Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)B

bobs_monkey

@ bobs_monkey @lemm.ee

Posts
1
Comments
1588
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Is America headed for an age of dumb phones?

    Jump

  • No worries! It may be exposure bias, and I'll be honest that the only BI articles I read come from here and there certainly is a certain slant. But from where I'm sitting, it really does seem like there's a coordinated effort among so called 'culture journalism' articles such as this to push a certain normalcy of nothing I'm that I can't help but wonder if there's something funny about it. Perhaps it's a sort of tin foil hat theory, but prescient in a really stupid way. This article in particular isn't exactly a defining example, but more of a contribution to that nature. I dunno, I probably need to go to bed lol.

  • Is America headed for an age of dumb phones?

    Jump

  • It just seems like a good chunk of the articles I see from them are stories promoting going without, dealing with less, and downgrading lifestyles in response to cost of living, but doing so in a "feel good" sort of way, kind of like a life hack in a sense. They just seem to keep pumping out stories that portray families and people in their 30s to 40s that are downgrading into small homes or even trailers, eating next to nothing, or forgoing basic necessities as a way to somewhat normalize not having shit but still working your ass off, or at least that's what I've perceived from it.

    Like with this article, they promote it as some kind of performance-enhancing life hack to not have an internet-centric phone, yet the person on the article is carrying three of them for different purposes. It just seems ridiculous. If you want to spend less time on your phone, uninstall the time wasting apps, set do not disturb on a per app basis for the ones you keep, and make a conscious effort to put your phone away. It just seems like a clumsy solution for not having self control.

    But hey, that's just my opinion.

  • not all heroes wear capes

    Jump

  • ¿Por qué no los dos?

  • Is America headed for an age of dumb phones?

    Jump

  • BI is one of the biggest culprits of trying to push social trends in a ridiculous, serflike direction, and then they wonder why their 'prestige' has dropped to the level of rag.

  • Micro$oft when I try to enjoy my local drive in peaC:\

    Jump

  • It also allows IT depts to deploy thin clients for a fraction of the cost of a full desktop (along with the crap performance for actual multitasking).

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Which will still get passed down to the consumer.

  • ‘FEMA has not been on the ground’: St. Louis mayor pleads for federal aid in wake of devastating tornado

    Jump

  • Better yet, a sweet ass-jet

  • The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe

    Jump

  • It's worth noting that even though a building might have solar, the systems usually disable themselves in the event of a blackout to prevent back feeding into the grid.

  • Got any grapes?

    Jump

  • FBI links California fertility clinic bombing to anti-natalist ideology

    Jump

  • Dick Butkiss? You hear that coach, he's cursing!

  • Oof

    Jump

  • I really wish we would make it a crime to spin narratives in bad faith.

  • A family of 5 downsized to a one-bedroom apartment to escape feeling 'house poor.' Saving money hasn't been the only benefit.

    Jump

  • Gotta love that many of these supposed "feel good stories" written to goad the masses into living like serfs live to conveniently gloss over the fact that the story subjects just so happen to have a house to rent out. Cheap attempts at population programming.

  • Somebody make this

    Jump

  • An untold number of beers later:

  • We gonna fight

    Jump

  • Oh deer

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Lieutenant, do you like movies about gladiators?

  • We gonna fight

    Jump

  • One thing I've always wondered, who/what decides their hierarchy?

  • Max, formerly HBO Max, to become HBO Max again somehow

    Jump

  • Yeah I'll be honest I'm way too lazy to keep up with their rebranding attempts, that's where keeping it mentally filed as HBO made the most sense as it grew out of the premium cable channel from the 80s.

  • Removed

    Democrats cautiously open door to another Harris run in 2028

    Jump

  • They aren't fellating the right donors yet, nor championing the right anti-consumer causes.

  • Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet

    Jump

  • Eh, those Shasta ultralight travel trailers are certainly on the mid to lower mid end if the scale as far as travel trailers go, especially if it doesn't have a slide and he got it used. It's also single axle as far as I can tell and a little older, so probably in the neighborhood of 24', not exactly luxurious