Jesus wasn’t telling the poor destitute to sell everything, he told the wealthy that it was their only way to salvation. A guy with a pair of shoes, a few sets of clothing and a phone is living as bare bones a life style as is possible in any modern society.

You are doing the Fox News bit of complaining that food stamp recipients have cell phones and refrigerators

C does have 4 sides and 4 corners and all of its corners add up to 360°, same as A since the interior angles of all quadrilaterals add up to 360°

Union shops kick ass. Best job i ever had was working in the mill room of a tire plant. I chose to believe OP was telling the truth, so shout-out to him for living his dream.

Yeah, every recipe i find online has a “jump to recipe” button that takes you past all the background and information straight to the ingredients and directions.

I saw once that the reason Kristen Stewart was so hated in the Twilight movies is because all the young women who grew up reading the books imagined themselves as Bella. They were never going to like whichever actress was cast into the role since they would no longer be able to project their own likeness onto the protagonist.

I’m looking forward to when a Nigerian prince emails me to let me know about the delicious taste of Wolf cola

Hey, you can be paying attention and hateful of the rich fucers and corporations that are ruining society no problem

They are going to pivot all that processing to the next snale oil scheme. Do you think its a coincidence that rhe AI hype came immediately after crypto crashed?

Most modern farming in the US isn’t about food, it’s about collecting government subsidies. Nearly all government farm subsidies go towards corn, which is mostly used for ethanol bio fuel, then it is used as livestock feed, then it’s used for corn syrup as a sugar substitute in food and beverages. Meanwhile, states like California and Washington which grow most of the actual domestic produce we consume receive almost no federal agriculture subsidies. Subsidies should have been gradually rolled back 30 years ago with the money being used as grants and loans to help farmers transition to growing actual food for actual people to eat, but those are harder to farm, so farmers have demanded that their subsidies stay as is

Yeah, I only have my gmail accounts for logins to various websites. They will only have LLM generated spam emails to train on from this

It’s a Charlie Brown and the football situation. You can only fall for the same bait and switch so many times before you just give up. In a democracy it leads to voter apathy. And primaries are poorly run. If it isn’t a prominent one, you likely won’t find much information on the candidates prior to the primary election, and for the president, they sre pretty much decided by 4th one so if you’re state does a later primary, chances are that your preferred candidate has already dropped out by the time you can actually vote for them.

Focusing on cannabis since the guy is complaining about his hemp farm.

The Democrats here in Ohio have done fuck all to protect the decriminalized cannabis that we voted in support of by 60% back in 2023 (same with abortion the same day). Republicans immediatly set to work to limit home growth and how much you can buy. Did the Democrats run ads in Ohio about how they were going to protect our right to grow and consume cannabis? Did they talk about how Republicans were going to roll back the provisions we all agreed on? No. They ran ads about how they were going to help Trump hurt trans kids and “secure the border” here in Ohio. The Democrats and Republicans have lost all credibility with everyone that isn’t a die-hard supporter of the parties. People stop voting when they feel like neither party cares about their interests.

Increasing antisemitism is actually an important tactic for Zionists as resentment and increased hostility to jewish people will make them more likely to move to Israel.

It’s aelf defense since they continue to make decisions that they know will kill people.

Because the EU has always been an austerity driving neoliberal organization dedicated to corporate profits.

The kid was likely 13. He should face consequences, but a 13 year old doesn’t have the mental development to understand the horrific repercussions for something like that. Throwing a 13 year old in juvenile detention for something like this won’t do him any good. Mandatory community service and probation are much more appropriate

We are looking at the mistake of allowing capital to offshore everything in the 70’s and 80’s. China didn’t force those companies to stop maintaining their existing infrastructure and outsource all their manufacturing overseas, they chose it in the interest of lower costs.

See, my first thought would be to crack down on the tech parasites that are ruining out society instead of changing the law to accommodate them. But I’m just a dumb American who lives in a place where corporations are allowed to do whatever they want including killing whistleblowers, but I’m sure that the fascist parties taking power in Europe won’t do that.

There is nothing stopping the EU from going the DeepSeek route and just stealing the finished LLM’s from American companies. But the truth is that the EU shouldn’t want to have all these data centers training generative models. The us is already dedicating 4% of our electricity production to them, with people in states along the Great Lakes and Eastern seaboard seeing massive increases in their electric bills to pay for them (~30% for me in Ohio, ~75% for my brother in Virginia). I can understand if you are a technocratic neoliberal in the EU parliament that is taking bribes from tech firms why you would want this, but for anyone paying attention, rhe promises tech companies are making to burn hundreds billions of euros while gutting privacy, 🔏IP, and consumer protections at the top of the bubble makes no sense.

Maybe schools and social services shouldn’t be paid for by the local property taxes. That’s just a recipe for keeping the poor impoverished and giving all the advantages to the rich. Homes should be for living, not for investing