Same across the world. A few weeks ago a former prime minister of Belgium was stopped going through a red light. In normal circumstances, this means you immediately lose your license for 15 days while you have to appear before a judge. Judge completely waived his liability, citing his “standing” as a former PM. Which to me translates to “this dude is above you plebs, he can do as he wants as long as he’s not too egregious about it”.

Feel this in my bones. When people started getting cut at my previous job, it was invariably the ones who brought joy to the workplace. The ones who made a difference between a job and a career. Apparently joy doesn’t bring in any revenue, so…

I was the only one cut from my team of about 10 for AI. I had been there the longest (10 years). It’s all very transparent, but there’s nothing we can do against it.

I already got cut. Lost my 10-year IT job to AI last year. Now I’m working in a factory, packaging waffles 8 hr/day. The irony of me doing drudgery that could be fairly easily done by a machine, while a machine is doing something that requires agency, decisions and creativity, is not lost on me.

I want to get off mr. Bones Wild Ride. Forever.

The whole Stop Killing Games debacle clearly showed us that the EU, despite its rhetoric, isn’t interested in championing consumer rights in the slightest.

GTA5 was out for like three years on PC before I bothered with it. I found it to be… fairly mediocre. There’s nothing in GTA6 that would make me feel otherwise. I’ll eventually play it… at great discount, or not at all.

Sadly, there’s dozens of millions of those.

Willing to bet a nonzero amount of Western journalists/activists’ phones are equally compromised. In 2026 you simply have to assume that a smartphone is a 24/7 spy center trained on you if you’re of any importance at all.

Tobacco is low grade radioactive as well.

They can’t pass it. They don’t have majority. Now watch as they win midterms and this gets forgotten completely.

I mean, why not introduce this bill during any of the 4 years Biden was in office? Because it would’ve been actual policy, and they don’t want that. This is political virtue signaling and nothing more.

That’s quite obviously the end goal here.

Major respect for taking one for the team.

When oil is 200/barrel industry will switch out of simple necessity.

Bats. Imagine having a friendly familiar. They could also be used to carry messages.

Yea, this is gonna be the big one. I can feel it in my bones.

But they don’t ask questions. You can teach them sign language to a degree and they WILL use it to communicate, but so far none of them has ever posed a question to their researchers.

Nothing a quick pill won’t fix.

Now, convincing your wife to take pills for YOUR illness, that’s another thing.

That’s fine, I’m sure billionaires will pick up the tab when all regular people clear out of the Strip.

Peace trough power.

Kane lives in death!

Still running Win11 on my gaming rig. The very first time an update breaks something again it’s gone.