Unlike American citizens, Kilauea doesn’t like being put under surveillance.

I wish those dumb driverless cars disrupted ICE raids instead…

The corrupt MAGA Supreme Court to hear case that couldwill vastly expand presidential powers

There. FTFY.

morality doesn’t change depending on who you are

Of course it does. What you find moral, I might find repugnant and vice-versa. And there are no “absolute moral virtues” either, such as not killing: plenty of people and societies find killing entirely appropriate, and sometimes even an act of kindness.

Your morality is entirely yours. There’s nothing in your morality that everybody else is somehow compelled to abide by.

No. Morality is different depending on the person and society they were brought up in, and it obviously has no existence without people. If an objective set of moral values existed, people would instinctively know there are two sets, their personal set and the intangible set, that overlap more or less, and nobody does.

If I was a furlough worker, I’d tell them to go to hell and I’d find me a job with a decent employer.

The cars of yesteryear broke down but you could fix them - or have them fixed. Good luck with buggy closed-source software.

Not to mention, the cars of yesteryear didn’t spy on you, and didn’t require a subscription to turn on the heated seat or whatever.

I still wish we didn’t have to worry about cars being bug-free… That’s something we rarely - if ever - had to worry about in the past.

This video is the best advertisement I’ve ever seen for not replacing my old car without any smarts and mechanical-everything that’s important.

In fairness, it’s not really a criticism of electric vehicles, but rather a criticism of “cellphone cars”. I have nothing against EVs, I just wish they came with simple controls that made them good vehicles.

Kids don’t ask Alexa to do their homework for them. They ask ChatGPT.

Also, kids don’t use what their parents use because it’s old people stuff. It’s only parents who think their children do as they were taught 🙂

Obviously a fake story made up by an adult. A real kid would have called their teacher “ChatGPT”. Alexa is for middle-aged adults who want to know what’s on TV.

In fairness, Christmas creeps the shit out of me. It’s so gaudy, ultra-commercial and fueled with fake happiness and holiday cheer nobody gets to experience because it’s so damn stressful socially and financially, that’s one tradition I’d gladly do without.

Fuck Christmas.

Oh and yeah, fuck DeSantis too. No relationship, just something that needs saying.

Easy workaround:

[…]
It’s the hap-happiest season of all,
With those holiday greetings and homosexual happy meetings […]

There… Not banned anymore 🙂

Just another disaster in a disaster of a country…

mega warehouse detention centers

Aka concentration camps.

Shame on you America. May you end a fiery end, you nauseating country full of nauseating people.

Remember that they were all elected - congresscritters and POTUS alike. That should tell you something about the quality of the electorate.

Yes, we gen-Xers got a lot of things for cheap or free, and we had a lot more opportunities for sure - and our boomer parents even more so - because we rode the tail end of the post-WW2 economic boom.

I totally get the jealousy. What I don’t get is the hate: I can’t count the number of young people who actually hate me because I happen to have had it better than them. Sorry… It’s not like I planned it or anything, and I didn’t set out to ruin anybody’s life after me neither.

One of those Linuses annoys the living daylights out of me.

I am honestly sad that I never got to experience that America

I’m so sorry. But it was like that. Sure it had its many, many flaws. But it was a place where studying hard, making it to and through college and being educated were valued more highly than being a vocal cretin, where science was respected, craziness was fringe, religion was retreating, working hard gave you a real - albeit small - chance at striking it rich, and where you could expect your children to be better off than you if you did everything right.

All that is gone. I really feel sorry for you and those of your generation who never got to experience the “good” America - at least good if you were white…

A noun I normally connect to cassette recorder or record something.

And here, I’m gonna break your mind: a cassette player isn’t a person playing the cassette. How sick is that eh? 🙂