That’s where rent control and tax breaks come in, as well as scale if you’re opening multiple stores. I’m not aware of a large non profit grocery chain.

That won’t poison an LLM exactly.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison#%3A~%3Atext=For+example%2C+LLMs+can+be%2Cwidespread+adoption+in+sensitive+applications.

Theoretically this is a place to start. They probably have mitigations for many of these.

One thing to also note, is that grocery margins are tight after they give shareholders and c level staff hundreds of millions of dollars. In other words, if you’re not intent on making a profit and distributing that profit only to billionaires and friends, there’s plenty of space to subsidize costs even before accounting for tax breaks (which probably net even) and controlled rent factors.

People shouldn’t get wealthy off selling groceries while people go hungry.

Like, one of the primary points of home assistant is making it so more devices aren’t connected to the internet. It doesn’t anonymize the data, it makes it so you can fully locally control a bunch of products (eg, I have tons of products blocked at my firewall from sending or receiving data from WAN; the only way for a hacker to change my thermostat is to be on my LAN, they literally can’t do it remotely).

Not sure if you’re an LLM or just enjoy entirely missing the point.

Also, statistically, white cars get in fewer accidents. They’re easily visible during the day and more visible at night. And as you stated, white is a common fleet car color (maybe for this reason) and so it helps have a sense of anonymity, which some prize. There are far more white ford f150s than bright blue f150s.

Sure, they need a drastic redirect on what games they’re making and their shitty launcher. They need to return to making games people want to buy, instead of shoveling crap.

This requires fairly compensated labor.

Yes and no. Cash on hand is just what they have in the bank. Ubisoft isn’t cash flow negative, they have revenue of 2.5 billion USD per year. They lost 160 million dollars in 2025 but made 270 million in 2024. So at their 2025 rate, they can afford to pay all their employees they had in 2025, at their 2025 rates, for nearly 5 years. If they actually have good leadership and release good games that people buy, they’ll make money like in 2024 and be more than fine.

I don’t disagree on them having hard times.

I disagree that their only course of action is to layoff entire studios that actually generate their revenue.

Their stock price is 4.50 a share, and they have 780 million cash on hand. It’s still a huge drop from their high of course, but they have enough money they can pay their employees, you know, the ones who generate the value. Screw shareholders, they should be obligated to their employees.

The short answer is, the more of your face you cover, the harder it is to ID someone. If you wear a hat and a face mask, they will not be able to use facial recognition to identify you, to my knowledge.

There is still stuff like gait analysis, but that’s also relatively hard unless they have a bunch of visuals of you walking. Which they may have. But wearing a mask does make it discernibly more difficult for them to ID you.

That said, thank you for having the courage to resist openly. We do need it, and it does matter. I personally mask because of health reasons and generally trying to throw a wrench in the surveillance state (I hate being ad targeted, much less state targeted). But I get so much motivation out of seeing my fellow folks show up to resist in all the ways that they want to personally.

I’ll look into this, but at first blush this is just mostly tool calling with RAG. This does not prevent a whole host of issues with AI, and doesn’t really prevent lying. The general premise here is to put tight guard rails on how it can interact with data, and in some cases entirely forcing a function / tool path with macros. I am not really sure this would work any better than just a stateful and traditional search algorithm on your own data sources, and would require much less hardware / battery / requirements and would be much more portable.

I like the effort, but this feels a bit like trying to make everything look like a nail.

Yep. This is why you have to code your language to things that are emotionally evocative to them. To some Christians, it’s using the world evil (“this action is evil”). To others it’s using the word weak (“this makes him look really weak”).

Edit: and to be clear, it doesn’t actually need to be logical. You can say something like “his makeup makes him look weak” or “I heard that he sings in a falsetto, that’s super weird”. It doesn’t matter (by definition, it doesn’t need to be logical). What matters is repeatedly associating a negative stimulus with the target position you’re trying to dislodge (or positive stimulus for a position you want held, but humans in America and maybe generally tend to be very profoundly negative averse). The reason these people are hear is because this association game has been played very long and very hard. It is the basis of propaganda.

I kinda hope some people join to sabotage from within

CSAs (and community gardens or decentralized gardening) are really great and I do recommend, but there are places where access to these types of resources can still be limited.

Some GMOs are created with pesticide use in mind. Others are simply more drought tolerant or produce more vitamins and minerals (which can be a natural defense against pests in some cases). Which is why GMO =/= bad in every case. Monsanto GMO? Bad. Scientist making a GMO crop to yield more with less pesticides, less water use, less fertilizer use, and higher nutritional content? That’s pretty good.

Vertical grow farms, better more resilient gmos, better farming and land management practices, food forests, subsidizing decentralized food growing. There are lots of things we can do to support lowering pesticide use.

By the way, killing pollinators will also make our vegetables very, very expensive.

I do. I’m more concerned about the ecological effects on pollinators and plant adjacent species (birds, rodents, fish in the watershed)

Edit: I guess I should say in this context, that in places with limited or poor water quality, washing vegetables is not always super accessible either.

Many folks lack access to land (in apartments) or a host of other means necessary to grow vegetables (and it’s harder also to grow them year round).

I’m all for everyone growing vegetables, but for many folks vegetables, especially those grown without pesticides (no problem with GMO, but pesticide use is a real problem in my mind), are not readily accessible (financially, or otherwise).

I think it is comparable. A ps5 is hardware. Sony is under no obligation to provide a 3rd party operating system, but they should also not restrict you from creating or deploying one yourself on the hardware you own. Fundamentally, this should also extend to running software from any vendor you choose (a third party App Store). Sony artificially restricts your choice to only buying from them, and only running firmware and software they distribute. This is not dissimilar from iOS or Android or other hardware vendors that lock you in and lock down your hardware.

I’d prefer he be jailed for fraud and corruption and exposed for the sniveling inbred moron he is, first, if it’s alright by you.

Pretty sure he wants to just resign so Vance can pardon him.