• 2 unskippable pre rolls that advertise drugs to treat the causes of the emergency condition
• 5 minute long explanation of the creator's life story
• 1 minute long subscription beg
• 2 extended sponsor breaks with awkward segues
• first 30 seconds of content
• patient is dead

They seriously blamed the customers, anybody but themselves for this boondoggle.

A $70 DLC (it was literally supposed to be DLC) is a best seller. That's where the industry is now. Cool, cool, cool.

Not news. Kids are pressured to buy things their friends have, regardless of medium. Duh.

by a different name

It's literally just genocide, cut and dry. (I do understand your point, just emphasizing my view).

Nah, California is pretty great. I'd say it would be the place I'd move to if money weren't an issue. As long as you can afford it, CA is an amazing place to live with widely varied culture, fantastic weather, and an incredible number of things to explore and experience.

You can find every biome across the state, and you can literally go surfing in the morning, drive up the Pacific Coast Highway and through beautiful, lush valleys, in perfect 72 and sunny weather, on your way to snowboard in the mountains for the afternoon, into a nice chilly overnight at the lodge, and back down the coast the next day, because the weather is perfect again.

That's just one of the countless things to do in California. You'll also get clean air, a comprehensive interstate highway system, better public services, a near infinite variety of food, and generally better quality of life than many other places.

CA isn't perfect, but I can't think of anywhere else that could ever match it for me.

with a smokescreen

I wouldn't say it's a smokescreen, they're pretty open about genocide, e.g. Netanyahu's call to "finish the job". I'd say that's everything short of a direct call for literal genocide, given the context.

Goes to show how much they value education there.

Considering they don't pay moderators, I don't think they do.

Good, so let's train crappy AI on posts by crappier AI, which was trained by posts from even crappier AI before it.

They're forced to work 12+ hours a day, every day, if they want to get anywhere. I wonder where the time to find a partner and have children is supposed to come from?

God I love credit unions.

It's definitely a catch-22, but in an ideal, non-dystopian world, we wouldn't have to worry about either side doing this.

Since half or more of reddit is now bots and shills, I don't imagine the training data is going to be great. That's fine, Gemini already sucks, so it'll be hard to make it worse.

You're making passive income from disability, a pension system that no longer exists, and owning 3 houses you didn't pay for based off of programs no longer available to anyone starting out now. While collecting "market rate" rent (which conveniently always increases).

The disability, I'm fine with. My buddy had the same thing from the Marines and he more than earned the 100% rating, as I'm sure you and your wife did.

However, this whole thing where you're talking about with retiring off of passive income... that was a LOT of words to say:

I'm a landlord

I really wish you would have said this first, because your long winded story about houses and "passive income streams" gives me the impression that you know the house-related part all boils down to being a landlord, and I get the impression you buried that fact to obfuscate it. You're making money from other people's work, in the form of the rent they pay to you (minus a small fee to the property managers), while doing literally no work yourself, as you explicitly explained.

Yeah it's started inserting "totally not advertisements" like "take a left in 300 feet, past the McDonald's". More enshittification.

The staggering irony of them doing the very same thing the Nazis did to them to them less than 100 years ago, and then calling an allied country holding them to account for it Nazis, is mind blowing. There are still people alive today who were hunted by Nazis, what do they think, I wonder?

Florida isn't exactly known for being reasonable or logical. I'm talking from a responsible owner's perspective.

Yep, they should have announced it. And even before that, they should have verified the fucking info.

My brother, we are in that Renaissance right now. Lethal Company, Palworld, Balatro, Helldivers 2, Pacific Drive, Go Mecha Ball, etc. And we're only 2 months in, let alone the insane amount of gold in 2023, and upcoming games like Hades 2 in 2024.

Based on his actions, not his empty words, he has made it quite clear there is no distinction between Hamas and women + children, they're effectively the same at this point.