SalamenceFury

You did not watch any of the movies if that’s your takeway. Iron Man 1 has Tony stop selling weapons, investing all of his money into clean energy, solving every war in the Middle East, and he kills a rich corrupt CEO.

How so? This probably doesn’t apply to me, because I do not live in a country where carpet is used at all (even in the coldest regions), but I’d like to learn why out of curiosity (and just in case I end up moving to somewhere where they’re common).

Are we forgetting Stane was orchestrating the whole thing? Like, the entire movie is him just scheming to take over Stark Industries because he wants to continue selling weapons. I wouldn’t put it past him to essentially strongarm or manipulate the other stockholders into locking Stark out, especially given that the entire movie sets him up as someone who can and WILL use violence to get what he wants.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if he essentially threatened the other shareholders into locking Tony out, perhaps not directly though.

Because he’s busy building Iron Man armors and locked on his basement/garage and not doing anything CEO related?

Hey! Stop that! You’re destroying my revolutionary sentiment against fictional superheroes!!

Ten million dollars in a losing campaign

Twenty million starving and writhing in pain

Big, strong people, unwilling to give

Small in vision and perspective

One in five kids below the poverty line

One population running out of time

Bad Religion, Punk Rock Song from the album The Gray Race.

I have a cat who loves to shove herself into the drawer whenever I leave it just slightly creased - the wardrobe is behind me to the right so I don’t notice it and then 10 minutes later mom is frantically searching for her ass cause she likes to run away from the apartment, and it always turns out that little shit is in the drawer.

Bro’s been hitting that catnip

Trump is ridiculously easy to manipulate. Just use the right words and butter him up and he’ll think you’re his buddy.

GIMP has always been kinda ass tbh. I used it back then to make gifs and that was the only thing in that program that wasn’t a pain to do.

…SSD and RAM prices are not gonna get better unless the AI bubble pops. I wouldn’t wait to get at least those two things.

The only reason I’m still in Windows is because I use Clip Studio Paint as my main art program (and while it is on Wine, the compatibility is extremely poor) and I also play certain FPS games with anti-cheat that’s incompatible with Linux. If those two problems are solved (which is one thing I’m banking Valve to do with SteamOS) then I’ll ditch Windows permanently. Until then, maybe the next time I install I’ll use Win11 LTSC which doesn’t come with any of Microsoft’s AI bullshit (or even the Microsoft Store at all) with the only downside being new versions taking 3 years to arrive instead of one.

BTW: If ya’ll are in Windows 11 against your will and want to remove all AI features, check this out. Essentially it’s a script that will delete all AI from your system. I would recommend reading the documentation, but all you need to do is open Terminal/Powershell as admin and run this command:

The computer just trembles at the IT dude’s aura and does what it’s supposed to do because they know what they do to printers that step out of line.

…the class is supposed to be for regular citizens.

Honestly the only device I find compelling nowadays is the Poco X7 Pro, everything else kinda looks dumb by comparison, and before that I was looking exclusively at the Poco X6 because it was the last Poco with a headphone jack - I have since bought a USB-C cable for my KZ IEMs. And I’m only looking to get a new phone cause mine (Moto G62 5G) is on Android 13 and I absolutely loathe this OS constantly killing my apps if I move away from them for 15 seconds. I was thinking of installing a different OS but I don’t want to work through the hassle of backing up everything.

Enemy Swarm inbound.

Hey, Chaplin rocked that mustache way better than the little fascist austrian painter.

Rufus: “Am I a joke to you?”

Brother, AI has proven multiple times to make you stupider. It’s not a cognitive amplifier.

Didn’t a guy win a Darwin Award for that?