Just more displaying that the rich, and particularly rich people like trump, live in the land of mo consequences. They make demands that others pay for, never themselves, and when underlings defy them they become furious. Walmart CEOs are underlings, now.

Goons. Stasi. Whatever.

The USSR had lifetime factory jobs, too.

It’s always fun to find those (Is my kid [problem]?) books in a parent’s library later in life. Mostly because it’s never (Am I effectively helping my kid or actively worsening a problem?) books because parents didn’t seem to consider their own roles and effects in childrearing, and kinda quietly implies you can easily force your kid to be compliant with your expectations. Especially older books.

That sounds like a great choice. A fresh Gyro certainly could be better for you, too.

Sounds dreadful.

Send the ships, quick. Don’t want to have to put up with people hoarding supplies or toilet paper again.

I tried to find Pedalorennen or similar. No luck.

Yup. ‘86 is still alive. All the movies, music, etc. Going to see Devo, OMD, New Order and others this summer.

I like it.

Yeah, it was the only one that I could shorten up off the top of my head. I don’t think we’re at the point where a brainrot term is fixed in meaning.

Dreams in which I’m unalivin’

I disagree. It’s not “one leads to the other,” it’s that people change. Far too often people start out, not just in tech, bucking the system in some way. Anti-authority, pro-privacy, anti-centralized control, etc.

But when the server costs start mounting for a service that gets popular and money needs to come in, people change. Now you need to monetize via ads or whatever, now you get attacked, you circle the wagons, get investors, and it’s all downhill from there.

Digg and Reddit are big examples, Google could arguably be a similar case, it happens in music too where a band “sells out”, like Metallica for example. An originally anti-authority metal band starts lawsuits and banning fans to protect profits.

Sure there are plenty of situations where services remain open and free (for now), like wikipedia, linux distros, etc. but we aren’t always that lucky.

Yeah. He was clapping back at trump and the republicans a lot which helped boost him to run. Pretty popular. Then he got elected and suddenly started aligning with the republicans on some issues. The consensus since then (at least on Lemmy) is that brain damage causes conservatism.

…the government doesn’t have any right to tell me that I have to feed my kids

Would work better.

Wooden is a good way to describe her.

We got lulled into thinking everything was going to be fine. Then we got whacked with all the tech outsourcing, dot-bomb, 9/11…etc. but at least we had cheaper college first and that gave us a foot in the door without as much of the crushing college debt that millennials got.

There’s renovation in keeping with the intent and history of the building, and then there’s trump’s ostentatious and tacky design preferences.

60 Minutes finally found their spine? They’ve been barely tolerable for a while now with poor reporting. Looks like getting attacked personally was what it took to hit back with actual accuracy.

Funny that they equate “businessman” to “liar, cheat, thief”, yet continue to idolize businessmen like Musk.