A shitty comic.

An act of self-indulgence.

A desperate cry from an attention starved individual.

Take your pick.

Who would have thought that a thing called a “comic” would be funny?

It’s not like serious works of fiction using the same format would need a separate term like “graphic novel” or anything. That would never happen.

We’re communicating instantaneously over a globe spanning computer network. In the early 90s that was not possible for the average joe. It was only in the very tail end of the decade that doing so didn’t require a fair amount of money and/or technical knowledge.

The network provides all of the information in every library on the planet to us instantaneously.

Relatively new parent here. I regret to inform you that your hypothesis is incorrect, at least for my kid. He’s still an infant, though and I don’t know if you include kids under 1 in “small children”.

My wife and I only use our phones to track his nap times, take a picture of him occasionally (once a week or so), and make phone calls. He is still magnetically attracted to them. If you leave one sitting on a surface he can reach he will go for it and start trying to get it to light up on the lock screen. This is especially frustrating for my wife and I as we intend to restrict screen time as much as possible through early childhood.

Even removing social pressures and constructs around phones they are little boxes with moving lights on one side that respond to your touch. That’s inherently interesting to children even before they can meaningfully interpret writing or abstract images.

The term to look out for is “bonded leather”.

You wouldn’t download a car computer.

As long as you don’t have the wrong opinions, of course.

Think of a guilty/not guilty plea as the defense declaring their stance rather than literally saying “I did this” or “I did not do this”. After all there are circumstances in which a person absolutely did the thing they’re accused of but are not actually guilty (self defense) or extenuating circumstances need to be considered (insanity plea).

Perjury requires that a person lied under oath in a specific, provable way. That’s why defense attorneys will sometimes have their client not take the stand or assert their fifth amendment rights in response to certain questions. Making the prosecution prove that the defendant did a thing is fine. Saying “I didn’t do thing X at all” and then having evidence being presented that you did is no bueno.

TL;DR: A not guilty plea basically says “prove it”. Perjury is lying about specifics and it can later be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that you lied about those details.

I’m starting to think it’s just people being as edgy and contrarian as possible.

Of all the hills in the world to die on you chose “space exploration is bad and doesn’t produce useful technologies”.

Solar panels, memory foam, LEDs. Goddamned transistors.

Listen, if you’re just hearing about this shit here and now pour yourself a nice glass of tang and read up because whatever education you got is not serving you.

Space programs are notorious for not developing whole slews of useful technologies that provide benefits in other sectors. Nope, nothing developed by or for NASA will find unexpected uses anywhere other than space exploration. No sirree.

Depending on how important those files are to you the safe deposit box might be a good “plan A”.

Eeeeehhhhhhh I have a feeling Lemmy is going to skin me alive for this but I can’t help myself.

It’s not about the nail.

https://youtu.be/-4EDhdAHrOg?feature=shared

But America bad, you see.

Even when giving supplies to a democratic nation being invaded during a blatant land grab it’s America’s fault. Why? Because America bad.

Including humans.

Surely this will get people to think and vote the way I want them to. In the mean time let’s work ourselves into a fervor by publicly talking about how everyone who doesn’t agree with us are bigots.

It seems like you’re implying that only American children are mean to each other.

The Apple corporation are dicks, so America bad?

Lemmy sure is a trip sometimes.

Every generation has had people who think they are important enough to witness the end of the world. All of them have been wrong.

I’m not yet middle aged and have lived through quite a few supposed doomsdays so I’ll just wait for someone to breathlessly tell me why this time is different and the world is really going to end now.