It’s okay though because Zuck greased the Trump admin’s palms with his Presidential Library bribe, so they’ll get a slap on the wrist at best.

Just a really fast military quagmire… as a treat! ☺️

Before the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was feared as a great military might of the world.

Now the curtain has been drawn back on the wizard, and it turns out they can’t even properly subjugate their neighbors.

Makes me wonder how much of the military bravado from China and America is just a fancy veneer and how deep the corruption has managed to hollow out their ability to fight a real slugfest of a war, not these one-sided invasions and subsequent 20 year occupation.

I’m envious. No really, I wish I could pack up my life and move to the Netherlands. It sounds like a fantastic place. I just worry that if so many Americans are fleeing to stable European democracies, that they will eventually become a nuisance and wear out their welcome, regardless of how well behaved some of us might try to be. Our reputation as an ignorant, uncurious and closed-minded people was not entirely unearned.

I’m appreciating the silence while it lasts.

The thing that will kill this is forcing users to migrate to a new app. Removing the largest friction barrier that prevents people from leaving your app by forcing them to cross it is a great way to scatter the TikTok userbase to the four winds.

I hope this kills TikTok, and that the people who enjoyed using it remember who was responsible for it.

Oh yes, let me protest this thing that just happened by throwing my Android-OS phone that I bought years ago away. That’ll show 'em.

You’re just as disingenuous and stupid as the morons on the right who smashed their Keurigs.

FYI, my next phone will probably be a Linux phone anyway and I hardly use YouTube at all these days, and when I do it’s with AdBlockers on, and I never gave a cent to them for premium, so I cost them money to use their platform if anything. If PeerTube or some other non-Google video hosting service could go mainstream, I’d use that in a heartbeat. I’ve de-Googled my life as much as I could reasonably be expected to, and this was before their CEO kissed the ring. So fuck off with your judgemental attitude.

I already hate Apple products, so I can’t not buy them to make a statement about not supporting fascist loving corpo scum.

Republicans so fuckin’ stupid they’re trying prohibition again, but this time with porn.

I feel like at least one of those traits are a necessary prerequisite to getting indoctrinated into the Trump cult.

“I don’t use social media and never have.”

So what are they going to do if someone fires back with this? Deny their visa because they didn’t agree to be spied on by a few of the worst companies on planet fucking earth? Is the government going to be able to somehow make me prove that I don’t have social media?

We have the stupidest people in charge right now.

Can ChatGPT actually play chess now? Last I checked, it couldn’t remember more than 5 moves of history so it wouldn’t be able to see the true board state and would make illegal moves, take it’s own pieces, materialize pieces out of thin air, etc.

I don’t want to be caught dead driving one of those fucking nazimobiles. I would not take one even if it were free.

lmaoooo

Ah yes, the “free market” in action.

We are rotten to the core.

Yeah, I’ve been meaning to switch to OpenStreetMaps for a while now and this was the impetus to drop what I was doing and download it immediately. Fuck Google. So sick of this mask off tech plutocracy bullshit.

Edit: I’ve tried it a few times yesterday and today, and I like it. Works with Android Auto in my car, guidance voice isn’t annoying, directions are accurate. Only complaint is I’m not sure how to search up a business and have the app map me to the nearest location. I need to dig deeper and figure out if I just haven’t found it yet.

I would 100% drop GMaps if I could hit the directions button on a Google search and have it bring up OSM instead. Google Maps has been bugged for me for years and the maps app never gets the address from a browser search. I have to search for the business or address in the maps app itself for it to work.

My best guess? Probably another primate. Bonobos and Chimpanzees seem like the ideal candidate to take over the husk of Human civilization the quickest. Another species might have a shot, but then it’s a question of how many millions of years it’s going to take for them to evolve and if they can survive the cataclysmic events that will no doubt hit Earth in the meantime.

If not primates, I would bet on one of the following species:

Corvidae - Extremely intelligent, highly adaptable, tool-users, social, pass down their knowledge to offspring.

Canis Familiaris - Highly social, apex predators, genetically diverse, spread throughout every corner of the world.

Loxodonta - Extremely intelligent, highly social, adaptable, builders and tool-users, long lifespans.

Based on what, exactly?

I imagine that a university level coding assignment and the backend code that runs the Twitter.com website (albeit just fractions of it) are several orders of magnitude apart from each other in terms of size and complexity. I don’t know shit about programming though, I took C++ in high school and got a D+. Should’ve called the class Introduction to D++.

A stopped clock is still correct twice a day.