I think any real user from Reddit that isn’t a bot is an asset these days. I hate Reddit as much as the next person, but giving people shit for coming from there to here feels hypocritical.

Hopelessness is the real plague of the 21st century. In large part for everyone it’s climate change. We realize that the planet is becoming increasingly uninhabitable, yet we are powerless to stop it, because billionaires profit from keeping it going.

Plagues kill millions; the price of fucking everything goes up overnight and stays up forever; and the daily news of potential WW3 tend to add up. The future looks bleak.

But at the same time, the one power we do have to effect change is to vote. Show up and vote and have your voice heard. Are you okay with letting hopelessness give in to fascism or do you want to try to make things better and keep the door open for elections to continue to be meaningful in the future?

This is the exception to the no preordering games rule. Supporting a co-op.

I heard Walz high-fived his wife and friends BEFORE he praised his opponent for a well-played game. The man is a public menace.

Monied interests are all supporting Trump, MAGA, and the Christian fascist/nationalist movement.

He held a meeting with oil company executives and promised to kill climate change initiatives for campaign contributions. Nakedly. Openly.

Trump and Thiel’s stooge, Elon, is literally paying people to register to vote and getting away with it.

Even the media sanewashes Trump’s insanity while they pounced on Biden for any slip of the tongue. It’s because they’re owned by billionaires.

“Big number goes up at all costs” is their true religion, and they’ll destroy democracy to worship it.

Republicans have oversaturated the market for hate.

“I don’t care what the patient said before he went under. They say all kinds of loopy things. The chart clearly says to amputate the right leg. Hand me the bone saw.”

The release of this next model comes at a crucial time for OpenAI, which just closed a historic $6.6 billion funding round that requires the company to restructure itself as a for-profit entity. The company is also experiencing significant staff turnover: CTO Mira Murati just announced her departure along with Bob McGrew, the company’s chief research officer, and Barret Zoph, VP of post training.

All the problems with “AI” are suddenly solved now that Altman needs to justify his funding. I’m sure senior executives are jumping ship right on the cusp of their great triumph, because they want to spend more time with their families.

Incompetent Managers’ Fire Sale: Space Edition

Henry Ford was awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle in 1938 for his many, many contributions to the Reich.

Can you imagine how weird the porn on JD Vance’s phone is? I almost feel sorry for the hackers.

There needs to be a reckoning after this election. The people making threats to election workers and officials just doing their jobs need to be investigated and prosecuted. These are domestic terrorists and should be treated as such.

Cast Sebastian Stan for a post-ROTJ Luke movie. And get John Favreau and his people to write it.

stopping in the middle of the road without indicating, while: looking for your destination, or having a conversation, or deciding what day it is

That’s my new pet peeve. The thing is I don’t remember seeing people do this in the past and certainly not frequently, but now I see it all the time. Mind-boggling selfishness. I think Covid rotted everyone’s brains way more than we realize.

I’m not sure you really need an interpreter to say “march forward” and “get killed.” Seems like a simple enough message. You could probably use hand signals.

Wait until you find out who helped him buy Twitter.

No wonder Trump killed the bipartisan immigration reform bill. I didn’t realize the anti-immigrant sentiment had gotten to this level in so much of the population. It’s frankly horrifying.

GreedFall. Old school RPG that flew completely under my radar. It has a 00s Bioware feel to it, before the dark times. The graphics aren’t perfect, etc., but it’s a really fun game with a decent story (so far).

The corporate media wants Trump back in the White House. They can’t actually say that, but they do. The “journalists” want to go back to ragebait headlines from the president 3-4 times a day, and the oligarchs that own them want tax cuts and deregulation.

Biden’s every slip up was a sign of dementia and catastrophic, while they sanewash and maybe “have concerns” about Trump’s obvious decline. Treating Trump’s antics seriously and allowing him to control the news cycle was at the top of every list of mistakes made in 2016. They’re doing it this time on purpose.

“But in the morning I will be sober, and you will still be ugly.”