I haven’t watched TV in nearly 20 years, and it’s still the first thing that pops in my head when a bunch of "maybe"s are listed off.

Now you get to suffer with me! :V

Was this posted in 2020…? Because by that time I already felt the world was going onto a steep downward spiral. Already before 2019 we had people saying “this has to be the worst year”, only for the next year to out-do it, and in 2019 it got so bad memes started circulating the Web that joked about 2020 being 2019 2: The Sequel Reboot.

Then COVID-19 happened…

And we sort of just stopped counting how many consecutive “worst year ever” we had… People became numb as it became the norm…

So… No… No 2020 was not a more hopeful and innocent time.

Morality is only made complex because humans like inserting their ego into things.

No, all morality is are the behaviours that benefit us as a social species, put to language and culture.

Why is rape bad? Theft bad? Indiscriminate killing bad? Because if we did these things we’d be unable to use our unique species’ power to overcome hardships and thrive; creating and maintaining social groups that allow for the division of tasks.

Or maybe she’s born with it.

Or maybe it’s maybaline.

“Vies vuile kanker leider!”

Of zo iets. Ben niet echt goed met Nederlands meer.

And who are the sponsors that gladly endorse and fund the European alt-right? Why, it’s American billionaires, of course.

At least Germany is in the process of lynching AfD.

Civilised doesn’t have to mean flawless. The US is still a horribly barbaric country, and the weapons Israel use to commit genocide come from the US.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a brilliant catch-22 situation.

Yes, but he also programmed Jarvis… So…

What’s his name from Multiverse of Madness would’ve been so much better as Richards. Why isn’t it him in the movie?

If you’re talking about modern body builders, yeah I’m with you.

You should see what Arnold looked like at his peak, and read his opinion on what body-building has become. He kinda shares your opinion.

I see a lot of drama here in the thread, people decrying data leaks, how Discord is very very bad, and a number of people wanting the “good old days” of forums.

Yes. I like forums too, but, uh…

These researchers scraped publicly posted messages. Keyword here being “public”. How would anything similarly public, like a forum, be better?

I actually remember the times when forums were at their peak. I hung out on BZPower for Bionicle things, and the Relic News Forum for Homeworld modding. You know what they had? Google bots that scraped messages, looked for certain words, and populated websites with advertisements based on what it could scrape from forums.

Pretty sure Lemmy doesn’t do encryption either, unless there’s some very special, private Lemmy server that nobody has access to. So the researchers could’ve just as well scraped the fediverse.

But I want something like Discord. Just not corporate owned…

What does an android need with a dick?

Simple answer; to be fully functional.

(Also, the definition of android is an intelligent, automated machine made to resemble a human…)

Yeah, so, you can still add “very” in front of all these words, so check-mate! :V

This.

I saw The Wrath of Khan when I was like… 12 or something. I remember asking my mom why that guy had boobs.

I’m OK with not being a “real fan”.

I’m not so sure. I’ve spoken with a lot of Arabs and Palestinians here in Copenhagen (talking to people has become part of my job, more or less), and the general idea seems to be that “from the river to the sea” means “the settlers (here meaning Israeli people) have to leave”.

Sharing does not seem to be on the agenda at all.

Another comment on here talks about a flatpak. Maybe give that a try.