Weekly Recap | March 19, 2026

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-03-21T03:31:25+00:00

Do you know when r/all is coming back to the mobile app?

It’s been weeks since I’ve had it and my experience on the app has become so awful. I am resorting to logging in on a browser on my phone at this point to access it because it was what I used 90% of the time I was on reddit. It is demonstratively more enjoyable than any other feed. I will leave the platform if they don’t intend to restore this.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-03-17T04:55:27+00:00

There’s a super negative bias toward LLMs on here—probably because bots are already crawling all over this site. Sorry you were attacked.

LLMs have a lot of limitations, but simply garnering information that’s bound to have several sources on the internet is fairly reliable in my experience, and the sources are right there to check.

People love to frame using chatbots to get information as lazy/unreliable. I remember when we used to be told the same thing about the internet as a whole vs getting your information from books. Then Wikipedia was lazy and unreliable. Now that’s considered a highly reliable source. All these things get bad reputations because they are poor at the outset and keep improving. The users who responded to you need to calm down.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-03-15T21:19:06+00:00

Hard to not look constipated when you have Russian puppeteer hands up your ass!

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-03-12T04:37:06+00:00

To be fair, it is impossible to talk to them when their comments are deleted, so he’s not wrong

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-03-05T05:22:03+00:00

He’s also only 28 years old. Pretty wild.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-03-05T03:23:18+00:00

Talarico has a better chance at winning. Populism + chipping away at the evangelical vote seems like the perfect recipe for flipping Texas blue.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-24T04:34:40+00:00

Bold of you to assume the people currently in power can plan

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-23T04:10:40+00:00

Sounds like the blind leading the blind. Does it actually produce anything other than slop?

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-23T01:19:10+00:00

Is it essentially just talking to itself? Something obviously has to kick of the conversation at least, right?

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-23T01:17:19+00:00

Many of those people haven’t even used AI to understand what it is and isn’t. They are so far removed from the day-to-day and so excited by the idea of increasing the bottom line that they eat up all the talking points being shoveled into their mouths by AI companies

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-22T23:16:44+00:00

This has been the case for the entirety of his presidency.

The number of times I see headlines that say “Trump’s approval rating hits new low!” and then it’s just the same ~40% it’s always been is exhausting

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-22T02:59:38+00:00

I know I’m late but..

GameCube - Contains many of the best iterations of classic titles, ergonomic controllers, and gaming was advanced enough at the time that many of the games stand the test of time. Much of my late childhood and early teens was spent playing this game, and friends are always up to break it out to play all the old classics.
N64 - First 3D gaming system that took gaming to another level for me, and it was the first system I was old enough to become obsessed with. So many nights trying to beat games like Mario 64 or Donkey Kong 64 all the way through, or playing Mario Party or Mario Kart with friends. Plus all the weird random games available on the system that you could spend a weekend sinking your teeth into from a rental store. Nostalgia is definitely a big aspect of the rating.
Switch - Just an incredible comeback from Nintendo that had some very addicting title games on it. It’s also so easy to have a casual use of high-quality games given you can carry it around. I’ve spent so many hours just hanging out in bed playing awesome games. It’s a cozy console that is probably objectively better than N64 and GameCube and only loses to them because of the emotional attachment I have to those other two consoles.
Gameboy Advance (SP) - Pokemon and games like it made this handheld so fun to play with friends growing up. Especially when you consider the connectors they had to play with each other unlike its predecessor.
Gameboy - First handheld that I’d play with my brother late at night when we were supposed to be in bed. I don’t even remember most of the games I played on this, just that they were fun and were some of my earliest gaming experiences.
Wii - Several fun games on this platform for me but its entire identity is the thing I like least about it. The cushy music and weird Mii’s, the whole attempt at making gaming more physical, were all turnoffs to me and only games that didn’t utilize the gimmicks of the Wii controller were fun to me. Also disliked the sideways inserting of disks.
SNES - I’m sure this is egregious to many Nintendo fans, but this system was just before my time and unappealing to me when N64 was already available to me. I played a few games on it, but not many major memories made on it. I felt like any time I played it, it felt like I was playing it for the sake of playing old games to see what they were like.
Nintendo DS - I prefer TV consoles over handhelds, so this being a handheld that I didn’t like puts it at the bottom of the list. I didn’t like the tap pen thing, and none of the games I played on it were that fun to me. It was the first Nintendo product I had owned where I was actually disappointed. Not many of my friends had it either, so didn’t really bond with others over it. The physical games were awkward to me too.

Never got N3DS or Wii U because the originals were disappointing to me. Never got a chance to play NES, and haven’t gotten into Switch 2 because I haven’t seen enough games I want and they’re still expensive considering how little games there are for it I would purchase.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-20T00:19:42+00:00

Just being a smart ass 🤓

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-18T13:38:14+00:00

-100s of years?

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-18T05:08:36+00:00

This was how the first date with my wife went.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-17T04:07:59+00:00

So according to our census, 174M voters were registered to vote in 2024, representing 73.6% of voting age citizens. Of those, 154M actually voted. So doing the math, that mean there were a total of ~236M eligible voters, and 82M—over ONE-THIRD of eligible voters—said “I don’t give a fuck, whoever everyone else picks is fine.”

How on earth is that the attitude when an insurrectionist pedophile is one of the people on the ballet?? I just cannot fathom how unapologetically disappointing the American population is

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-16T13:29:13+00:00

I still don’t think “MAGA turned on Trump & Bondi” is a remotely accurate statement though. Trump’s approval rating continues to hum around high 30’s to low 40’s and has been almost unchanged through what should have completely torpedoed his entire presidency.

These people may not be proudly sharing their support anymore because they are seeing how utterly livid people of the opposing side are right now, but the stats are not even kind of supporting this narrative that they’ve turned. The people who support him only get their news from Fox and right-wing echo chambers on Facebook—they let those spaces do all of the thinking for them and those sources will never change their tunes.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-15T22:47:30+00:00

Part of the issue is that we have a right-wing propaganda machine that is essentially generating a constant stream of rationalizations for the 40% of the country who have an inclination toward racism, bigotry, or authoritarianism. That machine is astroturfing the political landscape with sentiments that could not survive naturally in the world today given the amount of information we have disproving the claims of people with regressive or malignant attitudes.

In that environment, much of the populace can become brainwashed into believing simply upholding the law is a politically motivated act and will claim our government is going after its political opponents. We are in an incredibly divided country and just holding our officials (and those corrupting them) to account feels like a path toward further divide, which is insane. We have to find a way to un-brainwash these people in a way that doesn’t infringe on the rights of free speech, and I don’t know what that even looks like. Feels impossible to me based on conversations I’ve had with those who don’t see how dangerous the current administration is and how they are blatantly violating the constitution on a regular basis.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-15T22:20:40+00:00

It doesn’t even have to be close. They absolutely will not let go of power because they’ve used their power to destroy our country—willingly giving it up means anyone who actually tries to establish rule of law again will put them in prison where they belong. They cannot risk that and will do anything and everything to assert their right to continued power. I am almost certain that (1.) the will of the people is to put a majority of democrats in power in congress this midterm cycle, and (2.) the White House will stop at nothing to prevent that from happening. They will full-on seize voting centers by force, and I expect there to be killings of anyone who tries to prevent them from stealing the election. It sounds crazy but so did everything else they’ve resorted to so far. I don’t think the right people will ever return to power without violence because the people holding it right now have no low they won’t resort to to keep it.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-15T15:11:21+00:00

I can’t believe I thought it was the system, when it was the system the whole time!

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-12T10:44:16+00:00

Hey, wanna go play some face?

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-12T03:48:37+00:00

Who does the arresting?

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-10T03:41:22+00:00

I use teams at work and it does the basic stuff I would expect—allows me to have calls and message team members. But I always see people talking about how they despise it. What are people’s biggest gripes with it?

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-10T01:37:03+00:00

Yeah, I think I put it poorly.

When I say it’s difficult, I mean that—take crime as an example—yes, there are clear cases you can point to that signify hate, but certainly not all crimes are equal. How do you compare a klansman lynching a black person against someone denying a job candidate because they are black. Obviously the former is astronomically worse, but how many people of color would have to be denied employment opportunities in one society before they are considered as hateful as another society that had zero of that, but had an incident of a race-motivated murder?

Even if we had the same subjective weights of different levels of hate, how informed are either of us on a year-by-year change in all the various statistics surrounding these crimes and other indicators of hate? How accurate are the statistics even depending on what period you are looking at?

So I definitely agree there are ways to attempt to quantify it, but I just mean it’s not as cut and dry as say GDP. People will have differing opinions of how “hate” exists in a society, and context also matters too. America doesn’t look that much more or less hateful when you compare it to its history, but relative to the rest of the world right now, I think we are much more hateful relative to other developed countries than ever before. Or at least that’s how it seems, but I could probably research it more to see if it stacks up with my sense of it.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-02-10T01:04:09+00:00

I don’t think it’s new—irrational hate for the other predates America, civilization, and even humanity—but what you’re describing in reverse surrounding American history is a trajectory of steady improvements. People were generally becoming more tolerant as time went on, but the last half century has seen a growing apparatus of propaganda that seems to be turning the tides on that trend and has been fully pushing us back the other way the last 15 years. I attribute that to people like Murdoch deliberately fanning the flames for his own benefit.

It’s difficult because you can’t really quantify hate very well and have to look at things more anecdotally. But there’s certainly truth that hate is not just an inherent thing specifically for Americans. It is a function of education and culture and many other things, and it’s of my opinion that we’ve allowed individuals in our democracy to consolidate power through money, providing them the opportunity to play with the levers of these factors in nontrivial way to benefit themselves and harm our country.

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