I just had my first thread that I came across today, after nearly 2 years here, that was collaboratively funny, creative, diverse and made me remember what lots of talent in a thread can do. Not just anti-establishment/political circle jerking, or a few tech categories that get enough visibility to get participation.
It was a /mildlyinteresting thread about giraffes being more likely to be struck by lightning. It immediately made me feel like I was finallly home again after 2 years and looking forward to more and more growth in Lemmy and the fediverse.
Yeah, I just closed the agency investigating my company so there is no enforcement mechanism. Legal alludes to a system I now own and control because it's better for me that way. Going to pass a few joke statues or pardon myself if there are any teeth left. Thanks fucking peasant.
It's not necessarily you getting older; there is a fundamental difference in goals, aims and quality of software now. 99% of major software is either funded by VC or incumbent monopolists who are interested in extractions primarily and establishing moats, barriers to free and fair use, and any way possible to monetize an interaction. This is why those of us who lived through the actual innovation stages aren't excited anymore as it's clear this is not "progress" and the warning flags are there from the first marketing pitch.
This entire timeline though was part of the plan, it was never going to be free/cheap, functional and easily accessible forever. We are in the frog boiling phase now that doesn't end until we take back some of what has been lost.
Jack black isn't funny at all. He's worse, incredibly fucking irritating and annoying and a try hard. He epitomizes mainstream US "comedy"; obvious, loud, overstating the delivery of jokes with overwrought physical humor. He and Horatio Sanz must have studied under the same Sithlord. Can't stand him.
It's easy when the news is owned by for profits bound to repeat whatever is given to them for the ends of "both sides", and the precipices of higher education like Columbia and Harvard jump aboard the misinformation wagon so as not to upset rich and powerful donors or lose "government grants" held at the barrel of allegiance.
Meanwhile, Trump's idiot doj is saying people egging Teslas is terrorism. When actual terrorism is refused to be labeled as such, attempting to redefine the word to their twisted ends.
Was thinking about that. The whole hardware cycle needs a sanity check where phones, PCs, money of the annual "improvements" are now just software slop, AI slop or deck chair rearranging, or breaking things that used to work.
So you're assuming that no one in Trump's circle made any trades in advance of yesterday's tariff pause cancellation? Do you know the exponential return you could get on a short-term option when the underlying investment moves 20% in a day?
We're already at 1, which means it's time for 2. They're starting the the Columbia universities of the country but it'll be down to state and local levels after that. Companies of course will say and do nothing as the Spice must flow.
I just had my first thread that I came across today, after nearly 2 years here, that was collaboratively funny, creative, diverse and made me remember what lots of talent in a thread can do. Not just anti-establishment/political circle jerking, or a few tech categories that get enough visibility to get participation.
It was a /mildlyinteresting thread about giraffes being more likely to be struck by lightning. It immediately made me feel like I was finallly home again after 2 years and looking forward to more and more growth in Lemmy and the fediverse.