I'd probably argue back a bit that most American stadiums don't even have the facility available for everyone there to neatly dispose of their trash as it would just massively overflow the bins with the expectation that trash is left at the seat.

Granted, I tend to like the Japanese way better, and there's also a line between leaving a neat pile of easily picked up trash at a seat and absolutely abhorrently trashing the place.

One of the biggest problems going in I had with it all is there wasn't a reasonable win condition. I'm not the lefty non-violence is the answer type on being against it. If I throw out trusting Israeli intel about as much as I trust an Indian scammer and just assume we are in this war, then it comes to what? Could we go over there, flatten them, and win? Sure. If the claim is we are out of ammo reserves, I take that more as we are out of reserves that we are willing to use. If we went into a real war against Iran, the sheer resource might of the US crushes Iran. The problem with that is there's pretty much zero political capital to go start a real war over there. The only ones that even want it are the Israel-first fake Americans.

So it comes back to we don't have a win condition. The win is crushing Iran, and the cost to crush them is more than the political capital the war has. Whatever I've seen in this deal is probably a good deal for us, and puts an end to it all, and honestly I think those it stands to piss off the most are the same Israel-first fake Americans.

It doesn't have to be sold. Most of the news cycle will flip quickly. My biggest concern with the whole deal as I've seen is there's no chance Israel goes along with it, and we won't tell them to piss off.

So there's no provision that Netanyahu is named king of the new Iran East Israel? We might make it through when most of us stateside are sleeping tonight.

Is the GoFundMe for his family’s Escalade open yet?

If someone said openly they didn’t want to work for a Christian or a Christian company, the response would range from indifference to applause. Anyone who didn’t like it would be mocked. So they can fuck right off with this bullshit.

Confirms basically what I thought then. Easy filter. If someone is pushing Blue Sky on me, it's a pretty good indicator of how they think.

Really any mobile phone that's connected to any sort of service. They ALL know your location at minimum. They can blame it on E911 or whatever, but every single mobile phone that has working service today has your coordinates. The systems are connected up to a "CALEA" request system and it would be dumb to think that any of the three letter agencies don't have access to that. If you don't want espionage, the answer isn't to think that Apple or Google or Verizon, T-Mobile, or ATT are going to be a winner or a loser. You are selecting from different sizes and shapes of turds.

Even outside of phones, I'd be a fool to think that even with the opsec I have on my home network and outbound that the government can't see that either. I'd never say be stupid and offer it, go on a basic social media site with your real name and just start posting things, but in my mind if they want me, they have me if they really want to try. There are no secrets anymore. If they come to take me away, I'll fight what I can then face God for judgement having done the best I can.

I've never gone on BlueSky. Isn't it also just super lefty too (which also explains the pedos)? I was looking at an open source app I was going to fix a bunch of stuff on and and push back since it's something I use, then I saw the "owner" or whatever you call them had Blue Sky as their social media. Decided not to bother helping. I've never seen anything about BlueSky other than well this is saying it's full of pedo stuff, and a bunch of lefties pushing it.

Yeah I probably use any of those words just to piss them off.

Inclusivenaming.org, as the official arbiters of woke word bullshit in coding is nice enough to provide a handy list of terms to be sure to use in all your projects.

Yes, they don’t even want you to use “abort” because it’s too close to abortion….

I really need to rebuild a compiler to use “nigger” as the error flag or something. if nigger then abort.

I really didn't understand until I saw it. I wouldn't really go as far to call the people unintelligent that were working with it, just their skillset was nowhere near the computer anyway. So they were either asking AI to do their job really directly, and failing, or just had no clue. Before that I was pretty much of the mindset of wow, how much I can do with this.

I remember speculating way back as a teen thinking AIDS was just God deploying his wrath on the gays as punishment for their sinful nature. I'm still not sure I'm wrong.

I've used the coding a lot. It works a lot better than most would think, but with a key element--when operated by someone who really already knows it. I've seen this first hand thru a little AI trialing project I did with one of the businesses I do work for. The output from myself and one other, both with a ton of real experience looked like actual developed software. The others couldn't get much that even worked. They have no idea what to ask.

Granted, that's not the type of thing that it can bitch about females or whatever. I should go feed it a git branch named "master" and see what it says.

I'm still not in favor of it, and I get pissed when the artists get all up in arms as if their stuff is untouchable and should never be done with AI, but they have zero care for all the software development jobs that have already been gutted by it. I do learn and tinker with it though, because the reality is I don't think it goes away and I still have to live and survive in the world and am not planning to move off grid into a cabin in the woods anytime soon.

Yeah that was nearly a decade ago, they weren't quite that up to date yet. Honestly I don't recall really seeing digital records heavily until 2020. I'm sure they existed prior, but damn they made sure to have them all talking to each other when they needed to check your vaccination status.

I have little to do with doctors anymore if I can help it. At least for now. I get a bit torn on a situation like this here because in the past few years I've watched a handful of 80+ family waste away miserably, grasping at anything and everything the medical system would allow them so they could breathe just one additional breath. I'd never support this MAID nonsense partly for similar religious stance as OP and the rest being the government using it against everyone. Still, I think there comes a point for myself at that age that instead of fighting thru anything and everything for a bit more time, I just find a nice place I can enjoy life, and just wait.

Stateside the insurance system isn't really any different. It's social medicine with a extra profit element stuck in. If it were me, I'd get rid of almost any of these cost sharing mechanisms and make it small group based. A family, church, community, etc. can build up a savings for medical things and make those decisions instead of feeding it all to the government.

There's a huge mountain to climb on the pricing though way before that. What's irritating is the government and grants pay for a ton of this research, and when they find something they then patent it and demand insane prices to recoup their research dollars that were full of grants and taxpayer money anyway. It's the most obvious with prescription drugs, when suddenly something that $10 a pill is sold in the bottles of 100 for $10 overnight, because a switch flipped and its off-patent. Cancer treatment is likely to cost more mechanically, but $540k? No.

That's not even to mention the fights with those who would ignore it, have no community, etc. as they'd just complain and scream some sort of -ism until it was given to them anyway.

I remember I went to some podiatrist a handful of years ago. I should have known when I went in there was so much little notices all over about those seeking pain meds. The problem with my foot is that they'd want two weeks to get an appointment, and it would heal in that time. So I'd be in excruciating can't walk pain and by the time I'm at the appointment it's totally fine, but it could recur the next day.

The entire appointment was them arguing I was faking to seek drugs despite me repeating I do not want any sort of prescription at all. I ended up just walking out. I was trying to analyze why I might be walking wrong, wrong footwear, damage to foot, anything else. That's what I thought these doctors were for. I got more help from some sort of computer fitting machine at a boot store.

I'm suggesting that looking at the market as gambling is the same as looking at poker as a game of chance. Go actually play poker, the game of chance is secondary to the mental game. It's a chess match. If you've played it for very long at all, that would be quite clear.

Where at any point did I claim that the SEC did a good job, or that inside information didn't exist, or that government bailouts, lying, frontrunning, etc. didn't happen? I claimed the market was a tool. I claimed it was broken, irrational, and only that it echoed and that can be used. That does not mean turn someone into Nancy Pelosi insider trading. It means there are things that can be done. I have no magic hand. I have no system in the sense that someone trying to sell you something might claim. I do lean towards business analysis and staying away from big trendy names. Let social media drive social media things, because those are the most irrational. I'd never claim magic, and I'd never even try to help someone with their own money, because while I have a track record that goes back nearly two decades, I also understand it very well could be made of brittle glass. Nor do I trust their ability to see it as the very first thing I said, a tool, part of a whole. Not a get rich scheme.

Yeah there's a lot of government stuff, common fair criticism, but I mean he hasn't delivered a bridge to nowhere, and lined his pockets with nothing more than some presenatations and a website. I don't like a lot of the products, but his electric cars function, his rockets actually go do real jobs in space. Nothing is perfect.

Correct. All of those things can be too and it's smart to use those as well. Dealing with the market as if it were a casino is like dealing with a poker game as if it were a slot machine. You sit down at the table and feed pots with no intelligence or discretion at all, and the skilled players will absolutely eat you up.

The market hasn't been real for some time if you define "real" as rational. I'd go back to at least the late 90s there it was broken, but probably further back just I wasn't old enough to pay attention.

It does echo though, and unless you're content hiding assets in US dollars to be slowly scammed away by inflation, then the market is there and can be used as a tool. Just most chase dumb shit (like Tesla) without any plan or any attention at all while the market grifts all their funds right off of them.

I had to think about that for a second because I was at first trying to think of a Zimbabwean kang that wuz mega rich by confiscating all of the property. Then I realized, oh wait. It's a few billion for a simple meal, right?

Funny enough I think a lot of his is just such made up value. That's not even me being an Elon hater. I genuinely think he pushes limits and innovates more than a ton of businesses. The market still just absolutely eats up everything he has done with insane valuations despite not always being that good financially, or just having some plain bad ideas and shitty implementation.

And given what I'm seeing from the local Repubs, they dont seem to mind. Its a way to keep an eye on the "pedos" that seem to be on the BS local news every day.

That's exactly the problem. Until they step away from all this monitoring and spying bullshit and start loading up the gallows, this never ends. You want to make sure a pedo doesn't re-offend. Let them swing. I don't think pedos are even the real target though, it's just the one you can still talk about.

I had to look to make sure. I've been around those obnoxious videos a few times in the past. I think they serve to do nothing but start the process of faggotizing kids.

My nephew that age seemed to have no problem following me around wanting to tell me about Smash Bros characters or whatever he was currently interested in, and I never had to speak like I had something plugging up my asshole.

Reminds me of a lot of things my grandmother used to complain about. She was a really odd one, because I have a ton of issues with her interpretation of Christianity but there was a lot of random things that would come out too. She totally probably would have or did pick up on this sort of thing, but she also would have applied that logic to a violent video game in that those are bad too. There were a lot of double standards. I remember her complaining everyone in TV, movies, and politics were Jewish though. And my grandfather on the same side would say we weren't going to build or fix things badly like niggers do. It's a shame her daughter didn't pick up on those things. My mother wouldn't criticize a Jew if it just decided to move in her house and take over.

Not exactly surprised. A phone is a massive security hole, and that is NOT new. Don't carry it or accept it. I remember reading way back those January 6 visiting DC idiots talking about taking batteries to charge their phones. For fuck sake, leave the phone at home or somewhere far enough away they can't even spectulate it was ever there.

Police need to be stopped from this shit, they think it's all adding safety. What would add safety is extensive use of the gallows. There's a backlog. We'd need shift executioners right now just to keep up.