Thomas Massie announces that he is introducing legislation to immediately stop federal funding for Flock Cameras and any other mass surveillance cameras operating under a different name.
Massie compares Flock Cameras to the FISA program, calling them un-American and saying they are always abused by bad actors.
"We cannot be trading our freedom for a little false promise of security."
“I’m 33, make $60k, have zero debt… and I still feel like I’m LOSING at life.”
Caller: “Dave… everyone my age has new cars, fancy vacations, big houses. I’m just… ordinary. I feel like I’m falling behind.”
Dave: “Stop. Right now. You’re not falling behind, you’re winning and don’t even know it.
33 years old. $60k income. No consumer debt. Manageable mortgage. You’re in the top 1% of financial health for your age and you think you’re losing?”
Caller: “But I paid cash for my Master’s instead of taking a vacation or buying a nicer car. I feel like I missed out.”
Dave: “That Master’s degree is the best money you ever spent. You invested in yourself. The people flexing on social media? Half of them are one paycheck from disaster and drowning in debt they never post about.
Social media is a highlight reel, not real life. You’re living the real version, debt-free and free.”
Caller: “So what do I do about the constant comparison?”
Dave: “Quit staring at the shiny stuff. Build real community. Real friends. Real connection. When your life is full of people who actually matter, the fake flexes stop mattering.
You’re not losing. You’re already winning. Now go live like it.”
Animator hotdiggedydemon says he is reconsidering the decision after previously announcing plans to travel to Switzerland to pursue physician-assisted euthanasia:
“Decided I’m not thinking clearly, will reassess.”
I turn 79 today.
I don’t want any gifts. Instead, my team and I decided to revolutionize the fitness industry — and we’re doing something crazy to celebrate.
Here it is: https://t.co/qL6ECpWWYH
Between today and Sunday, August 9, when you join the Pump Club app and complete four workout programs in your first year, you pay nothing.
Zero. Nada. Zilch.
No fine print. If you show up and do the work, your first year is free. The payments are automatically sent back to your card.
If that feels shocking, then let me say it even more plainly.
Sign up for the app through that link. Try it free for 7 days. After your trial, pay $100 for your first year. Complete four workout programs. Get $100 back automatically: $50 after your first, and $50 after your fourth.
Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime.
This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.
Your husband is the only person who ever loved you purely by choice.
Your family was already written into your story.
Parents loved you because you were theirs.
Siblings stayed because you shared blood.
Even your child is there because you’re the mother.
But your husband walked in as a complete stranger.
No obligation.
No duty.
No shared past.
He could have built a life with anyone else.
Yet he chose you.
Chose to grow old with you.
Chose to call you home.
That kind of love is never automatic.
It is a daily, deliberate decision to stay, especially when it’s hard.
So never forget to thank the man who still chooses you every single day.
$164,000 A YEAR. THAT'S WHAT ONE COMPANY SAVES BY LETTING ONE PERSON RUN FOUR EXCAVATORS FROM A SINGLE CHAIR.
The machines sit at four separate rural gravel pits, each one busy for maybe 1-2 hours out of an 8-hour shift, one or two trucks a day. Not enough work to justify parking a full-time operator at any single site.
One operator runs all four from a single bank of screens, hundreds of miles from any of them. An AI layer watches all four feeds at once and tells them which pit needs attention first. The grade-control display does its own terrain read, catching depth errors down to a couple centimeters as the bucket moves.
Four site-based operators: about $224,000 a year combined.
One remote operator plus four AI-assisted consoles: roughly $60,000 a year in wages, $240,000 in equipment across all four machines, cameras, wireless control units, and the AI layer itself.
Under a year and a half, the hardware pays for itself in wages alone.
The article below calls this the next wave after digital agents. It's already stepping off the screen and into dirt nobody gets paid to stand in anymore.
@sternpinball Lego... Any theme. Pink Floyd. The labyrinth, the matrix, new trons, Rick and Morty/new adult shows. Try some original themes with own ip, or do a pile like 'millenial's, or 90s'
Yeah bro buying an old house is a fucking nightmare. I’ve never spent so much god damn money to be pissed off fixing shit. Then my wife thinks I’m god damn Bob the fucking builder.
“Oh men are suppose to be handy” fuck you, I grew up playing runescape I don’t know shit about fuck to fix shit.
Oh watch YouTube. Watch a tik tok. God I want to kill myself.
Miyamoto explained how the relative failure of the GameCube vs. the PS2 led to the creation of Wii & DS:
"Before creating the DS, we made the Nintendo GameCube as something that was highly versatile, something anyone could use, something that any software maker could easily develop for, and something that was affordable. But it didn’t get the response we had hoped for. There were game consoles that sold well, but a lot of people bought them mainly to watch DVDs. The GameCube, on the other hand, was only bought by people who played games. One analysis of why the sales figures fell behind those of another game console at the time was that. I remember talking with Mr. Iwata and saying, “The world still hasn’t reached the point where ‘playing games is just a normal part of everyday life,’ has it?”
After all, we never used to divide people into “those who read books and those who don’t.” (Though perhaps people do make that distinction more nowadays.) Looking back, at the time we were making products for a segment of customers, and there was a period when we debated, “But isn’t Nintendo supposed to be a company that creates entertainment for a much broader range of people?”
The conclusion we reached through those discussions was that if we kept making controllers more and more complicated in the traditional way of game machines, people who had never played games would become even less likely to approach them....
With the DS and Wii, we were trying to rapidly spread a new kind of play using game systems throughout society, and because that worked to a certain extent, the idea spread that creating the interface itself could also be part of the fun. I think that was a very significant thing."
(Machine Translation)
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