If a Democrat said what Mike Johnson was saying, the party would kick that person out for being unelectable.

Democrats don’t want anyone interested in impeachment. They want serious, moderate, business friendly, popular politicians like Henry Cuellar and Robert Menendez.

I see folks complaining about “Tankies” on this site a dozen times a day and twice that on Sundays.

Antifa, Radical Islam, Russian Bots, Chinese Wumao, ISIS, Tren de Aragua, Weather Underground… take your pick. They’re all corrupting the minds of our youth with quotes of people and videos of events perpetrated by people running our federal governments.

Anyone that tricks a Westerner into refusing to support our national or state governments is an extremist radical contributing to the decay and destruction of our hallowed institutions. We have to find them, silence them, punish them, and remove them at all costs. Otherwise the Evil Foreigners will win.

Do you want to wake up speaking North Korean? Then get with the program and join ICE, so we can stop these ultra-radical freedom-hating anarcho-communists.

you did nothing

Bitch, I haven’t killed a single bee since this conversation started. Stop blaming me for the dead bees. I’ve gone out of my way to be nice to bees.

I mean, aren’t basically all of his songs parodies?

He started out heavy into the parodies, but every album has some originals and they’re often the best of his work. Dare To Be Stupid, Stuck in a Closet With Vanna White, and Virus Alert all slap. Used to have Albuquerque on a mixed tape I listened to for road trips, and I almost sort got the whole song memorized.

OG Kid Rock songs were “Damn, its cool to be a rock star. I love drinking and fucking and singing and having fun. Yehaw.”

Modern Kid Rock songs are “Damn, I’m making the laughing-crying emoji face right now, because I can’t stop winning but I’m still miserable. Jesus Jesus Jesus.”

Dude is the textbook case for why more successful artists keep politics out of their music.

You seem confused

You know the highest selling car brand in the UK is the Volkswagen? Literally buying more HitlerCars than your own in-house brands by a good 30% over the next leading car company (which is, in fairness, BMW).

I think the issue is with how many hoops you want to jump through in order to fix BMWs, specifically.

If I’m running an auto-repair shop and I already need specialty kits and tools for more common vehicles, why am I going to invest in one for a far more niche brand? And if the number of non-dealership repair centers for BMWs dry up, the pool of people skilled in repair go with it.

It’s a death spiral for the brand as a whole, in pursuit of marginal increase in dealership based repairs.

A Veblen good is a type of luxury good for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve.

CEOs are probably hedging on LLMs adapting faster to scammers then video versa

Racing towards the Singularity, a thing that is definitely real and exists and is achievable in our lifetimes.

We are reaching a convergence of accuracy, and once a critical mass of investors realize it, this whole thing implodes.

Industrial dinosaurs have a way of sticking around in strict defiance of market forces. The O&G industry is a great example. They’ve been able to outrun more efficient and cost-effective methods of production and application of energy for decades, in large part thanks to lobbyist-lead state investments in long-term infrastructure and buying out / shutting down of competitors.

I do think the AI boom is facing bigger headwinds than the automotive or airline industries, in large part due to their bloated balance sheets and highly speculative asset prices. But in the same way the big 2008-era investment banks were saved by a multi-trillion dollar bailout from the Fed and the Treasury, I have no doubt Silicon Valley is simply Too Big To Fail in the long run.

Excited for the next edition of liberal pogroms against people using the wrong kind of social media.

How’d that work out for your boy Biden, again?

But income isn’t useful if you can’t buy stuff with it. And Amazon is the supply chain network that delivers stuff in exchange for money.

Nationalized and folded into the USPS. Idk about shutting down the biggest commercial retailer in the world.

Westerners would rather drown in capitalist propaganda than listen to anything a diabolical Chinese national might have to say.

American unironically screaming “You voted for this!” at a children’s mass grave.

They’ve invested extensively in automating their supply chain to the point that humans aren’t looking inside these boxes anymore. And as customer support is increasingly replaced with AI, the ability to flag and report businesses for fraud has erodes even as the businesses themselves have grown more sophisticated in duping Amazon anti-fraud systems.

The quest to remove every actual thinking human from the inside of your business results in humans outside of your business exploiting the blind spots to the hilt.

Amazon Let Its Drivers’ Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink

Drivers urinating in bottles has been reported in the past, but what wasn’t known is that some claim they also get penalized for having those urine-filled bottles in their truck when they return to the warehouse.

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To avoid penalties, they end up discarding the bottles by the side of the road. Butler searches the roadsides near Amazon warehouses from Coventry to New York to Los Angeles and more often than not strikes liquid gold.

From there, it’s laughably straightforward for Butler to get Release listed for sale on Amazon, with very few checks and balances in place to ensure the product he’s selling is safe and legal. “Releasing the drink was surprisingly easy,” Butler told WIRED. “I thought that the food and drinks licensing would stop me from listing it, so I started it out in this Refillable Pump Dispenser category. Then the algorithm moved it into drinks.”

That’s cool while it lasts. I don’t have a ton of faith in a project that’s just one guy’s personal crusade to create a non-shit browser, though.

I think it says something that they’re backpedaling at all. This isn’t just “bad press”, its a real market for people who want products that are “AI Free”. And since Firefox is the other-other browser, its a market they’re feeling obligated to fill.

I mean, ask a torture victim if suffering is a choice. You’ll get a different response