No shit thats why its the lesser of two evils ffs…its about mimizing damage since there is not an option to fix everything all at once. Fixing cultural stigmas takes time and so does dealing with elections cycles to change out who is in office. Creating a power vacuum from a coupe or insurrection just opens the doors for even worse actors to stroll on in. Life is not a fairytale where you can just wish something into being, it takes small incremental steps to achieve lasting progress.

Honestly life probably still sucks for the hyper wealthy. Is it a more comfortable suck, sure, but they just get stuck into other patterns of unattainable goals. While there suffering is most likely self inflicted, i.e they base fulfillment on being the most powerful/wealthy yet never are able to attain it, they still never truly reach what they deem fulfilling lives. The fucked part is their greed and need for power ends up wrecking other life’s who may have sensible goals of fulfillment, like being able to survive without being constantly on edge living pay check to paycheck. Now those goals could be attainable if those at the top weren’t wrecking havoc on the world chasing unattainable fulfillment and making the most basic fulfillment which should be attainable unattainable for the masses, yet here we are.

“Good you” is the perfect response, its just a more personal version of Hi or Hello, no need to over think it. As for the second part if you know the person hows it going can just be a conversation starter, its meant to ask what are you up to, i.e. is there a light topic we can have small talk about that isnt going to be too involved. You can respond with something along the lines of “I’m doing good, such and such happened the other day that was nice, how about you.”

But whatever you do, if you can’t handle being expected to respond to “hey hows it going?” with some variation of “not bad, you?”, for the love of Christ, please don’t willingly seek out employment where a key facet of the job is doing just that, or at the very least if you do, save the blinking and acting like Im inconveniencing you for asking a normal-ass question like “Is this the line to pay?” If you can’t even handle that, that is not at all the fault of the person on the other side of the dialog.

Not everyone has the opportunity to get something that isnt customer facing. Most jobs created today are low wage service positions. People are tired and jaded at a world thats leaving them with a fucked up environment, no social safety nets, dwindling job prospects, increasing costs to live without rising wages, rising authoritarian governments all over the world. I get that those positions should have a bit more tact but I also empathize with those young employees who feel like the world has turned its back on them and so they are just doing the bare minimum to survive. The world is becoming less caring for its inhabitants are you really surprised those growing up in that environment are mirroring the treatment they get from the world back to you?

I meam to be fair maybe they should have to eat the stupidity of buying all the hardware stock out there for their ridiculous push for more and more datacenters, if the cost of current gen consoles kept rising years after launch maybe we could get more people on board with regulating AI and being against the idealogy of streaming everything including pcs and games.

Most indie devs end up using tools like unreal engine as they are not developing engines in house like what used to be the case for AAA studios. Hell even most AAA studios end up using unreal as well now do to how good it can look if you have the best hardware out there with minimal effort. This unfortunately means a lot of games run into console power bottlenecks, hell it even is a problem with PC players, some games even run like shit on 5090s. Considering the current gen was sold as supposedly 4k ready gaming systems this over reliance on unreal for its beautiful but severely unoptimized graphical capabilities means a lot of games run like shit on consoles when people are using them attached to 4k tvs like they had been advertised to work well with.

I will say if they didnt push for a next gen though it would benefit all gamers pc and console alike. It would force the devs for these games to start actually optimizing for the hardware out there and realize they dont need to turn on every bell and whistle in unreal to make a fun game. It would be so nice if games could go back to using reasonable minimum specs. There isnt a need to have photorealistic graphics if only a handful of people can even run your game, the gameplay is much more important as is having a stable framerate. Not to mention games before nannite, ray tracing, etc all looked phenomenal anyways once a little tlc was put into crafting the shaders and textures, if we took a step back from all the excess now we would have games looking amazing and performing great on all variations of hardware.

If having shortcut remaps wasnt useful or it was a legal nightmare, all the big ides would not have the ability to change their shortcut mappings to match other ides in order to make transitions easier for developers. Its a huge win for accessibility to ones software and basically just comes down to putting your shortcut definitions into a config file that can be swapped and allowing others to create maps to be added. I cant imagine that being the biggest hurdle, even if all the devs for gimp did was abstract shortcut definitions to a config file they could then allow others to submit PRs to add additional options for users to choose from.

It really only has roots in money like every other thing these people do. They have insatiable appetite for growth at any means, if that means they use fascism or religion as a tool they will, this however seems to be profit motivated not control motivated when you look at the most likely scenario that benefits all involved. The more people want restrictions on social media to and the like the more social media giants become targets for fines and regulatory action if they dont put in more stict content filters or moderation (which would cause rage baited engagement to drop and lower their profits). These age verification laws shifts responsibility from those companies over to the device manufactures and the cost onto consumers. Manufacturers are ok taking the hit of implementing it at an OS/hardware level because it means new devices need to be sold to become compliant, as hardware climbs in price that means it pushed more people on budgets into cloud pc based options meaning they dont loose money on the money invested in datacenters when the AI bubble bursts. It also means open source alternatives could be regulatorly bared from competing if they need to enact this as most will not wont to from an ethics stand point nor have the funds to create any bespoke hardware to fulfil regulations. In addition since you do have the fascists currently in power they can pretend like the amount of data this will generate from could be actionable to try and gain grants from authoritarian regimes looking for more control on a population, which just means profit margins have increased for all involved as they spend less of their own money. In the end its a way to force move people onto cloud based hardware to support the massive datacenter investments the AI bubble created.

Probably because historically the patriarchy took away women’s rights to be able to choose mates and had years and years of arranged marriages. Then couple that with women being in those forced relationships who could not chose their partners looking for comfort outside of the inhumane treatment of forced marriages and you get societal pressures that taught women they dont get a say in romantic relationships and as such them showing interest had to be covert as it was typically to those outside their prescribed marriage and if caught they could at the very least be socially disowned or at worst be literally killed for it. So yeah im not surprised women have a tendency to be less obvious about it its only very recently in human history that they got to have a say in finding partners.

Anyone have a reliable link for the bios?

Fp1 didn’t have that much, a couple but if you watch broadbent on YouTube he did a comparison in the sim of the last gen cars vs one based on the new regs. Seems like this year the cars are way more twitchy than last year’s and they seem more likely to lock the front during breaking which tracks with pre season testing.

At this point this isnt about the files its about manufacturing a situation for trump to try and interfere at a more broad level for elections. If they are not fixed in his favor all the shit he has done is going to come back and bite him once dems gain control. And before anyone criticizes that the dems wont do anything for the people you are correct, they are going to go after this not because it helps people but because without it the oligarchs and elites in this would loose control to progressives coming to platform on actual change and justice.

Just like why the US ended slavery, it wasnt about freeing the slaves it was that eventually those slaves would fight for freedom and if they weren’t the ones leading those movements they were going to be taken out and that was not something the elites at the time could except so begrudgingly they backed ending slavery. This situation is similar and the epstien files are a manufactured problem to act as a proxy now. Bringing those people to justice is this genration of elites freeing of slaves meant to disrupt the growing collective action against the wealthy.

Right now we have people hating the billionaires and what they are doing to the world. If the ruling populace wants to maintain control they need to have some sacrificial lambs that they can feed to the masses. They needed a Trump and epstien situation, a group of individuals so vile we would be blinded to all of the injustice every other billionaire and politician has been doing to the common people. This way when they are able to bring “justice” to their manufactured situation people feel like they have gotten some power back, that they were listened to and it overshadows all the other injustice thats become to them. It diffuses the collective because the naive people will buy into this “justice” and think they dont need to fight anymore, dissolving the collective action that would actually spark change and remove those at the tops control.

I think trump is finally realizing now he is only but a puppet in this situation but one that got control of one of the most powerful positions in the world, he knows that once his term is up he will get thrown to the wolves quickly and he is fighting tooth and nail with his loyalist to make sure he stays in office till he is dead so he never has to face the end result and accept the fact he got got by the other elites who always viewed him as an outsider. They used trumps need to appease and be viewed as one of them for years, the reason for epstein wasnt for black mail it was to find someone so vile they could use them to be the new slave owner that these folks could “free” to disrupt collective action against the rich.

So you use cash to get a burner phone for any online purchases or sites which need them? You kept your phone turned off and away from you when you bought that burner? You only carry the burner when entering large corporate store chains which are fingerprinting the devices inside? You have gone through all databrokers to see who is aggregating information and device ids on you? You magically know every single big techs obfuscated domains for tracking cookies and block them the moment they are registered?

I think you are extremely naive about how easy it is to tie this information together by a databroker who is not restricted on what information they can aggregate and sell back to companies like meta. Sure meta may be blocked direct access on your network but they are buying that information from another data broker and tieing directly to you based on the contact information thats been gleemed from others who shared contact information with a meta product.

While my personal belief is that relgions should be abolished and I would much prefer no relgious individuals ran for government positions trying to ban someone off of thier beliefs like that with how prevelant relgion is today would just be setting bad precedent that could be turned against a population when you have people like the pedo in chief out governing the world. I will say any devout relgious person running would have me question how unbiased they could be as truly believing in fairtales and myths just already shows a severe deficiency in critical thinking skills.

With that being said I would still vote a sock into office over the domestic terrorist group that is the republican party. Perfect is the enemy of good so if this indivual at least truly believes in separation of church and state I am not going to dwell on their cognitive dissonance regarding religion as it seems to be helping keep them objective and move us in the right direction again.

only 9% of residential housing is owned by corporate entities. corporations are no sizable impact on housing prices in the market at large. 91% of homes are owned by individuals.

First off stop looking at all home ownership and the percentage owned by corporations as that does not dictate pricing as a whole, you should be looking at what percentage of houses that are being purchased over that past few years are owned by investors. Those new purchases and homes that trade hands are what drive the cost of a home. Most of that 91% is not continously buying and selling, they are holding on for long term and even passing on properties to their kids. The corporate entities on the other hand are buying up surplus real estate to drive the pricing of the market as there is very little liquidity in the housing market when you compare it too the shear total amount of residential properties in existence.

A good way to determine what percentage of the housing surplus (the real liquidity in the market that drives the price as a whole) is owned by corporate entities would be to look at different data points. Like say what percentage of vacant homes are owned by corporate entities. Here you get much more staggering figures like the fact that corporate entities own over 50% of vacant residential properties.

Take exhibit a:

Investors owned more than 882,300 vacant houses as of last year’s third quarter, according to the latest report from ATTOM Data Solutions.

And exhibit b:

it’s a major portion of the nearly 1.4 million total residential properties that had no occupants at the end of September 2024

Source: https://nationalmortgageprofessional.com/news/investors-hold-most-empty-houses

Now corporations holding over 50% of the liquid market of housing is a much more substantial fact here and highlights how they are controlling the market as a whole to drive prices up for their benefit while pricing the average person out of ownership market and into the rental market.

Now that we can see they DO control a majority of the liquidity of the housing market lets also see what percentage of rentals are owned by corporate entities as well.

So lets actually brake down your little 9% figure and explain why its a terrible metric that obscures reality and is just also misleading, as you seem to think 9% of residential properties being owned by corporations means on 9% of residential housing is owned by corporations.

I am going to be using US rental housing stats from 2020: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47332

First we have:

There were 19.3 million rental properties, 85.6% of which were single unit properties.

Ok so first we can see that a lot of residential rental properties are single unit properties. Over 85%. But how does that actually relate to the amount of units available for people to rent and does that meam that your little 9% of properties could be hiding the real kicker that corporations own most of the actual residential rental unit supply?

There were 49.5 million rental units, 33.4% of which were located in single unit properties and 33.1% of which were located in properties with 150 units or more. The remaining third of units were located in properties with between 2 and 149 units.

Oh so its does hide the fact that most of the rental units available are in multi-unit properties. So while 85% of all residential properties are single family unit rentals, that 85% only covers about a 1/3 of the rental market, with the rest of the market being dominated by multi unit properties.

Hmm well surely since you seem to think owning 9% of properties is small and irrelevant to the housing and rental market that must mean that most of those multi unit properties must also be owned by individuals and not corporations right?

Individual investors owned 37.6% of rental units

Hm I guess not. I guess while single family units make up 85% of the properties it turns out most rental units are in those massive multi unit properties. Meaning just shy of 2/3rds of the rental unit market is owned by corporations.

So lets recap here shall we.

Corporations own over 50% of the liquidity in the residential housing sphere so they have a massive influence on the pricing of houses on the market.

Corporations also own nearly 2/3rds of the rental market supply when you amount for units instead of just properties. Also granting them the ability to have a massive influence on the rental price market.

So yeah your right corporations may only own 9% of residential land across the US, that completely hides the ugly truth that they control the market by dominating the liquidity which underpines the pricing of housing market for ownership and also obscures the fact that on that 9% of land they have so many multi-unit properties that they own nearly 2/3rds of all rental units allowing them to control the pricing in the rental market as well.

So no the problem is corporate greed in the housing market you are just too willing to listen to corporate propaganda that misrepresents reality by cherry picking what statistics they push out to the public to placate them into feeling like its their neighbors or generic human greed that causes these problems not them.

Next time before you start acting so stupid maybe actually check the sources and dig into how they got their numbers in the first place to make sure it paints an accurate picture of what you are buying into.

I would just follow their advice, download the newest version from their site directly and use the new versions installer to update manually. I would probably do the same thing when the newest version with certificate and signature verification releases, after that I would assume you should be good to go. However its probably also worth scanning your system for malware just incase you updated during the time frame the attack was live.

The article literally states that should you download the latest version from their site directly and then use the installer to update manually. Who knows if those who were effected already could have something else compromising the update/install process. I wouldnt update from the built in updater until the new fix with certificate and signature verification is released.

If you think one of your differing opinions/misunderstandings causes everything else that person has said to be invalid when your remark basically implies you agreed up to that point, you really need to take a step back from your tribalism and learn some nuance.

And to be fair they are not stating that an actors opinions on politics are irrelevant, they are clearly stating they shouldnt be treated as an expert on the matter based on the context of their comment.

If I am looking for a relevant policy maker and someone with experience in getting policies passed in a government, using an actor, firefighter, musician, dance teach or engineer as anything but a way to gain insight into the area a policy is being written for is generally a dumb idea unless the aforementioned person transitioned from politics into their new field of career.

I am not going to ask a comedian how to design software, their opinion on my applications design maybe relevant and guide my design philosophy but acting like they would have insight into the best data structures and tech stack to use in order to develop that application would be no better than prompting an LLM write it for me. They arent an expert and shouldn’t be treated as such.

Its clear thats what the person you replied to was getting at, so maybe take a step back from being so reactionary because it sounds like you probably have some common ground thats being lost due to the medium we are interacting in.

Sure but the metrics that companies produce after running an ad campaign to see if it was effective do not depend on those pay per click metrics. They will generally look at what the total sales or total amount of engagement with their content was pre and post the marketing campaign. If the number goes up they call it a success and will pay for another ad campaign. I guess the real question is are ad payouts for sites hosting them still generally based on pay per click or other engagement analytics that run after the campaigns are finished. That I am unsure of

While I agree with you I did just want to point out one thing.

This:

it’s mathematically impossible to fake.

Is not entirely true persay, every hashing function does have collisions that can occur. But the likely hood that someone baked an exploit in that kept the application functioning while adding their backdoor all the while somehow creating a hash collision with the original fingerprint is practically zero and honestly if someone did pull that off, fucking hats off because that has to be some sort of math and coding wizard beyond most. I should also point out that the file size would most likely/have to be different so there should be other methods of detecting the compromised build regardless.

Sorry I know that was very pedantic of me but I did want to call that out because its technically possible but the actual likely hood has to be so miniscule its almost irrelevant along with the fact that other tells would surely exist.