Imagine thinking you've insulated yourself from "corporate media" by following fark.com links.

Seems like Sam Altman doesnt care about any agreements he made and to whom in the past, and just wants to do what he wants to do. Unfortunately for him, he is going to learn, if you come at the king, you better be fatal. Microsoft will end up owning OpenAI for less because of his antics.

Shoot, 5-6 years ago one of the at&t techs told me that most of the overhead "trunk lines" have been abandoned, save for a few old folks that still had POTS lines for phones, or a few business alarm systems, which have now been abandoned for LTE. Yeah, it would be harder to get to the copper lines on the poles, not to mention burning off the insulation, but these copper pirates are stupid enough to try it.

I'm stunned that the percentage is so low!

I don't think we care about tariffs. I think we care if our own government is selling a device that is not made by it's own citizens.

I support this action, if the phone itself is made in America. The retail price should absolutely be $499, while the true cost should be subsidized by the government. You want to bring tech back to the states, you eat the $4000 per phone cost and you charge $499. Suddenly Samsung and Apple will offer a made in USA phone for $399. Further, those companies making the phones getting the subsidy should get a tax exemption on any other phones they make and sell in the states. I would absolutely buy a $999 american made phone over a $799 chinese manufactured device.

One can only hope though

Don't play dumb. The law of our land has been declared null and void in California by Governor Newsom.

States shouldn't have to follow laws they don't agree with.

Trump even had to federalize the National Guard to take away a rebellious governor's armed force before it could be used against Union forces. We will enforce federal law at bayonet point if need be. Just like when Eisenhower ordered Alabama schools integrated and used the US Army against the AmeriKKKan people, against the explicit wishes of the government and people of that state.

Sucks to be you, rebel. That's why your flag is a hate symbol, just like the swastika.

We will crush you just like we did before.

We will march through your territory and burn down everything we find in an attempt to genocide you, just like the true American hero General Sherman did on his famous March to the Sea.

Only this time, black-eyed peas won't be around to save you, traitors.

Make no mistake, rehabilitating you traitors was a big mistake last time. We won't make that mistake again. There will be no Reconstruction, only a Denaturalization Act to make you into stateless persons, followed by deportation. We'll give gigantic bribes to any country that will be bribed(a lot of them). I hope you end up in Africa somewhere, so you can be with your preferred people.

We might even land the plane first before shoving you out the door.

The professor said very clearly said that fascist states could not survive without external enemies to blame for their own failings.

Thus, they often invaded other countries and without those invasions, they would collapse.

Are you calling my professor a liar? You're telling me a man who specialized in oppression theory was a liar? No, you're the liar. Liar.

Why is Trump ready to invade Greenland?

LOL are you triggered?

Yup, it was all "ethnic slurs are forbidden" right up until you told us that yourselves were exempt from your own rules. Remember Jeanene Garaofolo and her blackface photo? Not a problem. Or Ted Danson and his blackface photo? Not a problem.

And then Justin Trudeau's blackface photo was revealed and you voted for him anyway. Not a problem.Anyone else, that would have been a career-ending move. And when we examine Critical Theory, we find exactly that. The rules you devise are never for yourselves to follow.

Now you're using the bowdlerized N-word and that's no problem, either.

The whole world doesn't want to play with you. Nobody likes you woke. You know that, right?

Well, you had a nice long run. The enshittification will now begin. Sure, they're small ads. At first.

Then they'll be animated, because you people love clicking on animated ads.

Then they'll be the kind that takes over the screen and shows a slot machine, and you'll click on those because who doesn't enjoy flicking the bar on a Skinner box?

God damn I miss USENET and its high barriers to entry.

Can someone create a new social network that requires high technical skill to even get on? That worked really well. Until the nakba, the day that America On-Line was joined to the greater internet.

We all said that was the beginning of the end. And we were right.

That is exactly what this is. Everyone lives in an apartment.

We mustn't stop with AI. We need to be very concerned that some humans might memorize 42% of a copyrighted work well enough to reproduce 50-token excerpts at least half the time, and we may need to take measures to prevent this from happening, or at least make sure those humans aren't allowed to interact with other people online. We don't need another Fahrenheit 451 situation on our hands.

I did not get inferior lenses. They are premium with extended depth of field and astigmatism correction. The problem was they calculated the wrong powers, somehow. Or perhaps they moved. I don't know.

I was not a candidate for multi-distance lenses. It was expected (by them and me) that my brain would not adjust to having multiple overlayed images at once, plus the additional halos and artifacts, and loss of night vision (they impart much less light due to the multiple focal points).

Unfortunately, the only thing I can do at this point would be to have the lenses replaced. And that would be expensive and risky, due to scar tissue/etc. At least glasses can compensate for the wacky outcome, mostly. My main problem is that I *cannot* use progressive lenses with computer displays. Lord knows I tried hard. I can and did adjust to them for other purposes, although it took years prior to the surgery.

The International Space Station is a giant boondoggle and has no reason to exist, frankly. In this age of near-government bankruptcy due to our many foreign wars that do not benefit the American people one bit, they're looking everywhere for cuts. The ISS is one: just playtoys for whites and white-adjacent Asians. It provides no benefits for the undocumented community or the LGBTQP+ community.

Aren't we?

Fascism isn't totalitarianism, liar.

"The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom.
-- Benito Mussolini

Fascists don't care what you do in your personal life. None of you have ever read The Fascist Manifesto and never will. You're IGNORANT. And proud of it. Just like the Republicans you despise. Pure psychological projection.