What’s the old metrics?
Private industry costs three bucks to do what public does for one.
The Department of Defense War hasn’t passed an audit for 8 years straight, high percentage of contract deliverables being immediately retired, resold domestically, or outright never delivered.
Of course they’re going to stuff their pockets as much as possible. It’s the only thing they’re actually able to do, and barely competently at that.
Modern internet for you.
It may be far from perfect, but it’s why I have such a soft spot for alternative to modern social media. If I’m going to put my through a slog of keeping these sorts of official social media accounts ip and running, I might as well make it a nicer experience.
Best part: the better names in the alt os and device scenes don’t sell in us markets.
Unless you do the legwork of flashing your own device, most of us are out of luck.
I just love a good market stranglehold.
Very true, but a happy commodity.
Eh.
Whats the harm in a little nuclear war here and there?
Maybe a small nuclear winter will offset all this global warming hullabaloo, keep things balanced.
Of course he goes the “Small loan of a million dollars” route just at international politics scale.
Not like that 20 billion could help anyone else or anything right?
Wonder if they offered him his own private island as collateral.
Okay I mayyyy be glossing over the occasional pee stains, bad scheduling, overly expensive tickets, and occasional fella high out of his gourd taking the occasional break from his hazed trance to scream at me because I’m secretly the devil.
Just the colors of life I say.
I could give you some indepth economic analysis, and behavior philosophy behind business spending, but the easiest?
Just unionize. Now. Volunteer time to talk outside work hours. Speak to local professionals like accountants and lawyers to help pro-bono with getting setup.
Talk to political offices locally, run if you can.
Talk about these issues with strangers. Print out your own corny pamphlet newspaper to educate someone willing to read.
In a car I am in constant conflict, constant in risk.
In a plane I am but a commodity, worth only my payment.
In a bus we are a union, to endure together, and one another.
In a train we are a tribe, fortified in goals, interests, as philosophers of old.
To a good point yea, it’s experience based, it’s why the top schools are already exposing the topic of disinformation and media literacy to younger generations. Trust but verify is an excellent mantra, take time to properly think through and challenge new information you encounter, keep a change of pace to stay mentally fresh, destressing yourself when possible all work together to keep a healthy learning mindset.
It’s essentially a holistic approach to learning and processing.
Unfortunately, geopolitical interests, personal ideology, and everything in-between will make true online objectivity nearly impossible, so learning to best navigate it is pretty much the only approach for now. Besides keeping offline as much as possible.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-to-combat-fake-news-and-disinformation/
https://www.un.org/en/countering-disinformation
Easy points to start with. Generally, keeping a neutral view on something new, and striving to maintain a trust but verify attitude is your absolute best bet. The more you understand global politics, especially current agendas of various nations, political groups, etc. can help to discern one bias or another. In general, giving yourself room and time to properly process any information you encounter, and especially destress yourself, makes a huge difference.
I once had a conversation about economics with a different person. Just something clicked in some other guy and sent them down a spiral.
Nope, language models by inherent nature, xannot be used to calculate. Sure theoretically you could have input parsed, with proper training, to find specific variables, input those to a database and have that data mathematically transformed back into language data.
No LLMs do actual math, they only produce the most likely output to a given input based on trained data. If I input: What is 1 plus 1?
Then given the model, most likely has trained repetition on an answer to follow that being 1 + 1 = 2, that will be the output. If it was trained on data that was 1 + 1 = 5, then that would be the output.
Pick pretty much any forum.
Ah. So business as usual then I take it.
Mostly it boils down to taking it slow and, depending on the medium, learning how to tell key signs.
Easiest is keeping to trusted scientific journals and news sources. Longer form media requires more study to determine genuine vs AI authorship and of course bias.
Short form media is often harder, but having a good idea about major regional goals, like certain countries for example that may be using botting to create movement towards a certain topic or belief, can help you to see potential biases.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-to-combat-fake-news-and-disinformation/
https://unsdg.un.org/latest/stories/climate-summit-2025-scaling-10-solutions-can-still-deliver
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165897
Highly recommend keeping up with climate.us, they’re good folks.
Have you had much of a background in the sciences? Interested in learning more about disinformation?
I actually help train for combating disinformation and the such, I could forward you a few docs if you’re interested in the read.
Use your words bro just talk.
Oh the ag. collapse could be, at the very least, interesting.
Bad enough that the lions share of the industry will need major handouts, or more likely that farm after farm will be bought out for land-lease to former owners, and then given handouts to offset purchase price. But, the midwest corporate cash crop farms have been fighting tooth and nail against soil conservation methods just to squeeze a few extra bucks out.
I so hope we don’t end up getting into another dust bowl.
I’d highly recommend folks look at keeping up a community garden or two if possible, or helping out at one if not.