Sorry all. It just kinda made me chuckle to see this headline. Each manufactured scandal just gets more and more ridiculous.

Especially the use of the word 'reveals', as if it's some kind of dirty secret to make sure you're not inadvertently spreading VD.

One of the people I follow posted about something similar on Mastodon yesterday. They happened to be on the same plane as someone who was speaking at a climate conference they were attending, and they saw the person through gap in the seat working on their remarks and using ChatGPT in order to do it.

Sad stuff.

Metaverse - still one of the best jokes around

This one I slightly disagree with. I got my headset on a black friday and it was super cheap, but VR documentaries are friggin' amazing and I hope museums will invest heavily in it in the coming years.

Fully autonomous self driving cars - “Just around the corner” for the past 10 years

Definitely. Makes me feel good for people who make their living driving trucks.

Yeah, I know. It'll almost certainly be a quick, real-time crash that the Signal chatters in Washington had advanced warning about, and retail investors will listen to Jim Cramer telling them to keep investing and lose their hats in the process.

There have been several micro-crashes. There was one last autumn in the crypto space.

Hopefully regular people are given enough time when the bubble pops to maneuver, but there's no guarantee. I'm just assuming there will be a coordinated effort among the Epstein Class when the crash becomes inevitable and they'll exploit it while most retail investors lose everything.

This also belongs in #NotTheOnion.

Yup. This is, in part, why I leave some of my mistakes in my videos. That's the easiest way to prove to people that my content isn't AI without arguing about it.

I hate that these motherfuckers only work like four months out of the whole year and spend the rest of it insider trading legally.

While I wouldn't recommend investing in SpaceX (or any company contingent on Elon Musk's wild claims, which often prove to be unfounded), investing in general is volatile and share prices fluctuate daily.

What's wild is that SpaceX' satellite Internet product is actually really good, but the valuation of this company is insane and that retail investors have no voting rights is a huge red flag, and therefore it's important to stay the fuck away.

The videos are inspiring to watch. These people aren't fucking around.

Reminds me of Donald's first term when they were trying to groom Ivanka to be his successor and she got humiliated at several international events.

Yeah, and they never talk about the specific DSA policy they oppose, because they know how attractive the DSA platform is.

In theory, perhaps.

Donald is never going to face any meaningful accountability.

I noticed they keep calling these voters 'Israel Critics' and not 'anti-genocide', even on Reuters and the AP.

It's blowing my mind to see even a handful of people who actually possess a conscience looking electable. I love this quote from Brad Lander: “Our party needs to admit that Joe Biden’s ‘hug Bibi’ strategy was a catastrophic mistake. We cannot keep paying for Netanyahu’s wars with our tax dollars. Democratic voters are saying this, loud and clear.”

Paying for Netanyahu's wars

That is the correct way to frame this. Remind the people being told that Donald doesn't care about their cost of living just where the value for their taxes is going.

Oh yeah.

I'm in my 40's but look like I'm in my late 20's or early 30's and that's always what people guess when the issue comes up. Thankfully, I feel like I'm in my 30's still too.

The only downer is my hair is starting to gray, so in 5 years or so I'm going to be more of a silver fox. :D

You could try.

My wager is you'd be assassinated, but for a glorious and short time you'd be the most successful American president in history. There's a reason why Congress term-limited presidents after FDR. People want presidents that actually do good shit. It's just that we never get a choice between two good people ever.

My favorite thing about maintaining a youthful appearance into my 40's is that every person who was ever been a jerk to me because they weren't attracted to me is already turning into a gargoyle, and I'm over here doing pretty okay with my fey blood. (Except for a slightly weird eye that will eventually get really weird, thanks to a genetic condition.)

Enough people have died getting literally cooked in Tesla cars, unable to get out, for me to never want to get in one of them on purpose.

I've never cheated, but I was once made to feel like I had because I was in (what I thought was) a casual relationship with someone who, it seems, took it very seriously, and I was seeing other people at the same time. There was no intent to hide any of this, it just wasn't discussed, and therefore I thought it was all okay.

I felt awful. I'm now very clear on my intentions at every stage of coupling with another person, and it was a good lesson to learn at a young age.