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- Comment on Used EV sales spike alongside gas prices 2 days ago:
The real reason they cite is also quite interesting. Tons of leased vehicles are coming to market.
Analysts attribute the surge to a glut of hundreds of thousands of cheap pre-owned EVs that were purchased on leases in the early 2020s and which are now returning to market as those leases expire. According to credit bureau Experian, EVs will account for 15 percent of all off-lease vehicles at the end of this year, up from 7.7 percent in the first quarter.
- Comment on FEMA official says he teleported to waffle house: "not new ideas for people of faith" 4 days ago:
He was literally heavily medicated.
On Wednesday, Mr. Phillips wrote on Truth Social, President Trump’s social media platform, that the incident took place while he was heavily medicated as part of a cancer treatment. But he also described it as a miracle performed by God.
- Comment on FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious. 4 days ago:
It’s actually even stupider than that. He was literally on prescription drugs.
On Wednesday, Mr. Phillips wrote on Truth Social, President Trump’s social media platform, that the incident took place while he was heavily medicated as part of a cancer treatment. But he also described it as a miracle performed by God.
This is how you know someone is truly stupid. He was literally on drugs and he still fully believes his delusions.
- Comment on The White House App’s Propaganda Is The Least Alarming Thing About It 1 week ago:
Legitimately was going to say the same thing. Who would ever download this garbage?
The narcissism is embarrassing.
- Comment on The Famed 1967 Bigfoot Film Was an 'Incredible Hoax,' Says the Director of a Groundbreaking New Documentary 1 week ago:
This film has been debunked for decades. It’s funny to see how it’s debunked even harder as time goes on.
Of course this won’t stop people from still truly believing it.
- Comment on Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it' 3 weeks ago:
Thank you! I was like “who?”
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 15th 3 weeks ago:
It’s never too late! I don’t even like Skyrim but it’s literally never too late to have more fun with older games.
- Comment on Social Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts 4 weeks ago:
That’s hilarious.
“Every credential that was in Moltbook’s Supabase was unsecured for some time,” Ian Ahl, CTO at Permiso Security, explained to TechCrunch. “For a little bit of time, you could grab any token you wanted and pretend to be another agent on there, because it was all public and available.”
Last month, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth was asked about the AI agent social network in an Instagram Q\&A. He said he didn’t “find it particularly interesting” that the agents talk like us, since they are trained on massive databases of human material. Rather, Bosworth was intrigued by how humans were hacking into the network, which was not a feature but a large-scale error.
It’s telling that Meta is impressed by this kind of bullshit.
- Comment on FAA launches flying taxi pilot program spanning 26 states 4 weeks ago:
What’s funny is, we literally already have helicopters that rich people seem to use to get places.
These flying taxis are the exact same thing.
It’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist, which is why it pretty much never takes off (no pun intended).
- Comment on Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing 4 weeks ago:
Oh for sure, they’re taking big tech’s lead. Tech has been blaming AI for layoffs for a couple years now, when they literally just hired an insane number of people during and after COVID. They literally hired to lay off. This graph illustrates the boom and bust well.
The people in this administration love when tech can get away with something (see the Cambridge Analytica scandal around 2016) because they will too.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Yale’s own article about the study:
https://news.yale.edu/2026/03/03/ais-hidden-bias-chatbots-can-influence-opinions-without-trying
- Comment on The U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team won gold — and then lost the room 5 weeks ago:
Who could root for a national team that features the Tkachuk brothers? They’ve been awful for years. They’re the type of players that ruin hockey.
It’s nice that others are catching up though!
- Comment on Mewgenics: Some of the ‘celeb’ Meowing voice cast seems to be problematic at best 1 month ago:
I was somewhat interested before, but I have zero interest in supporting anything Ethan Klein has been involved in. Yuck.
- Comment on Mexican Cartels Overwhelm Police With Ammunition Made for the U.S. Military 1 month ago:
Also gross!
- Comment on Mexican Cartels Overwhelm Police With Ammunition Made for the U.S. Military 1 month ago:
Oh gross!
- Comment on Mexican Cartels Overwhelm Police With Ammunition Made for the U.S. Military 1 month ago:
Tangentially related, the military has been “losing” ammunition and weapons for a shockingly long time, and in the 80s Fort Bragg (the largest military base) was remarkably easy to rob.
In 1986, investigators for the United States Congress and Department of Defense reported growing concern in the U.S. Armed Forces over missing weapons. Hundreds of millions of dollars in military arms, ammunition, and explosives had disappeared.
A congressional report on Fort Bragg cited a large amount of missing ordnance recovered around the post, including 148 pounds of plastic explosives, 142 pounds of TNT, 1,080 feet of detonating cord, 13 hand grenades, and 35 antipersonnel land mines. Some of the weapons and explosives turned up in private homes.
From Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America.
And that was just at Fort Bragg, in the 80s when post-Vietnam violent white supremacy was taking shape.
The Branch Davidians also had a 50 caliber in 1995. No one knows where they got it.
I have to imagine desperate soldiers might take to selling it instead.
- Comment on Donald Trump just shared an AI video to Truth Social depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys 1 month ago:
This was literally the guy who started his entire political career in earnest by calling in to Fox News and talking about how Obama wasn’t “American” because he’s black. Trump found his political fame because he advocated the “birther” conspiracy.
It’s honestly crazy that anyone could be surprised. He’s been up front about his racism for fifteen years now.