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?

Check his avatar and that pic. Money says tough guy here couldn’t hang with my old ass outside at Lowe’s for a single shift. He’d stroke out if I strapped 20lbs. to his back, handed him a rifle and marched him down to the creek with me. LOL, he ain’t gonna cowboy nothing.

And what in the AI is that cowboy supposed to be doing? Running, uh, fence? Creating a lasso out of, uh, ropey stuff?

Good Housekeeping had a small panty ad in the back where you could catch a hint of bush. I beat my meat like it owed me money.

At Lowe’s, Craftsman is bottom of the barrel for power tools we sell.

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.

Oh FFS, don’t be silly. They’re fucking us exactly because it does make sense on paper. They don’t have these cruel, fascist notions. They simply don’t care as long as Excel tells them they’re coming out ahead.

Meh. Lemmy hates me when I point this out, but executive compensation is a drop in the bucket vs. gross or even profit. It’s just not a big deal, but they make a fine target to shoot at. Easy to see and focus on.

Did the math on American Airlines a couple of years ago. If their CEO took a $0 salary, every single employee could get a $.19/hr. raise. (It was worse than that, but I forget, don’t want to exaggerate. Think it worked out to <$250/yr. bonus, if that. Chicken change.)

They’re fucking us by death of a thousand cuts, but CEO pay isn’t it.

Yeah, some employers are stupid like that, but any with the brains of a hamster can see that a revolving door is costly.

Unemployment insurance for example. I can only speak to Florida, but for each new hire the company has to pay in $7,500 (this is old data, haven’t been in the payroll game for 6-years). Once that’s covered for the year, GTG. Replace that employee? Clock starts again.

Again on unemployment, if a company is getting hit with tons of unemployment claims, their rate goes up. And no, the company is not directly paying your claim anymore than they directly pay for a worker’s comp injury. The insurance pays it and their rates go up accordingly.

Anyway, I guess shit employers have figured in these costs and find that shit wages benefit them. On paper. Back to worker’s comp; Isn’t it better to retain experienced employees that know how to work safely?! We can all come up with 1,000 other examples of experienced employee’s labor being worth far more than the new guy’s work.

Every company I’ve known or worked at that paid fair wages was rock and roll in their industry. LOL, you should hear me go off about Quik Trip. Imagine making a career out of a gas station job. People do and those people make bank.

I work at Lowe’s and am stunned at what people buy there. In the garden area, why would you count on Lowe’s to have sod?! Go to a fucking sod place if you want more than a few pieces. People pay stunning amounts of money for bags of various rocks when they can go down the road and pay 1/4 that at, guess what, the fucking rock place.

We’re a big box store for FFS. We’re not the best or cheapest at anything, we just carry it all.

This still has me giggling after 3 months.

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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.

I got this pic of you in my head and giggled.

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.

They take the “business” tack because you can more easily put a value to it, they can show loss. Future pain and suffering and broad “human rights” arguments are more nebulous to a court of law ruling on a specific complaint. And courts only rule on the specifics of a case. “How is this action hurting you ATM or in the near future?” And prove it, with numbers and stuff.

Does that make sense? Courts are not interested in feelings or possible futures. The plaintiffs made a solid argument with, “This is hurting our business now, and by denying us planning, clearly hurts us in the short-term.” And no one is going to argue that farming isn’t a business with a short-term planning needs.

Pretty funny that farmers, insurance companies and the military recognize climate change as an immediate and future issue. Must be woke. MAGA!