The way I look at it, generation α and the next 5 generations are in a game of no-respin Russian roulette for who gets to be the ones to fight World War IV with sticks and stones.

I would like to see the linearally extrapolated third picture in this series

“Accusation In A Mirror”

Rightwing propagandists do this constantly, because it works. By saying all the things about “the liberals” that they know the liberals are going to say about them, it just sounds to anyone not paying attention that “both sides” are calling each other the same things. Drowning out the signal with noise.

And by ensuring they are the ones to say those things first and loudest, the fascist side gets to control the narrative, and even make it look like it’s the other side doing a “No, U!”

Dee-dee-dee-dee-deeedoooo, bingBONG, bingBONg-clickclack…gsssSsssSshhHhhhhh…GGSSSSHHHHHT

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-_ alt –_ binaries —_ pictures ----_ wholesome

As long as the submarine you had in mind was the OceanGate Titan, yeah.

This is actually one of the most interesting and entertaining timelines.

There was only supposed to be enough source data to make it to 2012- and that was originally a very generous buffer, since a fraction of a percent of Earths last more than 10 years after both networked computers and nuclear weapons have been invented in-simulation.

So, the operators decided not to pull the plug and just let this one run its course.

As it extrapolates history farther and farther outside of the initial parameters, the simulator is cannibalizing itself with feedback and undergoing model collapse.

Well, it’s a conservative joke, so… yeah.

Would make sense if he is selling recruiting & resume optimizing services or something- but from that job title he’s the guy who puts the DRM on the WiFi in the touchscreen toaster oven to ensure it can’t toast anymore when the company providing its cloud services goes out of business.

So my theory: that’s a very competitive job market and he’s looking for work, so he’s posting depressing stories in the hopes that it inspires already-depressed unemployed potential competitors in his network to kill themselves. Because each one that does slightly increases his own relative odds of getting hired.

Well of course- but identifying online ragebait is also a valuable skill to develop, because then you can just not engage with it.

Wouldn’t be surprised at all if the dude in the thumbnail is an actual IRL sexist- it’s not an exclusive-or situation. The pattern of first passing these off as someone else’s ideas and not his own, and then the “but idk what do you think…” at the end stinks of engagement bait.

Evey time I can remember having to use that lever it was because of some fuck driving with their 1.21GW LED high-beams on right behind me, and therefore deserving a 🖕, which can conveniently also be used to toggle the mirror… Two birds with one stone. Either that’s not nearly as universal an experience as I’d hoped or all the Lemmy users who like to drive with their brights got triggered being called out- either way my post does not meet the high editorial standards of the showerthoughts community, so deleting it.

Ok, where’s the orange one?

Potato salad is a legitimate foodstuff, however- in the United States it is unfortunately a gateway substance- leading to increasingly foamy forms of macaroni-celery salad, and ending ultimately in marshmallow grape walnut kool-hwip jello salad.

He made this beautiful sculpture of a marshmallow all by himself, but no one cared. 😢 Why don’t pictures like this ever trend?

“The defect in this one is… H5N1”

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“Yussssss!”

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Uploading “Where’s Waldo” images are probably a good waste of its time- images are costlier to analyze than text, it will go to great lengths to avoid saying “I don’t know,” and it’s going to have to recognize every person in the picture and rank by how Waldo-like they look to give you an answer.