For friends and family I use my phone’s IM. For total strangers on lemmy I just use Reply.

I just got a new phone on Friday. There were like 50 kinds, various sizes and thicknesses, foldable, not foldable. The one I got is pretty slim but I’m guessing if people want thick phones someone will keep selling them.

You’re already here.

Our new sucker-tentacled overlords.

+1 Insightful

It seems like most big changes are set in motion by elites who benefit from them, with the teeming masses convinced a) to go along and b) that they’re driving. Historically this could be because elites have had a pulpit, either from holding office or having access to publishing and more recently broadcasting. In really recent times the masses finally got access to a broad audience via the Internet, but since they mostly use it to post boobs and complain about game companies, elites are still in the driver’s seat.

It’s possible that being led around by a privileged few is just how humans work, and it’s up to enlightened individual elites to make parts of the world better for short periods while they’re alive.

That actually sounds like a good personal motto. For a long time mine has been, “There’s always more than one way,” but you’ve got me thinking.

No, the salutes happen after people already let it die.

Oh good point, tbh I didn’t even remember it was also MLK day - but I thought that a National holiday? Maybe only in “woke” blue states IDK.

IMO we’re here because of the 10 million Democrats who voted for Biden in 2000 and refused to show up in 2024. Bonespurs only won by a little over 2 million. Harris should have kicked his ass, but oh now, she “supports genocide”. Last week the long, difficult Gaza ceasefire negotiation process finally paid off. Funny how nobody’s talking much about it.

If you ask a question and you say, “but don’t say the answer,” you’re just asking for an echo chamber.

Somehow the myth that you can’t file a missing persons report until 24 hours is still going strong.

I just noticed on my calendar that Inauguration Day is a “regional holiday”. People get a day off for this, but not to vote?

The history of the Internet and computers in general is full of investors willing to take seemingly insane chances on overvalued speculative ventures.

Longtime software dev here. I complain about code bugs all the time - I’m like, who the fuck wrote and tested this piece of crap?

Same thing when there’s a really long light with a right-turn lane to a much less busy side street. If you get there shortly after the light turns red just turn right, go partway down the street and make a u-turn, then make another right back onto the main street.

I would call that not a loophole but definitely a nice LPT.

That’s a fairly common strategy - give your kid a gift up to the max amount that isn’t taxable, which they then deposit into their retirement account.

Ingenius! Even more ingenious: every time you leave go to lost and found and pick up a free random jacket.

Not loopholes but excellent LPTs!

In general doing anything the old fashioned way takes more time and saves money. But it seems like most people are reluctant to spend the time even if they have it, and will rationalize this in some way.

The one big drawback: it’s still McDonalds