On the real, I’ve heard the used CD market is making a massive comeback. There’s something to be said about physical media in the age of internet becoming more and more scary.

If you see risk being very high, make low risk investments: high yield savings accounts, CDs, bonds.

So then you’d concede Ukraine is not democratic since they can’t vote out Zelenskyy, right?

The point here being - democracy isn’t just “the presence of multiple political parties”.

Non sequitur that has absolutely nothing to do with the validity of the graph.

So then why in the same study do we see abysmal ratings for other authoritian dictatorships? Iraq, Kazakhstan, Cameroon, Russia, etc… If your point is that civilians in authoritarian regimes are coerced to show support in these types of polls, the results prove that notion wrong.

Why not?

What’s your point?

So then why did Russians in the same study claim abysmal democracy? Aren’t they afraid of the KGB?

oppressive authoritarianism

Shout-out to whoever commandeered 333 of the FBI’s exit nodes.

Yup. It’s a scary time. You take some LinkedIn data, some Walmart shopping habits, a Spotify user catalog, a Google timeline, combined with Flock footage - mix it all together with “AI” - and suddenly you’ve got an extremely detailed profile of any individual you want. And we’re only in the early stages. That is, spying, prediction, eavesdropping… The only logical conclusion to the surveillance apparatus is an evolution towards an apparatus for control. And it will be the most sinister, subtle, and undetectable type of coercion imaginable.

I just want to grill for gods sake.

Lmao I just watched the trailer for Monkey Shines. Rest in peace George, you legend.

Wat… The lone seeder is elevated to mythical status in torrent culture. People take great lengths to preserve old content - whether that’s by seedboxing, ripping physical content, or even the more backend stuff like trackers who have entire systems devoted to “reseed requests”.

If pointless noise on forums is one of the biggest downsides of LLMs, isn’t your whole spamming thorn game self defeating?

No reason you can’t use LLMs to write deterministic scripts. Handing off every task to an agent is a crapshoot, but they do help with some tasks. At the minimum - writing regression tests.

The good part was the freedom

Except for the slaves, which as you know, are explicitly allowed in the constitution.

1-Million-Mile (1.8-million-kilometer) batteries

After 2 million kilometers (1.25 million miles), CATL’s EV batteries retained about 400 km (250 mi) of range. Competitor cells, on the other hand, retained considerably less, at around 350 km (218 mi) and less.

The data is based on 12 electric vehicles, 100 sample batteries, and real-world applications across four major cities in China. You can see in the chart from Morgan Stanley Research that Models 11 and 12, which use CATL batteries, exhibit considerably slower degradation than the other suppliers.

https://electrek.co/2026/01/06/catl-ev-batteries-significantly-outperform-rivals-degradation/

What leads you to believe that CATL has been unsuccessful at achieving a 1 million mile battery?

“If it only exists on your laptop, it doesn’t exist”

People often forget that ICE vehicles suffer from range reduction from the cold as well: ICE vehicles are up to 20% less efficient in the cold.

So are SIM cards.