Literally Palantir’s fucking business model.

The harder they gerrymander, the thinner their margins get in the ‘winning’ districts…

$50M in cash you can spend right away.

Maybe the bank won’t be too curious, but the IRS will definitely notice.

They defined their political views on an issue by issue basis. The problem with picking a team is picking that identity and letting the party dictate what you should think. Being a proper independent takes more work. You have to read into each candidate not just pick a letter.

Okay, sure… But if you ever end up picking the Republican candidate, then you’re definitely not ‘progressive’.

Some of them certainly are … maybe even a rather high percentage.

But you really can’t generalize ‘independents’. They’re by definition a whole basket of different types of people who for any of many reasons don’t want to be associated with any established party. And not being associated with established parties is the only thing they really have in common.

Sounds quite familiar…

I wonder if we’ll be seeing Mr President Beast in a decade or two…

They’ll get around to it someday. When they’re running low on content to milk more money out of.

Wait, I just randomly had the perfect idea for your situation!

Line the inside of your plastic pots with aluminum foil!

Aluminum foil is relatively affordable and easy to get, and it will provide a long-lasting, food safe, and completely impermeable barrier between the plastic and the plant inside. If possible (given the size of your pots), you’d want to apply it all in one piece, but if the pots are too big for one continuous piece of aluminum foil to cover, you can join two or more sheets of aluminum foil by folding the edges together tightly.

Imagine paying for TV that has tons of ads in it.

During a brief period when Youtube’s anti-adblocker tech was one step ahead of my adblockers, I had to watch 20 seconds of an ad before I could skip it. And that alone was filling me with a dangerous amount of rage. (The only thing it made me want to buy was lots of explosives.) I really don’t understand how people tolerate watching normie TV where a solid 1/3 of the airtime is dedicated to obnoxious ads.

And that’s one of several reasons Las Vegas is dying.

Kind of a missed opportunity that those medals were never seen again in the entire rest of the series.

Not a furry per se (yet maybe)

Your Pathowogen infection has already progressed to Stage 3. I’m afraid it’s terminal.

Sweaty anonymous orgies with random people in fur suits

This is approximately 0.1% of the furry fandom, though. The vast majority of furries do not do that.

Have fun spotting them during your next trip to the grocery store.

See how many corporate fursonas you can find.

Maybe astroturfing some political support?

But you don’t need to post anything to scrape AI training data.

When you join the ranks of internet/technology master, you get sorted into one of 5 houses:

1. Furry (Seems the most normal of the bunch … until you get to know them well enough for them to unmask and reveal their true self. Has some very niche fetishes you’ve never heard of.)

2. Weeb (Kind of like a furry in some ways (just with anime waifus instead of anthropomorphic animals), but likely less kind and accepting and more likely to be right-wing and some flavor of bigot. 60% probability of having a highly encrypted folder on their computer that would get them in big trouble if the FBI found it.)

3. Incel Creep (Your sterotypical neckbeard. Big into UFC and posting creepy things in the comment sections of xvideos (they’re already banned from PornHub for this). Doesn’t wash his ass because “that’s gay”.)

4. LinkedIn Lunatic (techbro billionaire worshipper, obsesed with conspicuous consumption, income, and career growth; likely also an incel if they’re not wealthy, will have a trophy tradwife if they are wealthy.)

5. Tin Foil (Has spent more time and energy on computer security than what’s actually being secured. Endless conspiracy theories about shadowy government agencies … some of which are probably true. Has a dead man’s switch set to incinerate his house and everything inside if he goes more than 5 days without disabling it. Owns a small plot of land way out in the desert in Nevada, purchased through a series of shell corporations, which he tells absolutely nobody about, not even his own family.)

Yeah, you can do that … or some good old fashioned corporate espionage.

Or, hell, just ask ChatGPT for its weights model. With how shitty these AI companies are at security and guardrails, that might just work.

utorrent is terrible. It works, sure, but why would you tolerate a torrent app that has fucking ads in it?

qbittorrent does all the same things, and is open source with no ads.