Just because it’s insane doesn’t mean it won’t happen

Useless comment.

I disagree, his comment made it obvious that I should block him.

Gotta keep those guns cool

Edit: fallout fridges are miles more sane than animal crossing: nh fridges… I still find it funny, you open a fridge and it’s like “a refrigerator, should i change?”… Into what? A fucking pair of cold cuts?

CLIs are almost always magnitudes more expressive than their feeble, derivative GUIs.

At one point, it seemed like we were getting smarter, and then we very didn’t.

Yeah, I’m a hunching it up a bit, but I can’t imagine it’s a good thing (for reasoning) to have your brain full of microplastics.

It’s a bit of an aside, but there’s a large amount of absurdity in expecting scientific rigor in lemmy comments when purportedly scientific bodies are being led by vaccine-denying simpletons.

That ubiquitous expectation of powerless individuals to reason and behave perfectly while ultra-powerful people can behave like spoiled five year olds is foundational in making life fucking miserable for me personally.

Every country suffers from what? Mass stupidity?

Maybe that’s true but it certainly seems like we are more individualistic and stupid than most…and I don’t think those two things are entirely unrelated.

America is more car-oriented than most other western countries and leaded gas is how we did the majority of our poisoning.

Yes, of course microplastics are everywhere, but I’ve read studies saying that internationally they’re eating about the same amount of plastic as we did years ago, but they kind of plateaued whereas here in the good ol USA people still don’t know that it’s not a good idea to eat three meals a day of microwaved food cooked in plastic containers.

Read the book “bowling alone” if you’re interested in someone’s attempt at researching why we went from collectivism to individualism as a country. There are a large amount of factors but if I were to take a crack at it, I’d list a few: TV, the Internet, smart phones, air conditioning, capitalism, and (last but certainly not least) racism. Racism is foundational to the country and its history.

As far as the stupidity, some of the same factors apply, but there are also additional ones like environmental factors (US citizens eat more microplastics than any other major country since like 2020 and we lead poisoned ourselves for a century), a deep-seeded anti-intellectualism, and we’re a large part cultist/religious idiots that see everything through the lense of “some guy” being the best thing ever and the source of all truth.

Same reason why Hip Hop sucked in 96: https://youtu.be/yKf40CLF9MU

Of course he doesn’t, he’s got TDS.

Guys, just steal this and use it to describe deranged Trump idiots. The right wing steals useful words like “fake news” and “groomer” and alters their meanings for political purposes all of the time. This one should be a layup because without reading into it everyone already thinks it’s the condition those everyday July 4th cosplay, big truck with tattered flags morons have.

Blur - Song 2 was intended as a parody of American rock and is laden with nonsense lyrics. It’s their most known song in America by a wide margin and might even be their most known song globally.

Woohoo

You can be a content creator. It’s not that difficult to post a meme. Content creators aren’t another species.

Honestly lemmy specifically is good enough to scratch my Reddit itch. We may not be able to post our way out of fascism, but we can certainly post our way out of the centralized, enshittified platforms like Reddit where we came from.

I think it’s more difficult in applications where you want or have to bring a lot of friends to make the apps useful, but in the case of lemmy specifically if there’s a baseline level of activity that’s enough to fulfill 90% of what i used Reddit for (i.e. snarky memes and random back and forths with relative strangers).

The US is like the Facebook or Google or Twitter or Amazon of countries. Out of simple convenience and ease of use people centralized their lives around us and now that we’re obviously falling apart they’re going to have to make a huge effort to get rid of our influence.

I just realized that this country has been enshittifying itself my entire life.

We’re the inshitternet of countries.

I agree, but somehow the low end portable monitors seem to already have USB-C support. I bought a monitor for like $60 and it had USB-C.

I’m not quite sure why regular size monitors are lacking the support.

Wizards / steppers

They suck and I’m tired of pretending they’re in any way a good design.

USB-C likely will take over video eventually. I use it for video on two out of three of my monitors and the Nintendo switch can be used that way.

Love it.