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  • 90's

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  • Yooo, can communism get ME that swole too?

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  • That's the neat part. There is no point. You get to define what matters in your life!

    Optimistic nihilism. 💫

    (this is not meant to downplay the real strife brought about by the rich trying to min/max society and looking at human beings like expendable resources)

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  • That sounds like me during my decades of raw dogging ADHD and a bouquet of comorbidities.

    It can still be that way for me, but with medication and vigilance and mindfulness and constantly trying to reverse engineer my brain/body's needs, I had a much more productive 2025 than previous years. (productive at the things I care about, not just becoming a good cog in the machine at work)

  • always watching

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  • That couldn't be a picture of Andromeda though, since that is not the perspective you get from our galaxy. Andromeda is facing us more with the edge than being broadside like in this image.

    I'm not complaining though. Thanks for including the alt-text!

  • Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis

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  • “You think maybe he’s a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him?”

    Fuck his feelings.

    source: all of his supporters.

  • ‘Dictator’ Trump Floats Idea of Canceling Midterm Elections

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  • I know, right? How am I supposed to take that argument seriously?

    This is not a situation where being technically logically correct matters. Of course we don't AHKSHUALLY know. The world is complex and chaotic. Maybe if Harris got elected and started a reasonable administration the butterfly effect would have led to kim jong un launching all his nukes last month.

    We don't get to try both ways. Sometimes we have to estimate probabilities and acknowledge that all choices are flawed and come with numerous risks.

    Just look at the news and be honest with yourself.

  • Touch grass for biological reasons rule

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  • I think you are completely right, but that doesn't invalidate the point behind the OP even if the specific comparison doesn't fit great.

    Having a cozy dark indoor day won't kill you, but it does seem to be good for us to get ample exposure to the natural world.

  • Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes

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  • Yeah, that's another fun aspect of our culture. Jobs that many people actually want due to what they are passionate about lead to abuse.

    It's the reason I never seriously considered getting into game development or becoming a teacher.

    I am the rare father involved in the PTO (parent-teacher organization) along with my wife at our kid's elementary school. We were handing out basic cheap supplies to the teachers last month as a Christmas thing. We'd interrupt the class to give the teacher a SINGLE roll of paper towels and then a small box of tissues or some glue sticks or whatever, and they were excited and grateful every time!

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  • Hell yes!

    I love losing my phone in my own damn house and not worrying about it for hours.

    Many times even if I'm listening to music while I do yard work and tend to animals, I'll leave my phone inside. That's one nice thing about wireless earbuds with good range. Keep the screen far away. Even if I'm not in the mood I know that looking at trees and pets will produce better results for this brain.

    I've been working on reverse engineering the brain requirements for a while, hence the existence of some of that stuff, lol. Straddling the line between still working the tech job while playing retired goose farmer. (no geese here, but various other types of terrestrial and aquatic critters)

  • In 'Unhinged' Rant, Miller Says US Has Right to Take Over Any Country For Its Resources

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  • That's the thing that binds together the youngest techbro and the oldest oil baron.

    Antisocial "might makes right and I'm going to win" mentalities.

  • Dutch Rule

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  • Germanicfest?

  • I did not care for the Godfather

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  • If you are a user of any mind altering substances, or have any interest in starting, it might be worth giving the movie or show another try in that state. Assuming your chosen goodies leave you coherent and able to form memories, lol.

    And it's not just to put you in a good mood, though that certainly helps. Maybe it's just the spicy neurons in my case, but being high can qualitatively change the experience of how I relate to characters. (not extreme like empathy on / empathy off, sometimes things might just land different)

  • I can still smell them

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  • I remember it well...

    The smell of the gunpowder. In the play room.

  • ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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  • I don't think so. Serious answer.

    You lumped together democrats, liberals, and leftists. If you go look up the whole of humanity's political spectrum, that coalition you mentioned would cover about 2/3 of it, while american conservatives are a little circle off to the right.

    I'm an American raised in a conservative catholic family in the 80s. I know that Lemmy feels like some kind of little leftist radicalization forum to somebody used to living in "real-ass non-coastal heartland America." Like, for verification, ain't nobody got time to watch all the games but I was watching the latter part of that Ravens@Steelers game and did you SEE that shit?

    But I also love learning about the world. There are SO many people out there doing things SO many different ways, that lots of really helpful and successful things get tried in the real world with real people. Like if you've ever seen one of my posts that mention the bathrooms in Sweden, it's simple and genius.

    That doesn't mean we change it tomorrow, it means it might be worth learning from and finding improvements. But that's just one small example.

    Big picture, I think I can put the problem two ways:

    First is best practices. In past jobs where I was engineering support for manufacturing and operations, in that world terms like "benchmarking" and "continuous improvement" are commonplace. I don't see the US doing that.

    Second, on the political spectrum of this place, I notice that the two groups that get shit on the most, tankies and republicans, are basically on opposite ends. I think authoritarians and fascists might just suck.

  • Vietnam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer

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  • My fellow americans and I look at this concept and tilt our heads to the side like confused puppies.

  • History will not be kind to the USA

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  • Fuckin' hell, I feel like a kid in 2226 reading this on some kind of wall plaque after it was discovered in the cautionary history archives that survived the great fires. I think it struck me when I read this line:

    the rot is far too deep, and the purification of chaos is, unfortunately, the only remedy

    It's just a very elegant way to describe the btshit craziness of living in "interesting times."

    Oh and hey future people who have presumably learned to be excellent to one another: put me in the plaque! It's a thing we used to do on this old internet here with screenshots, you see.

  • Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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  • Your use case sounds perfect for using LibreOffice as a drop-in replacement. Opening a Word doc or an old Excel spreadsheet is effortless. You don't sound like the "I use Excel every day for my job and there is no replacement" folks with very specific needs.

    And I will echo what the other reply said: try Linux on your laptop! Not only will it probably work fine, it will probably also feel much faster and more responsive.

    Trying most of the big Linux distros is super easy and zero commtment, too. When you boot from the install media, it loads directly into the OS desktop running natively on your hardware! Then once you're ready to install it, there's usually a shortcut on the desktop or something.

    I recommend trying Linux Mint. It is so simple to install and full featured out of the box, plus being based on ubuntu and being very popular itself, information and help is everywhere.

  • ‘I Can’t Afford This’ Trump Voters in Rural America Stunned as Cost of Living Keeps Rising

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  • Firstly because it's a meaningless platitude that doesn't actually make sense

    The world runs on meaningless platitudes for these people!

    I am not disagreeing with you; you're very much correct. But I think it's important to point out and not just let it pass by.

    It's all part of the talking point conditioning and conforming that the right leans on so heavily. You need to superficially signal the right virtues with your appearance and speech.

  • China says it cannot accept countries acting as 'world judge' after US captures Maduro

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  • No toasters in these parts, my fellow biological human.