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Just because it doesn’t generate a yield doesn’t mean it doesn’t have value. Fresh drinking water is incredibly valuable and will be more so as its supply dwindles.

Sorry I clearly should have added a /s.

Why would gold, something that’s had value for thousands of years prior to the Industrial Revolution, have any value?

You’re assuming there will ever be enough for these bastards.

blink You OK there bud?

Only 12 year old boys 25 years ago. Use Linux or MacOS, just move on.

Nothing new here. LA Times is owned by a right wing billionaire. They post this catastrophizing garbage on the regular now.

This made me smile and sigh at the same time. Hoping prices improve soon.

I didn’t support any of those wars. I wasn’t even alive/of voting age for most of them.

Exactly. The Democrats are the lesser of two evils, but they still carry water for the billionaires. Neither party represents what people really want (Medicare for all, at least as an option, lower defense spending, etc)

I feel like there’s a logical fallacy in your response. I’m down for cutting significantly more than $1 billion. Halving the defense department budget would be a good start.

I didn’t.

Did you vote for this mess? I sure didn’t, I live in a state with almost 50 million people and feel like we’re powerless to stop this nonsense.

Appreciate your response. I’m just frustrated, because while I vote one way (in California ) for liberal policies, the rest of the country seems to vote another. Americans are a varied group and we all get lumped together with these idiots. I thought it was stupid when we dismantled USAID but I’m powerless to stop it.

Thanks for your feedback. I didn’t vote for this administration, I think they’re idiots, and yet I still get blamed for them. It’s exhausting.

I’m happy to spend on supporting the poor worldwide; I’m just tired of the US playing team America world police. I also want Americans to get the same deal Europeans and Canadians get on prescription drugs.

No offense taken. Clearly I’ve already upset a lot of people though. It’s not just the WHO, which is “only” 1 billion apparently.

As an American, farmers here fucked around and found out. Last time Trump and Congress bailed them out in the last “trade war”, didn’t happen this time. Screw ‘em.

Meta had a metaverse for work?

Do you know what they call the dumbest person at the polling place? A voter.

It was a bad election cycle for incumbents worldwide. Many Americans are hurting from the cost of living and wanted a change. I know many who are definitely not racist (in interracial marriages/relationships even) who voted for Trump just on the hope for an improved economy.

Please, just leave already. Stop talking about it and just do it. It’s like people talking about how awful social media is. Just don’t fucking use it.

Nothing would make Americans happier than an alternative. Europeans, go build your own big tech that can compete and win against Microsoft/Copilot. It’s not a big lift.

As a software engineer this scares me from an employment perspective but I also use Claude Code to produce 90% of the code I commit now (after reviewing and revision of course) so there’s that… ;)

It’s going to be wild to see how much more broke Wyoming is going to be when the rest of the country finally transitions off of coal (and later gas). It’s already depressing to drive through.

Here’s a paragraph summary of the story, written by Sonnet 4.5:

The Yarn Spinner team explains they don’t use AI in their game development tool despite having academic and professional backgrounds in machine learning—they’ve written books on it and gave talks about ML in games. Their position shifted around 2020 when they observed AI companies pivoting from interesting technical applications toward generative tools explicitly designed to replace workers or extract more output without additional hiring. They argue that firing people has become AI’s primary value proposition, with any other benefits being incidental. Rather than adopt technology for its own sake (“tool-driven development”), they focus on whether features genuinely help developers make better games. While they acknowledge numerous other AI problems exist and may revisit ML techniques if the industry changes, they currently refuse to use, integrate, or normalize AI tools because doing so would financially and socially support companies whose business model centers on eliminating jobs during a period when unemployment can be life-threatening.

I am contributing by admonishing you for not even contributing anything worthwhile at all while complaining about others content. Learn some awareness.

You mean Boehbert, a congresswoman? Yeah she’s pretty awful.

Frankly I don’t think Trump 1 vs Trump 2 admin wise are the same. Many people were duped. They’re idiots, but not malicious idiots.

Intel CEO confirms that he doesn’t know what he’s doing as well as previous Intel CEOs, lest we worry.

Italy should have no right to take a website off the internet globally, which from what I’ve read this allows them to do. That’s insane.