Comment And yet ... (Score 0) 31
... MLB can tell players to wear "pride" gear. Hmm.
Comment Caveat emptor (Score 1) 49
If you're spending $250,000 for a joyride, you should do some risk analysis of your own.
Home made submarines are mostly unnecessarily complicated ways of drowning as should be scrutinized with a jaundiced eye.
Home made submarines are mostly unnecessarily complicated ways of drowning as should be scrutinized with a jaundiced eye.
Comment Re:Make it stop (Score 2) 80
Most countries don't have nuclear weapons and seem to be doing okay.
Ukraine, for example. A nuclear state attacked them, and Ukraine is winning. Of course Russia didn't nuke Ukraine, because that would be suicide. Similarly, if Ukraine had kept and maintained its nuclear weapons, it wouldn't have used them, because that would have been suicide.
I was thinking mostly of the naval vessels, but yeah, Ukraine has allies with both. Or, is a vassal to countries with both, depending on how you want to look at it.
Comment Re:Make it stop (Score 2) 80
because unless a country needs nuclear for some other reason (primarily to keep nuclear weapons and naval vessels around),
So, basically, all of them, unless they want to be vassals of those who do have those.
Comment Oh well (Score 1) 281
We have freakin' parades in honor of pride now, for Pete's sake; we may as well have some in honor of envy too ...
Comment Re:Actual California Voter here. (Score 1) 281
Yes. Everyone who thinks it's great spending other people's money should remember you are other people too.
But
I'm not the "other people" they'll take money from
Comment Whew (Score 1) 281
Thank goodness that nobody in the tech sector can live and work remotely! They'll never be able to flee, bwah ha ha!
Comment Re:taxing unrealized gains is problematic (Score 1) 281
They have no problem taking out loans on unrealized assets so if they are worth it to the banks, they can pay taxes on them.
Be careful of this kind of rhetoric.
Billionaire trickle-down-fuck-YOU-pay-for-it-pleb economics will ensure retired homeowners on a fixed income end up losing their homes, because tax the shit out of those 'urealized gains' called home equity..
Yes, exactly.
They never stop with "billionaires". That's not where the money is, not enough of it. It's going to be you; your house, your 401K, etc.
"That's one for you, nineteen for me
Comment Re:Dictators (Score 1) 53
What is happening in Russia right now is what you get if you allow unrestricted drone activity. Of course the Chinese authorities don't want that to happen.
Comment Re:Everyone knows Meta = Facebook (Score 1) 65
> Meta doesn't really know how to do anything else with any skill.
They don't know how to do Facebook very well either: it's been pretty much stagnant and enshittified to death for the past 22 years, and it feels like a forum for greying people whose greying friends haven't bothered to move on either, or to get the date of the next annual meeting of the bridge club.
Comment Betteridge's law of headlines (Score 1) 65
Comment Oh yeah, Shutterstock... (Score 1) 19
one of those companies whose sole purpose seems to be annoying you by slapping their name as a watermark on a generic image you'd like to use in a meme, and force to spend 10 seconds finding somewhere else because you were never going to pay a stupid company to remove their mark on a bad picture you can find everywhere.
I wonder how those companies still exist, let alone make any money.
Anyway, the modern way to use copyrighted photos for free is to ask stable diffusion to regenerate it, because the AI companies have done all the data stealing for you and repackaged the stolen data into "models" you can use for free.
Comment c'mon bro, a few more tokens and it's fixed (Score 1) 26
No problemo, the agent can use your crypto to buy more tokens./jk (as of 6/12/2026)
Are the cryptobros that stoopid or do they think we're that stupid?!!
Are the cryptobros that stoopid or do they think we're that stupid?!!
Comment Missed opportunity Chris Goetti (Score 1) 51
Come on " Patchocalypse " was right there, Chris!
Comment Re:How about at least... (Score 1) 99
Donald Trump (wants to fleece the public with worthless AI stock), Bernie Sanders (mistakenly believes the AI hype and wants to seize the means of production) And Sam Altman(wants to fleece the public with worthless AI stock).
TFTFY.
If they really believed in AI, do you really think they would share any of the proceeds with you?
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