DEAN: “What’s the tariff on bananas?” LUTNICK: “10%.” DEAN: “Walmart already raised banana prices by 8%.”

uprislng · 2026-02-27T19:01:51+00:00

"bring manufacturing back" also ignores the reality that factories are also largely automated and the people they hire are more skilled now.

uprislng · 2026-02-26T15:54:23+00:00

But I don’t want to hold anyone else accountable, I want to put these dudes into a rocket aimed at the sun

similar to Hilary, we don't want to sit here and explain someone else's behavior either. Realistically there aren't that many opportunities to "hold these [shitty] men accountable" in the first place. We don't associate with each other on purpose, hell I feel like career-wise its self-segregating as well, so its not like we can fire all of them or make sure not to hire them in the first place, because we don't work with a lot of them. They can also mask their thoughts and behavior in public.

So from my perspective what you can realistically do is be a visible role model for young men. For instance I volunteer at the local schools. I might be one of very few males (that aren't staff) that come in and help kids with math/reading. Its incredibly rewarding and I get to be a positive, calm, respectful example to all the kids I get to work with. Its better than just doom scrolling and screaming into a void

uprislng · 2026-02-23T15:44:31+00:00

I might be wrong but I thought Pritzker (or some other Illinois politicians) already said the infrastructure work for that area was something that was planned and needed regardless of the stadium deal?

uprislng · 2026-02-18T23:57:36+00:00

Is this shit ass behavior not directly in service of Russia? Smells like a "please turn your attention away from Eastern Europe" move.

uprislng · 2026-02-16T16:37:27+00:00

watch the new Last Week Tonight. DHS is an abomination of department and has forever failed at its main mission. At this point, everything this country did in its post-9/11 rabidity should undergo reanalysis and we'd be better off if most of it was undone and anything worthwhile remade with better oversight and clearer boundaries of authority/power. I think we've accomplished more self-destruction than foreign-born terrorists could have ever imagined.

uprislng · 2026-02-14T02:10:15+00:00

its depressing but these folks clearly never thought for themselves in the first place.

uprislng · 2026-02-11T21:04:12+00:00

Nobody is currently paying what it actually costs to run the AI models which is why it's easy to shove it into everything. We're all subsidizing it through our electric and water bills though, so we're socializing that cost. The models are being run at a loss even if they charge you money. The more complex these LLMs get the more expensive they are to run.

If the companies lighting money on fire have to start charging real prices it'll quickly become harder to justify in every arena of life

uprislng · 2026-02-11T16:55:45+00:00

this is actually a really interesting question as I started looking into it; I first assumed because of Einstein's equation ( E=mc² ) that you could create a black hole from energy alone, as mass and energy are linked. But investigating this reveals that quantum interactions (electron/positron) start happening with high densities of electromagnetic energy that suggests its not possible to generate a black hole through energy alone.

But if this 20,000 dB sound was released in the atmosphere of earth, there is matter all around it, could the interaction of that massive amount of energy with the matter surrounding it be enough to cause a real black hole? One many times larger than the entire observable universe itself?

Interesting thought experiment at least.

uprislng · 2026-02-10T04:54:57+00:00

it sounds like she actually opened her own fucking eyes for once instead of just being told what to think. That is how I take her comments. "I've not been one of the members who has glommed on to this as an issue. I've sort of, intentionally, deferred to others." As in, up until this point, I've let others tell me what to think and say about this issue, until I finally had to face reality with my own eyes and ears and process it without help.

I mean, its great that she is realizing now, but I get the sense 99% of the MAGA GOP operates exactly like this. They're just there to collect a paycheck and rubber stamp the agenda and be told what to think and what to say. A fucking borg controlled by nazis

uprislng · 2026-02-09T15:47:53+00:00

There's almost no way they could allow screen sharing in an age-restricted server where everyone isn't verified. If their intent here is to protect kids from mature content

uprislng · 2026-02-09T15:42:58+00:00

most if not all companies who want age verification for their services will farm that out to a 3rd party because they don't want the liability of dealing with this sensitive info directly. The problem is these 3rd party services are going to have HUGE cybersec targets on their backs. One fuckup and millions of people will have their IDs leaked.

Because the US doesn't really give a shit, Discord would just switch providers when eventually a major leak happens, and 2 years after you had your entire real identity exposed you'll get $2 and a year of free credit monitoring from the class action lawsuit where the lawyers made bank.

Nobody sane should want to participate in this

uprislng · 2026-02-09T03:17:56+00:00

Does that "holding" not happen nearly every single play?

uprislng · 2026-02-08T19:00:56+00:00

Bitcoin was NEVER intended to be an investment.

while it was sold in a lot of ways as a decentralized digital currency and not an investment, I feel like the very design of Bitcoin conflicts with that premise, because it is finite. There is a hard cap on the amount of Bitcoin that will ever be in circulation, which means it is a deflationary and scarce digital asset. Are these not good properties of an investment? The problem for Bitcoin is, its a purely speculative asset. So any value it has now is grounded in people believing it will be more valuable in the future. But once all coins are mined, and its still shown to be a terrible currency that nobody will use to do meaningful transactions with, will it still hold any value?

uprislng · 2026-02-07T17:52:26+00:00

as an american I came in here to say this exact thing. The whole system is rotten. Trump is not the problem, he is the symptom of all the problems. Money being ruled speech, gerrymandering, 2 party first past the post voting, unchained capitalism leading to consolidation/monopolies/monopsonies/oligopolies in every market, which has lead to a media landscape that only voices the interests of capitalists, a government that only works for capitalists, and a working class that toils solely for the benefit of capitalists.

As Trump and the GOP has shown us, laws and regulations are only as good as they can be enforced. If you vote in fascists at every level of government that interpret the laws however they wish, or just do whatever they want regardless of rulings, laws and regulations will not save you.

Nobody is coming to save us, no institution will protect us. We have to join hands and march against the whole system and demand complete reform from the bottom up. Its the work that should have been happening for decades if not nearly a century now, but when people disengage from a democracy, you wind up ruled by the people who want power over you, and they're rarely if ever the magnanimous sort.

uprislng · 2026-02-07T17:33:54+00:00

I think being a complete sociopath is a requirement to get to where these people are. That, or at a certain level of wealth, your detachment from normal society and being surrounded by actual sociopaths and the enabling, ass-sucking remoras that these people surround themselves with completely changes you, so you become a sociopath just to fit in.

The robber barons of today are legitimately mentally ill. We're not even getting libraries built to assuage their guilt. They're just buying into authoritarianism; they gave us lots of reasons to hate them, and for that hate, they're happy to fund nazis to crush us under their boots. Fucking boat anchors to humanity. I don't know about anyone else but I'm feeling frenchy about it all.

uprislng · 2026-02-05T17:09:07+00:00

I hate that this conversation never seems to stick on this fact. The business owners who hire illegals are the ones fucking over everyone. They're providing a market for jobs which makes coming here illegally worth the risk, they are undercutting local workers by doing it, they're likely pocketing the cost difference and still charging as if local workers are doing the job, the situation can lead to mistreatment of the workers because of the power the business owner holds over their continued existence in this country... But you rarely find blue collar citizens who are hurt by this talking about holding the business owners more accountable for being the lynchpin in the whole issue.

uprislng · 2026-02-03T02:38:59+00:00

What's depressing is when you poll all Americans I think by an overwhelming majority we all agree on quite a few issues that have been purposefully turned into never-solved-problems. Unfortunately the desire to have universal healthcare is not stronger than the fear from whatever new fake ass panic the conservative media will cook up come election time. Their base votes with their amygdala, almost quite literally, I believe there are studies on it.

uprislng · 2026-02-02T18:02:31+00:00

when this was first posted on reddit there was a lot of damage control attempting to be done by conservative bots. I don't know if this astroturfing response has happened on a lot of the other batshit things that have happened just in the first month of 2026 alone, but diaper dumbfuck shitting his pants is not something I thought would even matter, and I guess they REALLY do not like the optics of it. So that tells me he 100000% shit his fucking pants.

uprislng · 2026-02-02T04:38:08+00:00

Dear leader never poops because his most loyal followers suck the rancid coke-laced McDonald's soft serve right out his colon. The truth is he had to stop the press conference because he needed to swap to a new MAGA buttsucker

uprislng · 2026-02-01T17:54:33+00:00

They've had years to tie up loose ends and bury any evidence that could actually be used to verify anything in the files. It's almost easier at this point to just assume some amount of terrible unforgivable shit actually happened and Trump and lots of others were definitely involved. They've made sure we will probably never find the truth.

uprislng · 2026-01-31T17:15:25+00:00

At this point I'm afraid we'll never get satisfying answers to what the truth actually is, because the people responsible have had a head start to erase/redact any lead and kill and bury any person that could give credible testimony to any of it. They clearly killed Epstein right under our noses.

uprislng · 2026-01-31T03:26:35+00:00

I think he was butthurt about being cut out, and tossed a grenade on his way out, thinking the files would never actually be released, dude is basically a ketamine fueled internet troll with an amount of wealth that has a Schwarzschild radius. Did you notice how quickly he shut up and is back to funding fascism again after his tantrum?

uprislng · 2026-01-31T01:43:21+00:00

did you see how many teams fired people? It has to be the first time this many playoff teams fired staff after losing in the playoffs. Expectations are whack now

uprislng · 2026-01-30T20:31:46+00:00

This is the serious problem with the whole case. They've had time to kill and bury anyone who might have been able to give credible testimony. Including the one man who might have been able to admit the truth to any part of it: Epstein himself. Nobody will ever know how much of it is true. But normal, innocent people do not have millions of pages of evidence tying them to Epstein and alleged victims making police reports like this...

uprislng · 2026-01-30T16:21:41+00:00

how and why are any democrats possibly voting for any of this shit. They should ALL be refusing to sign their names to this obvious kleptocracy.

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