My car has climate control. I set it to 72 degrees once a long time ago and rarely have touched it since.

The fascination with dumb controls in a car is odd to me. It seems like people overshoot the “I want physical controls I can feel my way around without looking” and get into “give me the Flintstones car” lately.

Oh boy, I didn’t realize I was feeding a troll. My bad!

lol. Lmao even.

The United States spends more on defense than any country in the world by far, including Russia.

It would not be particularly competitive.

Nah, our president is definitely compromised by Russia. Every time the subject of Ukraine comes up you can just see it plain as day.

Need to get them to do something fun away from home.

OpenAI is led by a mendacious, manipulative asshole purporting to be something he is not.

His own board tried to oust him for this reason.

Podcasters in the know allude to the fact that he says things publicly he doesn’t believe, and actually thinks some pretty heinous things about the future of AI.

Tactics like these are further evidence that they know just how bad AI could be for humanity, but they want the most profit they can extract from it before they run off to their doomsday bunkers.

When you see Sam Altman talking, just know he’s not revealing his true thoughts.

My dad was in the military, but I never heard the sorts of things from him that I do now. He has started saying the N word to try to get a rise out of me, thinks Trump is going to “fix” everything, and every time I talk to him on the phone, I can hear fascist talk radio in the background.

We have learned not to bring up politics with each other. The last time I challenged him on it, he said I was being disrespectful, but I don’t accept that. He just thought I was supposed to sit quietly and listen to crazy ranting.

I have learned that in general it’s best to change the subject if someone wants to talk politics who I know I don’t agree with. Most people have gotten the point. We still get along great! We just have polar opposite politics.

Now I know that some people would question why I remain friendly with those people. The answer is that we have more in common than not. Someday, when everyone finally comes to the conclusion that the powerful and foreign are manipulating our political discourse to sow discord, we will finally be at peace again.

Uh oh, are we doing an /r/SipsTea here now?

Ytmnd.com

And the Rami Malek movie “The Amateur”.

https://imgur.com/gallery/cmon-do-civil-war-dzKQtkt

But also

Nightmares.

Ray Dalio has prescient words on this. Increasing political violence often precedes the downfall of a country. Couple that with the economic problems and drastic inequality in the US today, and I think we’re on the precipice of something truly awful.

If Donald Trump ends up trying to take a 3rd term, we are done as a country. I will be looking for the exits.

https://wballiance.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/WBA-Wi-Fi-Sensing-paper.pdf

Comcast knows when you masturbate.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4zH9Zca1vRM

We were downloading MP3s on dial up.

Souls like. There are literally situations you cannot win on the first try, like when you walk through a door and something stabs you from behind because it was leaned against a wall out of sight.

Also just don’t enjoy fighting gigantic things with ambiguous hitboxes.

I see an opportunity with rising electricity costs due to AI infrastructure building. People are getting angry about their high bills. If enough out solar panels on their houses and install batteries, we’ll be off the grid in short order.

Can those of you who are paranoid about the police please stop dropping your speed 5 MPH below the limit when a cop car is behind you?

Thanks.

Truly, if you’re feeling miserable and even suicidal - I know this sounds cliche, but please try going for a walk outside, ideally in a wooded area.

I understand this sounds like “touch grass”, but seriously, try it out.

Xenomorph.