The jam should be white with black spots.

I’m imagining it like a scene from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. You’re meatwad. Playing with potatos, and imaging they’re expensive electronics. But it’s just potatoes with magic marker drawn on them to look like a cell phone, and a PC.

I thought it was a riddle that I didn’t understand. But I also thought “photos” said “potatos” until I zoomed in.

So. Riddle. How do you move your potatos from your phone to your PC?

Government: Describe how they opened the artificial tubes of intelligent internet.

AI companies: Oh. It would appear we can lie our asses off, because these dustpiles don’t understand the core concepts at play here…

AI companies: They used a zappy gun. Which is why we need to install mass surveilance on every phone and street corner to find all the zappy guns.

Government: My god!!! Those zappy guns go pew pew pew and now everyone knows I wear pink panties and a dog collar in my wifes basement! Fund the AI immediately!

Old man yells at cloud.

Or at this point, old man yells at anything to distract you from the epstein files.

Hell it’s the only place I’m okay with something up my ass.

Psssshhhhhh! Prude!

Btw, I’m not defending these doctors with the glasses. Fuck that shit! That should absolutely be banned.

I’m just saying anal is awesome! You’re missing out.

I guess that makes sense when it’s explained like that.

But a million guesses, and I never would have got that right.

When I was a kid, I didn’t understand a lot. Everytime I asked a question, the adults in the room would say “you’ll understand when you’re older”.

Ok. It’s been like 38 years…I still don’t understand.

What exactly is Dee Snyder supposed to be with this look??? If this look were invented today, I would think he’s mocking trans people. But this was the mid 80s. I never in my life heard the term “trans” until maybe 2010. So in 1985, they weren’t a focal point of society. If they existed at all they were very rare. Not well known enough for an anti trans image to make sense in 1985.

So, what is he supposed to be with this look? A caveman??? A manniquinn??? I have no idea what I’m he’s going for here.

Here’s the thing.

looks around

Hmmmm, yeah. That’s what I thought. Everyone here is the wrong audience to really comment on this.

The reason peoples opinion here doesn’t matter much is because like it or not, Lemmy is a hive mindset.

Don’t like linux? Booooooo

Don’t care about open source? Boooooo

Don’t engage in antisocial behavior? Boooooo

And thats the audience here. It’s impossible for you to comment on the mental state of the general broad population when this site seemingly collects an audience that goes out of their way to stay away from the broad general population. How could you possibly relate to someone like my brother in law, who uses Windows 11, without issue? I asked him how he can stsnd all the AI, and the spying. I was expecting an actual answer, and maybe some insight as to how to not make Windows 11 the dumpster fire that it is. Instead, he defends Windows 11 with blind faith ignorance. Insisting that there is no spying in Windows 11, and the AI is actually a good thing.

And I watched as an entire room nodded along in understanding. All agreeing with these points. I realized in that moment that there is zero conversation to be had with these people. I know for fact that Windows 11 spies on you. I know for fact that there is AI in Windows 11. It’s easy to see that if left at its current rate, that AI and data centers that support AI will inevitably lead to mass water shortages.

And I’m confident that these words would land harder here on Lemmy, where I think 99% of you understand the gravity and real nature of what I’m saying.

The problem is, 99% of Lemmy’s typical userbase accounts for 0.01% of the general population. This website is a bubble. Which is a shame, because I fully believe the model for Lemmys infrastructure is the cure for the problems that the general population complain about.

But it’ll never be tested at scale. Most people do not give a fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck about privacy, or open source, or decentralization. Facebook knows my phone number, and has photos of me. Against my consent. And my mom who’s in her 80s, who uses facebook to keep in touch with her sewing community, sees nothing wrong here.

Thats why the people here, who only support mastodon, will never understand why that stratagy won’t work for the masses. And honestly, even if it did, then it wouldn’t work for you.

Because twitter has something like 375 million users. When taylor swift wants to promote something, she does it on twitter. Because it’s where the people are. It’s also a right wing agenda platform, owned by a literal seig hailing nazi, but yet its still the default service regardless if you’re left or right. It’s just where the people are.

Here is what you have done. You saw an ocean. You took note of all the problems fish have in the ocean. You then designed a new concept where fish can swim in a tiny little manufactured pond. But if it gets too small, it can be scaled bigger. You removed the threats of being eaten. You’ve removed the fishing boats. You managed the algae. You planted seaweed so they have food. You installed everything a fish needs to have a happier healthier life from your perspective.

Except there’s no water in this pond. The fediverse concentrates so hard on the advanced features that would make for a great experience…and then forgets the basics that are needed to support life here. Social media only survives when it has an audience, just as fish only survive when they have water.

All the advanced stuff that goes unused in the fediverse means nothing without an audience. Basically if bluesky dies, the users go back to twitter.

You complain that mastodon is better. But bluesky only got popular because the general population didn’t want twitter with nazis. They wanted old twitter. Bluesky is old twitter without the nazis. Thats all they wanted. But it’s only got a tiny fraction of the audience twitter has. So again, taylor swift says her things on twitter. Not bluesky. Not enough people on bluesky to be considered the default. Just like the fediverse can’t keep fish surviving without water, the same is true on bluesky.

The order it goes is that celebrities need to say things to hold an audience. Before the internet, that platform was tv/radio. There were also a lot less celebrities. Because tv/radio just didn’t have a need to create more celebrities. But now, a celebrity can either get their message across to 375 million, or 14 million.

Celebrities go where there is an infrastructure that can handle their fame, and the audience goes where the celebrities go. Below that are us. We’re not the 14 million. Lemmy has 60k and shrinking. But for us the order goes “infrastructure THEN audience”. Which is never going to pull in a huge audience. It can support a large audience. Argueably better. But it’ll never be tested.

Not sure who downvoted you. You are correct. I feel like the term “boomer” has lost all meaning. Now people just use it to mean anything from “old person” to “out of touch person”. The problem with that is, by that definition, all these Gen-Z people using the term like that, will all eventually be boomers. Which by definition would NEVER actually be true.

The boomers were born boomers. Gen-X and Millenials had to endure the boomers bullshit for 60 years before Gen-Z was ever born. We FULLY understand why you’d want to bully boomers. They frankly deserve it. But Gen-Z has lost all sight of WHY the boomers deserve shit. They’re just using the term boomer for anyone, of any age, that they want to insult.

I saw a 15 year old call a 25 year old a boomer.

At that point, the word has lost all meaning. I should just go around, insulting people by calling them a fish. No context. I’m going to strip the word fish of all meaning. No longer does it have anything to do with fins, or gills, or being underwater. If you make me mad, you’re a fish!

So, to anyone unfirmiliar with the word, boomer is shorthand for baby boomer. Essentially in WWII, hitler was trying to take over the world. So we sent all the men overseas to go kill the germans. When the soldiers got back, after not seeing their high school sweetheart for 4 years, they wanted to fuuuuuuuuck. And suddenly you get this massive wave of new babys. A boom rise in the amount of babys born between 1945-1965. A real…baby boom.

So these boomers in 1946 were still boomers, but also 1 year old. Yes, I AM using the term boomer correctly, to describe an infant baby as a boomer, as long as that baby is a baby between 1945-1965. They are both an infant, and a boomer at the same time. While it has nothing to do with being disconnected from reality.

Language is stupid when we just hijack words to make them whatever we want.

I just read that Mandani got an email that a citizen needed a pothole fixed on the road they lived on.

Same day filled.

In a city that has roughly 15 million people. One citizen. One pothole. One email. Filled SAME DAY. For context, the state of Ohio has about 11 million citizens.

If I were to write that same letter to a Cleveland mayor, that pothole most likely would never get fixed. My dad has lived in the same house since 1973. His house is at the center of a T intersection. Meaning the road ends, and you need to turn left or right. If you drive straight instead, you’re driving onto his lawn.

In the 70s/80s/90s he had a guardrail. If you drive straight, you crash. Then in 1998 they had to dig up some pipe and do some work down there. They removed the guardrail because they needed more space. They didn’t replace it.

Despite hundreds of calls over the years, to this day that guardrail is not replaced. 1998-2026. No action through multiple mayors, including Frank Jackson who served 17 years while doing absolutely nothing. Seriously, when I think what was Obamas contribution, I say medicare. With Clinton I think the telecommunications act of 1996. With Frank Jackson, I could be convinced he just stayed in his room and played Nintendo all day every day for 17 years.

But Mamdani replaces 1 pothole from 1 email, same day.

I’m not sure words can fully capture the amazement, and dumbfounding I feel when I think of that.

In fact they seem very into it!

When you szy aren’t that common…

Where I live it is probably impossible to go outside in warm months without seeing a sparrow. Those birds are just everywhere. It’s only right now thinking about it that I realize how lucky we are that sparrows are pretty cool. They don’t do any damage. They aren’t harmful. They just do their own little thing. But they ARE everywhere.

Pidgeons are just like that too. Less of them, so you may not see one the second you step outside. You’ll absolutely see them everyday.

But cardinals are less common. I wouldn’t call them uncommon though. Although unlike sparrows and pidgeons, you may go weeks without seeing one. But when you do see one, it’s not an uncommon sight.

You’re like “Oh! A cardinal. Neat.”

There was a blue and yellow bird I saw a year ago. Never saw one before. Never saw one since. It was very pretty. I still have no idea what it was. I’m not an expert in bird law.

So when you say cardinals aren’t common near you, do you mean like I do, where it might be a few days/weeks before you see another? Or is it more like once per season you see a cardinal?

Sooooooooo, we as a nation have ALREADY just given up that trump can and will run for a 3rd term? I always said he’ll try to force a loophole. So far he’s done nothing of the sort. No loophole has been established. There is from a legal standpoint no reason to think he can currently run for a 3rd term.

Yet all across the internet I keep seeing people talk about it like it’s inevitable. Like we’re just going to skip the two term limit, and just pretend he found the loophole, because otherwise he’ll drag us through some bullshit to get there. So now, rather than challange him at all, we as a society have already given up, 2 years before the election even happens. We’ve come to accept that laws and constitution mean nothing. Trump is just going to run for a 3rd term. That’s just how it is. Laws don’t matter. Government doesn’t matter.

And who exactly decided all this? I for one plan on repeatedly challenging his ability to run for a 3rd term.

Oh man! I can get a gyro now??? Sweet deal!!!

deadpans left

deadpans right

…I was being sarcastic!

I imagine he just looked at the guys phone like:

blink blink

And was probably socially awkward about how to tell him thats not a train ticket.

While at the same time realizing that the cat looks socially awkward too. So this guy took a picture of his cat, while making some OTHER mistake that has the cat feeling unsure how to proceed.

Then he probably wondered all day what he said to that cat.

Oh, you piece of shit!

Imagine if there were an anti-trump political linux beans comics community on Lemmy…

It’d be unstoppable!

Heh, get a load of THIS guy! I bet he doesn’t even know how to use the three seashells!

Too late. Robbed a bank. Then accepted a plea deal to absolve myself of all legal accountability by naming Coolans Planet as the ring leader.

I’m told he’ll get 25 to life…

Oops, they forgot to take away my duffle bag! Looks like I keep the money.