50% chub, and rising.

Are you asking that in good faith? The Maga trash for certain, though. And people who don’t take direct action, or any action.

Nah, Raymond’s a cunt and I’ve told a few Raymonds at work that.

The fun thing is, old AI slop helps new AI slop look more believable. The main tells is line work and fonts. Chat GPT has a very distinct art style, with a lot of soft lines and generic fonts. It’s also extremely consistent. You could look up a dedicated sub for Chat GPT memes to get a feel for it. Then you’ll start to loathe it.

Making your own food is normal for a lot of people here too, but I know a ton of people who just eat garbage all the time. My grandmother just eats all the time. She will just sit down and eat an entire pan of fried potatoes back to back, and my dad and stepmom just eat fast food every day. I had a nightmare where I was forced to watch my family eat junk off a table and then they got taken away once they got so fat to be butchered. I’ve been getting sick lately thinking about it, and my room mate keeps nagging me to eat way too much. I hate how fat I’ve gotten.

Yeah, but if they didn’t they might actually have to interact with the poors, and they can’t have that.

I guess if I had to throw some shade at M$, I really hate how garbage the registry has become. Back in the day it was great for very specific solutions and some personalization, but now I have to crawl through hundreds of drop downs on a fresh install just to fix simple things on Microsoft’s own software.

You can move the taskbar back to the left, it’s a setting in the context menu. But by all means, please don’t let that drag you away from Linux. Windows is going to get a lot worse in other ways soon. It always does.

The last number I was given was that anyone who makes more than a converted $20,000 per year is in the global top 10%. There used to be a global income comparison tool that showed where you stand on the global scale. I feel 90% confident that any individual person reading this is someone who is above that line, especially if they can afford things like internet and electric together. Those kinds of guys are driving cars to work and eating out, instead of making their food every single day and listening to radio because they can’t afford any luxuries.

I agree that it ain’t exactly smart to say everyone in a developed economy is doing well, but I want to remind anyone reading this to count their blessings and consider their own impact just as much as they try to hold the worst offenders accountable.

Undeniably a majority. We can’t ignore the fact that we have impact on climate too. Big interest want us to argue over blame rather than try to fix the problem (Them). That said, I don’t commute by aircraft daily like Taylor Swift and every other rich person.

If you’re reading this, you’re in that 10%.

Deepest sleep of today vs the deepest sleep of all time.

Nah, anyone fighting a gorilla would be ins-ta-cooked no matter how strong or skilled they are. Their skin alone is like leather. Grappling a gorilla sounds like a death sentence. The best you could hope for is they think you are trying to play with them.

When you go to hell, you’re strapped to a chair and forced to watch ads that spoil major plot points of the movie.

Then when you watch the movie in theaters, the pre-movie ads are ads that spoil the major plot points of several other movies.

An eternal chain of ruin, for your sins.

Ah great, now the hub is going to be flooded with this.

“This again? See you next month, Don.”

He’s like clockwork, but he’s more of a fake Rolex.

That’s unfortunately what happens when people get gaslit into thinking being a debt slave is morally righteous.

Why would you do this to him

The thing you use once to download firefox, and then never again.

I’ve been a democratic socialist for years. Communism is not an authoritarian belief, it is a socioeconomic model separate from that concept. Stalinist Communism -in practice- was an absolutely authoritarian dictatorship with well documented hardship suffered by the Russians, that people for some reason can’t seem to unhook from actual proper communism and will defend to the death in a fit of tribalist rage as if all communism is good communism. I chose to define Democratic Socialism rather than use the term intentionally, because I felt like just blurbing it out would come across as a buzzword. I’m not opposed to communism and would prefer socialism, but I am absolutely not going to advocate for Stalinist Communism.

I don’t know, the thing annoying me about the tread is everyone is correcting the person by saying “They’re Communist, not Fascist!” instead of saying that it was “Authoritarian rather than Fascist”. I feel like framing it in the latter way unhooks the term from authoritarianism, but also doesn’t preclude it from possibly becoming authoritarian like any other socioeconomic system. I feel like the prior framing gave the impression that Stalinist Communism had nothing to do with authoritarianism in general, which I will absolutely disagree with. Stalinist Communism was absolutely not Fascism, but it was absolutely an Authoritarian Dictatorship and I don’t appreciate the implication that it wasn’t.

I don’t know if any of that makes sense, I have a hard time articulating my points. Feel free to critique and thank you for the conversation.