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I think the sizes shown are probably biggest specimen. Black bears can get pretty big, but I’ve never encountered one that was taller than me.

Exactly. This just leads back into the avacado toast and Starbucks (who are also killing Christmas) rant.

Definitely a cracked screen. Also, only takes a charge if the cable is at a specific angle.

You should just get a new phone.

Sincerely, every uncle this Thanksgiving.

If you intentionally break something while telling everyone it’s broken, you are technically correct, but still an idiot.

Wow, Salt is so good even Slugs vote for it? That’s how you know Salt is good.

/s

One of the best computer game series of all time. I know some people prefer EV Nova, but Override and the Frozen Heart story-plugin will always be my favorite.

• Civ V
• Breath of the Wild
• EV Override
• Master of Orion
• Mario Kart: Double Dash

No particular order, but these are the games I always come back to

The real reason isn’t that they can’t turn a profit, it’s that they don’t have to.

They don’t have to be profitable because they aren’t fueling growth with profits, they’re fueling it with debt and investment. Like many have noted, they cannot do that forever and will eventually pass that cost to consumers. A significant portion of their existing cost is driven by research, which they can scale back by lobbying for legislation, so that peers getting a leg up is more difficult and small players catching up is almost impossible.

Also, both Anthropic and OpenAI have planned IPOs, where they will inevitably raise a ton of cash. It’s a game of chicken though. How long can they fuel growth without being publicly accountable to balance sheets and shareholders? Whether we like it or not, they will almost certainly transition to being profitable businesses, but only when it is advantageous for them to do so. Right now, it’s not a priority; the priority is growth to the point of diminishing returns.

You can call that feudalism, among other things.

But that’s because it’s intentionally hard to tell if it’s feudalism in a capitalist hat or capitalism in a feudalism hat. That’s what oligarchy is.

Capitalism in itself is private enterprise, which is where capitalism defenders usually start trumpeting that capitalism isn’t actually evil. I think you can maybe make an argument that totally unregulated capitalism isn’t evil, because it’s basically anarchy. But the reality of human greed hits hard and always leads to self-regulation (collusion) and external regulation (coersion), which muddy the waters and lead to oligarchy and feudalism regardless as politicians and businessmen consolidate power.

The cheapest PCs are ones that didn’t make the cut for Windows 11, so I’d look for 6th or 7th Gen. RAM is cheaper as well. Then you can build something cheap, and iterate from there.

For a beginner, check out Unraid. It’ll do 99% of what you want without being a hassle.

What do you call a Nazi collaborator?

Any smartphone is the obvious one.

But, the first black hole was confirmed in 1971. The fact that we’ve taken a picture of one would be incredible, not to mention directly imaging planets in other solar systems.

I guess this is the place to remind everyone that we did not save the cheerleader, so we did not save the world.

She’s dead.

He may be rich enough.

He seems like the kind of guy who has a couple couches though.

I mean, I get it.

It’s why you don’t buy a white couch. It shows all the stains. You want a darker colored couch to hide dirt, orange juice spills, that kind of thing.

Only rich people have money for a white couch. Because if you spill some wine on it, and the stain won’t come out, they can afford to replace it, no questions asked.

Tell me your parents have money without telling me your parents have money.

Why do you think they’re unpopular? Is it possible that the party which controls how funds, advertising, and opportunities are allocated in the primaries it fully controls has a vested interest in keeping leftist politicians out of office?

There’s a hotel room in Dallas where some young Republicans are all chuckling about how funny it would be to download Grindr to troll “the gays,” but they’re all secretly excited to check out the local scene.

That’s my point a little bit. Unions were not keeping wages consistent with productivity, their leverage was. Then they lost that leverage. A lot of people want to bring back unions with no changes, and capitalists have learned it’s better to just close the Starbucks.

This is something that will only be changed through legislation, and since no political party sides with the worker, that’s a slim hope. Government is literally the biggest collective bargaining tool we have. It’s a union, but we’re losing that as well to corporate interests.

I think it’s telling where unions have had staying power, and where they haven’t.