[–] 55 points 6 days ago (1 child)

Shinra Mako reactors have become an actual thing in real life. Sucking all the life out of everything around it to generate computing power for tech billionaires to burn while creating nothing of value.

Negative value if you look at the impending crash.

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  • [–] 50 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    I’m getting worried that the fix might be in in Michigan. I don’t think they can cheat hard enough everywhere to avoid the wave, but they might just hate him enough to risk it in Michigan.

    AIPAC money already turned his primary opponent. The right is terrified of a reasonable voice in the senate from an “other” demographic showing people that Muslims are actually good people who might even care about them more than the white power network that they’ve voted for for decades, which has never actually done anything to help them in their economic struggles.

    Talarico elicits the same fear in Texas from a different angle.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The last remaining bastion of Web 1.0. The forums that had held out got absorbed by Reddit. Its fall seemed to crush all that was left.

    What the Fediverse is building is over infrastructure that can last. It’s the first chance at something permanent.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Are they going to use SamAI as the face of the bailout legislation after the crash? Is he going to stick it out to the end?

    Taxpayer money will be needed to prop up losses on plagiarism machines meme stocked to trillions of dollars with nothing substantive to show for it.

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