The response to the last crackdown was more protests and angrier protests. Surely it'll be different this time, right? Not like this is France we're talking about or anything.

Ah yes, conservatives. The same guys that have no idea what machine is being raged against.

This, except I legitimately do have a problem with authority. Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me.

Holy shit. Directly treating the cause of cartilage loss with pill-form treatment in human trials right now. The shit we've been doing with medical science recently is fucking wild.

I'm not sure what you guys are worried about. All that extra heat will just dissipate into the atmosphere and eventually radiate into space. It's not like there's anything in the atmosphere that would interfere with this cycle... right?

Boy does that sum up about half of lemmy users. "nObOdY iS dOiNg AnYtHiNg!" Motherfucker, go outside, people are doing plenty to make up for your pessimistic, unengaged ass.

All these years later and I'm still so pissed about how fox handled the show. Truly one of the great injustices of the century.

I still can't get over how hilarious the scene of Mal fucking with Simon about Kaylee being dead was. The cut to them laughing was so perfect. The editing was so masterful in the show.

I don't know who that is, but if I could verify/clarify by looking at their post history, I'd probably block them if what you say is true... ohhhhh hey, looks like the dipshit himself commented on this very post like an edgelord and is conveniently the most downvoted comment.

Joke with a message aside, I noticed I already had downvoted the guy multiple times before. Looks like he likes to post ai slop as well and becomes a combative baby bitch when called out. Even better, some of the ai slop uses the "hUmAn BaD" trope. And I did indeed check up on and confirm the cropping out artist credit. He's a combative baby bitch when called out on that, too.

Went from Windows directly to Arch and I just became an anarchist and (I'd argue) more masculine. Guess it's less about Trans and more about becoming more true to yourself.

So we're just gonna accept instant Kessler syndrome on the opening of a war between two space powers? Cool. Coolcoolcool. Love this.

It's funny because I agree and disagree at the same time. I've had varying levels of "there's way more nuance to this" and "how the fuck is everyone complicating this???" throughout my life and have generally come to the conclusion that it's much more complex than that in that everything is both more nuanced and more simple at the same time because politics really is that stupid.

However, in getting involved in political circles and actually getting to know some legitimate decision makers toward the top, some of these fuckers are way more stupid than we think. Like, alarmingly so. I've had moments where some GOP dumbfuck is doing some evil shit and I'm like "I don't think they're doing this maliciously" and some of my more partisan left-ish friends get all offended think I'm defending them, when really it's so much worse; they're doing it because they're legitimately really fucking stupid... and they're part of world leadership. Don't get me wrong, some of them are both stupid and an asshole, but at the end of the day, people in general tend to get the overall picture of politics wrong because it's way more nuanced in how fucking stupid it is.

One more fun thought for y'all: many of the really dumb legislators I've met in the past predate the current GOP alignment. And you see how much dumber the current GOP is versus the GOP of not even a decade ago? Well...

Ah yes, the Department of War Crimes.

Call me crazy, but I think maybe we should point the blame at the one invading another sovereign country? Just a lil something to consider.

Ah yes, fake leftist for... treating prisoners as humans. Gotcha.

God, tankies are insufferable.

Man, China as a country is certainly poised at this point to really pull some wild political optics with this move. Their manufacturing quality has been noticeably improving in recent years and their tech industry has a huge opportunity to show up western firms by undercutting the shit out of them in consumer NAND and DRAM. It would be wise of them to take QA extra seriously over the next couple of years to make themselves the "heroes" of the people by delivering better quality and dramatically lower prices than those bloated western companies. Hell, I'm even possibly in the market for it soon if the price is right. I have a feeling western corpos will continue snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and not notice that some of these Chinese corporations already quietly got their shit together a while back and probably won't shoot themselves in the foot this time. This could be the optical turning point for China as an economic power.

Hopefully the Chinese people can continue making progress in fighting the CCP bourgeois for better labor rights, especially with western corporations losing access to terrible enforcement of already inadequate CCP labor laws. The Chinese workers will start having a hell of a lot better bargaining position with this development and the ACFTU/CCP can get fucked.

Cops drag their asses in going after motorcycle thieves. -> Vigilante(s) go after motorcycle thieves, most likely out of frustration with police. -> Police organize manhunt for Vigilante(s).

The cops really asked "why have one problem when you could have two problem?"

BUT LOOK AT ALL THE JOBS WE'VE CREATED FOR AI. YOU GUYS. THE AI. LOOK AT IT. HOLY SHIT, WE'VE THROWN SO MUCH MONEY AT IT, PLEASE LOOK.

I remember looking through some of those 'bOtH sIdEs' posts from media outlets showing some people celebrating and some people protesting angrily about Maduro's kidnapping. I couldn't help but notice there wasn't even a single instance of celebration actually in Venezuela. They were all dipshits in fucking Miami.

Man, I fucking hate that song. "Happiness is the truth", god, what pseudophilosophical bullshit. It really is the manifestation of all that thoughtless feel-good philosophy pushed by hyper-captitalist dickheads.