I laughed several times while reading this

Nice emdashes, comrade. o7

The part with the scientist who did a study of 9 families who called increased eye contact as an “improvement” made me grimace.

This is too real. Talking to average liberals makes me want to tear my hairs out, because everything they have to say about politics is just a parroted thing they heard someone else say, or at best you get an “original thought” which is an attempt at a gotcha that is dispelled by even the most basic of research.

If you’re vegan you’re probably familiar with the fallacy bingo card. There is nothing more frustrating to me that talking to another vegan and the conversation turns to politics and suddenly they are spouting all kinds of liberal fallacies and refuse to reflect upon the fact that they are doing exactly the same thing they shit on carnists for doing.

[Lenin yelling emoticon]

This sounds like the ideal relationship

[scheduling problems joke] (I am too unsmart and unfunny to formulate one)

I had to listen to 40 hours of history podcast to understand this meme, but I’m glad I did

Reading the comments on this really is interesting. They’ve got some alternate history going on:

Communist revolutions have always been led by elites who claim to speak for the masses. That’s exactly how Mao rose to power.

I eat my lunch by scooping it with flatbread almost every day, and the whities at work still stare at me for it

Tauon works for me, but my synced lyrics aren’t embedded.

Cuba has resorts. It’s one of the most popular vacation destinations for people from Canada, if I remember correctly.

My bank app works fine, not sure what they do differently

The point is that people severely exaggerate how “unusable” a degoogled phone is. There are FOSS alternatives to most things, and anything there isn’t an alternative to is probably a shitty service that you’d be better off without (see: burger apps)

MicroG might be installed, but I don’t use anything that uses it. Since Aurora lets you search for apps that don’t require it, I always go for one that doesn’t.

Before, political cartoons were shown primarily in a local context (or in international papers to an audience that was more aware of political things) so labels weren’t needed. These days, political memes are disseminated online to an international audience who don’t necessarily know what every single US politician looks like. I have no idea who the person on the left is without a label, for example, besides “that person who said ‘we’re all going to die.’”

This doesn’t strike me as an example of over-labelling, the way that gets satirized in Kelly comics.

Your tone

It’s text, and half the people on here have autism. Can we not?

I don’t even have the sandboxed Play store and everything works. I use Aurora to download APKs for anything that isn’t FOSS (which is like, two things)

nose ring!! or eyebrow ring

I didn’t even know religion existed until some new people moved in next door and their kid was super into Jesus.

Everyone at my work has been cyclically ill for years. Some of them have been continuously ill with a horrible cough for months at this point. I have not been sick. They all wonder how.

Hmm. I wonder how that could be?

I love the episode of DS9 where the Fedseration are like “let’s mine the wormhole!” and everyone thinks it’s a great idea. I was like “wait, isn’t that a war crime?” when I watched it.

Their monstous, civilian-killing weapons of fascism; our glorious, freedom-defending defensive grid.

I don’t know if any general-use tilesets show EN_US. I think you’d have to make a custom thing, which I don’t know if you can even do with MapBox. Sounds like more work than a grift would want to put in.