Yeah I bet there is absolutely DNS in space, but that didn’t fit the joke, lol.

There I go getting the Narrator: It was treatment!

I’m sure my anecdote applies to people from all three, and even to some of the boomers that didn’t ingest as much lead and have kept their head on straight.

When I mentioned The Oregon Trail generation though, that’s usually an Xennial label.

Haha yeah, I use outlook at work as a webpage in LibreWolf in Linux, so even with open stuff on my local hardware I can definitely still have outlook issues.

That’s impossible. They don’t even have that in space.

Living in the US as somebody who pays attention to the world and cares about people and stuff is absolutely surreal sometimes.

It’s especially so when you’re one of the last people to have had an analog childhood (The Oregon Trail generation represent) so all the adults you knew as a child grew up in the post-ww2 prosperity and genuinely believed all the American exceptionalism stuff.

The only thing it seems we are best at is striking the perfect evil balance where I can’t decide if it feels more Black Mirror or more Hunger Games.

Yes to all, especially the driver attention one.

I have two options when driving to work. One is shorter and takes straight level roads through the newest part of town.

The other way is slightly longer but it’s a twisty hilly road through the countryside.

I take the longer route every single day unless it is actively snowing or something. And now that hybrid WFH is a common thing, I don’t often drive in the snow.

Then there’s Pittsburgh. It’s like Boston but when you take a wrong turn you end up on the wrong side of a mighty river or two.

POWER OVERWHELMING

They are like REALLY good with computers too. The last one also did this cute hiss when a Tesla would drive past.

Bongs & Bastards

This is just as true in my non-computer hobbies that involve physical systems instead of code and configs!

If I had to just barely meet the requirements using as little budget as possible while making it easy for other people to work on, that would be called “work.” My brain needs to indulge in some over-engineering and “I need to see it for myself” kind of design decisions.

That just seems like semantics. It seems pretty fair to call country A bombing the shit out of country B and killing its leader an act of war.

I think a lot of my fellow Americans find it easy to not think of as a “war” because they see no risk of Iran attacking the continental US. They’ll just send their thoughts and prayers to whoever deployed over there catches the bullets.

It’s also very possible that the war is a roudabout consequence of the child rape, assuming Epstein was a Mossad honeypot and Israel really really wants the US to be blowing up Iran right now.

mechanic: So, does it make any noises or can you smell anything burning?

customer: I can’t really hear anything, maybe a little hiss or sizzle once in a while. And nothing burning that I can smell. It actually smells really good and I’m getting hungry!

mechanic: aha! I got u fam.

Oh no. We can’t have enshittification cross over into our actual shitters!

With the stupid numbers being thrown around in the AI “industry,” buying up a company like Toto to harvest its organs seems run of the mill stuff for private equity.

Yeah, don’t compare them to the ideal in your head. Compare them to the best their competitors have put out there.

You know, like the assholes here in the US that would just have humans remote control them from the next room to get worse results. And yeah of course China can lie and fake shit too, but I think this would probably be just as impressive if they were all mimicking the movements of a mocap-suited athlete off stage.

offering up his apartment to fellow protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray

Wow what a terrorist! When other citizens walk in with pepper spray on them he lets them wash it off?

I bet he and his co-conspirators were involved with the undcheduled shut down of the Orphan Crushing Machine too!

Gross.

I continue to have my own little cognitive dissonance about the Fediverse:

The world needs more FOSS and information needs to flow in a decentralized, democratic kind of way.

Howeverrrrr… Lemmy is awesome for we few that it clicks with. For the good of the users and especially the volunteer admins who run our instances, I am glad Lemmy is not the big glowing target that reddit is.

Maybe we just hang out and keep the lights on no matter whether it’s for occasional lost Linux users or for when mainstream folks decide to ditch oligarch-tech en masse.

I’m not sure where to start here, so here are two equally important building blocks.

First, aside from other reasons the Nazi/minority is wrong, you are comparing a label somebody gets for existing the way they were born with a label somebody gets for actions they take that harm other people.

Second, some kind of mishmash of the terms “social contract” and “paradox of tolerance.”