(And I know I'm sure as shit missing things. )
THEN you have the orange moron and his crap. Which you all voted for a second fucking time.

One thing you're missing is the Electoral College, which means that morons in Wyoming have votes that count three times anybody else's. Because 49% of voters (who are themselves only 65% of the population - so 31% of the population overall) voted for him a second time, and that's assuming that his quote about Elon Musk was just offhand bullshit and not outright admission of voting fraud:

"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers... And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide. So it was pretty good. Pretty good. So thank you to Elon."

Because realistically I can only scroll on Fedi for maybe 20-30 minutes in a day before I've seen everything and if I have more time to kill, Reddit is there. Although I don't comment there at all anymore, it's truly worthless for conversation.

Yeah, you gotta remember too, 54% of the US reads at 6th grade level or below. 21% are functionally illiterate. 1 out of every 5 people you lay eyes on here cannot read and more than half do not read well. It's a deeply, deeply stupid country but it's been so financially successful that it's convinced itself stupidity is a virtue.

I didn't really need to know anything in this thread.

Wouldn't let you get enough distance lol. You can see it in his face. He loves you so much. You are food guy and you saved him from the cage. He is so happy about that! 👍

This country has been specifically designed to make sure that the average person can’t retire.

Not only that, but it's designed to take everything they have before they die as well.

We can shit on you, it's what makes us great. You can't shit on us. It's what makes you terrible.

AI moderating AI.

Like seriously, I still engage in some niche subs from time to time, but literally everything feels like bots talking to bots.

Long, an 80-year-old Trump voter

• One billionaire uses more water than every home in Los Angeles combined. To grow almonds. 80% of which are for export.
• 10% of all of Arizona's water goes to grow alfalfa for cows in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.

We're in a drought, sure, but it could be mitigated, if the capitalist class and their lackey politicians actually gave a fuck - but they do not appear to.

I know, right? They must have built it really solidly. Except for the whole falling down bit.

Softbank and Oracle are gonna die

Please I can only get so erect.

I didn't like Twitter enough to join it when it didn't cost $20.

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful.

This is stupid. The tools are helpful. Overhyped? Sure. But to pretend they are in no way helpful is just wrong.

Well, sure.

Stop using Windows. Stop using Discord.

Yep. On it almost a year now, ever since 10 was EOL'd and I learned Discord was building a profile on every user based on usage.

Linux has been awesome and Discord mostly sucked anyway.

but communities and farms still use unsustainable amounts of water.

I'm so tired of hearing this load of shit. "Communities" use TWENTY PERCENT of all the water consumed in Arizona. That includes all the horrible, wasteful, golf courses everybody hates except golfers. TWENTY PERCENT.

Farms and industry use EIGHTY PERCENT of all the water used in Arizona. HALF of the resultant production from this water usage is shipped out of the country in order to generate PROFITS.

👉But I'll give you three fucking guesses as to who is going to have water restrictions levied against them.👈

Just like Republicans always mouthing off about the welfare queens, as their orange moron doubles the national debt. They get to take it all and turn around and shit on everybody else for being the problem, as per usual.

Except insurance has basically decided it doesn't need to actually pay for the most part.

I believe this stuff is going to be huge. Reticulum, Lora, Meshtastic all bit players now in a drama that has yet to get a finished script. It will start out as a supplement to the Internet, allowing you connectivity even when your Internet falters and as it becomes more ubiquitous, it will be increasingly used/usable and increasingly important. It can't be shut down, it can't be controlled. A country would literally have to ban radio signals of any kind in order to shut it down. It's free. Buy the hardware, use the network, because you are the network. I love this.

Gasoline is $5. Diesel is $7.