Maya S. Trojan

Of all the places I expected this copypasta, it wasn’t in a comic strip referencing They Live.

I’m one of those odd ducks who never cared all that much for Pink Floyd. I can hear the talent, but I found the music somewhat tedious.

Due to not caring for them much, I’ve run across people who actively hate them, and I heard this joke once:

Person A: Hey, did you hear about how they’re setting all those copies of Dark Side of the Moon on fire in the middle east?

Person B: Oh no! Is it a religious protest or something?

Person A: No, it’s just a shitty album.

The workers must seize the means of production and communication.

https://lemmy.ml/post/53619601/28192074

This seems like a pretty good breakdown.

Reminds me of when a friend of mine rented the upper-half of a tuxedo, some tighty whities, and some big baggy boxer short underwear over the tighty whities and went as “That Bad Dream Where You Aren’t Wearing Pants.” It was so well executed.

Yes, exactly, building parallel systems that actually cater to the needs of the local populace. Interconnecting those systems via federation sounds key to making it work!

It’s a little bit funny to see people talking about the benefits of centralization on a website that was built to be part of a larger decentralized network. As if we’re not here because of the problems with control and censorship in centralization. Reddit has a history of silencing leftist voices, yet those voices are more “free” to speak here on the Fediverse.

The entire point of the original structure of the internet was to build resilient communication networks for the military so if one node went down, a new path could be routed around the broken node.

Centralization absolutely leads to fascism because it gives all the controls to a handful of people who aren’t responsive to democracy.

Our representatives do not represent our interests because they are so far removed from us. We honestly need far more representatives representing far fewer people (like maybe a few hundred per representative) because then a rep has to be on a first name basis with their constituents and understand them because there are so few they represent. Either that or we need to bite the bullet and go direct-democracy and just have senators and house representatives just be figureheads who help write bills, with citizens having the final vote on each bill.

So they don’t need as much cooling, and will produce less waste heat due to the temperature coefficient of resistance.

And honestly in areas with colder year-round climates, the increase in ambient temps from running locally might actually reduce heating bills because it’s technically doing double duty of doing a job and heating the place.

D’oh! I knew I was forgetting something!

They are desperately trying to stave off the crash until Democrats have a majority so it can be blamed on the Democrats.

OK I went to the store and bought some queso dip… Now what?

not your keys

not your crypto

Being smart enough to recognize what’s going on but not smart enough to envision the future from the present and not smart enough to come with concrete solutions on my own absolutely sucks. (There is a difference between being able to visualize the future based on knowledge of things like how poverty drives crime versus being able to actually predict specific crazy shit like the Proud Boys harassing the country during 2020-2024. I was able to envision poverty going up, not the political violence that came with it)

Turns out I was right when I was ranting and raving about how the Bush admin was basically using the PATRIOT Act to turn everyday American citizens into terrorists. It sucks so bad to have seen it all coming and have been successful at doing fuck-all to stop it even though everything went as badly (or worse) than I predicted.

I hate being smarter than the dummies and dumber than the smarties. Knowing just enough to know I don’t know shit.

Anyone else remember reddit’s r/RandomActsofPizza and how within six months of there being news stories about the subreddit that Mars Inc. had copyrighted/trademarked “Random Acts of Chocolate” and turned it into an ad campaign to convince people to buy an extra candy bar to share.

Pepperidge Farm remembers corporations co-opting communities to make a buck.

Also they explicitly call it sharing size so when people get fat as fuck from eating a whole bag they can claim it’s not their fault and that people should have more self control with their addictive sugar bombs.

https://x.com/miliondollameat/status/684877647705423872

Non-Twitter link:

https://nitter.miningtcup.me/miliondollameat/status/684877647705423872

They literally credit this tweet from 2016, ten years ago, for inspiration.

I think you’re remembering the original twitter post but somehow didn’t notice it’s actually credited already.

You can’t do this to me on the day Patrick Stewart died!

brutal, sorry about that! thanks for making it easier for other mobile users to see!

This comic is about ICE.

I already got my invitation 🙂 I hope I can afford it at some point, too.