Why is his hat the only thing that isn’t backwards?

Because they are assholes who hate the environment. The same reason they are using fossil fuels to power their slop centers instead of renewables.

How would the system know if things are even comparable?

If someone tries to compare a thin client to a PC, or an iPad to a server rack, that would be entertaining but pointless.

What non-technical comparisons do you have in mind? Clothes, food, pets? What if someone wants to compare pets as food?

This is true for literally everything on the internet as well. There is just so much out there already, plus the incoming waves of AI slop, that getting noticed takes a whole lot of self promotion until you reach a large enough audience that can spread via word of mouth. Then you still need to promote to maintain an audience/customer base, but not quite as much as at first.

This looks like a shittier version of the many, many comparison tools that already exist.

How does inserting an unreliable AI improve the comparison process?

It will be as transparent as the people in power want it to be.

On the opposite end of the spectrum:

“I put it into chatGPT and it said George Soros is funding ISIS to raid Epstein Island.”

If society is solid and supports evidenced based decision making the AI systems don’t need to be an explicit part of it because the humans will be coming to the same conclusions. If there is a significant portion of malicious humans like we have now, they will find ways to influence the outcome no matter how many barriers are in the way.

The drawback is that humans are involved, and now have a handy AI to blame for anything they want to do. That includes going to war, because they will figure out a way to make that an outcome either by breaking or faking the process.

Steam, but that is because of my approach to games and I do understand it is leasing/renting, not literally buying.

While I do enjoy going back and playing some games, most tend to lose my interest due to newer and improved versions of similar games. Nostalgia only goes so far when janky controls get in the way.

I also like a wide variety of games, but they are hit and miss on personal enjoyment. So what I prefer to do is buy several on a sale and then as long as one works out I came out ahead! This generally means I can check out games that are 5 to 10 or more years old at a heavy discounts due to being patient. I don’t even bother refunding the ones that don’t work out because most are a few bucks and if a few bucks let’s me check something out then I’m fine with that.

For that cheap pricing I get all the benefits of digitally distributed games that are reliably updated to run on new hardware, can re-download them at any time with no limits, get the other hit and miss benefits like friends and forums and other stuff. They don’t take up physical space, have regular updates, and addressed all the issues I had with gaming back in the 90s/early 2000s when still buying physical games.

I see it like a rental with no return date. I would probably quit gaming if steam goes under or changes enough to make it less convenient. Still hope that physical distribution sticks around for those that prefer it, and that other distribution sources like GoG stick around and are successful for both completion and for those who have different priorities for gaming.

There is no reason to waste time trying to make sense of the word vomit.

Companies hopping on a fad bandwagon doesn’t mean that the public in general wants it.

Maybe something to do with the survivalist prepping part of the religion?

There is a strong push to have supplies ready and being prepared to handle disaster scenarios which often involves needing to make things ad hoc like shelter, fire, etc.

So all the games can be relisted since nobody cares, right?

You have crushed one thing that I admired opposums for based on misinformation, but they are still cool!

It looks like the tick myth came from a research study where they assumed the opposums were eating ticks, but may have just not bled fast enough for thr ticks to be full and drop off.

https://outdoor.wildlifeillinois.org/articles/debunking-the-myth-opossums-dont-eat-ticks

No, but those that do are able to wax nostalgic about it in the retirement home.

Yeah, but the bullshit spewing con artist they voted for said other countries pay the tariffs!

If I want to keep the fat, like from bacon, then I strain it through cheesecloth into a small jar and use it occasionally.

If I don’t want it, then if it gets solid at room temp it gets to cool and be scraped into the bin. If it is a liquid at room temp it goes into a ziplock bag or something to keep it from leaking.

I’m not giving advice.

Lol, in the long run it is totally worth having even the basics and being able to make food from scratch but when I was poor I was also working two jobs so didn’t have a lot of extra time for making food that took more than a few minutes.

Being poor is really expensive!

No, I just made it up because everyone actually has the exact same life experience as you do.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert