As an American, watching the highest office in this country be turned into an absolute joke over the decades has been demoralizing, to say the least. There's nothing to be proud of. I feel like, thanks to social media, we got to see the real people, and then it distilled people down to their worst parts. I despise seeing the leaders of the nation be so petty, so idiotic, so childish.
I mean, throw this on the pile of reasons the current administration isn't worthy. The felonies, the child raping, the blatant attempts to start wars, the blatant disregard of the Constitution, and just misinformation galore. They edited a photo... how small of a person do you have to be to think "I'm part of the government, I have access to the White House official channel, I'm going to be very transparent about what I think of the current situation and use AI to mock and try to spread misinformation." I hope people link back to these things (all of these things, not just this photo) every single time anyone in the current administration speaks. When ever any company supports them. When ever any person supports them. Like NEVER let it go. Just flood them every single time. They say Merry Christmas, bring up the Epstien files, the rape, the photo editing, the felonies, the... everything. Just non-fucking-stop.
It's just so god damn fucking embarrassing to be an American right now. And I know by the end of the year, I'll be wishing to get back to how it is now, I'll look back fondly on how it was "only" so bad at the start of 2026.
Sorry for the rant, I'm just, so god damn tired of every single day Dimentia Don, doing yet again, another dumbass thing.
Not to be that guy... but all cheese is chemical. You're chemicals. EVERYTHING IS CHEMICALS. Even Full Metal Alchemist got that.
I'm just so tired of misinformation, implying that one cheese that's 100% milk is cheese, but another cheese made with that same cheese plus emulsifiers and preservatives is "THE CHEMICALS." Call it processed, sure. But to imply you somehow have cheese that's not chemicals... is just, fundamentally wrong.
So growing up I was taught ASL. And I can tell you, knowing how to count high on a single hand REALLY helped in my lower grades for math. I used to see kids put down their pencil to keep counting, and I'd be counting on my fingers with one hand. Very practical.
And when you get older, if you and your friends know ASL, you can sign across rooms (like noisy bars). Just throwing that out there.
Was that from today? I heard there was going to be a (counter?) protest today. Not exactly sure where around the MPLS area, though. Just knew a lot of people were not wanting to be in the cities today.
Ah, so that explains a few things. A place I went to get some food yesterday, had the front doors locked. Someone had to let me in. Every time I've ever been there, it's usually busy Being vague just in case ICE were to read this.
I remember when I first heard about him, knew nothing about him. Just some guy who owned Tesla who was open-sourcing some EV tech. That sounded great!
That's about when it all fell apart. I learned who he was. Fired for incompetence. Fumbles basic questions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE_xHVYwHw8 tldr, guy asks about maglev and airbearings and Elon stumbles around a while to say... "wheels" 🤦♂️). He's not now, nor has he ever been a genius. I genuinely don't think he's even smart by any standard. I think he's just rich and that's it. I remember watching videos about Hyperloop, and the engineering behind it was painfully obvious how unsafe it was going to be, and somewhere between impossible and impractical to build/maintain. Like, that idea only works on paper, or in Sci-Fi. The test track they built rusted out and was poorly secured. And it rusted out largely, because the engineers didn't account for the water in the cement or something...
Or the Boring company. It could have been the best company if it were just called the Boring company but sold cool shit, like the flamethrower. I get the real reason behind it was to stop some public transit project, blah blah, I know, I get it, I've seen and heard it a million times. But the proposed idea he gave, the fact anyone looked at it, at him and was like "Yeah, this seem even remotely possible and definitely not a bat-shit crazy idea" astounds me. At best, it was a worse version of every single subway system ever invented anywhere on earth. At worse, a giant death trap machine that would make the Final Destination movies look tame.
I've riden on many planes, trains, and automobiles. And the only time I've ever felt really unsafe was in a Tesla. Poorly built, poorly designed. Yet people keep buying them. You have mechanics saying their a POS, you have tech folk saying it's a POS, you have the news showing you it's a POS. I don't understand. Hell, he's made so many claims that just haven't happened. Vehicles that he said were coming out, "next year"...
Explaining Elon to people, it's like explaining why "Solar freaking roadways" doesn't work and is a stupid fucking idea.
Top left, bottom left, bottom right, middle right. They look like they're wearing someone else's face. It's the dead eyes and the area around the jaws that really screams "It put the lotion on the skin." Top left, the after, I swear I've seen that exact look/expression in a horror video game, I just can't place it.
I mean, his upload cadence really changed. He hasn't posted in a year, and his last 6 videos is "1 year ago" then 8 videos "2 years ago". Millions of views sure. But I think he largely just moved on. Also, he used to do gaming and then just started doing random things (like Flex Tape), KFC, juicing, Goop (more than once), etc.
Maybe he can take one of his overpriced GPUs, and use it to PositveGen. Similar to FrameGen, they're trying to push to customers, they can use it to run a local AI model that every 2-3 negative posts, his machine will hallucinate a fake positive post for him to see. It won't link to anything and it won't be backed by anything real, but think of the innovation! I see it as a win for him.
The more niche communities really suffer I feel from the decentralized pattern. Tv shows, movies, video games, etc. you have everyone trying to be the "de-facto" instance and none of them really get traffic.
Really, Lemmy is just a US political platform with some weak notions of being anything else. And if it wants to survive, it needs more people, with more interesting topic. To many subs are just ghost towns.
Pff, be down wind after dinner and tell me no living creature was harmed 😁
But seriously, beans are great!