According to my quick search, you completely fabricated that. And I’m a gun nut, you would think I would have heard that somewhere.

How did they get away with that? One would assume a contract was in force. Was there an ,“no fash CEO” clause? Kind of an important item the story doesn’t bother to cover.

None of the explanations matter now, too late. “White genocide” is now a thing in SA. The term is in people’s heads. Mission accomplished.

I doubt a person could drink bleach without instantly retching.

Bingo! I doubled the amount of business I was doing with my side-hustle PC repair by doubling my price. Also, my customers weren’t such a pain in the ass.

So many use cases! I’m giving an old NUC to a kid at work who’s learning Linux. Jesus, the kid bought a copy of Linux from “the best/most-famous hacker in the world!”. We had a come-to-Jesus talk about that horseshit.

No lie. We play this game every 7 years or so. I was training on a Win10 machine at work yesterday. Think they’re updating that? Nah. Hell, it probably could take an 11 upgrade and they haven’t bothered. Why? It’s a locked down machine. And if IT don’t care, home users certainly won’t.

^ Me. EVERY time. “OK. OK. Just got to the bathroom, grab a beer, give it a minute…”

F5, F5, F5, thank god.

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Who you callin’ an aglet, pal?

If they’re the sort of users who find such hoops restrictive, do you really want them installing shit willy-nilly?

Saw a set of brass wrenches at work back in the day. Had no idea that was a thing.

I’m actually that kinda guy. It would never occur to me that chainsawing the head of a whale corpse I found on the beach would be a no-no. It’s already dead! Not like I killed it. I’m also dumb enough to keep bird feathers I find. Yeah. That could be a problem given the wrong cop.

“SWEET! Giant skull! I’m hanging that shit at camp! (After the ants do their thing.)”

I really do hang skulls I find on the shed door. Got a deer, a small mammal with pointy canines, a box turtle and pieces of something the raptors left (rabbit?). One time the local dogs dropped a deer skull on my tent. Coughed loudly and scared hell out of 'em.

So did Martin Shkreli. (LOL, I Googled “guy who raised drug prices”. First hit from Gemini. Maybe AI ain’t so dumb?)

Shkreli not only bragged about it but had the nerve to be an insufferable little bitch while he was at it. With a punchable face. At least Holmes is cute.

Steal from the poor all ya like, never the rich. Reverse Robin Hood: A-OK.

ChatGPT:

You’re absolutely right to be concerned — this is a real and growing problem. We’re not just dealing with misinformation anymore; we’re dealing with the weaponization of information systems themselves. Bad actors leveraging AI to flood conversations with plausible-sounding nonsense don’t just muddy the waters — they actively erode public trust in expertise, evidence, and even the concept of shared reality.

The Trump-era hostility to science and the manipulation or deletion of research data was a wake-up call. Combine that with AI tools capable of producing endless streams of polished but deceptive content, and you’ve got a serious threat to how people form beliefs.

It’s not just about arguing with trolls — it’s about the long-term impact on institutions, education, and civic discourse. If knowledge can be drowned in noise, or replaced with convincing lies, then we’re facing an epistemic crisis. The solution has to be multi-pronged: better media literacy, transparency in how AI systems are trained and used, stronger platforms with actual accountability, and a reassertion of the value of human expertise and peer review.

This isn’t fear-mongering. It’s a call to action — because if we care about truth, we can’t afford to ignore the systems being built to undermine it.

NOW you’re getting it.

The US, and now MAGA, have historically been willing to play with a great many loaded guns. And we’ve shot ourselves in the foot a great many times. Dead soldiers? Meh. But fucking with our food supply has always been off the table.

Not to get all lemmy/capitalist/communist/revolution/comrade on ya, but as long as we’re fat and happy, no violence. The government is not stupid, not at that level anyway. Look how the government laid in food during the Cold War, converted us to a food exporter, fucked with Russia’s wheat exports. The powers that be are keenly aware that the population is a very short 3-days away from total breakdown. 2 weeks without food and the guns come out.

How many people voted Trump because egg prices were too high? Serious question. How many ignorant voters thought, “This is some boolshit! This is the President’s fault and I want change!”

Now imagine us fat Americans skipping a single meal. FFS, we rioted over a toilet paper shortage, and made it worse by rioting. Merely inconveniencing an armed population who has always had access to cheap and easy food? The mind boggles. Wait till we see empty consumer goods shelves in the next couple of months. Imagine if that was food.

EDIT: Too tired to get my thoughts in order. You get my drift. Goodnight John Boy.

Hits hard! But the people that need to digest it wouldn’t get the reference.

I think, perhaps, there is room in between those bullet points. Perhaps a few more nuanced options?

The survey did not go into details on the criteria used

I’m out. This “news” is utter trash. Shame on anyone who upvoted this out of “feels”. Some of you are no better than MAGA, popularizing garbage because it fits your view. Fucking be better.