GalacticGrapefruit @ GalacticGrapefruit @lemmy.world

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"They're giving transgender surgeries to illegal immigrants in prison."

*Medicaid

It was a spelling goof, it's all good. Still reading you loud and clear.

Ooh! Thanks!

Star Wars: A New Hope. C-3PO.

I might just be a massive god damn nerd, but I would rather build my own with an old Pixel, a printer, and a Pi. If I can't be up to my elbows in its guts, from board to code, then it isn't mine.

Right? AI-generated pictures of Scarlett Johansen as a flight attendant praising Jesus, or an African kid making sculptures of Jesus out of trash. And all the comments just being 'Amen' spam. Bots on top of bots. It's just fucking dystopian.

Not maintaining artificial connections with people who would reach out to me if they actually gave a damn about me has genuinely been liberating.

I like how Discord- and Slack-like socials are set up. It's just more natural. Instead of a feed, it's a forum. It feels more like a physical place, with couches for discussion, corners of the room where people take conversation, and a hall outside for privacy. And if you understood that metaphor, then you know how I feel.

And if I don't like a server, I can just... leave. Never have to run into them again, but still have access to friends. No holes in the conversation where an obvious block or ignore leaves gaps.

This is true. While I appreciate Al Jazeera's coverage of Gaza, at the end of the day, they're a mouthpiece for an autocracy. And their primary media contrast is, well, other mouthpieces for other autocracies.

I hate watching the news. It's terrorist empires and wannabe empires having pissing contests with each other.

Remember when Bruce Wayne was a millionaire?

And then a multimillionaire?

And then a billionaire?

Yeah. It means they'll try to keep us down even more by making us poorer and poorer, self-defeating tactic that it is. Eventually, it'll be like a bolt of lightning or an earthquake; the imbalance of power will hit a breaking point and it will equalize. Quickly and violently.

It's 50+ countries in a trenchcoat. Pan-Americanism, in the US context, is laughable at best and absolutely a shambling nightmare at worst. There's several reasons why our government sucks. But the sheer size of this fucking empire is the top of the list.

Before the end of the century, it's going to Balkanize hard.

Having to explain how you ended up in a death camp in El Salvador when you came to visit legally as a tourist.

So... a nation and a religion that was defined by its thousand-year exile by an evil empire forces another nation into a thousand-year exile as the acting hand of another evil empire.

Please understand that this is, on every conceivable level, insanely fucked up and flies in the face of both reason and morality.

The best solution would be to have an integrated, secular government and plans for reparation, return, and reconciliation.

Oh, take my damn upvote you punny bastard. 😂

Ditto what the others said. You might have just rolled bad RNG (DNA) at character creation (birth) and just gotten stuck with immunity to certain painkillers. It happens. Bad luck, friend.

God, the number of times I've painted things in Orange and Purple instead of Red and Blue and seen people ardently support the Orange argument, only to shut down in a brainwashed BSOD as soon as I replace the name tag...

Krita has a full-blown animation suite. And yes, the sound does work.

Jesus, fuck, at that point I would pack my quilts and sleep outside. Because fuck that.

I think he found it.

Same. Fiction or fact, this is funny enough and harmless enough to just shrug and say, "He must be a wizard, whoever he is."