It’s not that the country is more arrogant and idiotic (although that’s arguable) but it’s more that arrogant and idiotic messages and people are being broadcast more.

Let’s remember the large amount of people who couldn’t be bothered to vote.

Rookie mistake brah. That’s why you gotta give it a little shake rattle & roll before you take the last few sips. Keeps the ice off their game and they forget to clump up.

Pfft. *too*

Gawd. *eyeroll*

/s

Yeah I just said that unironically yester . . the other . . . damn

Free your mind and your ass will follow

Hell, I’ve been pooping for years!

Important note: it’s good to be a boring pooper

superbowl is the best.

Lemmy is still small enough that I just browse “All” all the time, and when I run across a community I know I won’t read, I block it. Like anime stuff is fine, it’s just not my jam so I block it and then whatever else shows up in “All” I’ll see.

inside the nose cone of the Spirit of St. Louis

No, no. Wrap it in newspaper, place it in the bin, and back away slowly.

. . . and forcing people to pay, through relentless licensing schemes.

What they created wasn’t great, it was standard fare. Their “genius” was in ruthlessly demanding you didn’t own what they made, you only got to run it by paying tribute. It worked.

Other systems and hardware from that era were either absorbed or destroyed because microsoft becamse a monopoly quickly, and used that power to do so.

Bill Gates’ primary quest was to destroy open source right from day 1. See “Hackers” by Steven Levy for more.

What open source was in Windows?

You’ll never know, if they get their way.

To be fair, there are some very interesting concepts around large organizations from how they grow to how they communicate and things like that.

That said - yeah.

Weird.

They also occasionally catch the guy with 50 parrots stuffed in his pants or something.

I’ll have a look, sir.

MMmmmnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnno.

Blasphemer!