After reddit shut their API the creator of the app I use changed over to Lemmy. I kept the app and let go of reddit.

it’s a sign that they aren’t competent at understanding their customers, making plans, or communicating

For me that was self-evident when they rolled out Windows 11.

I never have and never will trust “the cloud”. If someone else is holding your data, it is no longer your data.

The bone cancer will give that other kid a better appreciation of life… Oh, apparently they are dead. That bone cancer in their child will give their parents a better appreciation of…

I was actually referring to his campaign before he obtained the Infinity Stones to enact his “final solution”. He references it in Infinity war when talking to his “daughter” trying to make her see his way by telling her that her home planet had become a “paradise where no child goes hungry”.

We as a species, at this very moment in time, have the physical and technological capability to feed every man woman and child on the planet, yet there’s somehow not enough food to feed all people and groceries are more expensive than they were 100 years ago. In terms of shear volume, you can stack all of humanity in one small corner of the grand canyon but “there’s not enough room for people to live in a home.” yet millions of houses and apartments stand empty as placeholders for equity and investment.

Scarcity is a choice, not a fact of existence. Stop buying the propaganda.

It is widely understood that Thanos was insane. Resources aren’t naturally limited and his campaign of slaughtering half the populations of planets didn’t ensure plenty for the masses. What he accomplished was to teach otherwise isolated civilizations that unless they put aside their differences and worked together they were vulnerable to devastating attack.

The only scarcity there is or ever has been is artificially created by either ineptitude or purposeful in order to prop up the wealthy who are given ownership of land and resources.

If he truly wish for a prosperous universe he would have snapped those fingers and installed the knowledge to create a post scarcity society on every planet with intelligent life in all beings. Because with all things the answer is EDUCATION NOT DEATH.

Why enact common sense gun laws when we can just expand the surveillance state even more and just violate everyone’s privacy? (Well, almost. I don’t imagine Elon Musk is having his text messages read by an FBI LLM)

42 is the sum of 6 x 7 but that isn’t why they say it.

I mean well yeah. The other numbers actually have some kind of meaning 67 is just nothing.

The only ones that can call them out on that is congress. And right now Congress is being run by a bunch of boot licking Republicans and spineless Democrats.

You always return the wallet. This is not a Christian thing, this is just a human thing. But here’s the pros and cons.

Number one scenario: it belongs to an insanely rich person. If you keep this wallet they will barely miss that money because they have plenty, however the police will work very hard to find you and then they will beat the ever living shit out of you and you will be sent to jail for stealing from an oligarch.

Scenario two: it belongs to somebody for whom this is their entire life savings and without it they will become destitute. You will face no repercussions for keeping the wallet and the money because they have no power. But you will have completely destroyed someone else’s life which makes you a vile disgusting POS.

Scenario three: it belongs to a drug dealer. And eventually that drug dealer will find you and murder your entire family because you stole from some cartel somewhere. Because the war on drugs has made drug cartels insanely powerful and contemptuous of the rule of law.

Sitting or, more precisely, squatting is all in all more healthy for your prostate as well.

… Uh

u mad?

I’m pretty sure that Saturday morning cartoons had been nuked by then. Only holdouts I think were Fox affiliates and Nickelodeon.

Generally speaking, I don’t argue with strangers on the internet with the goal of changing their minds or “educating” them. I mean, I do start with that intention…who doesn’t? But by the time I am finished, I realize that I’m just clarifying my own thoughts and positions in my mind.

It has been a fuck long time since I’ve watched it in its entirety. But there is a scene with a middle schooler(?) …I think all the main characters are middle schoolers… Anyhow, she has a moment of sexual awakening and is literally feeling herself out and gets blackmailed by the digital boogeyman of the series.

Mental note, gotta rewatch that show again some time.

Serial Experiments Lain

Uhhh…you might wanna rethink that one.

Not running down the anime, it’s one of my favorites. But it has some questionable moments. And though those do have context, some people who are sensitive to the topic of this post may find them uncomfortable to watch.

Enjoy hell you insufferable prick.