Weirdly, I know of more women who listen to joe rogan than men (okay, the numbers are 2 to 0, so not that mindblowing). I don’t fucking get it.

It was the same thing with friends who liked Elon Musk before he went fully mask off after buying Twitter. Who he was, and the function he provided, was so completely obvious to anyone who was paying attention. I don’t get how anyone could miss it.

How to pull them out of the bog, no idea.

For my part I’ve just confessed my ignorance of what’s going on on the commercial web, and shared with them the kinds of conversations I’m have on the non-commercial parts (fedi, email, chats, smol web, etc), which are usually nicer and more productive.

Although to certain extent I still consider this here a form a social media… and I’m not actually sure that it’s good for us past a certain number of people. It might be “more cacophony than community” to quote one of Matthew Graybosch’s blog posts.

It is better here than on the mainstream social medias, though. That’s for sure for sure.

EDIT anyway, that’s a total aside. I just couldn’t help picking up that one thread. Good comment. I love your approach.

Confirmed. Sometimes I start a sentence and don’t even know what my point is until I get to the end of it! I am a total fool. But at least I’m not a fuckin chud.

Still, 41% sounds absolutely critical level, like we need to stop all society and have a conversation, because that is so uncool.

Fucking 41… Like that is a plurality. That is a whole fucking lot of wrong people. That is entirely too many bros. I’m not sure I can impart just how disappointing that number is.

they usually manage to not make things significantly worse, though they often don’t do much to improve the situation either.

I think even with the best of intentions, if two people with guns show up to some sort of crisis, it’s easy to see how that might be, like, the right vibe at the moment.

Hahaha white Kev never can catch a break

That’s so shitty, but I’m glad she at least knows better than to settle for some creep.

Pov you haven’t been paying attention to the usage of pov

You could probably get Linux to run on a decently close friendship and a stack of paper.

You’re very brave! I meant on like a virtual machine

Reminds me of when a script released by Valve did just this back in the day.

Try it and report back

That feeling where rm is taking a while to return to the prompt

I suppose that would be the next sad stage.

If you can generate smooth looking hi-def images, that level of fidelity sort of becomes meaningless. So instead you start trying to emulate the cachet and charm of rough, hand-drawn images.

The tragedy being that this style is genuinely within anyone’s reach if they just opened up the most rudimentary paint program.

If this is ai generated I’m going to be so sad.

The puter is a tool

Just laying there.

I remember finding an early ubuntu CD just lying in the street. Took it home, and I’ll be damned if it didn’t turn my ailing laptop right around. Got 5 more years out of that thing.

I am pretty sick of its ubiquity. Like my friends can’t even hang out unless it’s somewhere that serves.

I don’t see votes but you’re probably downvoted to hell. People get real weird when you start criticising what they eat or drink.