How about the almost constant brain fog? I wonder if comes from the awful big city air around here, or if it’s just a feature of being an adult.

They teach it at Turkish schools.

It’s true. Habitually saying “please.” thank you," “hello” to people can open a lot of doors. Also, it’s just amazing in an awful way just how many people are not doing this.

Getting some serious Stalin vibes here.

I want to pet it.

Stare into the abyss for long enough, and the abyss will start staring into you.
Or whatever that means.

Geez, that’s some dedication. And where do you even get 64 working floppy drives?

pngcrush gets it down to 21.1 kB with no loss of quality.
I tried posting the file, but Lemmy converts it to the atrocious webp format automatically.
EDIT: JPEG-XL clocks in at just 16.3 kB, again with no loss of quality.

Phase 2 - annexation of other countries, or parts thereof - is yet to start. Surely that would serve to quieten the home front, not to mention to make the rich even richer, by an awful lot. Hell, we’ll get to see the world’s first trillionaire for sure.

Middle management AI when?

Nice racket. First you pay the airlines for their tickets, then the ICE with your tax dollars to buy your data from said airlines.

Dating sites besieging their users with bots and fake profiles.