age verification can get fucked

Right! It’s kinda wild when you do see them. I always equate it to the feeling of being in a casino.

What really throws me is tv commercials. When I do see one, like in a waiting room or something, all I can think is, “people fall for this?”

Hey now. In harsh3466 land only I have the authority to mint pinecones!

I am always shocked when I have to use a browser without an ad blocker. How do people tolerate it?

I mean, I get it. I know many people have no idea about adblocking, etc. But goddam. It’s so awful without it.

It sure does! I’m no car expert but I can and have been doing basic maintenance on this car. Its a hooptie but it’s serving us well.

It’s why I’m holding onto my dumb early 2000s car as long as I can. I don’t want a fucking surveillance machine on wheels.

Did the pope even thank him for showing up to his funeral???

This can be applied to anything, but the quote as I read it in a book by Piers Anthony (I know, gross, I was in middle school), was:

Power is a means to an end. Don’t let the means become the end.

I often think of it as:

Money is a means to an end. Don’t let the means become the end.

This is the way.

Most of the “militias” support this tyranny. They’re celebrating

WAT?

Having to work to develop treatment is one thing. Actively ignoring the existence of HIV/AIDS and just letting people die is an entirely different thing. Reagan was a piece of shit.

Vibe coding is a hilarious term for this too. As if it’s not just letting AI write your code.

We did the same. Amazon can get fucked.

Right! I’m having a blast with my server.

100% this. Why would I go back to another centralized corpo line must go up service that will inevitably enshittify when we got lemmy right here?

Careful with that you though. I thought the same thing but someone pointed out in another thread that depending on your system, it may update the firmware over USB when you do system updates.

Shit. I didn’t even think of that. I’m using fedora. Tomorrow I’ll be blocking firmware updates for the printer. Thank you for pointing that out.

Glad I’ve got an Brother laser that has no network connectivity.

FBI can fuck right off.