Should this kid be able to get a job somewhere in that agency? Sure, maybe. Should they be leading a major government department with zero experience? Absolutely not.

Just like an alcoholic talking head shouldn’t be leading our defense department. Or a fucking WWE wife being anywhere near leading education for the country. This isn’t about qualifications. It’s about nepotism and grifting.

How did they get WhatsApp installed? Is a FaceTime or other video option available? Never give up, never surrender

I think it’s a joke that they keep meeting women through dating apps but it only turns into friendship, at best. And the women keep claiming they have a friend who would be a good fit for them, but then that never materializes

As if it’s failing at dating but with extra steps

As someone looking to dabble a small amount in investing, this sounds like it could be quite valuable information to share in the right spaces as it happens

He’d look better like this

Isn’t this the group whose leaders publicly stated “Germany was safer under Hitler,” then both invited and hosted Elon “Sieg Heil 2x” Musk at a campaign rally?

I am getting so cynical I think I’m just gonna choose to reject this reality and hang onto my own and believe he’s actually serving time

This type of gross invasion should be illegal and land executives and developers in jail. Look at how Germany jailed VW executives and developers behind a massive emissions testing fraud incident. Enough is enough

Please tell me this isn’t a real ad

A person refusing to waste time on a troll has literally, fundamentally, and atomically nothing to do with totalitarianism

As I understand it, the protocol has the ability to decentralize built in. But the technical requirements are prohibitively high to the point only large businesses or corps could afford to do it. I also believe (someone correct me) the company hasn’t switched on the functionality yet.

Wait, so it is a genocide now?

In this economy??

But that old marvel feeling came from doing the work of building up not just key heroes with their own movies (or sometimes collabs), but also the villain. Does Doom get his own film before the next Avengers? Or are they just dropping him on us?

snort

First time I’ve seen GAGA

I feel like this kind of misses the point. To be clear: If someone absolutely cannot avoid installing slop apps and enabling notifications for everything, I can see their need for an ultra minimal device or other solution. But I also think that speaks to a larger, personal discussion about discipline and possibly addiction, but that’s outside the realm of this thread.

My point is we can choose which apps, notifications, features, and algorithms are allowed to get our attention. It’s easy to turn off all notifications or never even allow them in the first place—after all, apps have to ask for that permission in the first place.

But the choice is the point. If someone is traveling somewhere they probably want maps to tell them important information about the journey. Otherwise why turn on directions at all? That’s the entire point.

We even have the ability to disable all texting notifications but also choose to allow them from certain people if they’re important enough. These devices are simply tools and we have the power to choose how they operate. The device isn’t the problem, it’s our choices.

Adding “destructive fines” to my list

I like Eddy. And at first I’ve liked this essay subject from other creators, but now I just find it shortsighted. The phone isn’t the problem, just like the television and radio weren’t the problem. It’s the content you put on it.

You can watch great TV shows—documentaries, masterpiece dramas, etc. Or you can watch slop.

You can do incredible stuff with your phone—get directions, listen to almost any song ever recorded, learn about the night sky, watch documentaries anywhere you are, write, create your own content, sky’s the limit. Or you can install slop and brain rot apps like Twitter.

You don’t have to pull a stunt like locking your phone away. Just delete the slop. Be more mindful of what an app and the company behind it are, and either limit your use of it or simply don’t install it at all.