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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Only male or female shipping allowed.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

screenshot_of_stupid_fuck_babbling_about_bullshit.torrent

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago

Only when you pirate over $1 trillion in a calendar year, so we're fine. Facebook, maybe not so much...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Whose writing this shit for him?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AI.

This is just a list of "but I'm not winning so it's not fairrrrrrrrrr" whining (whinging?)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I feel like if AI would’ve written this, it would make more sense. This reads more like a fever dream.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"old man tries to conceptualize modern reality"

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just off the top of my head:

  1. Pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates and other actions to reduce the US dollar's value
  2. Massive payouts to agribusiness, especially maize and sugar producers.
  3. Try bringing in some fruit or a salami into the US. I dare you.
  4. OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world's entire content.

Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

(2) The US has sales tax which is VAT in a trenchcoat.

(3) The US dumps its corn below cost and saturates foreign markets due to massive corn subsidies.

(6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.

(8) US companies have transshipped Chinese goods ever since Trump’s 2018 trade war

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

(6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.

Not the best example since they're trying to reverse all of these environmental protections.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world's entire content.

Rules for thee, not for me!

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“You are required to let me fuck you over! You are not allowed to resist it or find alternative means!” 🖕

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