That's not how capitalism works. Once you have shown businesses what you're willing to pay they will not cut prices below that. It's called price stickiness. It's why we are going to have long tail inflation long after Trump is finally out of office and his tariffs are removed and his dumb wore in Iran is sorted out by a Democrat.

Blue sky is full of hobbyists. They mostly keep to themselves. If you are seeing a bunch of left-wing politics over on Blue sky it's because that's what you went there for and the algorithm is serving it up to you.

Now that said once you get tired of that crap it is really hard to get it out of your feed on most platforms. Reddit in particular is basically useless once it gets a whiff of you being interested in politics. YouTube at least what you just start blocking things and you can eventually get me crap out of your feed.

I say this is somebody who is obviously left wing based on my comment history however I'm sick and tired of low effort outrage porn showing up in my feed regardless of whether it comes from the left or the right.

Honestly even the handful of channels that don't just do outrage porn have become pretty useless because they are just busy trying to keep people on the left wing from completely giving up. I mean we are one election away from being a Soviet dictatorship so it's understandable.

I do think we will just barely survive but that's only because I don't think Trump's health is going to hold out and without him JD Vance can't keep the cult going

That's not how any of this works.

What's actually happening is social media use has plummeted across the board. I don't know if I've seen anyone explain why yet but everybody's numbers are way way down.

In particular young people are giving up on social media. Which surprises me giving that urban sprawl and the high cost of cars kind of isolates them. Maybe there's so many people packed in single family homes now that's less of an issue in some ways. A buddy of mine used to talk about how in Vietnam you'd have entire families in what we would call a studio apartment. And that he saw America heading towards that kind of poverty.

I mean I guess that's one way to solve first world problems, turn your nation into a third world hell hole...

Most of the cool retro game stuff is gradually moving to Blue sky. None of the people in the community really care about the politics stuff much but it's hard to hang out on Twitter when there's Nazis and porn bots everywhere and the system isn't hiding them anymore.

With the Nazis they always had to manually remove them because automated systems would identify Republican politicians as Nazis and ban them automatically. That's because computers go right through dog whistles. They can easily draw the connections between what a republican politician is saying or really any right-wing politician and the Neo-Nazi movements in a given country. It's a pretty straight through line if you're really paying attention but most people don't so.

Muskrat fire it all the guys who are doing that manual review and naturally he did not turn on the automated system because if he did well again it would be banning Republican and right-wing politicians so it's now oops all Nazis!

So eventually hobbyists get tired of it and they switch to Blue sky or threads. I don't see a lot of them switching to threads it's almost always Blue sky.

That depends on what they were trained for. Was it to uphold the law or... not? If the latter then yeah, sure. If the former, then no. The LLMs are trained on a fat core dump. The training corpus was produced without a thought even for accuracy, let alone honesty or fair play.

Ideally we get rid of MS in a cleaner way.

(To continue the discussion... Naturally they are different from IBM and cloud services are different from IBM's consulting services, but still services, if in no way other than in the sense of "being serviced".)

Portables are trash. Mini-splits don't cover a window, the connection between the inside and outside units goes through a fairly small hole, and they are much more efficient. Window units exist for stupid reasons to begin with, the solution is mini-splits.

An AC posted above about waiting for this inevitable type of comment posted by idiots and here it is!

I paid $99 for a fully legit copy of Windows 7 Pro, system builder's edition. That's simply intended to be sold alongside parts for a new PC, which in fact is what I was doing. Therefore I'm confident that an OEM license for Windows 7 Home was less than that.

A lot of them seem obsessive about work. Musk is a good example. Claims to work long hours, although how much of that is spent shitposting on X is hard to say. But he claims he does, and seems to expect everyone else to as well. In reality he seems to contribute very little beyond being a good liar and hype man, and having some financial sense. He also uses drugs to enhance his performance and to relax, an option not available to most plebs.

It's groovy when the representative of a corporations admits deliberate violation of the Magnusson-Moss act. It's always nice when they confess in writing.

It is rather easy to blame others for climate change. Yes, the poor consume products which do ecological damage. But they wouldn't be able to do that damage without rich people deciding it's what they will be allowed to buy.

Come on now, leave some billionaire cock for the rest of us to suck.

How did it become controversial to think Nazis and child rapists were bad? When this is the state of political discourse and debate in the USA, we deserve for our nation to fail, as it is in the process of doing.

It was a step in developing morality perhaps, now it's an impediment to developing it further

Massive drought and wildfires, leading to flooding when it does start raining this week and the ground can't absorb it.

We may have to start looking at desalination, like Middle Eastern countries. Certainly we need to get much better at storing water from the winter. The UK is particularly bad for that, because we sold off publicly owned water utilities and they didn't bother investing in storage, they just paid out massive dividends for shareholders. Decades later and we are being hit by climate change too.