Rudy handing the world proof of how incredibly desperate he was. I recall Sarah Palin did the same thing.

2026 Teslas will have new AI Feel-o-Vision feature.

• Personal insults.
• The attitude that upvotes and downvotes define right and wrong more than actual reasoning does.
• People thinking they can extrapolate your whole worldview, background and value as a human being from a comment.
• Absolutism and binary thinking, where only two opinions are possible: the Right one and the extreme opposite Wrong one, and questioning ANY aspect of the Right one implies wholehearted support for the Wrong one.

But tbh I don’t really miss any of those things, cuz they’re all here on lemmy too.

I’m thinkin’ Father Guido Sarducci will come outta nowhere and sprint to the win.

Masked Singer.

Panelists after every song: OMG that was unbelievable! That singing blew me away! Greatest singing in the history of music! I’m a changed person! Thank God I lived to witness this incredibly amazing performance!

Audience members: [gasping, staring in disbelief, open-mouthed amazement, verging on tears]

I always hate when my own computer says I need permission. “Permission”? I own your damn ass! It should be more like, “Unable to comply due to security settings” - and even better, tell me where the settings are, and add, “Your Majesty”.

Good to know every generation is progressively more enlightened than previous ones, just like I keep reading on social media. All the world’s problems should be solved any day now lol.

Jesus, I was using Turbo Pascal in the 80s. Had no idea it even still existed in 2000. Flex: I wrote my own BBS in Turbo Pascal and ran if for a couple years in Portland - Tomb of the Unknown Modem.

Just my own perspective lol. I was an old-school programmer before the web era, when computers were in a computer room and we used “terminals” that were just monitors with keyboards. I only had a PC and ball mouse for like 5 years before I got an optical mouse.

At one of my jobs a guy ran the speaker wires from the adjoining cubicle in and out of his own computer so he could mix things into the other guy’s audio, mostly music and talk radio, at very low volume so it sounded like random stray signals. Took the guy like a month to figure out what was going on.

Absolutely. If humans disappeared for two months every object in the world would be on the floor. Then cats, having fulfilled their mission, would suddenly vanish in a puff of loose hair.

Doing God’s work!

This thread makes me wonder if there will always be a mischief factor. Even if robots do all the work and we can have anything we want for free, will people still want to fuck shit up just because they can?

I forgot all about scraping those little rollers with my fingernail! It was strangely satisfying.

For now I feel like a variety of niche news sources, which you’re calling echo chambers, are imperfect but good enough. In the past, commercial newspapers and broadcasters with their editorial slants were imperfect but good enough. Once we reach a post-scarcity economy, simply being alive will be the universal “subscription model” for almost everything. I’m coming to think of post-scarcity as the key change, and it’s actually becoming do-able.

'Bestos saved my buddy’s life in 'Nam, man.

When a popup appears that says “Ways to read this article” I’m done.

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Remember your towel protocol:

Live long and prosper, Ollie!