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Meanwhile, people who want to buy murder weapons are considered more important than people who need food. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/sales-weapons-resume-amid-shutdown

You know who I'm surprised not to hear from whenever a media company goes up for sale? Sony. They snatched up Columbia-Tristar back in the '90s and haven't put in a bid for anything since. All they seem to have really gotten out of that is the Ghostbusters IP and a bunch of record labels, most...

Nah, they just have to make a big donation to Donald Trump and/or fire everyone critical of him and they'll be allowed to buy out whatever they want, up to and including the entire US media establishment. Oh, what's that you say? This isn't P&R? Too bad, it's hella relevant to this topic.

Proof if ever we needed any that interacting with AI causes insanity.

Nah, it's too smeary to be either of those; those retain solid blocks of color and turn jaggies into 45 degree bends. Think custom designs in Animal Crossing New Horizons. This definitely looks like AI or, at best, whatever they used for texture upscaling in BioShock 2 Remastered.

Remember all those times a computer mistook a flock of birds for a missile and asked its operator "Do you want to start World War III (y/n)?" Imagine replacing that operator with an AI.

If people are really donating money so he can build a luxury ballroom for himself, it's a scam no matter how little of it he's pocketing.

On the other hand, these are people whose job is creating the instruments of our demise, so maybe they deserve to suffer?

They do if they're designed to actually work. Problem I've seen with them is that they're always designed to appease paranoid execs who are convinced people are going to find a way to cheat them and get free stuff, so if you don't run the barcode past the scanner just right it immediately locks...

Good lord. Y'all know that formula for how much of an age gap there can be before it becomes creepy? Anyone else feel like that ought to be adopted into the age-of-consent laws? Without a grandfather clause or statute of limitations.

Honestly as long as he's not outright joining the war on Putin's side, that's more than I ever dared hope for.

It's an old building. Sometimes if you want renovations to be done right, you gotta scrap a whole wing and start over. If anything, I think it's a shame it's usually too expensive to be worth it. But let's face it, this is Trump we're talking about; there's no way that's what's going on here...

So the thing stopping Trump's cult from ceasing to exist is Trump's cult continuing to exist?

And which idiot was that? We have a few hundred million of them, so you'll excuse me if I lose track.

Biden had one of those, and what do we have to show for it?

You have more faith than I do in information's ability to weather both the rise of garbage-generating AI and a mass book burning by the far right. A mandate to do what? Officially denounce him or lose their right to vote, like Benjamin Wade was calling for at the end of the Civil War?

"Yeah, no, I heard you. I heard you. I was trying to talk to the floor?" -

The funniest thing is that this is a pledge to do things that most Republicans would not approve of. They're already pissing on the Constitution left and right, they're the opposite of nonpartisan by definition, and they're not big fans of critical thinking or professional ethics. To the point...

That's basically use of AI in a nutshell.

Heh. "Pissed."