pickleglitch

If the past decade has taught me anything, it's that today's satire is tomorrow's reality.

100% yes, it has. I used to post under my real name, but when Trump was re-elected I deleted all my old social media accounts and created this pseudonym. Even still, I don't say everything I want to say because if the government wants to find my real identity it wouldn't be hard for them to get it.

Look at NPSM-7 [1], which basically says anyone who doesn't like capitalism or Christianity is likely a terrorist. Look at that Texas judge who threw a guy in prison for 30 years simply for moving a box of political contraband [2]. Look at the state department's recent report that labels everything from the DSA to the Black Lives Matter movement as secret agents of Cuba [3].

It's pretty clear that this administration is bent on throwing its political opponents in prison, whether they be actual politicians, protestors, or just bloggers.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSPM-7 2: https://freedom.press/issues/texas-man-sentenced-to-30-years... 3: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Cuba-Report...

"Orion Everywhere You Are!"

Unless you are on on Android, I guess.

6 days and 3 posts? What did you expect to get out of that? Some people spend years building an audience. I don't know why you would think you can do it in 6 days with barely any effort.

The inclusion of DOGE's bogus "savings" data renders this whole thing suspect to me.

Good.

Oh, I see. So, it's not another forever war. It's just the second of an unlimited number of short, 2-month wars. Got it.

What gives you the idea that they want to distribute the gains from AI equitably?

I would suggest you begin by researching the actual history of luddites.

I didn't even finish the article because this sort of thing pisses me off too much.

I hope they lose and it bankrupts them. I'd like to see Zuckerberg thrown in prison. However, I would like to know what happens that $1.4T? Like, do the states that sued just add it to a slush fund? How would it be used to help mitigate the damage they have done?

This is only part of the picture. Part of the reason houses are so much larger today is cultural, but I would argue a larger part is that economies of scale scale make it more profitable to build larger houses, so that's what developers build.

Also, the average cost of raw, undeveloped land in 1970 was about $197/acre, or about $1690/acre in today's dollars. Today the average cost of raw, undeveloped land is about $4,350/acre.

All of the other costs associated with building a house are higher as well. There are more regulations, materials are more expensive, etc. Labor is probably the only part of the equation that isn't much different after adjusting for inflation.

So it's not just that we all decided to buy larger houses and that's why they are more expensive. There are a lot of structural issues at play.

The median monthly rent for houses and apartments in the U.S. in 1970 was $108, or around $930 in today's dollars. So, in today's dollars, that would be $11,160/year. Median household income in 1970 was $9,870, or $84,714 in today's dollars.

Median rent in the us today is around $1,750, or around $21,000/year. Today's median income in the us is around $89,000. So, housing cost has nearly doubled, while wages have only risen by about 5%. And that's just housing. I'm sure the math for healthcare and education costs is even more grim.

I will surely get down-voted for this, but at this point if you buy a Tesla you get what you fucking deserve.

What's extreme about trying to live your values?

Jellyfin is great, but it is solving a different problem entirely.

I like the laptop idea, I'd go with Linux instead of Windows, and even then I think it would be a challenge to get it working well with a remote. Nvidia Shield is just Android TV, which means handing Google all your data. Of course, Apple TV means handing Apple all your data, but that seems like maybe the least bad option. I don't know, I'm just tired of all of this shit.

So now the same corporation that owns Fox News is going to own Roku? No thanks. Guess it's finally time to switch to a custom Android TV box or Apple TV. Or roll my own, but I've tried that and found it pretty difficult.

They require your name and address, so they will have a nice database of anyone who dares voice an objection.

What if you wrap them in bacon and deep fry them? Deep-fried bacon petaflops are a Thanksgiving tradition in my house.

Yeah, no. I don't give a fuck about port forwarding to make a remote machine look like it's running on my localhost. I don't want to cede any more of my computing needs to the cloud than I absolutely have to. I like to own my hardware, not rent it.

It's been many years. But today I just wouldn't buy a set that had too many single-use pieces. If I were still Legoing, I would probably just hunt craigslist or facebook marketplace for people selling lots of random bricks.

For me, when I was into legos, the answer would be: take it apart and add the pieces to my larger collection, from which I can build whatever I want.

You can pry localhost from my cold dead hands.

Yeah, it's a better source if you enjoy government propaganda.

In the future, we will all dress like firefighters.

Companies don't control the release of strategic oil reserves. The President does that, and Biden actually did do it during the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At the time, Republicans criticized him for doing it, but if he hadn't gas prices would have gone even higher than they did. The big difference is that Bidden didn't create that crisis. The current mess is 100% Trump's doing.

Yeah, I don't see it. Trump is also pathologically incapable of admitting defeat (see Jan 6) and it will be very difficult for him to claim victory without getting something better than the deal Obama got. There's little to no incentive for Iran to give him any such deal. Israel also doesn't want the war to end and they can easily sabotage any real negotiations that appear to be getting serious.

Trump has no off ramp. I don't see this ending until he is out of office.

My understanding is that prices have been kept low by drawing down our strategic oil reserves. We're also somewhat insulated by domestic production, although a lot of that is sold overseas.

Other startups are focused on trying to scale data collection. Silicon Valley-based Human Archive, for example, hopes to partner with companies like Pronto and have gig workers record their activities using not-so-stylish camera caps.

Nothing like training your replacement. I wonder who's going to buy all of these robots when the robots have taken over all the jobs.