Yeah fam, “fam” is hella lit.

Naw fam, gotta get that GPS in braille form
/s

Make it and then sell it to my wife to give to me for a gag gift next Christmas.

Her budget for such a thing would probably be ~$100 if you need a target price point.

This attempted contradiction doesn’t seem to counteract the above comment.

I think there’s something to be said about shared cultural experiences, and so reading some older books is probably a good thing.

To clarify what I mean though: that means that we should be reading stuff that was written/popular when our grandparents were our age. Going back 200+ years should be saved for a history class cause that’s the real value in reading that material. In my opinion, Great Gatsby should be about the oldest book kids need to be reading for a literature class these days, and even that’s pushing it.

Yeah and I’ll bet you use Tau instead of Pi, don’t you, you human scum.

I’m surprised at the amount of disagreement your comment is getting.

I don’t want to downplay Jackson’s displacement of American Indians, but there was one real FUBAR thing Jackson did that no one remembers:

He paid off the national debt.

Completely and entirely. The federal government existed debt free for some months (I forget exactly how long, I want to say it was a year or so before borrowing exceeded income).

On the face of it, this probably sounds like a good thing, but it hard crashed the economy. Obv wasn’t alive at the time, but it’s my understanding that it was the worst economic disaster until the Great Depression (and The Great Depression was only worse because the country and world were far more connected than the world of Jackson’s day).

That said, I hear inauguration party was a real rager.

pain receptors are distinct receptors in your body that don’t dull themselves after a while

Man, that’s some bullshit.

Come on Body, can’t you just have some, like, nice things that aren’t purely functional?

I’ve got a grandpa who says this all the time. He was a technician on a bunch of government contracts all through the cold war.

“No matter how much you try or how well you succeed in digitizing things, we still live in an analog world”

I had (what felt like) an epiphany (but has seemed obvious to everyone I’ve shared it with) some time ago:

Electrical signals are serial; they’re connectionless, like UDP.

Underlying all these fantastic technologies is just aother connectionless protocol.

Ugh, yeah, I don’t hate the guy, but I also think that anyone who still thinks he’s a visionary hasn’t actually been paying attention to his work/how his companies are going lately.

I suppose my instinctive reaction isn’t to assume someone’s politics would determine how they react to Musk.

My first real assumption would be that tech/engineering types are the only ones who’d really think about him at all (in both directions). Like, I do have an uncle who occasionally brings him up whenever theirs news on SpaceX’s rockets (though usually this gets brought up in the context of “new technology sucks” and “what was wrong with the rockets that carried up Voyager” and such).

So yeah, I really don’t think I’d describe anyone as “gargling Elon’s cock” except those who still have good will for Tesla.

Yeah, I hate how toxic just politics in general get. Like, it feels like any time anything political gets brought up, everyone leaves their good will and sense of humanity at the door, ya know?

I do enjoy how much tech-focused content is on Lemmy, but it also feels like there’s a higher concentration of toxic leftist type posts.

That’s definitely a thing I miss about the good ol’ reddit days: being able to scroll for days without seeing anything political. Or rather - being able to filter out all the political subs and not feeling like you were missing out on the larger conversation on the platform.

That’s interesting to hear. I wouldn’t have expected Europeans would have thought about ol’ Elon that much.

Ugh, yeah, that is a point of frustration I have with the family.

For them, it’s not so much “look what Musk is doing” so much as “look at how much better Twitter’s gotten”, which is particularly ripe cause none of them even use the platform. As I think on it, that probably means the big Fox talking heads are saying things like that.

I never got into Twitter myself (just never really understood / took to the format), which is kind of a shame cause I’d really like to be supporting Mastodon in this years surgance of the Fediverse.

Man, I don’t know what right wingers y’all are talking about.

I come from a super right wing family and all them MFs think this is a bad idea too (though to be fair, they’re def on the conspiracy theory “everything is to get a microchip in my blood/brain” side of things).

But feal there maey be a does of misspelt words in your setnence thoungh

So I love that this meme is detailed enough to have the older guy’s arm partially block his name tag.

…but I’m disappointed that, in spite of such details elsewhere, there’s a misspelt word.

The dichotomy is making my bones itch.

mUh FaMiLy!!1!

You mean Nansssy Peloslither the Reptoid?