MountingSuspicion @ MountingSuspicion @reddthat.com

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Maybe I'm too peace pilled for this, but I really don't get tankies or anyone who simps for any government. Like, I have no personal problem with people from any country, so why can't we all just be chill and not slob on the knob of governments. All governments have done bad stuff. The us had literal slaves. Really wish governments would just come out and say "yo, we messed up a lot, don't take it out on other people though". And then we could all just hug and eat cake or whatever. This is only tangentially related to your comment, but I'm just sick of people doing government posturing for the government so I'm just gonna leave the comment anyway. Hope you have a great day.

I'm legitimately confused. Maybe I'm even stupider than I look, but I really thought that a lot of this was just grifting. It's one thing for Trump to drum up his base by nominating antivax guys, but why are other people so into this? I just don't get the connection and obsession with RFK Jr. It's one thing if bad state actors have blackmail material and are trying to make America responsible for the next pandemic or maybe just kill off Americans in general, but do people with money actually believe this stuff? I swear I really thought they all knew they were lying this whole time.

Wow, you weren't kidding. $4 a can is a bit rich for my blood, but I will take your word that they're good cuz I don’t know how else they can stay in business like that. I buy tea for my family by the gallon and it's less than $4 vs an equivalent $32 worth of cans if I did the math right. It seems like they're only available offline at Nordstrom. Hope you're able to find them locally.

Mind sharing what kind it is? I generally drink hot tea, but my family likes cold tea so I like to keep some on hand. Would be nice to be able to also drink it myself, but it's just so sugary (and I'm from the south, so I know my sweet teas) it's hard to feel refreshed.

Thanks for keeping it positive. Really hope you're right and this is just the start of a total reversal.

I've never heard of or seen that before. Thank you for passing along your white whale lol. Now I need it too. Tbh, all their flavors are pretty good if you haven't tried the others, I'd suggest giving them a shot. My local grocery store (it's very local so not naming it so I don't dox myself) has a very good alternative store brand. I like berry flavors, and their in house brand is just as good as polar if not better. Worth trying your local store brand just in case you get lucky and find a new favorite!

Lmaoo at the thought that they are planning on hiring anyone in their place. They don't want to restaff, they want to destaff. It's what musk did at twitter. Just fire everyone and if things are buggy then who cares.

I don't feel as strongly about la croix, but if I have a choice I'm getting polar water instead. If you're looking for flavored water, it's the best imho.

The special election had 9304 votes, where the 2022 election had 23850. I couldn't easily find the number cast for the general this year, but I'm guessing most of the win can be chalked up to Rs feeling like they didn't need to vote and Ds desperately trying to find ways to change things. Just very low turnout rather than buyers remorse I would guess.

In the handmaids tale show, (spoilers) the main guy whose wife helped him write and institute all the policies ends up cutting one of her fingers off for reading the Bible, since she shouldn't be reading at all. Eventually, they'll see that they were just useful tools, but by then they'll have lost their usefulness and there will be no one left to speak up for them. Honestly, I wish we could just give them a little plot of land to act out their BS, but obviously the children would be harmed in the process and that's not really right.

Look at your nuanced take. I forgot those existed recently lol. I definitely agree that taking it company by company or DLC by DLC makes the most sense. I think I'm partially feeling a little burned by the fact these DLCs seem to have had more care and consideration put into them than some of the official stuff which is just often sooo buggy. Modders have come in and made some unplayable games absolutely magical, and I just worry they are being taken advantage of and us as consumers just don't know, but it might just be me so used to negative gaming news it's hard to take things positively anymore lol. I think the warframe model you described seems pretty good seeing as it was cosmetics and there was community involvement, so glad to see it's been done well in other places too. Thank you for your response!

Honestly, the thing I miss most about reddit is the volume of people that had already been to a post and either downvoted garbage like that or meaningfully added to the discussion to the point where it'd be drowned out already. This person is spreading misinformation. Cori Bush (who incidentally lost to a pro-Israel democrat) and AOC both vocally supported Kamala, so they're just wrong in addition to being pro genocide.

FWIW, that last comment was actually not intended to be sarcastic. I agree with you. The lmao was directed at the idea that next time the electorate will massively shift towards good people with good aims. I didn't wanna not respond, but I didn't have much to add, so I thought I'd top it off by saying I agree with you, but it obviously came across the wrong way. Trust me, would love to see some radical change, but unfortunately I know the direction it's going to actually happen in. Good luck out there. We're all gonna need it.

I similarly don't like when bad people want bad things to happen and then get those bad things happen, so I think we're in agreement. Bad things happening gets a 0/10 in my book. Maybe next time we can have more good people and less bad people involved. Fingers crossed lmao.

That's a lot of words to say "politics bad." I'm not disagreeing, I was just responding to your question/comment. You keep asking questions as if the answer isn't right there. It doesn't matter if it's antithetical to the institution. They don't care about the institution. They care about staying in power. If dismantling democracy is the best way to ensure that, they will do it. You can dislike it, but this seems like a weird time to air your grievance with politics as a whole, seeing as this is an instance of an elected politician taking an action his base wants and that he said he would take.

Would love to see dems do that more tbh.

Well, your initial comment just took issue with the quid pro quo nature of the exchange, and I was just pointing out that it's how politics is done. But just for fun, I'll bite. Generally, these alliances are between parties that have closely aligned values. You see this kind of thing in Europe more than the US just due to the different systems in place, but like most politics it's all about votes. If you're part of a coalition and something will upset a large enough group of your overall base to get you replaced, you don't do it regardless of who wants it. If you're in some crazy situation where you're gonna get replaced regardless because the coalition is 50/50 and 50% will be upset regardless, I can imagine deferring to your party line on the issue makes the most sense since that's your general voter base going forward so you want to keep them happy for next time around in case you can find someone else to coalition with. If Rs want church in schools and libertarians want to get rid of schools, Trump can get rid of schools and say churches now can act as schools no oversight needed. Two birds one stone. Otherwise, if there's no way to accomplish both, he can just do what Rs want because we have a two party system and really what are the libertarians going to do? Move to new Hampshire again? Lol.

I get the sentiment, but that kinda should be how politics is done. If you want people to vote for you, you tell them you'll accomplish their political goals. Plus, their values align with him anyway so it's not a huge stretch they'd vote for him regardless.

I don't know that the original commenter believed the AI legitimately was giving them industry secrets or anything. It came across as more of a joke than anything. Admittedly, almost no AI answer is trustworthy, but in this case it's kinda funny that it's giving an answer that is probably accurate but is probably not "brand safe".

It doesn't "know" anything. It contains complex associations, but it doesn't actually have knowledge. Even if it did, the AI cannot "know the truth" unless it was in the meetings that took place regarding its creation or it was explicitly informed of that by someone that was there. It predicted an answer and that's about the extent of it. For what it's worth, the answer is definitely accurate in this case. What is your question even asking?

If it makes you feel any better(worse), that 1500 people is more like several times more bots/AI powered propaganda pieces that waste precious resources and also do not provide an income to anyone actually working. Just more towards shady companies like CA. You love to see it.