give me ANYTHING that’s open-source and not tied to google or apple. i don’t care if it’s shit. i’m old. i just need a phone and maybe some pics and browsing.

this is honestly the best thing i’ve seen all day

“Homer, are you just holding onto the cans?” lmao

can you imagine what it must be like to do mainstream satire in 2025? fucking grim. if you want to be an optometrist, just remember that most of the best laughs come from some of the worst places. i just hope y’all can see that.

but most importantly: white

i know that “nsfw” is technically correct here, but i really wish we’d start to designate between graphic depictions of human anatomy. i was kinda hoping to see some upside-down boobs, tbh :P

that’s the first time i’ve seen this pic of Mussolini. Imagine what it would look like if he wore big suits and bronzer.

i really don’t care what they have to say. i’m sticking with de-pose.

(just a joking play on words - i’m on board if we decide to dispose instead. i’m not a stickler for semantics)

holy shit, i never realized that nestle is a swiss company. i wouldn’t ever have thought that one of the most horrible, evil companies in the world would come from one of its truly best countries. i’m flabbergasted.

you’re right, and phrases like “america isn’t america any more” probably aren’t really constructive, now that i stop to think about what i wrote. it actually plays to the kind of shit they’re trying to do right now with the smithsonian. so i regret writing that. thanks for pointing it out.

i just spent about 20 minutes writing a thoughtful, engaging reply. it was a good three paragraphs. then i accidentally closed the tab. i just learned that lemmy doesn’t give you one of those annoying “are you sure?” dialogs, and it doesn’t restore what you wrote when you come back. oh well, lesson learned :|

main point i was going to engage with was: it’s different now than it was back then. information is now ubiquitous and very easily shared. but it’s also very easily manipulated. we’re now entering a new challenge, where i don’t think it’ll be about erasing information insomuch as muddying the water to the point that no one knows what to trust. facetiously, you could consider it the “age of firehose” when they call it the “age of aquarius”. i’m old enough to remember the analog days. what will it be like for people in two or three generations who have no footing in the “real world”, so to speak?

(i wrote this in a text editor and then copied it over - gotta make that my new habit. i’m really disappointed, because i had a good stream of thought going for this one)

it’s definitely an interesting thought. whole swaths of digital storage could be wiped out with a significant solar flare or some similar technology. most digital storage requires some sort of power source (ie. a small battery) in order to hold data. if “the power went out and never came back on”, it would be like a ticking clock to data oblivion.

but data is so much more distributed and duplicated now. and i’m sure fuckerberg has a few pb stored on his hawaiian apocalypse resort.

wait. sorry - this isn’t related - but it just occurred to me. maybe i’m just slow. but zuck is building his survival bunker in hawaii. hawaii? like, the place that’s ALL volcanoes? that seems really dumb. i must be missing something. that must be an interesting engineering project.

it fucking poison. i moved to the us from abroad as a kid and spent my adolescence there. moving back to my home country, i quickly realized that i needed to give myself a serious attitude adjustment.

i don’t think many people from outside the us realize just how pervasive fox news is in america. it’s playing on every television in every bar and every airport and just about everywhere else that has a television. it’s non-stop negativity, non-stop arrogance, non-stop disinformation, non-stop convincing people that patriotism is fervent fealty. it’s gotten a bit stale lately to talk about fox, but holy crap their role can’t be overstated in the way things have become.

it’s called the “whore of babylon” approach.

god, i’m glad i’m not the burger-taster at the white house these days

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why rely on old french technology when trillions of dollars of good ol’ american ingenuity can blow a new hole in the bikini atoll?

de-tick

de-worm

de-pose

i think i get it now… it’s just another way for people to hate each other. okay. thanks. i’ll be sure to stay away from anything mentioning “Tankies” in the future.

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“In another blow to the US economy…”

i mean, don’t we all just assume this now?

i don’t mean to make light of the news, but it’s clear as day: america isn’t america any more.