Yeah for real, why is Bill Gates still among polite society?

This is mostly a reference to the horse from Ren and Stimpy

No sir, I don’t like it

#knowthesigns

Dr. Pepper’s pronouns are we/us, because 🎵 Dr. Pepper you’re a part of me 🎵

What’s hilarious about this is that obstructed barrels actually can explode into ribbons just like the cartoons. A finger might not do it though, and not sure how many volunteers you’d get for a scientific test.

Correct, just the communities. I still see .ml user posts and comments in other communities, which is tolerable. Plenty of them are fine. For the that aren’t, the heckler’s veto sometimes keeps the dumber narratives at bay.

I appreciate that instance labels carry some meaning of how a user is likely to act.

I fucking hope it’s AI lol, it looks like a theme party in a retirement community.

Infant Annihilator - Decapitation Fornication

There’s nothing more subversive than the Thin Blue Line sticker on their lifted Dodge RAM

Never updating your browser again is a pretty bad idea when it comes to security

Lemmy.ml is the only instance block I have, after seeing too many illiberal shit takes, bad faith arguments and socialist astroturf posts.

My instance quickly defederated from HexBear and LemmyGrad which is just fine by me, it’s helpful most of the bad eggs are concentrated in just a few places.

I still consider them fringe, they’re just now much more visible than they were before. I’m not trying to say that it’s not an in issue either.

These crackpots have always had an audience when they see returns.

The antidote is going outside, engaging with things and people you disagree with, and being a skeptic of your own beliefs. I was actually an Alex Jones listener way way back when Bush was president. There was this guy who superficially cared about civil rights and was railing against a government that operated in secret, and a lot of the appeals made sense - until you realized that his prophecies failed one after the next, and he was really just on the air to sell dick pills.

This isn’t so different from how it always was. Before social media existed in its modern form, Alex Jones used to broadcast from a 100kW shortwave station. The chem trail nonsense goes back almost thirty years. I suspect the spiritual origin is traceable back to 60s counterculture. Snake Oil type scams and witch doctors go back to prehistory.

The biggest difference is that people can now engage directly with these things immediately and worldwide, they don’t have to be part of an alternative magazine mailing list.

Beavis teaches typing would probably be a riot

Sprinkles? That looks like my sink after I shave

Woodland critter noises 😄

I too would like to make 2024 investments at 2022 prices

Better yet, don’t connect cars to the internet. Why does everyone care so much about a shitty tablet in the middle of the dash? I am so much happier to not have it.

Watch next year’s models have LTE modems…for your convenience of course