froh42 @ froh42 @lemmy.world

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When I was a kid, it was forbidden to peruse DHMO during class, regardless how bad the withdrawal symptoms were.

What what, you can last over four minutes?

At least in Japan the middle aged men card trading game is a thing:

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan/

Watching TV:

Here in the EU it is offensive/inappropriate to kill people.

There in the US it is offensive/inappropriate to make people.

So the difference is whether to make love or to make war. Personally I'd rather be a bononbo than a chimpanzee.

There was this weird guy around here who claimed women are 100% man - they have been made out of a man's rib or so.

And a lot of people believed this guy.

"CD labeling pen" They sold permanent markers with thin tips specifically for writing on CDs.

HH has a meaning, unfortunately. If you're German, you'll know. Or if you're Elon Musk.

Very long time ago Electronic Arts (ECA at the time, with the cube, ball and pyramid logo) published amazing games.

I really really enjoyed my Racing Destruction Set or the Pinball Construction Set on the C64.

I'm just happy now I did pirate them and never gave them my money to cause what EA is now.

So in my eyes "ECA" is another company "EA" killed.

(40 years ago, when I was 15 - sue me, EA )

Someone forgot to add the googly eyes.

What a burn. The Tesla might even catch fire from this comment alone.

Let's say grok is just leaning a bit to the right.

As a man I'd have never believed how common such behavior is. I'd have thought that's really outlandish.

Now I've gone through the (probably stereotypical) process of a guy having a daughter, she's an adult now.

What she told me - no, all this stuff isn't unusual at all. The first time she was afraid (and called me as she already had a phone of her own) she was not even 10 years old, riding her bike from my place to the ex-wife's place, teenage boys catcalling her.

There's a lot of us men around who find it hard to believe, because it doesn't happen to US. But it does. Frequently.

tja.

Tell me. I recently dated this blonde girl and suddenly I'm divorced, burnt out and middle aged. Ok, I still got two cool adult kids.

My name is Friedrich Trump (aka Frederick Trump) and I already did that and even had a nice hump.

Yes that's right. It's a get your shit together or go bust moment for us here in Europe.

Yep, I know that for myself. But I can't switch away from github as that is where the huge company I work for has its stuff - and it needs convincing the enterprises, not the individuals.

Personally I just have my own repos which I can move anywhere in an eyeblink. But it takes political power to. move governments, departments and companies.

For example I have no way to ditch Teams or Outlook, because that's the accounts my employer set up. I can't ditch my RSA hardware token, because that's what my. employer's customer uses. I can't ditch. my work phone as only Samsung and Apple are vetted.

That's something that needs to change on a pan-europrean level.

Musk is not a Nazi, because the Nazis built great cars.

Migrating cloud servers to European hosters. Give EU money to improve/build a linux desktop. Use that desktop in government, schools, universities... (instead of Windows). Fork Firefox. Host fediverse services and use them where the governments use Twitter / TikTok / Insta.

Harder: Mandate for mobile phones with a user installable OS (Cyanogen etc.) Force tech companies to provide total transparency about data usage. Cancel any safe harbor agreements.

In the end, everything the Open Source crowd wished for.

Btw, I'd have no issues with American / Russian / China hosted open source stuff when we can review what it does. Ah, ok, a "european code review agency" might be a thing.

Yeah, a minority of people voted for Hitler, too.