The backache and frustration with the number 67 for existing already did that, but thank you for reminding me that we had a good Windows OS once.

Shaka, when the walls fell!

Literally exactly what I said, thank you for clarifying.

I feel like if you need more than a plastic toothpick to clean your charging port, you need to reevaluate how and when you’re using your phone and maybe should invest in paper towels to wipe your hands after eating.

Do not the space probe

Voyager’s mission parameters and expectations have only decreased since 1977, it will never be required to run newer software or investigate new objects. It is winding down and is just sending back enough data that we can use our more powerful Earth-based computers to detect the most subtle changes to the cosmic medium.

Meanwhile, we have a constantly accelerating global marketplace of new software and new ways of both working and playing games. If ya’ll were operating on a system designed to stay functional for 40+ years you would not like that system.

All that said, we do have a pretty bad problem with bloatware and software/hardware companies colluding to leverage consumers to buy and upgrade phones and computers more than necessary.

I just don’t think it’s a fair comparison if we were to get really pedantic and serious about a joke meme.

I’m just teasing at this whole deep-dive into the background image of a meme, it’s very… stereotypical, but yeah if you have a personal connection it’s definitely more than a hobby interest in old power plants.

It’s a great big huge spectrum and there’s room for everyone on it!

The middle-class makes up the US’s “breadbasket” of political capital, they are the ones with homes, money and credit cards and they are the fatty, crispy pork-back that every oligarch and political leader eye with hunger. They are largely liberal and largely out-of-touch and vote with completely tuned-out ambivalence on most issues. (Read up on exit polling for the 2024 election, it’s WILD how people made their decisions and how little they actually understood about the election and candidates.)

The user above is saying that the meme should be pointing out that this 99% (approximately) are the ones who should be alerted to the fact that they’re being fleeced, not just people below the poverty line. People view “the poor” as dirty hobos, not people who work 7 days a week.

This ENTIRE political WWE theater we’re subjected to with right-versus-left has been fabricated to keep people distracted and occupied so they don’t notice the liches and necromancers pulling society’s strings in the background. We need to do better to turn this into a class-war and not a fight over trying to yell at conservatives for being ideologically inconsistent. Some fights you can win, some you can’t.

Even the working-poor conservatives who have to put in 60+ hours a week for minimum wage just to pay for their shitty single-wide have been brainwashed to believe that they’re “prosperous” simply for being white americans, and that being one medical bill away from literal homelessness is actually “patriotism.”

So yeah, the only way we break this infernal spell cast by ancient liches and necromancers is to point at the liches and necromancers hiding behind the curtain. This is populism, this is class consciousness and this is unifying against the actual enemies of our country.

I refer back to a note I wrote myself during the depths of despair after crawling back out from a total loss and had to rebuild my life.

“There is no wrong way to live. Just being here, experiencing anything is a cosmic miracle, it’s literally impossible to waste your life.”

So when did you get your diagnosis? I found out I was on the spectrum only last year.

Grok, is this true?

I’m sure it varies a lot from area to area, in the US especially, but having grown up in the olden times, there was in fact a time when the idea of climate change was about as fringe as flat-earth and aliens, and even talking about it like it’s a serious issue would get most people removed from their positions or laughed at by the population broadly.

There are a lot of teachers who now encourage and promote climate science. How much of that is actually heard and accepted? That’s a whole other issue as our education system is now eroding well below whatever standards we had or should have had.

In most of the developed world climate change is now being accepted broadly by even many conservatives, but the new argument is if the change is human-caused or if it’s even harmful (literally, there is a oft-recycled argument on the right that higher carbon levels will mean healthier plants and forests.)

There is a current narrative regression going on right now simply because of Trump and entirely because of Trump, giving people the validation and support to pretend climate change isn’t real, but it’s temporary. I’ve seen how leadership influences societies and how radically the figurehead of our country changes how people think and feel. It doesn’t matter what he says or makes other people think though, the world is broadly preparing the best we can anyway, with many coastal cities and the Navy creating plans for giant infrastructure projects.

Yah I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the message in the context it’s presented. It’s a fucking teacher. They are already doing not just the most they can, but also doing something far more effective than butting heads with a corporate-driven world at a time when environmentalism was seen as fringe and ludicrous by most people on Earth.

It would be different if it was some wealthy corporate CEO saying “I’m leaving this for the next generation to solve.”

I remember a time that even a teacher saying this to a student would be considered inappropriate activism about a controversial topic.

That’s great. I have had amazing success in my interpersonal life connecting with and then influencing conservatives. For a while, I had the most cinematically diverse gaming group you could think of, we had cowboy rednecks, a polycule of trans girls, ex-military intelligence officers, furries, communists, everything you can think of, and we all got along.

The key though was it took a lot of shepherding and listening. By giving everyone time to vent, talk, explain their feelings I was able to get everyone on common ground and we did great things together, and those positive feelings then went on to create change.

I don’t read nearly enough books anymore but I will check out your recommendations so far.

The real question ANY of us should be asking, is if humans laid eggs instead of live birth, would we eat our own regularly-laid infertile eggs?

Run now. Just leave this place and don’t look back

Thank you for that. And nah, I don’t think we’ll ever get the satisfaction of seeing the world’s elite face consequence, not unless it’s some broad-scale, massive collapse that impacts everyone, and even then they will hold out for a while in their bunkers. One thing that does give me some measure of hope is that despite being wealthy, they are not smarter than anyone else, and have the same overconfidence, the same vulnerabilities, the same biases and inabilities to see outside of their little spheres. The same mortality. They will make mistakes, as they have done in the past. Those mistakes will cost them power and wealth, it just won’t be a fairy-tale ending all at once, it’s just entropy perpetually leveling the playing field.

And yeah, I think our species’ fixation on narratives is giving everyone a false idea that stories “end” at some point. That Trump dies and everyone celebrates and credits roll.

We don’t get ending credits. We don’t even get a silly post-credits scene to imply a sequel. One issue just blends right in with the next, perpetually. The only real end-game goal or satisfaction any of us should focus on is each other and our communities. Individuals are the real star of every story, and there’s no such thing as background characters in the real world.

The entire administration is riding on the political capital that Trump has seized early on by courting the nation’s most stupid.

That turned into political capital because while this is a minority segment, this segment is beyond devoted, they would literally support Trump without exception or hesitation, and they’re armed, and they are united in their orcish rampage across politics. Jan 6th was Trump “weapon testing” to show that he could wield this devotion and fanaticism.

So right now, there are dozens or hundreds of Republicans jockeying for pole position after Trump dies, each one thinking they can wield this same power. But they absolutely do not get it. They try. They say unhinged and bold nonsense hoping it lands, but then end up talking and ruining it. Watch JD try to act tough and then spend 30 minutes talking like a politician as the viewers tune out. MAGAts hate that shit. They are loyal to trump because he’s genuine. (Not honest, there’s a difference) and Trump’s hatred for even being there oozes from his pores and his base loves it. It’s a weird formula that will lead to absolute chaos when Trump dies, and much of the GOP power will go with him.

But that is not even remotely saying things are going to be “better” in any way. A lot of very wealthy people feel empowered to completely cheat and break the law and game the system. Unless very strong dem leadership rises immediately, Trump’s death may well be more ruinous than when he was alive because it will splinter the country’s power blocs and lead to a breakdown in government.

still think people should be driving cars.

I am talking about what’s realistically feasible with current attitudes and infrastructure and lack thereof, I get how rail is the socialist utopia dream, but we’re about as far from light rail and walkable cities in the US as we are from motherfucking FOOD REPLICATORS.

Also:

It’s interesting that you

Just fuck right off with that internet chud language.