That’s definitely a path as well, but considering how smart (at least in math and computer science) you have to be to be developing AI in general. Those are not easy people to replace because of their skill levels and skillsets. Them just leaving and refusing to do the work is honestly a lot better play than trying to get everyone in the company on board for unionization. Only OpenAI is strictly an AI company. Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Twitter all have their fingers in other pies, meaning you would need to get everyone in a massive company on board. Far easier to just get all your colleagues on board and just bail to build your own thing.

LMAO a hunger strike in front of companies who literally don’t give a shit if you live or die.

I think the scariest thing about Artificial Intelligence is the absolute fucking basement-dwelling, fart-sniffing, booger-eating, antisocial narcissists with zero ability to empathize with other human beings developing and “training” it. They spend their lives acting like a victim because they’re “autistic” but I have met plenty of autistic people who aren’t self-aggrandizing, narcissistic assholes, so it’s not because of the autism, it’s because they’re assholes.

We’re essentially letting AI learn socialization from the people with the least quality socialization skills and interpersonal skills available. That’s the scary part, the idiotic shit it will learn from these narcissistic fucking idiots.

They can try all they want but they can’t wipe that photo of Cole Allen in an Israeli Defense Force sweatshirt off the internet.

Employees need to start figuring out that whining about it doesn’t change shit because you’re in a corporation, not a democracy. The only leverage they have is their numbers. They need to put up or shut up, the only way to stop this is for entire swaths of people to quit their jobs. Further, Google has plenty of people wealthy enough to start their own business, these people have options that a lot of others don’t. If they still care more about their paychecks than they do their ethics, I couldn’t give a fuck about their opinion that they won’t actually stand up to defend.

At least Timnit Gebru stood on principles (mostly anyway, she at least threatened to quit and they fired her), and the paper Google fired her over is more important today than when it was written in 2020. It was literally a prophetic document for all the issues we face regarding AI today.

Google pretended it fixed things by doing a lot of fake inclusivity bullshit (not that including people is bullshit, but rather Google’s methods are those weak and pointless corporate idea of “inclusivity” is bullshit), and brushed the contents of the paper under the rug. The reality is that paper was way too on the nose of real problems for them to allow to be published as it was.

Anyway, if the employees didn’t figure it out six years ago when they shitcanned Gebru for standing up for herself (and humanity), I doubt they’ll magically figure it out now.

This doesn’t have enough pixels to tell but the difference is the spelling. The left has “Febreeze” and the right has the correct “Febreze.”

For a minute I thought I was in the liminal space community.

I don’t want to live in this universe anymore.

I’m pretty sure the earliest ones didn’t have dialogue and thus were effectively music videos.

Fruit of the Loom with the Cornucopia: Fake
Curious George with a tail: Fake (I know because I had the fucking Curious George huffing ether shirt in college.)
Chic-Fil-A: Fake (Link to Chick-Fil-A’s founder S. Truet Cathy’s book “Eat Mor Chikin” published in 2002)
Looney Toons: Fake
Fruit Loops: Fake
Oscar Meyer: Fake (I often confused the two spellings as a kid because we often bought Oscar Mayer hot dogs from Fred Meyer.)
Berenstein Bears: Not fake, more of a matter of different publications running with different spellings.
Jiffy: Fake
Febreeze: Fake (link to archived post from 1996 in an ad magazine announcing P&G releasing Febreze)

Okay Maybe I’ll come back and finish digging up the evidence for all of these, but literally the Pikachu one is the only one I’m unsure about. I’m positive everything else on the left hand side has been completely debunked or is a situation like the Berenstain Bears where different publishers used different spellings, especially in the home videos.

Left hand is what people “remember” right hand is actual reality.

Anyone who remembered it as “Looney Toons” and not “Looney Tunes” apparently missed the “Merrie Melodies” as well.

I dunno, so many of these I remember them as they actually exist.

I’m sorry have you seen any of these people in the past year, in particular Hegseth? The idea that they have “well-trained media faces” is the biggest joke I’ve heard in 2026. They crumble under even the slightest pushback and have manbaby tantrums. Well-trained media faces, you must be having a laugh mate.

A real bozo the clown move.

Trump: I’m not even supposed to be here, I hope I don’t jack off!

there’s a reason that bitlocker sounds so much like bootlicker

Nice timing to go along with the new version of Ubuntu. Fuck all the haters, Ubuntu 4 lyfe dawg, I got it tatted on my nutsack.

From the articles written about this, it feels a lot more like they’re more annoyed at being called fascists and viewed as fascist than they feel about, you know, actually being fascists. It’s quite like the people at OpenAI that demanded for Sam Altman to come back after he was rightfully fired. They didn’t care about lofty goals of the board of OpenAI, they were in it because Altman had promised to make them insanely rich. They don’t care about the ethics, they just want the money.

It’s literally the plot of the film Cube from 1997 where one of the people who built it is trapped inside the Cube and admits he was being paid well so he never questioned what they were building.

It is, but US anti-discrimination laws are bullshit and put so much weight on the accuser to basically need a smoking gun of a written email that specifically says “We are doing this to fire old people” for it to go anywhere.

Yes, consumer routers are much lower powered because they’re built to be a router so they can simplify it to the basics needed just for routing. The trade-off is that most off-the-shelf consumer routers don’t support V-LANs. The person you were responding to notes they have a Mikrotic device, which is one of the most popular series of devices for people to put OpenWRT on. (EDIT: Memory was foggy it’s actually devices with MediaTech CPUs is what I am thinking of) The major downside here when it comes to exposing devices to the internet is you lose the strong firewall. Part of why the OPNsense firewall is stronger than what a consumer firewall even with OpenWRT on it is because it isn’t just built to be a router, and being much beefier allows it to handle much more complex firewall rules and things like packet inspection or intrusion detection. OpenWRTdevice has a basic firewall which will do the job, for sure, but I am definitely on the side of using something a little bit more powerful for more firewall features and options. You’d probably still be relatively safe with OpenWRT/, but the low power of the devices may make them less robust depending on how many users you plan on having, in which OPNsense’s beefy nature makes it more robust for more data passing through.

EDIT: Those Mikrotik devices OP is referring to are different than what I was thinking of, but they also have a good price point and are dedicated routing appliances thus lower power draw (many of them support Power over Ethernet). Their OS isn’t as open as any of the others though, however it offers a full featured enterprise grade router OS. A good choice for someone who isn’t as savvy off the bat, although you lose the powerful firewall.

https://mikrotik.com/products/group/ethernet-routers

They also have a demo of their RouterOS which seems like it’s very full-featured: https://demo.mt.lv/

Yeah, get your new OPNsense device fully set up through the guide, and it will act as a router and firewall. Once it’s ready to go, plug it in with ethernet to the Verizon router (with the ethernet connected to your OPNsense going into the WAN port) and make sure it’s picking up internet from the Verizon router. Once you’re sure it is, then go into your Verizon router’s settings and turn on bridge mode. The internet should auto-reconfigure for your new router to grab the IP from the modem by passing through the Verizon router.

If for whatever reason this doesn’t work, you can regain access to the Verizon router by doing a factory reset (as you won’t be able to view it’s settings as it no longer has an IP on the network in bridge mode). So don’t be afraid of it, worst that can happen is a factory reset. Just back up your settings beforehand (either manually writing them down or exporting a config file) so you can restore them easily.