spiderfarmer

Your entire argument is based on the fact that France cannot fight all websites at once? Will you change your opinion if Fanduel and others are blocked in 6 months as well?

So why bring it up.

I don’t think it’s crazy to enforce laws, especially given the leeway the government gave that predatory website.

Sounds like “keyword shitter” (genuine tool)

Were they ever credible?

How privileged was your upbringing?

I wonder if the clique around Peter Thiel still thinks "Competition is for losers!".

It really showed which financial commentators should be ignored. Hearing some of them speak was just painful.

That's my point. It's a cult.

Anything made in a couple of days or even hours is abandoned easily. This is how I felt when I saw the onslaught of OpenClaw tutorials months ago. I wonder how many of those influencers who felt they were so far ahead of the game are still using it and if they still feel the GAME has been SHOCKINGLY CHANGED.

A totally expected result from an administration that considers empathy weakness, friendship exploitative, facts optional and every verb transactional.

Sadly, it's often just because they were forced by the EU and several other markets.

The bad things are all true. Scamming people is their default. You can’t trust anyone you haven’t paid.

Time for a Windows update.

Thanks.

In my experience people who idolize billionaires, especially those that think empathy is weakness, have questionable judgement and lack a moral compass.

So of course they’ll try to ridicule people like you and me.

Especially on a forum started by billionaires looking for the next billionaires, frequented by people who would stop at nothing to become a billionaire.

Don’t give up on pointing this character flaw out everywhere you see it, as our children come across threads like these on a daily basis. And they need to see the bootlickers for what they are.

A society that values free expression should be uncomfortable with people being fired merely for holding a different political opinion from their boss.

In the Netherlands, “political opinion” is explicitly listed as a protected discrimination ground.

And in Europe generally, employee speech can fall under freedom of expression, though courts balance that against the employer’s interests, reputation, workplace disruption, etc.

Meanwhile, in the US you'll get fired by phone while your boss is golfing.

Freedom baby.

"Why didn’t you stop it before it started? Why did you wait until it was too late?" https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/07/how-horrific-thi...

Elon's posse: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/neo-fascist-...

I can say "I'm an atheist and I hate organised religion" without losing my job.

Can Americans do that?

I can say "I hate the orange clown (insert any other politician) and actively dislike everyone that voted for him", without getting a call from HR.

Can they?

I can't even enter the USA if I share some of the social media accounts like I'm legally required to do.

The 'free speech absolutists' are all calling for censorship in this thread.

So much for free speech.

I get that people in the US need to be apathetic towards politics to even survive in today's hopelessly divided and misinformed society, as it is a taboo subject that ends careers and family connections.

But the rest of the world lives in a more free speech society.

There's a whole world where you don't have to avoid politics and you can be freely anti-fascist, without worrying that the self proclaimed hardcore nerd in the corner breaks his silence and starts yelling to HR that we have to stop criticising his billionaire idols and focus on things that matter less.

I don't buy a new hammer for each nail.

If Trump sat on his hands for four years, he'd have been the best President ever.

Please provide sources for your feelings, as the facts all seem to indicate that the deficit is rising. As well as inflation. And the national debt.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/balance-of-trade

None of his promises ever come to fruition. Stop hoping.

I'm not a VC guru but in my opinion you can't include the time and money it takes to grow a tree and mine the iron to compare the time it takes to hammer in a nail with a hammer versus using your fist.

You won't convince anyone with "angry Facebook grandpa" style comments.

Please explain to us in great detail how exactly "official public policy" did that, including the laws and changes that were pushed to do so.

And explain why, if that were the case, conservatives are doing nothing to stop that.

Why would anyone continue to do something bad, just because the people you hate started it?

No, please. VC money gets wasted a lot, and they’ll have to make up for it by increasing prices.

The problem with crappy forums is that young people don't know how they work.

And forums with only old people die. Because people just tend to die.

That's why I made my 20+ year old niche agricultural forum a hybrid: a social media like feed plus a traditional forum. It fits the huge amount of image posts better as well. Of course I ran into some user revolt redesigning it this way, but users mostly like it.

https://www.tractorfan.app

JD Vance is a consequence of voting in the buffoon, yes.

I'm not sure if output of easy commands like "summarize this" are added back to the context? I always assumed they are in a separate UI layer?

The US will never recover from the reputation damage they sustained by voting in a mindbogglingly stupid buffoon. Twice.