That’s all the Internet really is, in the end.

Until it’s time for layoffs

The key to a good career in IT is to not have everything run too smoothly. If your systems have 100% uptime, it’s easy for people to forget that you exist and are needed. The occasional bug reminds them that their lives would collapse without you.

"Look just because we control all three branches of government, have replaced compent government workers with loyal ones, tried to overturn the last election we lost and are working to ensure we’ll never be able to lose another (assuming our plan to incite riots doesn’t work so we can just declare a national emergency so we don’t have another election), have created a secret police to snatch people off the streets, are prosecuting our political opponents or anyone that we deem to be not loyal enough, are removing press credentials of journalists and trying to force news outlets to sign agreements to what that can report, are using the FCC to silence voices of dissent, have sent in the military to occupy our own cities, have had friendly oligarchs purchase traditional and social media companies to silence critics and push our own propaganda, are using government resources to push partisan messages, have declared anyone that disagrees with us as anti-American, are using our military to sink civilian boats and murder the people inside, are ignoring orders of judges who don’t rule in our favor, let our oligarchs choose which government programs to axe, created our own cryptocurrency to facilitate bribery by foreign nations, have declared anti-fascism to be terrorism…

doesn’t mean we’re fascist!"

Not sure why, but this image wasn’t showing for me in Voyager or when I tried to open it on the web. I was able to get a thumbnail loaded in Firefox, so here’s what it says in case anyone else is having the same problem.

The dumbest person you know is currently being told “You’re absolutely right!” by ChatGPT.

I browse exclusively on my phone, so deleting reddit apps and installing Lemmy apps was the biggest step for me.

I primarily browsed All, so setting my default sorting to All Top 12 Hours was key.

Finally, I made a point to comment and post more. This is where Lemmy beats Reddit hands down in my opinion. You can comment on posts that are hours old on All and still have meaningful discussions. Trying that on Reddit is like screaming into the void.

Edit: I also forgot to mention that I upvote almost everything. If you made a post that I read and it’s not complete trash, you’re getting an upvote. Same with comments. I upvote almost every comment I read - especially ones in response to my posts or comments. I feel like it let’s people know they’re being seen.

with Alexa integration

“I’m about to cum… Alexa play Despacito”

That just got me thinking - you know how you can’t read in dreams? You might be able to glance at something and go “yeah that’s Exit sign”. But if you really try to concentrate on reading something it’s just a bunch of jibberish.

We’ve always written this off as different parts of your brain being responsible for dreaming and reading. But now that we’ve advanced our technology enough, it seems like maybe our dreams are just being created by some shitty AI.

/s

Of course.

Just wanted to chime in on how awesome The LEGO Movie is. A few years ago, we had a neighborhood get together where we projected a movie onto my neighbor’s garage door for the kids. We setup chairs and blankets, and made popcorn.

We were watching the movie and all the kids were getting tired and people were slowing dispersing. Eventually, my wife asked “should we get going and put the kids to bed?” I said “Are you kidding me?! This movie is awesome!”

So yeah… She ended up taking the kids home and I stayed to watch the end of it.

Holy shit, this is the first time in Lemmy I’ve seen someone ask and obscure question and a person in a specialized profession answered. That used to happen on Reddit all the time, but I didn’t think Lemmy had a critical mass of users.

I still love you bastards

My cat: Feed me! I’m dying! I haven’t eaten in weeks! Please feed me!

Me: Ok, here’s some food.

My cat: lol jk fuck you.

I got a Minesweeper app for my phone a few months ago with no ads. It’s amazing.

I know there have been people predicting they live in the “end times” for all of humanity. But I can’t help but feel like our generation isn’t crying wolf like the others.

You ever eat a sleeve of Saltines… on weed?

She also does not appreciate whenever I play Your Love by The Outfield just so I can sing the lyric:

🎶You know I like my girls a little bit older 🎶

My wife is a few months older than me. She doesn’t seem to appreciate that I call her old as hell on her birthdays.

Honestly, this is a much more thoughtful and thorough response than I was expecting.