Because, generally speaking, Europe has this thing called laws, and the government arguably exists to protect it’s “citizens”.

In the US you have this thing called lobbyists and the government unilaterally exists, only to protect it’s “corporations”

For example, in Europe McDonald’s French fries contain 3 ingredients (potato, salt, oil) and in the US there are around 20 ingredients… The US adds all that extra shit to make the frier oil last longer, to make it easier to clean, etc. and fuck you for being poor if it gives you cancer.

Europe has better frameworks in place to prevent robber barons, this is just as true for the digital age as it was 200 years ago.

Unfortunately, that’s the lesson they learned from why monopolies are bad…

It’s like they’ve been genetically modified to be stupid and lazy for 40+ years with a firehouse of corn syrup and poor education propaganda

What kind of fucking clown ass country posts this kind of foolishness?

Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” This seems increasingly true.

AI is like a dog looking at itself in a mirror.

Some dogs are smart, and understand that this is a tool and that it is there to help you see things better… Some dogs are fucking morons and think their reflection is another dog, and they wanna fuck and fight…

There are a ton of good use cases for ai, and none of them include coquettish sexbots or drawings of me as a Simpson or a Ghibli sketch.

…and nothing of value was lost

Military grade means contract went to the lowest bidder

i live in Canada and it’s a constant struggle to keep it afloat, we have our own brand of braindead morons we call maple maga that actively try to sabotage it at every possible opportunity…

what we do have is pretty good for basic coverage, but it excludes mental and *most *dental, and you still need insurance through work for costs of medicine etc. that being said, all hospital visits, stays, and treatments receive no billings.

just ‘getting’ universal healthcare isn’t enough, you have to fight for it, and you have to fight to keep it.

anime girl PFPs are the new ‘xXx_420_BLAZE_IT_xXx’

…it’s the same dude who had a ar15/skull/COD Ghost PFP 10 years ago…

they won’t give a shit, the economy is just something for poor people to suffer through

Don’t be silly, we simply need to ban phones for adults and we’d solve a BUNCH of other problems too…

Yes…? I was 14 when I learned how filesystems worked in the mid 90, installing dos6.0, win3.1, and doom wads lol. I grew up in an analog world before that, there wasnt and internet I could fall back on for support, it was a ridiculously expensive appliance and if I broke it I had better figure out how to fix it again before my mother figured out I fucked something up.

A 14 year old today, I would imagine, would have grown up in a world filled with /bin and /var and /lib folders to explore (and break…)

I think sits spelled Blernsball…

Isn’t the 8bitdo a PC first controller, for around $50ish bucks?

$149 for Canadians…

I mean… I feel like a Keurig is an indicator of deep, deep self loathing. if Schopenhauer taught us that life is suffering, then I imagine it’s exactly that kind of self loathing that makes you accept that whatever colour fluid that machine is pissing out as coffee

Yeah, me too…

But we gave more good than bad, John candy, Mike Myers, Dan Ackroyd, Jeff Healey, and on and on and on…

So what if there’s a couple of Jordan Peterson’s or Justin Bieber’s…

Imagine …

I get it …

I bought new tires for my car and my bikes and 2 5gallon drums of Rotella t6…

All that shit is going to be significantly more expensive in the next few months… And so will the switch2