I guess when you have no knowledge of engines and your car doesn’t have one, you have to fixate on other stuff. Shame they don’t fixate on the fact that they’re driving mass surveillance tools.

I saw a gearhead on YouTube refer to a Tesla as an “appliance” and thought that was great.

You’d have to be incredibly stupid to not be able to see how easily gamed this whole thing is. All it takes are insiders to submit “outlandish” bets on things they know are going to happen. Like… this is the stupidest pipeline for upward wealth shift there is right now. You’d have to be 100% devoid of intelligence to be a working class participant.

Something like 70% of all Polymarket bets are won by roughly 0.04% of the users. It’s the same capitalists winning every time, while working class folks lose their shirts.

Everything in the US is a massive unhinged, unregulated grift now. This is a scam economy in a scam country.

More Perfect Union video about this.

Wow, that’s brilliant. I always hated editing registry values because I was afraid I’d mess something up, and then having to manually clean up sucked.

I wish I knew how to do this back in the day. In the early to mid 2000s, I was getting free internet by uninstalling and reinstalling NetZero. It would never check to see that it had already been previously installed and the days were used up. Probably could’ve gone the route you did instead.

Containerize the game somehow so that it thinks it’s the same day every day. That way it never knows when to reach out and check. Groundhog Day hack.

Disney is going to be sorely mistaken when they realize very few people will pay to watch movies made with AI slop.

No problem! It’s a bit violent and has some gore. Just a friendly heads up. Jesse Plemons is amazing.

Bugonia. Skip trailers and go into it knowing nothing but the basic plot. It’s a wild ride.

I guess they’re the group that was behind the Itch censorship.

The group rose to prominence in 2025 after lobbying for the digital distribution platforms Steam and Itch.io to remove hundreds of video games that they said featured themes such as rape, incest, and sexual violence, which resulted in Itch.io temporarily deindexing all not-safe-for-work adult games.[5] Collective Shout’s campaigning against violent adult games, in collaboration with payment processors, has raised concerns about financial censorship,[6] effects on LGBTQ+ games,[5][6][7] and creative freedom.[8]

Eyyy I love that this link is making the rounds. Can’t take credit for the graph, but happy to help broaden visibility.

YES

Not promoting it. I’m just not shoving my head in the sand about what needs to be done to remove a regime that only seems to speak in violence. The same exact shit we faced with the Nazis. You can’t vote away fascism.

My struggle is that I want off of iOS, but I’ve also been watching the walls close in on devices that can have their bootloader unlocked. I used to be heavily into Android tinkering (I still own a Nexus 5 and a white G1–still in its box), but left because iOS was easier for my partner to adapt to and easier for us to share various things.

Funny how this ties nicely into Meta’s lobbying for age verification and how it’s suddenly a conversation we keep seeing crop up. The pattern recognition tools in my brain see nothing but constant red flags these days.

They flooded the web with bots, advertisers are backing out because of it, and now both Spez and Zuck are panicking.

This rules. I love finding places like that.

Yeah, we have a few local places that will do to-go orders, so we give them our money instead. The last few times where we grabbed fast food because we were traveling or just super busy, it was just a shit experience. I’m okay parting with my money if it’s going back into a local business.

My wife and I have also started shopping in smaller grocery runs. So we will buy food for like 3 meals ahead of time, and then do it again after a few days. We find that we have much less food waste and we make less impulsive decisions. I just wish veggies didn’t suck so much now.

I’ve already spent years of my life in activism (the actual kind where you do work and try to build community, inevitably get added to watch lists, etc) trying to motivate others. I’ve helped with Food Not Bombs, etc. I’ve done a decent amount of “walk the walk” but I’ve also got a life to live. The US is deep into a propaganda hole that I’m afraid is gonna take a long time to climb out of and people have goldfish brains. I don’t really care how I come off to folks on the internet.

What even is the point of fast food now?

• ✅ Fast (edit: sometimes)
• ❌ Good
• ❌ Cheap

It has jumped the shark and serves no purpose now, other than screwing working class people in food deserts out of their hard-earned money.

What I’ve learned is that it’s basically impossible to convince people that the only real way to solve this is violent revolution.