There's a reason England was by and large happy to see the ass-end of the morons they shipped over here to seed this colony. It's always been like this, you just see it now because of the Internet. Well, also because their numbers have dwindled so much they're forced to homogenize. Used to be they'd argue back and forth about the correct belief system endlessly (you'll recall Protestants at one time loathed Catholics and Mormons were a heretical and dangerous cult to be avoided). Now their only message is how you have to get all your holes filled while dying your hair and fucking up your face with caked on makeup and plastic surgery - anything to pump up the numbers.
For those of us who have given serious thought to philosophy and life and death and science versus myth - we've managed to get a grip on mortality. These freaks have not and can not - they don't have the tools for it. And thus, they all remain themselves tools.
Plenty of us over here have been frustrated about it our whole lives, even before the Internet. There's nothing to do but wait it out. You can't fix stupid.
I love the IP and the original movie. I thought the second movie was better than I expected, but still not as good as it could have been. Tron's not even in this one, which seems like such a stupid, unnecessary thing to do. I'll watch it eventually and probably think it's OK, but I'm not going to spend any money on it.
Totally normal, just out of curiosity what was the song?
I had a guy whose name I did know help me out in a bad situation about 30 years ago. But about six months later, I moved across the country and never saw him again. I just recalled him to mind a few weeks ago and... I can't remember his name.
It felt kind of like a betrayal, I should have remembered, he was a huge help to me when a lot of people hung me out to dry. But such is the imperfection of meat memory. :(
I had downloaded the full (no pictures) Wikipedia earlier this year for exactly this reason. This thread told me about kiwix, which is awesome, so I downloaded the "Wikipedia .08" using kiwix, which is the best 45,000 articles from Wikipedia with pictures and it's 7G, very manageable, has most topics anyone would care about.
Pretty sure Lemmy got on the influence bot radar some few months ago. Comments are now deeply negative and constantly drumming the 2FA and guillotine remedies to every complaint. Interactions outside of this kind of content I still find Lemmy users to be magnitudes higher quality than Reddit.
"I wish President Trump could be notified how bad this is..."
Even unteachable is somehow too charitable. In the middle of eating the shit he is spoon feeding them, they believe 100% that he has nothing to do with it and doesn't even know about it. These people are absolutely braindead.
I have less than no use for his religion/politics, but his shows are a lot of fun and he (thankfully) keeps that shit completely out of them. For such an old dude, you'd think he wouldn't be able to still be such an entertainer, but his shows are wild - giant monsters, huge sets, pyrotechnics - a lot of fun.
Also, damn - he really does look like an old haggard Steve Carrell.
The President can do anything he wants if the Supreme Court and Congress won't do anything about whatever it is he does. That's the end of this discussion that we keep having over and over again anyway.
It happened for me around the age of 24, it hit pretty hard. I remember it distinctly, one day I looked in the mirror - an everyday thing, just getting ready for work - and I didn't see a kid anymore. You'd think you'd feel good about it, but it didn't feel good. It felt sad.
Same here. I made sure I quit all the drama subs, all the big subs and I only keep my carefully curated niche content communities in my reddit feed. There's really nothing on Lemmy about, say... Elite Dangerous, so I still browse it to keep up on what's new.
What I don't do is engage. Reddit is too full of bots and too full of itself to be of any usefulness in engagement. I can't help them, they can't help me, there's no point in doing anything but reading on Reddit.
Lemmy, on the other hand, is almost all engagement, because without it there's not much else, unless you like memes, which I do. Talking to people here is rewarding and interesting, the exact opposite of reddit, which delights in doing nothing but shitting on your head and being generally insufferable/boring.
I wish I could offer some more helpful suggestions. Everything is hard these days, even when you don't have the afflictions you describe. What I immediately want to suggest is that you somehow get your own space. I don't have half of what you have to deal with, but even being fairly better off, I couldn't deal with living with others as you have described here. Even if it's just a decrepit 250sf studio somewhere, if you could just find something that you're not forced to share with other people - to me that would be relative bliss. Even if you had noisy neighbors above you or whatever you could still use the headphones. But to me, not having anyone in my space is paramount for my mental well-being. I don't care how small the space is or in what degenerate neighborhood I find myself, somehow I will be alone in my living area. Short of that I'm afraid I don't have a lot of meaningful ideas, but I sure hope you manage to make your way.
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There's a reason England was by and large happy to see the ass-end of the morons they shipped over here to seed this colony. It's always been like this, you just see it now because of the Internet. Well, also because their numbers have dwindled so much they're forced to homogenize. Used to be they'd argue back and forth about the correct belief system endlessly (you'll recall Protestants at one time loathed Catholics and Mormons were a heretical and dangerous cult to be avoided). Now their only message is how you have to get all your holes filled while dying your hair and fucking up your face with caked on makeup and plastic surgery - anything to pump up the numbers.
For those of us who have given serious thought to philosophy and life and death and science versus myth - we've managed to get a grip on mortality. These freaks have not and can not - they don't have the tools for it. And thus, they all remain themselves tools.
Plenty of us over here have been frustrated about it our whole lives, even before the Internet. There's nothing to do but wait it out. You can't fix stupid.