You joke but it’ll be a real TruthSocial post within the next week. “We WON the war! Now we’ll be rich!” as gas goes a dime higher

That RAM isn’t a dangerous weapon like a uterus

Yes, but with hundreds of millions of people online, they still need ways to cut and sift the data as they identify… well the “demographics” they want. So using a VPN might make you stand out as more technologically included, or more likely to be hiding something. Either way things they might like to know as they build profiles on all Americans.

I’m surprised they’re not just buying the data but it’s nice that our taxpayers are footing the bill either way for this little service.

From what Elon says to shareholders, Tesla is going to pivot to becoming a humanoid robot production company anyway, the cars are just a sideline. They axed two models when they announced that.

These weirdos will tell their kids it’s a “no-no square” to avoid having to use the word “penis.” Then when their youth pastor molests them, they can go right to calling it whatever he does. Smooths over all that unnecessary sex communication librulz say you have to do.

Just speaking for myself, as a systems administrator, I am actively pursuing my backup plans to get out of IT ASAP. What’s coming is topsy-turvy and will be dog eat dog.

“americans are 3 hot meals from a revolution” is the saying I think.

Dammit, Obama maybe - the act was passed by Congress in 2013.

The average American feels an unmet need for connection. Social media immediately fills that need, exactly like a drug. For a few minutes anyway. You don’t get the benefits of a real connection, just the dopamine. Pretty soon you feel worse, and the best way to stop feeling bad is to hit refresh or keep scrolling. I’m glad we’re finally looking at the consequences of social media for kids, then we can look at what it does to adults.

I use my scrotum like an oven mitt

It was a golf course. A sex golf course. For ghosts!

The point of capitalism isn’t “make a widget/sell the widget/to a customer” anymore, it’s “create market value/sell the value/shareholders are the entire point.” The widgets are just a prop in a way, the customers an abstraction. If it’s making money, if it’s growing above 3.5, we worship it. If it’s growing at thousands of percent, then it’s a god who cannot be stopped. Everything else just supports this - government, social programs, people’s life and death and joy in between - that’s all an abstraction. Shareholder value is the only thing that matters.

This is why we must restrain capitalism with regulation, but it’s too late, it’s metastasized into its final form now.

They do have influence tho, and the average Boomer Betty Jane doesn’t take time to wonder if they’re legit comments, her brain’s mirror neurons automatically integrate this and compare her beliefs to it, invoking a deep and lengthy reconciliation process, all of which she’s unaware of. This is how community norms are changed, alternate realities exist. Which is all to say, the internet was a bad idea, we know that now.

The disease is late stage capitalism, the symptom is a mad dash to trade our natural resources for energy and pollution. The mad dash will continue as long as we’re bleeding humanity to keep the shareholders high and dry.

Only during specific times of the year, it’s a supplement not a main diet. If you notice your colony doesn’t have enough honey for the winter, or it’s a new colony, or needs medicated, then yes. Otherwise they should be eating their own stored honey made the way they like it.

“Letting the perfect get in the way of the good.”

Most people can’t stop working and/or travel to DC for endless protests, but they can go out on a Saturday afternoon.

If that’s the least someone can do, don’t tell them not to.

You can’t put a shareholder in jail, they’re the entire point of the system gestures broadly

I had one disable my car in rush hour traffic in another city on a roadtrip, they had no way to do anything to get me back up and running. I assume this is for those kinds of cases. I was taking up a lane on the interstate with a cop staring at me, trying to hum the little fucker back to life while a tow truck came.

I agree, but some places there’s simply no option. I have a state job, they will under no circumstances provide a phone, but you must have Authenticator. If you won’t or can’t use a smartphone, you simply don’t have a job.

State jobs are interesting. 3/4 the pay of a regular job, but job security like none other, and you barely have to do anything. I spend most of my time doing my moonlighting job to supplement my income.

And now they’re the only one banned from it.