Cool story, goog.

I’m just going to keep waiting for a linux/foss phone so that its features and capabilities are actually predictable year to year.

But maybe I’m just too picky about what features and capabilities I want. I admit I’ve gotten used to some pretty outlandish stuff like… lemme check my notes here… “the device does the things I tell it to do.” Real galaxy-brain shit!

Spoken like a true trouble maker who should relinquish your home to make room for 1% of the NEXT casino parking garage!

They just act like the wrong one, the one that walks around saying “you don’t fuck with the Jesus!”

It’s frustrating how correct you are.

Our culture is very sick, and looking at Trump as a distilled essence of that culture is pretty dang accurate.

I think my mental state isn’t really that of surprise, but still being baffled baffled at how stupid we can really be.

Don’t forget that tens of millions of my neighbors voted for him THREE times.

I think that definition of “falling behind” is exactly the FOMO that the tech giants want to sell to all the other companies.

I think the FOMO of the tech CEOs is the same as it ever was. Money. In this case it’s “What if the magic thing that makes AI dominate the economy happens and I am not leading the pack at just that moment? I might not become one of the first trillionaires! 😭”

Depends on just how diluted it was!

I was going to make some kind of joke like “unless you are into homeopathy lolol” but the answer is the same for them! They are just thinking of the wrong end of the scale.

That seems like a law enforcement issue, and boy howdy do we have people for that already!

Like if you’re arrested and you are in the country illegally, you could be deported after you’ve been processed and/or served a sentence. That’s already been a thing for a long time. And we could argue in good faith about what the most fair and just policies are surrounding that.

(aside: populations in the developed world are not growing like they used to, and are shrinking in many places. The US is driving away our most respected minds and our most disrespected laborers RIGHT when other nations are going to start treating them even better than before. So even aside from the “be kind to humans” angle it’s pretty strategically stupid.)

But what the United States is supposed to be about, as in the Constitution and amendments, is that decent people just get to do their thing to just live life and pursue happiness. You don’t get searched or evaluated or judged unless you break the laws we collectively built. Therefore, nobody would going door to door checking people’s papers.

The tools that law enforcement would need in order to simply deport all people here illegally are the kinds of things our laws were designed to prevent from ever existing!

I think I would agree with the “liberty” side of that one. It seems much less bad for my family that some folks in town working tough jobs are “ILLeGaL” versus living in a surveillance-state, police-state, fascist dictatorship.

Yeah but then that potential wake-up call gets put through the 2026 filter and out the other end comes… “Trump claims Harlem should be carpet bombed and casino parking garage built – midwest gang violence the last straw even if it was Law Enforcement gangs this one time.”

We have the original Kinect and an old Xbox 360 permanently stationed in the living room of the house.

Being able to have Kinect Party or its prequel (Double Fine’s Happy Action Theater) on the TV out there is absolute magic when you need to entertain a group of kids.

Holy crap, I think you’ve cracked it.

LLM AI is the trillion collar costing, terawatt consuming rubber ducky for the new millennium!

Yeah I agr–

Have a nice day!

I went and scrolled facebook recently and it is absolutely crazy. You get some ads, sure, and a few things that real people posted, but like half of what is on there feels like some kind of shady psychological experiment.

It’s like a whole spectrum of flavors of ultra-processed engagement bait. Much of it is made to look like normal people posting normal things, just with a “follow” next to the name and 5,000 replies from kind old people trapped in a rabbit hole they don’t even know exists.

Yeah, there are good places and bad places everywhere. That’s why we invented statistics, to figure out the differences (or lack thereof) between big messy groups of data points.

I live in a very pleasant suburban neighborhood in the US. I don’t ever see addicts zoning out like in the OP. But that doesn’t mean I should pretend that the problem doesn’t exist. That’s what my conservative family members like to do.

I can only hope that THIS time, with the sheer amount of information available, that future historians will convince society that it’s better to run society based on evidence and progress and humanity.

We have the old boys club running our companies, grifting and building a giant economic bubble to make a quick buck they have no use for, and casually destroying some of the most valuable brands out there.

They are running many of our governments too, and that’s not working great.

I think this could also be generalized into something like “Conservative struggles with colors other than black, white”

Where else am I going to keep all my Linux installer USB sticks, the bundle of cables that comes in handy every year or two, or the stuff I printed at work for my family that I need to take home?

I liked it back in the day, but I don’t mess with that stuff no more. That’s how you get another GlaDOS.

It’s never made sense.

It makes perfect sense for the americans who have been conditioned for literal decades to react certain ways to certain things, while being kept ignorant of nice things that exist in the rest of the world.

For instance:

Government-run anything? It is mathematically and physically impossible for it to benefit society. It will, without fail, become a corrupt dumpster fire that furthers evil in our world.

Market-based solution that leans heavily on “personal responsibility?” Well that’s just great I tells ya! It lobs like the best, kindest, and most Christlike solution is to do nothing and let them fend for themselves! They will be stronger for it and will thank us!

If they ever remove this ass from office, it will probably just be the final compromise to somehow still not release the epstein files.

Why do you prefer them to flatpaks? Genuinely curious. I’ve only used appimages once or twice.