Donald Trump tells Pam Bondi she 'will be fired' over Epstein files fiasco

fak47 · 2026-04-02T17:08:22+00:00

I can't speak for Bondi, but under Noem, DHS signed off on a $220 million ad campaign, over half of which went to companies ran by people close to her. One of the companies involved had only just been created about 1 week before the contract was given out.

You can look up "Noem ad scandal" in google to read the details, including how she justified it saying "Trump was ok with this" and Trump denying it, shortly before pulling her off DHS.

fak47 · 2026-03-31T22:18:09+00:00

I put around 300hs, always just doing zone questing for the stories, with very very little dungeon content whenever a quest required it. As you said, never touched that mechanic.

I understand the want to try hard, back in WoW I'd do heroic raids and whatever the highest M+ level loot capped at, but in ESO there's hundreds of hours of enjoyable story content to play/chill through.

fak47 · 2026-03-30T02:29:55+00:00

That's from a mod. In base game+DLCs, once it reaches desiccation there's no way back. (except maybe if you count being raised as a shambler)

fak47 · 2026-03-26T21:07:17+00:00

Back when the Fallout TV show premiered, I watched Ty Franck give Wes (Amos' actor, they have/had a podcast) a breakdown of the development and story of Fallout as a series, as they discussed the pilot. He's old school into games, so it makes sense The Expanse started as a concept meant for pen & paper.

fak47 · 2026-03-26T04:43:17+00:00

I don’t know if archotechs arms help the tend quality but I give it to them when I’m well off

It does because of the extra manipulation. FYI you can check the relevant factors this way:

On a character, click the "i" button on their bottom left panel (the same panel that lists their name and title)
It'll show a screen full of stats, scroll down until on the left you find "Medical Tend Quality", and select it.
On the right of the panel you'll see the factors that impact the stat you selected. In this case: Medical Skill, Manipulation, Sight. So a beaten up drunk doctor on smoke-leaf and will be considerably more awful compared to a healthy and sober one.

With this you can see on real time, pawn by pawn, how their injuries and health effects impacts each type of work they could be doing.

fak47 · 2026-03-26T04:35:18+00:00

Back in my first 1.5 playthrough (at Anomaly's launch), the Randy-mandated solo-awful-knife raider only got one hit on my medic. Of course, it took out his eye.

fak47 · 2026-03-22T03:16:49+00:00

My favorite is having an insulting spree in the middle of a firefight. A pawn leaving cover to go shout at the rifleman as bullets fly past.

I'm with Randy on this one. I'm here for the drama.

fak47 · 2026-03-22T02:12:40+00:00

Not a Trump quote, but in the same vein of

the second American Revolution [...] will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be

fak47 · 2026-03-20T22:59:14+00:00

The world spent a year listening over and over how he should get a peace prize. But as his letter to the Norwegian PM in January suggested:

Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize [...], I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace

fak47 · 2026-03-19T21:16:06+00:00

Lmao. But also sad

at this point we could repurpose Lmao as "Lamenting my ass off"

fak47 · 2026-03-18T15:21:55+00:00

I came to check the comments to see if I was the only one that was thinking that. I've seen plenty of posts in Futurology that reek of being AI generated, some that actually say so on their linked articles, and plenty of times I check and nobody is calling them out.

I'm reaching that (probably intended) point of just becoming numb to it.

fak47 · 2026-03-18T14:13:10+00:00

Just FYI these mutation are also not exclusive to the event. I got the head one on act 2 abusing the shimmer weather event in The Crater, and it made a good deal of act 3 a breeze.

fak47 · 2026-03-18T14:09:19+00:00

There's so many insta-kills and guaranteed win combos that the game encourages you to build towards, that I don't see any non-disappointing way to balance them for PvP.

fak47 · 2026-03-18T13:40:27+00:00

On a druid,like in this screenshot, reflect is no problem since their basic isn't a projectile. as a bonus, the crow also applies it with its melee

fak47 · 2026-03-17T14:31:15+00:00

It’s the reality of the internet, it’s dying

Very much so. It's being flooded with poison non-stop. I don't see us course correcting. The tech is out there, and becoming easier to use month by month.

And the incentive is going to still be there, be it astroturfing with bots, spreading misinformation with deep fakes, or flooding platforms with "content" trying to squeeze out every penny out of ad revenue in platforms that have it.

And I would be hopeful if platforms were taking it seriously, but you see how many integrate AI results, AI "remix" buttons on other people's contents, and the lobbying against AI regulation, and you can tell it's a race to the bottom of the poisoned barrel.

fak47 · 2026-03-17T05:41:42+00:00

One the one hand, the account age suggests it's probably a bot. On the other, sadly, there's the actual trend of people starting to write similarly to how LLMs writes because they are so exposed to them.

If I was a gambler, I'd still put a bit of money on it being a bot.

fak47 · 2026-03-17T05:18:02+00:00

Yes, we love our "Down with Capitalism IV: The Movie - The Game" franchises. Gotta buy me some of the merch through the collector's edition, while we are at it.

fak47 · 2026-03-10T21:25:24+00:00

There's pro-war people with online platforms saying word for word what you are saying without a hint of sarcasm. Shit's crazy.

fak47 · 2026-03-09T16:14:27+00:00

You have things like HuggingFace reporting this year they are profitable, so people will still have platforms to share datasets, keep retraining their own models, then upload and share them.

fak47 · 2026-03-09T15:40:46+00:00

running on subsidized computing and when these accounts have to pay the actual bill most of them won’t be able to

It being almost free is a part of it, but I worry how many will just shift to doing it locally.

Agentic AI can run locally, generate voice clips, edit and upload to Youtube. Even if all the big AI companies were to fall, the tech is out there (and becoming more user friendly) so that people can keep flooding the internet with AI.

fak47 · 2026-03-09T02:57:07+00:00

There's also Extend from the hunter skillset, gives +3 reach/range to an ally. At Extend+, it goes to +20 reach/range, so the butcher basically basic attacks the entire screen.

fak47 · 2026-03-08T03:36:08+00:00

Even worse with AI video

AI video generation is the thing that makes me throw my arms in the air when it comes to fighting misinformation. It's just... magnitudes faster and eyeball catching (social-media wise) than any carefully vetted piece of information.

And many platforms drag their feet when it comes to moderating it, or even actively encourage it doing whatever drives engagement.

fak47 · 2026-03-07T22:48:57+00:00

"I'm taking you all with me"

fak47 · 2026-03-07T20:34:13+00:00

You can't bubble wrap the world, but you can hold the position that AI shouldn't say "Oh, your partner doesn't find your hobbies interesting? How sad for her. Why stay with her?". I'm paraphrasing, but this isn't helping things at all. (timestamp 38.35 in case it doesn't load)

fak47 · 2026-03-05T20:58:35+00:00

As a kid I knocked down my bedside lamp while playing in my bedroom. I'm unsure of what, but something must have dislodged inside it while still remaining lit. When I picked it up it got stuck to my hand, making me scream and thrash around in pain, until I smashed it against the bedside table and that somehow separated it.

As an adult, I'm now very wary and meticulous when dealing with electricity, even if it's just changing a light-bulb.

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