I wish someone competent would fix the US education system. Spending twice as much as Europe on schools and healthcare and getting less from both is not ideal

YouTube got real weird for a bit

I’ve never heard anything about schlock rock. What a bizarre concept. I fully believed that you were messing with me until I heard “M-m-m-m-m-m-my menorah” to the tune of “my Sharona”

If they really want her back, they’ll do it. “Whoa, I can’t believe the Russians cloned her, then turned her into a man, then the obvious dysphoria stemming from it caused her to turn traitor and join shield. I can’t believe she looks completely different now!” Far from the weirdest comic plot line

Somehow, that’s actually much better. It looped back around from silly to amazing

Old joke, but always relevant

“A storm descends on a small town, and the downpour soon turns into a flood. As the waters rise, the local preacher kneels in prayer on the church porch, surrounded by water. By and by, one of the townsfolk comes up the street in a canoe.

“Better get in, Preacher. The waters are rising fast.”

“No,” says the preacher. “I have faith in the Lord. He will save me.”

Still the waters rise. Now the preacher is up on the balcony, wringing his hands in supplication, when another guy zips up in a motorboat.

“Come on, Preacher. We need to get you out of here. The levee’s gonna break any minute.” Once again, the preacher is unmoved. “I shall remain. The Lord will see me through.”

After a while the levee breaks, and the flood rushes over the church until only the steeple remains above water. The preacher is up there, clinging to the cross, when a helicopter descends out of the clouds, and a state trooper calls down to him through a megaphone.

“Grab the ladder, Preacher. This is your last chance.”

Once again, the preacher insists the Lord will deliver him.

And, predictably, he drowns.

A pious man, the preacher goes to heaven. After a while he gets an interview with God, and he asks the Almighty, “Lord, I had unwavering faith in you. Why didn’t you deliver me from that flood?”

God shakes his head. “What did you want from me? I sent you two boats and a helicopter.”

Do people actually play kids music to kids? I thought that stuff was exclusively used for background noise in YouTube kids Elsa impregnation videos.

No, I’m just stuck. Bring a water-based lubricant to help me come out

14/f/under your floorboards

Do Everything Intelligently

Close the sub for the day when you “don’t have enough mods operating today.” Then open mod applications. Accept no one. Just continue until the subreddit bleeds to nothing in a few weeks, as you’ve broken no rules and redditors are impatient

Edit: and read nothing that you’re sent. Just mark all as read. They will complain loudly. It will spur a reaction that will hinder your plan. Remember your mental health!

Me watching Reddit implode

Elon is the sort of person to (pay someone) to play universal paperclips and then wonder why they didn’t ask the AI to instead make money.

He does. They’re meant to ruin the US. You don’t require grand plans to destroy something with a sledgehammer.

“Almost all the increase took place during Biden’s final months in office.“

I’m insulted on the behalf of the idiots who routinely believe his blatant lies

Not trying to be racist, but why are such a disproportionate number of the names Indian?

I’d hesitate to call lemmy users free thinkers or smart. I’m bog standard, at best, and others here are usually about par with me. No, it’s been pretty apparent that they enact change because of pressure from above and outside, leading to constant issues. The company’s leadership is simply incapable of creating anything better.

They chase money, respect, and trends, in that order, but rarely successfully and even more rarely proactively. They’re a poorly coordinated, reflexive, and myopic behemoth, and have been for a long while. The company’s just too unwieldy for them. But, the intentionality of their mistakes is irrelevant.

TLDR; The only thing of import is the frequency of their mistakes and my lack of tolerance for them.

banned for upvoting an article from the guardian about the dorito despot

I’m not sure why people still use that website. “Move fast and break things” works out occasionally, but this feels like every decision Reddit has made in the last 10 years. There were some good early choices mixed in with the bad, and denying those would be silly.

Depending on the frequency of your printing, they can suck as well. Chronically clogged nozzles are maddening.