Absolutely agree, but I’m continuously surprised at how many people don’t WANT to think for themselves. It’s not that they lack the ability or their IQ is too low, they simply have decided to outsource their goddamn morality. That’s perhaps worse than simple ignorance.

It killed Digg. It’s slowly killing Reddit now.

That’s a legit societal theory called “accelerationism”. Make everything so awful that people will realize what’s happening and instigate massive backlash.

Except… the first time this was tried, in the 30’s, we got WWII instead of solutions. So maybe not that great of an idea after all.

Trump may be incompetent but the architects of project 2025 are, unfortunately, not. Trump is merely their most useful idiot.

Well… you’ll find out eventually, one way or the other.

Wrong. There was one thing truly exceptional about the USA: the best propaganda the world had ever seen. Certainly the most effective.

Give it some time. I’m sure they could be a whole lot worse still.

That thing will be around long after she’s gone, and, I hope, will show up on the first page of search results every time.

Damn, Elon’s company town is barely a week old and others are already introducing scrip. I knew it was going to be inevitable but this is way faster than even I anticipated.

This is real journalism, which has become increasingly rare these days. Everything else is just PR.

There are already big brands offering laptops with linux in lieu of windows.

Until you name that “brain” Azatoth and everyone loses their minds.

Several subs have automods set to autodelete any comments referencing Lemmy or links to it, not to mention the manual deletions by mods. It’s definitely being talked about, despite these attempts.

Worst part is I went “Oh yeah, I saw this story yesterday” and then realized that no, that was about a Texas jail, this is Ohio…

Being a good person is so yesterday. Nowadays it’s all about wearing your overt cruelty as a badge of honor. This world is completely finished. Nukes can’t start flying fast enough, nothing else left to look forward to.

Yeah unless your stomach is producing aqua regia that gold’s coming out the exact same way it went in.

Yes, and that is why people like you and me will never be rich in the first place. This mindset completely prevents it.

Everyone’s so tired and broken down with all our societal problems that they’re just trying to make enough money so the problems don’t apply to them anymore, rather than trying to tackle the actual underlying issues…

Always did…

For real. I explicitly append “give me the actual objective truth, regardless of how you think it will make me feel” to my prompts and it still tries to somehow butter me up to be some kind of genius for asking those particular questions or whatnot. Luckily I’ve never suffered from good self esteem in my entire life, so those tricks don’t work on me :p