the customer – nowhere to be found in that formula. This is the exact same path i believe we watch every successful product or service eventually take.

Right on! I never heard of SomaFM, but I’m heading over there shortly. Nightwave Plaza was one of my first places to seek out vaporwave, i found so much good stuff there. I’m happy to see it thriving years later ✨ I appreciate the links!