I think the warning labels are aimed at the parents of the kids too young to read, not the kids themselves.

I am 100% fine with being left behind by a technology that I see as an attempted corporate surveillance scheme that has metastasized into a giant money pit. The difference from the 80’s and 90’s is people were actually using computers to make money back then. If any AI company is actually making more money than they’re spending, I haven’t heard about it, and you’d think they’d be advertising it. https://isaiprofitable.com/

I’ve been happy to fully sit this one out thus far. Don’t feel like I’m missing a damn thing.

I absolutely take Luddite as a compliment, the historical Luddites were cool as hell. And with the benefit of hindsight, we now know their predictions were basically correct about increasing automation leading to lower quality products and more alienated lifestyles.

Also, I know enough about finance to know that if these computers cost more money to keep on than they bring in (which they do) they won’t be around long-term.

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Hollywood has been widely known as having a leftwing cultural facade since the end of WW2

You should check out some Pre-Code movies, Hollywood was actually even more openly left-wing in the early 30’s. Like “heroic union organizer comes to town and chases out the capitalists, gets the girl” type plots. The Hays Code was as much about preventing socialism as it was about anything else.

I don’t think this is aimed at Trump fans, lmao

Do you think that US Presidents named all of the other geographic features in the country by Executive Order? This is unusual and unprecedented at best.

CoMaps is pretty cool, but it needs better public transit support. It’s good for driving, but doesn’t have bus schedules where I live like Google and Apple maps do.

Librewolf doesn’t do anything that Firefox can’t do with extensions + tweaking settings, but it’s nice to not have to install all the extensions

Controversial opinion but seeing people repost the same tired ass arguments that we all get from the media actually isn’t that helpful to anything.

Put another way, I already have to tolerate people who disagree with me all day every day at work and in daily life and so on. If I want to learn something I’ll go read an actual book on the subject. Subjecting myself to online shitposting may not be as helpful.

There is nothing intellectually stunting about seeking community with people who are less argumentative, just like there is nothing enlightening about arguing with people who are posting in bad faith.

I guess they could be referring to how much money Google throws at Mozilla to keep Google Search as standard in Firefox? Still, it’s a tenuous link at best

In theory it could make your browser run a bit slower. In practice, with modern computer/phone hardware, I doubt anyone would notice the fraction of a second “delay.”

Brave is kinda shady with their whole cryptocurrency thing, Helium seems fine but it’s still based on Chromium. I’ve been recommending people check out Librewolf

Americans don’t even build houses out of wood anymore, we build houses out of plastic and sawdust.

I would say a majority of Americans drink long before they turn 21. I have friends who experienced exactly what you’re talking about

The problem is that in the USA we have Republicans intentionally mismanaging the social security system and then being like “SEE? IT’S BAD!” and way too many people eat that shit up.

Yes, if nothing is changed for decades, the current systems may have issues.

Fortunately, we have decades to come up with some solutions. Which I’m sure we’d all rather be focusing on than talking shit online.

Colonel Sanders was not a real Colonel, but he was in the Army. He was a cook at Fort Lewis in Washington state during WWII. To feed the massive groups of soldiers, they needed to make food faster, so they engineered up new industrial scale pressure cookers to make a huge amount of fried chicken at once. After the war he was able to get a bunch of the machines, and move back to Kentucky and start a business. The “colonel’s secret recipe” was literally just using this Army surplus tech from WWII to start a bunch of chicken restaurants. My point is, really it ought to be called Washington Fried Chicken.

A pontoon has two hulls (stacks of barrels). If it has three, it’s a tri-toon 🤓

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQKDSaeeGes