You do realize that no normal person understands what point your post is trying to make, right?

Your mindset is exactly what authoritarians want. It's basically the Putin model: get people to distrust any official concepts of truth so they will 1) be skeptical of any criticism of the authoritarian 2) be cynical enough to believe any alternative to the authoritarian will be equally as bad or worse.

Your post is riddled with these beliefs you have formed based on the speculation of your insular online communities and you don't even realize that a normal person has no idea what you're talking about. Worse yet, that previous sentence probably made you feel proud, like, "Yeah, I know the REAL TRUTH." No, you believe in fictions. You have become so absorbed in a fictional worldview that anytime you read about something in traditional media, your mind immediately starts speculating about the REAL TRUTH underlying the supposed lie, because in your fucked up mind everything you read in traditional media is a lie that only you and your super special online communities can decode into truth (by speculating and then turning that speculation into a fiction).

Your concept of the world has become completely detached from reality. You are an insane person.

You think that BlueSky users scare people, and then you admit to being part of a community that consistently produces mass murderers. You live in a severely fucked up funhouse mirror type of world.

Tell someone you are an active BlueSky users and they will assume you vote a certain way. Tell someone you participated in 4chan at any point in its history and they immediately become afraid that you will go on a killing spree.

You had enough awareness to post AC because this post is so absurdly dumb, but you still felt compelled to post it anyway. Hmmm. . .

This has to be the weirdest conspiracy theory I have ever heard. He must really get under your skin. I do not usually mod rsilvergun up (posts are too long, often teetering on the edge of off-topic), but now I am going to start doing it just to mess with you jack-offs.

Once nice thing about S&P 500 Index funds is that your stock has to be profitable for several quarters before it enters that index.

So, you don't have to be worried about your retirement investments being polluted with SpaceX AI slop... yet.

Makes sense to me. Bitcoin seems to be stuck in the $65,000 to $70,000 price range right now, and they need to find a new batch of suckers... er... "investors" to jack up the price. Letting crypto bros invest Bitcoin in their 401k will give them that actual liquidity to start the next price ramp up.

I just hope that they know where the exit point is. Bitcoin seems to be a 4 year up and down price cycle, and you don't want to get caught holding it the next time it crashes in value again.

The annoying thing is that the "AI" seems to stand for Actually India, as they're replacing US developers and testers with foreign contractors when the AI automation doesn't work out as planned. It's really the same outsourcing efforts that we saw in the 2000's and 2010's with a better cover story.

This already exists to some extent. We have Kids YouTube with "Pre School", "Younger", and "Older" content categories. The filters are pretty easy to get around, though. My daughter didn't have a lot of problems finding reuploads of things like uncensored music videos without parental settings on them.

I'm pretty sure that you can also block ads on Kids YouTube if you have a family Premium subscription, too.

You just conflated desktop environments with a specific application. Linux has probably a dozen desktop environments that are superior to Windows.

Linux does not have a raster image program on par with Photoshop, but that is probably why you do not see any graphic designers using Linux. It is easy to take shots at GIMP because this community developed program cannot match up, feature for feature, with a multi-billion dollar Photoshop. But there are a great number of community led projects that blow their proprietary counterparts out of the water.

Cat videos? Nah. Sora was all about bringing dead actors back to life in dumb 10 second skit comedies.

I'll bet that they generated about 20 TB of just Wilford Brimley memes, he was like the patron saint of that service.

The joke is on you, the Cisco routers are also mostly made in China so they likely have backdoors for both countries!

With the exception of the proprietary routers that come with a Starlink dish, I can't think of a single major router manufacturer with a US manufacturing presence.

Not to sound rude, but I'm not sure that Leonid Radvinsky counts as a celebrity. Sure, he built a popular website, but up until today I had no who idea who he was. He's not exactly up there in terms of name recognition with a action movie GOAT like Chuck Norris, anyway.

Most billionaires like Bezos didn't get insanely wealthy by investing their own money into their businesses. They did it by getting other wealthy suckers... er... "qualified investors" to risk their money on their expansion gambles.

Sure, he's investing his own money into Blue Origin, but that's probably more like a hobby to him at this point.

I think that Microsoft saw the lines of people at the Apple Store picking up MacBook Neo's and realized that they're going to continue to lose customers in droves if don't fix Windows 11 ASAP. People are getting tired of their computers being used as billboards for selling XBox Live, Office, Onedrive, and CoPilot.