LightBug1

The instance might be exceptional, but the steady torrent of different varities of shit coming out of the USA is not exceptional. It's incredible.

And don't me wrong, I'm certain there are millions of good people in the USA. But the assholes are in the ascendancy. Obviously.

Stand up, or get flushed down the shitter.

The instance might be exceptional, but the steady torrent of different varities of shit coming out of the USA is not exceptional. It's incredible.

And don't me wrong, I'm certain there are millions of good people in the USA. But the assholes are in the ascendancy. Obviously.

Stand up, or get flushed down the shitter.

Let me guess. USA?

For the land of the free and home of the brave ... it's incredible what you let happen.

I think the point is that - tragically and infuriatingly - it seems we'll answer that question when it happens.

Personally, I think it's time for some metaphorical guillotines to change our current directon.

We will continue extracting absolutely everything we can from Earth, at whatever the cost ... with the hope that technology will one day save us from our weakness.

And, yes, technologyy may "save us", but there are many different definitions of what that will look that ... some may be horrendous for the majority, but none of them will inconvenience those making the most significant decisions.

TARIFFS! LOL

It's a joke. A clever trick. To what end? ... absolute joke.

Do you know what gets me excited? Have you seen the new Porsche Mission S?

Form, function and beauty ...

Highly practical. Basically a clown car.

Sorry, I went off on one. But I'll stand by the words and yell them at the wind.

When you start acting militarily, secure your own shit militarily.

It's relevant to every motherfucking discussion right now, and should be until that wanker and his cancerous tribe are gone.

And that should be your, and our, number one priority.

Unless you like flirting and passively sleeping next to a pseudo-fascist dictator and hoping your frog-in-a-simmering pot act will be enough to get you through this.

Unsure why you're downvoted.

Making the relative comparison is useful in understanding what a shitshow is going on in the USA.

Back in the day, we used to think Abramovich was corrupt as fuck and very dodgy.

In 2026, I understand him to be a relative amateur ...

He must have given up on me. I'm aware of him tangentially, but I've never consumed even one of his videos or whatever he does. I believe I should be studied.

Ahh, an actual admission of defeat. Kudos.

Sanctions ffs ... what a pathetic administration ...

They probably said the same thing about social media back in the day.

I'm sure the thinking out there, and hence investment, is all about how to tether the user to the most addictive, network-effected, incredibly deep, server-side, moat-able version of AI possible.

You can support the incredible things Google have achieved over the last couple of decades ... while also acknowledging the absolute shit shows they've been involved with.

In the movies.

In reality the existential crisis will be used as a means for control, exploitation, and corruption ...

c.f. USA, Israel, UAE as spring-to-mind obvious examples for hints and tips as to how this plays out.

It's also interesting that your mind goes immediately to common enemy instead of some alternative.

I'll tell you what's a supply chain risk...

The current fucking US administration.

True, but to all intents and purposes, it is.

It definitely isn't dialing out to the internet or being collecting/tracking data and snitching on me if I breathe the wrong way!

Still rolling my 2005 Toyota and reckon I'll have it another 20 years, easy.

Supremely reliable.

Zero data capture / subscription nonsense

No bullshit.

You'll pry that thing from my cold dead hands before I jump on board the current crop of capable, but wack appliances.

Found that opening paragraph really difficult to get beyond ...

Asking questions is harassment now?

It's obvious he's making a point, but there is no harassment that I see.

FFS ... it's this kind of goal-post shifting that ends with sign-holding grannies being arrested for terrorism.

Haha, true.

But I considering money a voting mechanism.

And I'm happy just looking myself in the mirror having voted in a different, hopefully-better, way.

That might be the strongest nudge to get me off of my habitual use of chatGPT.

Well done OpenAI comms team. Just lost a subscriber.

FFS ...

Either this is true, and it's fucking bullshit.

Or it's an exaggeration/ false, and it's still fucking bullshit.

So, either way, something coming out of the Pentagon is fucking bullshit.

v2.0 ... auto-project two middle fingers at the recording camera, in place of the recorded subjects face.

>>> "it's what Cameron was trying to negotiate the UK into when complete inflexibility on the EU side triggered the Brexit referendum."

"Negotiate" ... is that what you call it?

David Cameron (and team) were the most inept bunch of wankers this country has had the misfortune of being represented by in living memory (in terms of medium/long-term real impact).

We had better terms than anyone in the EU and we still fucked it up.

- Confirm openly that space weapons have been deployed.

- Open the floodgates to the open militarisation of space by all possible nation states.

- In response, justify huge increases in space defense spending budget

- Rinse / repeat to kingdom come. Same as it's always been.

Someone's getting a nice fat bonus, cigar and a blowjob tonight.

I've stopped using xcancel even for that. If anything is important enough, it will reach me via other channels. Particularly from any contact who give af ... if they don't it's not important.