moonshadow

Man the only thing us having this discussion proves is that you're either putting a whole lot of effort into justifying US intervention for a self professed leftist or see this conversation as something to win. The "crime" here is regime change in Venezuela for a shitton of oil and we're here arguing about the plausibility of some set dressing for the manufacture of consent. Check out this factory fresh drug smuggling boat. Definitely not a rich man's sportfishing plaything, purpose built by brown commie narcoterrorists to destroy our freedom

Yeah, who likes going fast anyways? I would bet everything in my pockets that most of the drugs in this country come in on regular container ships with the rest of the freight, and long skinny ass-haulers with multiple outboards are the default toy of wealthy Floridians since time immemorial. I can extrapolate that to Venezuela a lot easier than I can dream up a scenario where it makes sense to ship fent precursors over from China and run a bunch of pills up the coast on speedboats. Talk to a cop or a junkie, whichever fits your politics. Either one will tell you that's just not how it works

edited to leave this completely unrelated pic here, no reason

We all know art is hard, artists gotta starve

The real deal will always be there and never be easy. Fuck "content", fuck entertainment, fuck packaging yourself for sale. To know and be known is the most human thing there is. Genuine self-expression was never commercially viable and isn't going anywhere as long as there are two people to engage with one another. That's art. It's not something you can be "good with LLMs" at, no matter how technically proficient their output

Damn, calibre was so good for so long. This is why I love open source though! No big deal, just time to move on.

Worst part is going to be having to tell people about it every time calibre gets recommended for the next year or so lol, like the whole Organic Maps > CoMaps thing

Tell me more about what drug smuggling boats look like ya jabroni. Their only shared characteristic is "having drugs aboard" and I'm real curious how your eagle eyes are picking that out

Good job buddy :)

Long as we've got an expert here (not sarcastic, this is cool insight, thank you) what's the downside?

The purpose of a system is what it does, or something

For this take I sentence you to go have lunch at the nearest senior home and actually talk to your fellow human beings living there

Relevant bit is what antenna it's got, not where they'll ship it. We've got goofy spectrum here, varies carrier to carrier too

I'm not interested in arguing and have already shared my experience, hope you have a nice rest of your day. From their perspective, "texting" most people just quit working and someone had to "fix" it by switching them back to their phone's default sms client. It's pretty clear you haven't been tech support for an elder, a lot of people aren't aware of these things or making real decisions about them at all. Texting at all is a big ask, they need help looking at/sending pictures, a separate app is way too much friction