They won’t be surprised, they’ll just remain angry because they’ll be given new scapegoats to blame by the propaganda machine.

GOP is the party of rules for thee not for me. The leadership are all disgustingly wealthy so they can easily fly their mistresses to another country for abortions, drug fueled sex parties, etc…

bUt ThE eCoNoMy…

Just going to leave this here with proof that Elmo said cars would be fully driving themselves by 2018: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/autonomous-driving/timeline-of-tesla-self-driving-aspirations-a9686689375/

For a rational person, absolutely not. For a sociopathic billionaire, absolutely. Elon probably doesn’t give a fuck about the USA, even if it sank into the ocean tomorrow he would still have enough money for thousands of lifetimes in any of his vacation homes around the world.

Many of those cases happened outside Russia in countries like Britain and Spain. Musk leaves the US on a regular basis too.

This is conjecture but there’s growing evidence that Trump was sharing US intelligence with Putin and would likely do the same again. If you can’t beat them, join them I guess.

I have a sneaking suspicion that when Elon got involved in the Ukraine war via Starlink, Putin reminded him that he might mysteriously fall off a balcony or catch a sudden case of polonium and Elon has become a lapdog for him ever since.

It’s not a “community”, it’s one person making all the posts because I guess they wanted to make hating Linux their entire personality. 🤷

Buying a social media network: $40 billion

Buying a US election: $0.13 billion

Democracy is fucked.

What do you mean, corporations that have a legal obligation to maximize value for shareholders weren’t passing money on to consumers out of the goodness of their hearts? Nobody could have seen that coming! /S

Yeah, Tesla made this claim about the model X being full self driving in 5 years and being able to become an autonomous taxi while you weren’t using it. Still waiting on that one…

I promise you there are older and weirder people in the world who can still find love and fulfillment. Yeah it might be harder, but it is still possible. The most important step is to take care of yourself first. Seriously, look into therapy or support groups. You are not alone in this struggle.

I mean this in the kindest way possible: I think you need some mental health support. Failure isn’t something you are, it’s merely something that happens and it happens to the best of us. You can always change, but it takes some effort and the will to change. Having more self-esteem will really help you find the type of sexual relationship you seem to be seeking.

The call screening is done on-device, but if you flag a screened call as spam then you get the option to send the recording to Google. I’m guessing those get fingerprinted and then used to detect spam when screening other calls.

https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/9094888?sjid=10078269796479391373-NC#zippy=%2Chow-call-screen-works%2Clearn-how-call-screen-protects-your-data

There’s an even better way to handle spam calls if you have a recent Android phone: use the automated call screening. Every time robocallers hang up immediately before saying a single word because they know if the person flags the call as spam then Google now has a recording to automatically flag future calls even if they spoof new phone numbers.

They’re too late, there’s going to be way too much AI generated garbage in their data and so many social media platforms like Reddit and Twitter have already taken measures to curb scrapers.

My new rule of social media: Unless I know and trust the person or the organization making a post, I assume it’s worthless unless I double check it against a person or organization I trust. Opinions are also included in this rule.

Okay, so if giving a smaller group of people who earn minimum wage a 10% increase would cause these price increases, wouldn’t it be far worse to give everyone a flat 10% personal income tax cut? Surely that would make inflation go absolutely bonkers as greedy capitalists all raise prices to gobble up the extra money flowing into the hands of the people and leave them no better off right? How about we raise taxes instead and the opposite happens, people can’t afford these things and corporations and landlords are forced to drop prices to meet the new “supply” of general wages, making no material difference to the individual person but instead clawing that money from the capitalists back to the government who can spend it on public works like infrastructure, welfare, even subsidized housing for low income earners?

Why does the cost of living go up by the same amount though? Yeah some domestic industries that rely on low income workers like food and agriculture would have increased payroll costs, but how are other major living costs like rent, foreign made goods, and transportation tied to minimum wage?

I love asking them to explain what negative consequences raising minimum wage would have for inflation and the economy, then asking them to explain how lowering income taxes wouldn’t be even worse.