Sam is a perfect organism!

I sing it. Repeatedly.

Wow. That must have been jarring.

I live and grow more powerful to spite my enemies.

Yeah. What a moron.

I’m in my 40’s and have never gone to one of my own.

It’s pretty simple. I had one really good friend in high school and about a dozen friends I hung with often. I was in the rebellious out group and didn’t really like the vast majority of the people at my high school, and thanks to social media, I already get to see how boring or train wrecky their lives have become if I ever get curious.

So there’s just no need.

I suppose, for me, it was when I started making friends with people outside my own age group. Being 40 and friends with 20 and 30 year-olds, or people in their 70’s and 80’s and having it just be mutually respectful and enjoyable feels like a big thing when you get to it.

Yes.

He was also still an incredibly strong fighter and had his enhanced senses. I have an arc in my collection where he fought Cyber for a few issues, a villain whose skin itself was made of adamantium.

Yup, if I were still a buyer of printers, that’s what I’d get.

Per the article this was not a Flock cam. FYI.

The only certainties are people will continue to become poorer and the Earth is going to get hotter.

So, I’m saving my money, making sure my pantry is full, and I have a couple of external power sources to help me get through power outages.

They are just “vibe coding” updates now.

And of course, it’s crap.

I would gladly bury my face in that floof. <3

They are so precious.

They are indeed going to fucking suck. Eventually these kids have to try and do actual work.

Simon is always right. Shame on you, OP.

Here we go again.

Never mind that the bombing campaigns of the past few months accomplished nothing. Donald’s going to do exactly the same thing again and make all of these awful circumstances for the world even worse, on top of likely murdering more Iranian schoolchildren.

I hate that my country is ruled by rich, stupid people, and they’ll never experience any real accountability.

I’m not optimistic. Sure there have been (and will be more) settlements, but substantive policy change at the federal level is desperately needed.

If you know someone who teaches young people, go talk to them about how kids are in the classroom now. The teachers I know tell stories of kids who can’t focus for more than 60 seconds, or answer a question when the answer is literally written on the board in front of them. They can’t function without AI, and even worse, challenge teachers to explain to them why they need to learn something when AI models can do it for them. And administrators pressure teachers to just move these kids along despite their deficiencies. This is all on top of the well-documented mental health problems experienced (and likely caused by) social media use.

This is, in my view, already a crisis and I have the sinking feeling it won’t be addressed in any meaningful way until the widespread social consequences are undeniable.

Correct, and even worse for Donald, the only good news he’s gotten in elections has been primaries for the past two years. Candidates he backed have lost nearly every election in 2025 and 2026, and this has occurred in both red and blue states, and mostly in areas he won by double digits in 2024.

Consider that Republicans literally stopped gerrymandering because Donald has pissed off so many voters they can’t accurately predict where they have any electoral strength anymore.

He is indisputably among the most hated presidents of all time.

Yes.

Donald’s favorability polling is even lower than Jimmy Carter, which definitely sets him among the most hated presidents of all time.

People in 2024 voted for two things: Immigration reform and affordability. Donald has done neither. He allowed ICE to act as Gestapo, running around masked in unmarked cars chasing down and violently assaulting fifth graders and murdering Americans in the streets, which pissed off a significant number of his own voters who did not vote for that. It doesn’t help that he started a war with Iran after explicitly promising no more forever wars, and that war has made the cost of living significantly worse for all Americans.

Republicans in general are polling around 15% lower in approval than Democrats. That’s rig-proof territory if it holds until November. Republican voters won’t switch parties, but they’ll stay home or opt not to miss a badly-needed day’s pay in order to vote for a president who made them poorer, as we saw Democrats do with Biden/Harris in 2024.