Man, that sounds familiar. I gave up on Escape from Tarkov for the same reason.

I did this with Blizzard/Activision years ago.

Zero impact.

That’s because they can charge us, the peasants, extra high emergency prices to reduce usage. But do the farmers get charged the same extorted rate, or are they actually subsidized?

I know CA voted for more humane living conditions for egg farms years ago. That seemed to have a direct price impact that slowly came down a bit.

Same with the rest of their culture war.

It has never been about governing or public health. Ever.

This is about latching onto fear and hate and further polarizing people. Because feeding that hate is what their base wants, and raises your status in their hate group.

It has always been about selfish attempts at taking the reigns of the hate train. The destruction in their wake is just the cost to play to them.

I also thought Liam as ra’s al ghul was a really bizarre pick during the movie, too. But I guess I got over it quickly enough, because Liam Neeson.

Honestly, there’s and endless sea of grift attempts going on at all times. You don’t think people selling fake gold Trump coins, etc give one damn about his politics, do you? They’re just trying to wring every penny out of the die hards

As demonstrated by the same kind of barrage of insane shit Trump and his administration did when they were in power. It was just rapid for crazy shit to drown out whatever bad story they wanted attention away from, constantly.

It amazing that half the voting population wants that back.

Sure. He’s an idiot, no argument. But I think he understands leverage, and what tariffs means to domestic leverage over their consumers because of lack of competition. But ultimately, his understanding doesn’t matter, the voters understanding does. And I doubt many who are considering voting for him understand that tariffs are worst for them personally.

It’s certainly possible, but I don’t buy that level of ignorance.

Trump was savvy enough to keep interest rates low to heavily inflate real estate as the obvious money dump for free money. As a real estate mogul, this directly benefited him personally.

And don’t give me that nieve nonsense that the president doesn’t control the fed reserve. Trump’s corruption was thorough and complete.

Trump absolutely understands basic economic principles of supply and demand. He is constantly trying to manipulate competition to give himself more power so he can gain from it. It’s the same as raising tariffs to give domestic producers more power so they can raise their profits at the cost to the consumer.

He just doesn’t give a shit about the consumer, only the kickbacks he gets from the producers.

I don’t know how you can miss that, though.

Tariffs on imported goods means the price raises to cover the increased cost to import it.

Tariffs are a mechanism to encourage domestic production by making foreign competition more expensive.

It’s literally the opposite of reducing the cost to consumers.

Trump has to understand this. But he knows his rabid base do not. So he says it like it’s going to help consumers, rather than exclusively the domestic producers that are already overcharging.

It’s really just a way for former coworkers thatdon’t know your personal email or phone, or don’t feel comfortable using them if they do, to reach out to you if they have an opening or are looking for one after a layoff or something urgent.

Both can be true.

Preserved and curated datasets to train AI on, gathered before AI was mainstream. This has the disadvantage of being stuck in time, so-to-speak.

New datasets that will inevitably contain AI generated content, even with careful curation. So to take the other commenter’s analogy, it’s a shit sandwich that has some real ingredients, and doodoo smeared throughout.

You seem to be ignorant of the subject matter. Google “full english breakfast”.

Eh. I’ve had it, and it was fine. I’ve had the meat heavy full breakfast version too, and it was fine.

Certainly nothing I miss after leaving, nor something to avoid while there.

5/10, bland but sufficient.

Shift-left eliminated the QA role.

Now we have AI generated shit code, with devs that don’t understand the low level details of both the language, and the specifics of the generated code.

So we basically have content entry (ai inputs) and extremely shitty QA bundled into the “developer” role.

As a 20 year veteran of the industry, people keep asking me if I think AI will make developers obsolete. I keep telling them “maybe some day, but today’s LLMs are not it. The AI bubble is going to burst, and a few legit use cases will make it through”

Could have been one of them newfangled Libertarians, who align 100% with Republicans, but are independent thinkers because they consume “alt” media instead of Fox News.

They might even be mildly against Trump because they’re such independent thinkers (translation: contrarian), and may vote 3rd party. That way all of the worlds problems are someone else’s fault.

Yep. He doesn’t give a shit. It’s just that the leopard is currently eating his (state’s constituent’s) face, so he has to go against the party narrative. That’s it.

Ok. Why don’t we just stop sending you more tax money than we receive? We’ll just pay for shit ourselves and not pay federal taxes anymore.

We’re cool with that.

Your federal tax brackets are reaming us while our cost of living is way higher than the national median anyway.

You might have just triggered someone to kill someone. How dare you say those aggressive triggering words.

You see how dumb that sounds?