Th4tGuyII

Honestly. Agreed.

While in office Trump is essentially immune to consequences - there's very little point in trying to go after him again.

But his administration and DOJ have been doing some very blatantly corrupt things for a while now, and their only safeguard was the Republican Congress refusing to do anything about it.

Now that the entire Congress is in Democrat hands, they're vulnerable - so going after them and essentially neutering Trump's tirade against democracy for the rest of his administration certainly seems the best path forward.

Though we've got the next two years to find out what's gonna go down.

Yeah, you don't get to Scrooge McDuck levels of money by being friendly. He absolutely would've sold out Epstein then made his own island, because the money bin doesn't fill itself.

Would be real good if the big old bubble could burst soon like it has in China. Cost of living is fucked either way, so might as well take Sam Altman and Co. along for the ride

Been playing SSX Tricky for the past few days as it was an old nostalgia game of mine. It's been real fun, but the NPCs are way more obnoxious than I remembered. Also the way that the devs put alternative courses inside each course so you could go "off trail" is actually really cool

Because those who perpetuate the systemic abuse of others through abuse of authority can't ever themselves end up as victims of that same system?

That's pigeon shitting on a chessboard level of gotcha right there.

Why is AI development continuing?

There is demand, but that demand only exists because consumers aren't being exposed to the actual price of AI. It's all being subsidised by investor hype.

Not one of the frontier AI companies have made a profit as of today, not a single one..

The only ones making profit are those exploiting the subsidised pricing for business (or to pull huge scams) and the guys selling the ~~shovels~~ components for data-centres, like Nvidea - who are desperate to keep the investor money flowing, to the point that they themselves are pouring some profits into their own AI company customers in the unofficially dubbed great AI Investor circle-jerk.

... And though this Bloomberg report was from January 2026, if you look hard enough you'll notice this circular financing hasn't stopped, in-fact Nvidea even acknowledged this circular fimancing themselves not even two months ago.

If the only way this keeps going is propping up the industry with investor money and circular financing, then when one of those eventually give and the public are exposed to the true price of AI - what happens then?

A bit into conspiracy territory now, but it's what has me suspecting that a lot of the news we hear about AI going rogue and what-not isn't as accidental as it seems. Any publicity is good publicity and keeps AI on the forefront of investors minds.

Make it a legal requirement for any indefinite revokable license product on sale to be sold as "indefinitely licensing". Any term implying irevokable ownership (I.e. buying, purchasing) would be illegal to use.

It would wisen a lot of people up very quickly to what's essentially a long-play con being pulled on them constantly, especially as some games companies *cough* Sony *cough* are looking to force digital-only ecosystems.

... And if being forced to use that term makes the companies doing this squeemish, well they could always just stop selling revokable licenses.

Man I always hated this, because it IS actually the bell's job to say when we leave - because if we don't, then we're late to the next teacher's lesson, who then either has to do the same thing, or cut their teaching plan short to compensate - neither of which is a fair deal for us or that next teacher

I've said it before and I'll say it again - the biggest flaw in the UK's energy market, and what makes it have the most expensive electricity in Europe despite having one of the highest productions of renewable electricity in Europe - is the fact that the price of electricity from all sources is pegged to the most expensive, Gas and Oil.

Unpegging renewable electricity prices from gas and oil would definitely cause some chaos at first, but ultimately would force electricity prices down in-line with the rest of Europe.

Yeah. Why do I get a feeling that the fixee bug was the saving conversations part and not the non-consensual eavesdropping.

Easiest way to not have your glasses recording everything you do is weirdly enough not to have glasses that record everything you do. Weird suggestion I know, but 100% foolproof

Well duh. Who on Earth was going to pay stupid money to buy a car from the most (in)famously overpriced electric car brand just to put an ICE in there??

It'd genuinely be like buying an IPhone just to immediately put Android on it. Like it defies the premise of buying the thing in the first place.

• People who like ICE cars would surely just buy a fancy ICE car for that price.

• People who like electric cars wouldn't be putting an ICE in there in the first place, and would also probably just buy a better electric for that price.

• And the people specifically into Teslas wouldn't want to rip their brand new car apart to install an ICE, because part of the brand of Tesla IS the electrification.