We’ve got a bit of an alcohol oligarchy problem in society.

I love that Lemmy has built-in reminders that you’ve been doomscrolling too long.

I love learning about RFK Jr’s progenitors.

With age comes wisdom comes the understanding that control does not work with humans. It sacrifices part of them to get an outcome the parent wants. But the job of parenting never ends. In your 80s you will still want someone older who can show you what to do next. A parent that learns to support without controlling the kid will find themselves always able to parent their kid because the kid will always come to them for help.

All the “good” ideas this administration has are precedents to authoritarian mandates. They promote healthy eating so they can deny insurance claims etc. if you indicate (or if they suspect) you’re not doing it.

His face got Nagasaki-Naanking’d it was so epic

Dreams are the brain trying to solve problems it couldn’t solve during the day. Phones are nightmares we’re forced to entertain during the day. Does the heroin addict dream of hot spoons and needles or the way they feel when high?

LFG!!! Remember how “weird” almost took him out? This mud fight is long overdue. America could be the first country to resolve a civil war fought entirely through memes.

I’m using Cunningham’s Law, dammit. You were supposed to tell me what you use.

I was more interested in the… images… you might create. I saw the X in the card’s model number and like Elon thought, “how can I insert a sex joke here?”

Nah, eggs don’t simmer down until they crack. I’m thinking a name like Sun-il would be cute. Might dictate North Korea later.

How’s the ollama?

Oh I meant “no newer than”

32 year old software.

Runs on 3.2 year old hardware.

The fundamental flaw in the premise is you cannot know what you’re doing “wrong” to not get it. If you’re not literally the other person, you can’t observe every string of thought that goes through their head. If they know how much you rely on their approval, their brain will automatically consolidate power over you, issuing approval and disapproval alternately based on how it will force you to maneuver in the course of getting their own needs met. The only thing a person can successfully control in a healthy way is themselves. So you’ll end up getting disapproval when they are tired or cranky or whatever without them necessarily even realizing what they are doing. No human other than yourself can be the never-ending source of approval you desire.

If this is happening, it’s likely you’re locked in a toxic codependent relationship in which the other person is getting a LOT more out of the relationship than you.

If this is about a boss (and this is where it gets exciting) you’re being managed in an oligarchy. You’re not allowed to be happy and feel constant approval because they are controlling you.

This dude is a litmus test for us as a society. Do we believe adding punishment helps something? He should of course never see freedom again, but give him a simple Scandinavian-style prison and let him play games or do crafts or whatever so he’ll shut up and we never hear from him again until his stable environment (with optional, no-reward-promised therapy) helps him want to talk about motives. Our prison system as it is does not rehabilitate or even meet basic standards of living, which is inhumane even when we will it upon the most inhumane.

I could not be more sincere when I say: help us Europe; you’re our only hope.

Funny you mention that name. I bet there’s a bunch of people who look and act like him out and about in DC at night. That’s genuinely terrifying to a fascist white supremacist.

Starlink is literally his plan to rule the world. If you singularly control access to the internet for everyone, you’ve won the information war… against everyone. The good news is his Nazi addict ass will likely die young from a chest-cavity attack.

Sounds like there are valid use cases for each. Thank you, AGI 💖