About 35% are undoubtedly and rigidly so. The truly unfortunate part is that they’re motivated idiots. They are actively and aggressively ignorant and very much want to impose their idiocy on the rest of the country.

Force consumers into US made, AI-laden, crappy hardware full of backdoors for the regime.

Except now we have ICE in the airports.
Winning?

Trump can’t back down. He has no other method of operation than application of further force to make his opponent yield.

You will do what I want, you’re making me do this. This is your fault I have to hurt you more. Anything you do in retaliation is your fault and not a justifiable reaction to what I’m doing to you and I will hurt you harder for everything you do to defend yourself.

He’s an abuser.

If he were to stop, that would mean losing face and the possibility be were wrong.

No narcissist can do that.

By divine right it’s theirs. That’s just how it is. They’re winners, there has to be losers, sucks to be you.

They really don’t invest much thought into it. They can’t.

It is. But nonetheless, we’re seeing it.

Incel language has become mainstream.

I note the school signs. Is this a line of parents queued up to pick up kids vs people actually parking cars in the bike lane?

Smaller farms, maybe.

But Big Ag will just jack up prices while the little guy fails. Oh, look! Cheap farms to buy up!

What’s he worth now? 4 billion then? He was Worth 3 billion at the beginning of the year with all the grift he’d pulled over the previous year.

As an American I feel exactly the same. There absolutely were holdouts of racism, but I felt we were moving forward and leaving them behind. Obama’s presidency set the stage, then trump and covid set everything on fire and the mask came off. “Draining the swamp” just meant revealing the scum at the bottom of it and setting it free. I was shocked at how many racist, petty, selfish, aggressively ignorant people there are in the US.

A bunch of people print a lot of dust collectors. All stuff downloaded and printed that don’t amount to any more than toys or novelties. IMO it’s a waste and just ends up in the recycle stream - if recyclers will even process it. But people gonna do what they’re gonna do.

If you learn how to do some 3D modeling to make things you want and can use, then IMO it’s worth it. I’ve printed a ton of things, everything from repair parts for luggage, PC parts, to designing my own toolbox organizers.

My printing tends to go in waves, the printer sits idle for maybe a month or two, but then I’m printing for a week straight.

Pink Panther lookin’ his age in retirement.

No, I watched Frontier House and Survivor Man. Frontier was families put in frontier style homes that were told to work and live like they did back in the land rush days. They had the convenience of most of their log homes being built for them, and an occasional delivery from a mercantile. All period, of course. A very interesting sociological experiment. The results of their labors were inspected by analysts to see if they and their animals would have survived the winter. I think only one family might have survived.

Survivorman? Pretty much learned that surviving in the woods sucks, could easily kill you, he only had to do it for a few days at a time and even he knew he had help just a radio call away.

Or to put it another way, AI is making it faster and easier to do the wrong thing in the wrong way at scale.

…and absolve the operator of any responsibility, apparently.

Oh, that was the AI doing something wrong. shrugs and just keeps doing what they’re doing.

12k likes for an inane corporate ad post? Gotta be mostly bots.

Foraging for wild plants is a skill you need fully established before having to rely on it for survival, it’s just like hunting, dressing an animal, and meat preservation. Do it wrong and at best you’ll get a little sick, at worst it will kill you quickly.

Also, in a hypothetical apocalyptic situation, you’ll be competing with millions of people who will be eating anything they can. I can’t remember the stats, but I think the Appalachian deer population took something like 40-50 years to fully recover from the Great Depression. A lot of hungry people will do a lot of damage.

Shittier rulers have lasted longer.

They really don’t have a clue. They just assume they can take whatever they need by threat or violence and whoever else has guns will be on their side. Plenty of those guns will be aimed at them to take what they have, too.

And then?

Next to none will have a clue about “after.” Civilization is a community full of skilled trades. From the blacksmith to the tanner to the farmer and the miller. Think any of the preppers will be out in the field, day in, day out, planting, harvesting, storing, cutting wood, prepping food for winter? Got any draft animals? Got a place to care for and feed them all winter? How about getting sick or hurt and being unable to work? They ate up this “American Self Reliance” BS with a shovel, and it’s complete trash. Their personal chauvinism will see them just as dead as everyone else.