That sort of implies they have been dethroned in some way, but the opposite seems to be true. They are eating OpenAI’s lunch. Claude is widely considered the best development AI, and they just passed OpenAI in business customers.

That said, they do post the most ridiculous blogs at times. Actually, I have yet to see a blog post by them that wasn’t complete bullshit, but that’s probably just selection bias. I assume they have some employees who aren’t complete morons.

I used Brave for a bit after it came out. All the built-in crypto bullshit wasn’t anything I ever touched. I can’t remember if I quit some time before Chrome announced the manifest-v3, or if that made me swear off all Chromium browsers for good.

Anyway, also apparently the creators are huge assholes, so there is that, but as I never had any intent to support them financially I just thought I’d use a privacy-focused browser. Meh. Firefox has all the plugins a person could ever want.

I mean, use whatever browser you like. Lemmy is cool and basically right about a lot of things, but fuck the zeitgeist and make up your own mind about shit. I went a different way, but forge your own path.

I was around during the era of the bombings. I wasn’t personally affected or anything, but it was kinda scary to be a kid and think you might open the mail and die. If you were around for the D.C. Sniper, it was kinda like that except A LOT slower.

This guy and Luigi are nothing alike. I like Luigi. I saw him in a pizza shop in Lubbock the day that CEO was killed.

Don’t celebrate that asshole just because a stopped clock happened to be right for one moment

Sometimes when justice fails the people, one must appeal to Madame la Guillotine. She accepts no bribe, pardon, nor appeal.

All the low-attention voters who became MAGA for the spectacle of Trump are being indoctrinated by the religious right. Trump has done and is doing generational damage to our nation.

I, too, installed the speed drain.

I’m not saying this is or isn’t so, but I will say that from 10,000 feet you can’t tell the difference.

This is the problem. “Maybe we should have some kind of reasonable access restrictions” -> “Take away all the guns!”

Just asking the question is interpreted as supporting draconian gun control. Or, worse, any gun control is seen as draconian.

I’m fine with right to gun ownership for most people, but put some limits around mental health and violent history. There are people who own guns for lots of legitimate reasons from hunting to self defense to fun. It’s all good when those people are stable.

And I agree many of the proposals do little to attempt actual solutions.

Is “pro-hunting” in this case “let’s ignore the epidemic of guns in schools” or is it “responsible use of guns is fine, but I will fight to stop the murder of children”?

Because there is a world of difference to me, and “pro-hunting” says fuck-all.

I think they are most likely to be forcibly adopting them out to “good, Christian homes.”

By my math, none of them are going to look pretty up on that stage. They should just hire a pair of attractive black men to lip sync it all over again. Just like Milli Vanilli was back in the day.

Not remotely. I think it couldn’t be more on brand. I think someone offered up Milli Vanilli Total Landscaping. They were spot on.

Well I’m sure as fuck not going to feel morally obligated to provide the wealthy even more profit in either case, so that’s actually moot. But if we’re going to worry about the plight of the common man, let’s go about it the right way.

So instead of inviting the people who actually made the songs, this implies that they invited half of the duo who didn’t make them almost 40 years ago?

The reason hotel maids and bartenders will be hurt is because the CEO’s made leveraged bets and are losing their asses. That’s not the fault of consumers who choose not to spend, that’s the fault of the wealthy.

Or let me put it another way: I don’t owe those workers to make their boss rich so he pisses a little of that wealth onto them. I would much rather provide a social safety net to help them out when their boss loses money being a prick.

Having stared at my wife’s vag as she gave birth, you don’t want to see that. It’s amazing watching your child be born, but there is… it’s not a vagina as you know it. If I wasn’t able to compartmentalize and I saw that image in my head every time I had sex with my wife, I’d probably never have sex again.

If someone offered to show me a video of my birth… I’d probably pass. The creature emerging from that portal to hell has no relation to what any is us became. Also, “I landed on a little poo,” isn’t something any of us wants to know.

Somewhere out there are fetishists claiming the exception to the rule but… I’d think twice.

All I can attest to is in Virginia, yes, in Michigan, no.

I have a feeling there’s a fine line between not hard enough and everyone spending $2k per month on tokens.