The US subsidizes farms and petroleum.

I have experienced some recent schadenfreude with farmers who no longer have workers to harvest because ICE scared them away.

You’ve made a potential error in underestimating just how horrible some peoples’ lives are and how filled with hatred they are over that fact. This is really what drives so much of politics in the world–disgruntled people with no future who choose to hate others who have nothing to do with it.

I love the quote about how it is putting federal agents in danger…and I sort of think that they are doing that themselves.

The real problem becomes when bad or non scientific advice gets regurgitated to people over and over.

Firefighers/EMTs/Paramedics are the true heroes. That’s a “don’t touch” zone.

Don’t blame it on CA. KKK types have been moving to northern Idaho for decades now. They tried to do a terrorism as a pride march a couple years back and got caught because the police found so many U Haul trucks in the area to be suspicious and checked out a few.

Therapy is just littered with bad therapists, that do more harm than good and give the practice a bad name.

This has long been my experience. Although I believe that great therapists are out there, I have yet to encounter someone who didn’t blame me for the problems and cause me to feel rejected. The last person I went to looked over the intake testing and told me that nobody would want me as a client. No joke. I convinced him to let me stay but nothing happened and I burned out after 3 months or so and stopped going.

Part of me is ok with this in that any avenue to get mental health resources can be better than nothing. What worries me is that people will use ChatGPT for this sort of thing and these models will not be good help.

Often terrible tourists.

This is me. Grad school was about interest not work.

Guess we’ll cut food stamps but tell people who can afford to to get a watch

Your compatibility layers can be 64b, however, and support those 32b games that don’t even run natively on that hardware anyway.

It will turn out that the corporation exists in Nevada due to some sort of tax break years ago.

This is where I am.

lol you just spouted terminology at me

lol first response is a personal insult because someone takes it personally when someone else speaks truth that is disagreement with how they want things to be.

It’s like this:

You: “Apples are better for you than oranges”

An orange lover: “How dare you insult me”

People who argue both sides do not have a genuine opinion, they are just parroting what others have said.

This is something important that a lot of people don’t understand. Trump genuinely represents roughly 50% of the US public; they all want to be him.

That thread was a mess but exactly what is expected from the sort of people enabled by spez.