Scott Bessent recently proclaimed himself a farmer in an interview based on the assertion that owning agriculture interests makes you a farmer. Think of this when you hear about bailouts to farmers* intended to put out the fire started by tRump’s own tariffs which crippled American access to foreign markets. Everything according to plan for the oligarchy, and the small folk will still vote for this.

• offers exclusive to agro-conglomerates that will already be buying up the land and interests of the remaining and failing small and family farmers across the country.

States right! But only when WE want to use them…

Shame that trading partners are already all adapting away from the unstable and untrustworthy tRump regime, who the fuck wants to rely on trade with someone who can completely change their spongy dementia addled mind at the slightest perceived offense or even imagined ones, or their mood that day… or the weather… Honestly, this will not have the desired outcome for Americans because tRump poisoned the well already with his self-serving, corrupt horseshit.

He wasn’t lying when he said the tariffs were great for ‘us’, he just wasn’t talking about the same ‘us’ the public thinks he is. He’s talking about himself and a few oligarch business associates who are cannibalizing the country with his gleeful permission. It’s not that he’s too dumb to see they’re playing him, it’s that he DOESN’T CARE about America, at all. Perhaps he even hates America for being rejected by the elite for decades on end. He’s a bitter, wrathful, closeted gay diva, and he is only happy when you personally are suffering. It’s the disappointment of the millennium that so many American people are blind to this, or willfully ignorant because they still somehow buy the lie that it could be them getting into the club and being one of the rich and powerful who can do anything they want and not have to care about their peers.

Don’t quit your job, save your money, and buy raw ingredients so you can cook your own food, cause the damage he’s done to trade is not going to fade fast enough for bullshit gestures like putting out the fire he started himself to have an impact that favours working Americans. Stay strong, and find ways to get his shit-encrusted and rotting carcass out of office before a complete collapse is upon you and the entire world suffers. That goes for the criminally liable enablers calling themselves the republican party, too. Don’t forget corporate plants in the Democratic party.

He’s talking about a system to eliminate, not support and elevate the poor here, mark my words. Do not give this brain-damaged, broke-dick, eternally divorced Lex Luthor anything but sentencing for crimes against humanity.

Crazy how much money is flooding into something so absurd on its face. You nailed the gambling part especially, looks like they’re not even waiting for the AIs to develop to flood that junk on every available platform and visible surface. There should be laws against it honestly, gambling addiction is absolutely ruinous.

Not in years, I avoid that shit like cancer, I feel physical pain when I’m sitting through ads. Can’t say I’m at all surprised.

Question: What does AI advertise to you if you want nothing and have no money?

He was in the cuck chair, and Musk was in the metacuck chair behind him cause his dick is broken from a botched surgery. The one fucking his wife is Bernie Sanders.

“Not trying to defend AI art” The fuck you’re not. Just be honest about it.

My actual answer to this wall of strawmen and thready arguments is that LLMs and generative AI were trained on incomprehensibly large pools of human produced content, much of which is copyrighted, without paying anything for it; Conversely, when people make memes they are manually altering or adding to the original content and it’s an exception when there’s misappropriation becasue it’s socially enforced. AI simply merges data, there is nothing new conceptually or materially being added, just recombination. I’m not saying all memes are good, and I’m also not saying meme people who make that their life aren’t assholes sometimes either.

All of this exercise you’ve taken upon yourself is a poorly executed attempt to distract from the scale of theft AI NEEDS in order to exist, and that’s something Sam Altman, Zuckerberg, and other industry heads have openly acknowledged. If not for copyright violations it simply could not be feasible as a product, and even when there are instances of people stealing memes without attribution, that’s not the standard or a necessity for the practice. This is on top of the other peripheral issues like IMMENSE resource consumption, and destruction of human livelihoods. Even if we grant your false equivalencies with single user offenses regarding meme theft, and I personally do not, these things are not comparable, and the later certainly doesn’t justify or excuse the former.

He’s squealing because he knows it fits, and a hit dog will holler. If he were truly dedicated to the ideology and not just a fucking larper, he would openly admit he is, and I’m sure he’s eagerly awaiting the day that they have enough power over information and population suppression that would enable him to safely do so. True ideologues say it whether it’s safe to or not. Miller is a weasely, dickless WWII re-enacter at heart, and a sadistic sociopath who just wants people to suffer as he perceives himself as having done.

Honestly, this is lazy and unfunny.

Gearbox, fire your CEO.

everybody knows shiny = real.

I bet there’s modpacks out there that make the game look 100 times better than this remaster.

When he says “these people” he is referring to himself and his acolytes in the government. It’s not complicated, it’s just deeply disappointing and depressing, but has proven to be true time and time again. Projection works, at least well enough to scrape together power while people try to figure it out.

I swear, Microsoft YEARNS to fail. Dunno who is running the show over there but they’re doing a great job of being terrible for their brand.

Absolutely, it’s important to know what you like and want. Hell, lots of people work off vibes and go through phases where certain game types stimulate them, then fall off of those. Like MMOs and online FPS used to be my main thing, now I stick to single player story driven games. I’m not about to go loudly pout about how Stellaris doesn’t work for me and should be changed to appeal specifically to my wants, too busy with other games (and life).

If you’re not able to commit to learning new strategies and using game mechanics to adapt to a game’s difficulty, and experience it as the developers intended, maybe it’s not for you. You can always watch a lore video or let’s play by other gamers to get the story if that’s the goal. This is Dark Souls 2 all over again, and I will personally say as someone who initially hated it, then gave it another chance; When you persist and triumph through grit, the game leaves a lasting impression and sense of accomplishment that you cheat yourself out of with a difficulty slider. That’s my favorite game in the series now, which is a deeply unpopular opinion, unsurprisingly.

This debate pops up every now and then and my opinion remains the same, there are plenty of games that aren’t meant to be a challenge to choose from. Part of games that are built to be a challenge is being able to reflect on how far you grew in the process, and people hate to hear it but ‘git gud’ is a real thing for those who believe things worth doing are hard.

Don’t coddle whiners, make them git gud or get out.

No way was this guy evil enough to run Nestle. The board was like, “mere adultery?? hold my beer.”.