Azal

Aren’t most farmers voting for team red?

US here, yes. The Ag industry is heavily Republican and you can tell it by all the handouts they keep getting from them. They're also a bunch of millionaires who cry the second anything goes sideways then comes out better. The mom & pop farms that people think of are almost nonexistent, especially after the last time the republicans convinced them to do a farmers strike decades ago, which lost a lot of small farms to big corporations.

One of the very rare moments of AI being used completely for good.

Steam is a good service compared to the alternatives, but corpos will always be corpos

This. I was telling friends back when Google's motto was "Don't be evil" because the rule is never trust a corporation.

Then again, I grew up around the home of WalMart so I guess I may have been used to shitty tactics with the veneer of "helping the community"

This is kind of my problem here. There's a lot of hobby based communities in Reddit that hasn't made the move and pretty dead over here so it's what keeps dragging me back.

But gah, the new style is completely unreadable to me.

I was at the early end of when programming was being pushed thing. Found a welding degree was an option.

Get a welding degree, welders will never go out. The 08 slump happened, and suddenly I was coming out of school requiring 2 years of work experience to get a job, but couldn't get an entry level job because I was too experienced when the local factory moved to Mexico.

Moral of the story, the industries are not your friend and are happy to fuck you over no matter what you pursue.

In the US I've been saying "Libertarian is a Republican who wants to smoke weed." But seeing as they're not villianizing it much anymore the Libertarians really don't have a talking point left in the country.

Jeez... like even if the AI slop wasn't a big invasive problem, I don't know how anyone thought this was a good idea. Seeing the picture of that pulled pork (or really any of the others) would have made me go "NOPE" if I thought that's what the food looked like.

American here.

DON'T

Remember the stories about how wifi does a good job of telling where people are in the house? They might already be on that way.

Honestly how I've been on the move. Little Rock is the biggest city in Arkansas, and Kansas City is a pretty big upgrade.

Honestly, I'd LOVE this city, if it weren't for the state basically taking it and St. Louis as the places to screw over as much as possible.

Having come from Arkansas moving to Missouri.

Yup.

So I found a honey cheese at Aldi that when you slice it with apple... gah... I want to find that stuff again.