I’m taking a moment to appreciate the accessibility text for people who can’t view images captured as part of the image. It’s like, Acception.

Find who?

Au contraire.

That was a complaint about my battle with this post.

Not me.

I’m constantly complaining about all of my battles. Loudly and ceaselessly.

Did they?

Or do they just want a nice, on the record opportunity to tell everyone relying on those subsidies to go to hell?

It’s a joke, my friend.

The idea being that these amazing, efficient taxis yield more accidents, more cheaply than a human.

But at a FRACTION of the cost!

Agreed. And that’ll be the time I’m up in arms.

So they don’t waste my bandwidth on badly compressed, huge source video that I can’t see the difference on anyway?

Sounds like win/win to me.

This comes up a lot, and I don’t necessarily get it. I have all smart TVs, and I just never, ever, EVER let them connect to wifi even ONCE for any reason. It’s not like it NEEDS it for anything.

This.

The literal ONLY explanation I can think of is that the media kept parroting his bullshit about lowering prices while having absolutely ZERO ideas, and people who couldn’t be bothered to look deeper than the headlines bought it.

10 years ago me thought better of people than that.

2025 me can’t even pretend to be surprised.

The begging is sad too. “I’m special! I’m on your side! I’m one of youuuuuu!”

The beast eats friend and foe alike.

Uh huh… and are there any limits to your CLEARLY superior magnanimity?

Would you pity a Nazi? A member of the KKK? How about a member of ICE?

Because it seems to me right now your position is either “this isn’t big enough of a deal” or “there is NO level of heinous or dangerous ideology that is out of bounds”, and I reject both of those premises.

In-group behavior is a biologically evolved evolutionary survival mechanism, and is only appalling and destructive when when the out-group is an IMAGINED threat or a scapegoat.

When they’re ACTUALLY, OBJECTIVELY a dangerous problem, it’s a legitimate response.

Furthermore, the out-group here CHOOSES to be an out-group. Being a vile, self-serving imbecile is not a “can’t do anything about it”, meaningless biological differentiation. It’s a conscious choice that reflects character.

I do. But I have a Windows work VM.

Three words are all it takes.

“I was wrong.”

I’m not about to sympathize with these idiots now that they’re suffering just to have them screw everything up AGAIN if we’re fortunate enough to somehow claw out of this mess with SOMETHING like a civil society left. We didn’t get burned hard enough by that when these idiots all voted AGAIN for him in 2024? Having learned nothing?

She’s not a pitiable victim - she’s a dormant cancer waiting to ruin us again, and continues to be until she sufficiently convinces me otherwise. I don’t enjoy watching other people suffer, but she’s a threat… one of the millions of tiny knives that are tearing open the bleeding wound of the US. Her suffering doesn’t change that.

Unfortunately, in this insane, messed up world we live in…

Perhaps.

But “dropped the issue”/“not enforcing existing policy” is a far cry from “legal”.

Gets bigger but not any heavier or stronger