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  • Trump strong-arms studio into making cop movie sequel: 'Dumbest possible state-control'

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  • It's a scenario where Tucker's main schtick makes sense in context. Ruby Rhod is basically Space Tucker with a gossip podcast, and his hyper-annoying behavior serves to illustrate how different he, the other passengers, and celebrity obsessed people in that universe are from Corbin's grounded and sane everyman character.

  • Of all modern Sci-Fi Dystopia depicted in movies, which do you think our world will most resemble or already does resemble?

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  • Three way tie in my book:

    That episode of Black Mirror where everyone had to ride stationary bikes and were forced to watch unskippable ads if they didn't have credits, except everything you have to watch is AI slop instead of your crush doing porn.

    Or the Handmaid's Tale, but instead of some mysterious infertility crisis, fertile women are rare because they die in pregnancy and childbirth due to anti-science rhetoric flat out killing them. (Look up "free birthing", etc.) At some point it gets bad enough that replacing your wife is more like getting a new pet.

    Maybe the hot version of The Road. We just have wars over water and resources until the plantet's too fucked for human life, and the survivors are left roaming around making jerky out of each other until the end.

    Could be all three at once. Yay!

  • Air traffic controllers reject $10,000 bonus as “insulting” amid staffing crisis

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  • If memory serves, there might be an existing retention program available that offers a 25% increase in pay for three years, but I'm not sure if that's available to all federal workers or just certain agencies.

    It's 100% possible to give most of them a one time "step" increase that amounts to a permanent 5-7% (ish) raise, which would net them significantly more over time.

    Shit, I think if you pick the right job in the military, an 18 year old with a high school diploma can get $70,000 pre-tax if they sign a six year contract.

    So yeah, ten grand pre-tax is a joke considering how vital and stressful ATC is.

  • Outrage after Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’

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  • Outrage after Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’

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  • If he organizes public executions, will they finally try to use the 25th or just roll with it?

  • Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar Pichai

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  • Is this guy for real? Has he not met like, people, before? That's exactly what a frighteningly large number of people will do.

    In the last week alone I've had conversations with people who:

    1. Got diet and meal planning advice from Chat GPT.
    2. Sought financial advice for retirement planning from two different LLMs.
    3. Recited nisinformation from Google's AI overview as factual.
    4. Most disturbingly, sought veterinary advice from Chat GPT.

    None of them questioned what they were told in any meaningful way.

  • Why do you need, want and/or have a gun/guns?

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  • Mostly, I enjoy target shooting as a hobby. Hunting is big in my area as both deer and feral hogs need to be culled.

    I also feel there's a greater chance of widespread civil unrest than most people understand, and that folks in my area will likely have to defend themselves to some extent if it breaks out. For various reasons, the people who are most important to me aren't likely to be prepared for that, so I figure I should be ready to some extent.

  • The car of the guy who insists that you have a terminal case of TDS

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  • The kind of person who does this to their car won't believe it's true, while simultaneously defending it as him doing nothing wrong because all the liberals say it's okay to do it, which also doesn't mean admitting Trump actually did it, because he didn't, and this is also proof that Dems did much worse things, even though it's not real and just a plot to destroy Trump and let Satan rule over the world.

  • The car of the guy who insists that you have a terminal case of TDS

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  • TDS is a Swiss army tool for controlling what their base thinks and dealing with negative press. I don't know if it evolved organically or was created, but promoting the idea that anyone who says anything negative about Trump is hysterical, jealous, and irrationally hell-bent on destroying him has been insanely effective for them.

    It's less about you and more about enabling nutcases like this guy to be complete and utter tools for what they think is a greater cause. You can already see it in use with the Epstein files along with their other grand slam propaganda tools.

  • Elon Musk Reportedly Obsessed With AI Girlfriend

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  • Yeah, if Elon destroys his life gooning to a creepy chstbot and leaves his companies in the hands of people with actual intelligence and souls we'd all be better off.

  • Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

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  • Why can't we win the AI race and still not have a surveillance state? Those don't seem like they have to be linked...

  • To the Moooon! 🚀 💎

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  • You can still get onions at my Costco, you just have to ask at the counter. Never seen the polish though, and now I feel nostalgic for something I've never had...

  • To the Moooon! 🚀 💎

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  • We have the $120 annual membership.

    What we save on dog food in the first four months of the year pays for that membership. And the store brand dog food is manufactured for Costco by Diamond, so it's better quality than anything available at Walmart for less.

    Household goods, TP, laundry detergent, dishwasher detergent, etc, etc are a significant savings if you have space to store them.

    Some of the deals on groceries, meat, frozen goods and so forth are significant if you have a deep freeze or extra fridge in the garage to keep everything in.

    It's more than a grocery store though. Appliances, furnishings, electronics, gas, tires, and more can be had at decent prices. For instance, I can get a name brand car battery from Costco at the same cost as Auto Zone's no name special.

    As others have said, the annual cash back reward is at least $120.

    But...

    You have to set a budget, have extra space, and be disciplined about shopping there. Stay out of the central impulse zone in the store unless there's something you need there, and comparison shop on major purchases. It's great for people stuck in the suburbs. For everyone else, YMMV.

    As far as the hot dog goes... It's just a meme, man. Relax.

  • How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device

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  • Yeah, journalistic integrity is important, and they shouldn't slander Google, due diligence and what not.

    But there wouldn't even be a need for an article or any investigation if Google and other tech companies weren't treating user data as something they have a god given right to.

    That's my point. It doesn't matter what Google does or doesn't do with the data. They shouldn't collect it unless I tell them they can. It's MY data. It's MY right to keep it private or destroy it as I please. That's the baseline all tech companies should adhere to.

  • How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device

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  • Play Services does collect data it shouldn't collect, by sending it back to Google.

    Right. And my argument is that this shouldn't happen without users opting in.

    But the difference between "I am collecting your data" and "I wrote software you are running" is important and needs defending,

    I don't disagree. Not am I arguing the content of the article. I just disagree with your notion that we have to prove negligence or malfeasance to deserve privacy.

    Your original post placed the burden on users to prove that Google mismanages the data they collect. That's not how this should work. I should own that data, just as I own the text I write with a text editor. I shouldn't have to prove that Google is mismanaging it in order to keep that data private. I shouldn't need any other reason than "it's my data and I don't want to share it beyond what is necessary for this technology to operate."

  • How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device

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  • If you don't collect the data in the first place, there's nothing to mismanage.

    Rather than users having to prove that Google is mismanaging OUR data, Google should prove it has a need to collect, aggregate, and sell access to that data beyond surveillance capitalism.

    The default option should be that only fully anonymized data that is essential to device functions should be collected, and this should be validated through an independent audit. Everything else should be opt-in.

  • U.S. family moved to Russia to escape liberal culture and got drawn into the war with Ukraine

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  • Yes, that's denying them the freedom to be ignorant, superstitious, greedy, sociopathic idiots and be rewarded for it.

  • Samsung makes ads on $3,499 smart fridges official with upcoming software update

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  • I have a fridge in my garage that my mother wanted to throw away. No ice or water dispenser, no french doors, no digital displays or buttons, no smart features... My beer is just as cold as anyone else's.

    That a market exists for this kind of horseshit confounds me. Want a big fridge? Sure. Fancy color to match your cabinets? Makes sense, I suppose. Ice dispenser? Yeah, that's cool. Beeps when the door is left open too long? Actually kinda handy.

    Adding a surveillance device that's loaded with ads and serves no practical purpose while simultaneously being yet another over priced, sloppily designed, and poorly built subsystem that can break is so ludicrously inane that it can only be a sign of the further decline of western civilization.

  • I ate: Arby's Steak Nuggets

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  • Imagine if angels performed a miracle that allowed a tater tot and a McDonald's hashbrown to produce a child, after which someone found the least expensive way to replicate that product by mundane and industrial means.

    Hearty, weighty, and substantial, yet still crispy on the outside while soft on the inside.

    I like to use the sauce packets to draw little designs on them, elevating an already divine side dish into the perfect amuse-bouche.