I didn’t, but it comes off as preachy for a question asked in a community called “No Stupid Questions”. A dumb question was asked about AI and the response was “actually, these are the things we need to be worried about because I’m very smart to worry about it”.

Yep. That’s a lot of words to try to seem superior to other people. Did you use ChatGPT to help you write it?

I know The Simpsons sends the grunt work to East Asia, but I thought that South Park is so simple that a US team can bang out production with the writing staff within a week.

I’m putting enough money away that I see myself retiring. At minimum, I would transition to a less stressful job about 10 years away from retirement and ride that out as I go to work less and less.

That said, I know I’ll kill myself if my health degrades too much. I haven’t decided what would happen if I run out of money.

It has gone to shit.

In some cases like McDonald’s, the ingredients have been on par while the cooking quality has tanked.

For a lot of other places, both the cooking and ingredient quality tanked.

Taco Bell is probably one of the few major chains I still eat at because their ingredients are hard to fuck up cooking and putting it together isn’t that difficult.

I find it interesting compared to the USA.

The USA has migration from richer parts of the country to select poorer parts because the lower cost of living makes up for the lower wages. There are also states that built themselves in part on the back of being a low cost of living place to retire.

Why isn’t Europe there yet?

Yeah. There was talk about using the 25th Amendment at the end of Trump’s first term. That won’t happen with this cabinet.

I’d just let it go. Why put so much effort into a group that doesn’t want your participation?

Lemmy is filled with political content. Voyager is probably just showing what is most popular if you are viewing all, which is going to show a lot of political content.

The best options is to curate a subscribed list or block political subs you don’t want to see.

This is the best you can do.

It is common amongst cloned software projects to completely rename a lot of the original software’s terminology.

It works with things you are required to have as well.

Insurance is a varied field from legal minimum insurance to something that will actually protect your family. Since it is so varied, advertising helps being people in. I know there are a couple of car insurance companies that don’t advertise, but they are also very picky on who can get their insurance.

We get that it is the design philosophy for Mastodon to not have an algorithm serving content, but it appears to be a non-starter for a lot of users of Twitter like services.

In theory, a third party could write that algorithm and implement it in some form. Truth Social functions like that, but without federating to the rest of Mastodon.

Part of it is cultural while another part is economic.

Culturally, Canada was part of the British Empire well into the 20th century. This meant that having relations with Canada was having relations with the British Empire. Outside of the War of 1812, the British Empire typically negotiated with the USA with respect that the USA could project at least the same kind of land power in the Americas as the British Empire could.

Culturally, Mexico was a successor nation to the Spanish Empire. Mexico didn’t have the level of protection that Canada did nor did it have similar government institutions as the USA had. There was also a difference in approach to colonization between the two nations; the USA engaged in settler colonialism using white Europeans while Mexico had a large indigenous population incorporated into Mexican society.

Economically, Canada has a per capita national wealth on par with the USA while Mexico has lagged behind. This has led to a lot of migration from Mexico to the USA and Mexico being used as a low cost labor source.

More like Miami with less booze and weed.

In the long run, yes.

In the short term, no.

I can easily see this written by someone from another country.

And Trump lost 2020 with about the same number of voters.

Yeah. If you look at the overall votes between 2020 and 2024, Trump’s count barely moved. In contrast, Harris saw a collapse in votes compared to Biden.

Theme parks is really only an Orlando thing. A large chunk of tourist Florida is hotels by the beach.