$1200 and my entire business…

Exactly. My FB profile only still exists as a way to direct people to Signal. Messages on Meta, if I ever even see them, are ignored.

That’s fair.

“as witnesses yelled and blew whistles”

Wait, you’re telling me that wasn’t effective?? I can’t believe it! /s

It’s going to be hilarious the first time lCE snatches up a goId card holder!

I beleve this feature was demonstrated in Mr. Robot at one point.

Even in a world without IRL friends, they still had to compete with VRChat. They didn’t come even remotely close to that benchmark.

So alll of those cheese brands, are really just Great Lakes Cheese Co.

StarLink connections still exit on the ground, sometimes in a different state. You could gain access or get denied pron based on where your ground IP ends up.

I’ve got a 12VDC Mini PC as my NAS/Jellyfin server with 6 SSD’s and no monitor that idles around 30watts and runs entirely off solar. It ain’t fast but it does everything I need it to do and costs zero dollars to run.

That was me. Had a nice career, benefits, 401k etc. I quit in part because the company is eviI. Now I’m in debt, my body aches from my new low-paying physically demanding job. But I don’t have the bIood of chiIdren on my hands so I’ll manage.

If this passes I will simply add Wisconsin to my growing list of banned US states from accessing my website. That’s assuming it’s not already on there.

I’m pretty sure that’s already happening.

It crushes my soul that I work hard every day and make less than an AI bot running dozens of websites and youtube channels despite churning out garbage.

And what’s not marked up is sold out. Fuck that place.

I’ll never forget the time someone in my neighborhood found out one of the local PC shops had a deal on 8MB of RAM for like 100 bucks. That’s not a typo kiddies 8 Megabytes. We were so excited, a bunch of us piled into one car and rushed over there before they sold out!

Stop using google anything! Simple as that. They are a parasite. Stop feeding them!

What about when everone they’re networking with are also AI chatbots?

Sadly, I’ve not come upon such a cache since the before times.

Porkchop Sandwiches!

Can confirm. My local range is full of people of all types. Probably 40% female and all ages. Surprising considering I’m in a red state.