I should just post a new topic there, just called AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
And the body of the message would be a picture of a clown, a picture of some fecies, and a gif of fire burning everything.
That’s the general vibe of todays politics.
Honestly, it sounds like you’ve been spending too much time in some online communities that are doom posting about everything. Do things suck right now? Yes, but they’ve literally sucked for as long as human society has existed.
Ah. I was worried for a second he may have been stuck in places that are only pessimistic doom posting. Good to know that life sucks now, and has always sucked. That’s the positive message we need right now.
Either that or a god damned pitchfork…
Yeah, for the next few months. I strongly suspect that trumps cabinet is about to target libraries, and internet archive, and wikipedia, and any other place thats home to free information.
…I feel like I want to counterpoint, but I got nothin. My brain instead want to combine Apollo 13, and that movie where Tom Hanks is stuck on an island talking to a beach ball.
But also, I want it to be a liscensed Gilligan’s Island parody. I want it to be like he’s stuck on the island for an hour before he finds Gilligan. Then he realizes there’s 7 other people who’ve been watching him this whole time. They were like “Oh, we’re not going near that guy. He’s fucking NUTS! You see that? He cut his hand, just to make a handprint on that volleyball in his own BLOOD. Now he talks to it, and argues with it, and has sex with it…this dude is nuts.”
And he comes running up like “HEYGUYSYAGOTTAHELPMEI’MANASTRONAUTWHOFELLFROMTHESKYANDMYOTHERTWOASTRONAUTCOPILOTSDIEDINTHECRASHANDNOWIVEBEENEATINGBAMBOOANDTALKINGTOAVOLLEYBALLFORSIXWEEKSBECAUSEITSLONELYHERE!!!”
And Gilligan would be like “Did you catch that, skipper?”
And the skipper would say “No Gilligan. I didn’t. I don’t speak crazy!”
And Gilligan would say "He said…
HEY GUYS YA GOTTA HELP ME I’M AN ASTRONAUT WHO FELL FROM THE SKY AND MY OTHER TWO ASTRONAUT COPILOTS DIED IN THE CRASH AND NOW IVE BEEN EATING BAMBOO AND TALKING TO A VOLLEYBALL FOR SIX WEEKS BECAUSE IT’S LONELY HERE."
And skipper would hit Gilligan with his hat and say “That’s not what he said, Gilligan! How would you ever understand him???”
And Tom Hanks would say “No, he got it right. Word for word actually.”
And the Gilligan would say “See skipper??? I understood!”
And skipper would roll his eyes and say “Oh, yes. I forgot. YOU speak crazy…”
Then the professor would pop out of a bush, and say “Oh, hey guys. Just wanted you to know I’ve invented a fully automated sex robot from nothing but coconuts and fish.”
While Mr Howel is hurrily running across screen like “Dibs!!!”
Actually, they DID do the math wrong once…landed in the Ocean on earth. They just had to say “Ok…lets go back home.”
Tom Hanks was in a movie about it that got a LOT of facts wrong.
rolls eyes
I thought the whole point of the fediverse was that it doesn’t matter which service you use, just as long as you’re in the pool.
I’m the kind of person who obsesses over details like this. Now, in reality, I know it’s just a silly little joke in a silly comic.
On a deeper level, maybe the artist wasn’t confident in their own ability to draw a prison, and have the reader understand. Even though I think it’s blatently obvious even without that part.
But the REAL fun begins when you try to explain that detail from within the context of the story world they live in.
I like to think there was a time when they were building this prison that construction workers kept getting asked what they were building. It looked huge, and they thought “oh, maybe it’s a MASSIVE library! Look how big the foundation alone is! They could make it 20 floors tall, and have specialized departments of learning.”
And another person asked if it would be a multiplex cinema with 40 screens.
Someone else asked if it would be a hospital.
Then another guy asked how to get to main st. He was just passing through town, and got lost.
Still though, it began interupting their day so often that they put up that sign as they built it. Then when they were done, the state wouldn’t pay anything extra to remove the sign, and so it stayed up after completion.
This construction crew is the only one in town. And so they did this on every building they build. Just down the road is a modernized McDonalds. The grey buildings that don’t look like anything. In the front, in addition to the company provided logo and signage, is also “This is a McDonalds” on the side that faces the road.
This is how my brain is. Creating little backstories for mundane details, that I know aren’t true. Sometimes I’ll see a penny on the ground. “I wonder how this got here…”
Well at least they’re showering. I was on the bus earlier today. Some of them could USE a shower thought!
The civil war was fought over slavery. We have legalized slavery baked into our constitution. We’re not fighting the civil war. We lost. Well…I guess that depends on which side of “we” you’re on.
I always say that if aliens understand all human languages, then I don’t blame them for not wanting to come here.
Now, this part is partially coincidence. It’s just when technology lined up with history, but do you know the very first human broadcast sent out into space? Adolph Hitler declairing that earth is the property of the nazi party, and all who reside on earth are nazi followers.
Now, I assume that aliens living on another planet cannot speak or understand the German language. But let’s say I’m wrong. We’re already comitting ourselves to accepting that intelligent life exists out there, and is observing our daily activity from at least the 1930s. Is it really too much of a stretch to say they also understand what they’re watching? Ok, cool. That would mean the first voice they hear is a nazi rant, from hitler, declairing humans to be intollerant of any inferior life beyond blonde hair, blue eyed german nazis.
If I’m an alien from outer space, my first thought would be “What the god damn hell man??? This guy’s a human, surrounded by other humans, and he’s so angry that other humans exist, that he’s mass slaughtering them in gas chambers. And he does this by claiming his color people are better than the other color people, even though most of them are mostly the same color! There is ZERO chance that I show up with my green skin, and 47 eyeballs, and get accepted by the humans.”
Then, as they watched our species grow, they witnessed how we percieve the concept of outer space aliens to be. The end result in every movie is “The aliens have invaded earth. The humans have used rockets to blow up and kill the aliens.”
At no point in human history has an outer space alien been depicted as someone that people would warmly embrace, and could live a comfortable life in safety. Even E.T was a movie about the alien being hunted by the government. Same thing with Rodger from American Dad.
So what logical reason would aliens have, to EVER come to earth??? We’re the ghetto of the universe. Because of humans.
Humans? I have no idea.
Maybe put something in the documentation that says “If you tell me good code is it’s own documentation, I will lose my temper and slit your throat. And if you wear a pink baseball cap to work, the next day I’ll give you a donut.”
And then you get work only with people who read your documentation.
You know…on account of how you murdered the others!
I’m only learning who you are through context of THIS conversation. How have I never seen you before?
Hi, It’s Josh from Let’s Game It Out. We’re entering The Matrix today…
Alright. Deleteing the leather pants…oh my!
I don’t care about the quarter, but in a different way. If I see someone getting out of their car, I say “You need a cart?”
Shit, I’d rather give it to them, than walk across the parking lot. Now if I don’t see anyone, THEN I’ll take it back. But I’d rather just give the cart to someone who needs it anyways. Screw the quarter! Oh no! I’m missing out on…30 seconds of earned income!!!
Ah, yes. The secret to getting a good nights sleep is to twist your spine in 14 different directions at once.
I know you’re mocking this way of speaking online, but maaaaan, that hurt to read.
Well…I don’t know why you included Twitter on that list, as they’ve NEVER been part of the fediverse.
Threads is fully integrated. You can personally block them from your end, but thats all you.
It would be like saying “Dominos doesn’t make pizza. It has never been a pizza company”. With your logic being that you don’t like their pizza. Doesn’t make it true just because YOU don’t eat the pizza.
Bluesky I hear conflicting reports on. Some people say it is, because it can be, others say it’s not, because it’s not official. I get both sides on this.
But the last part…is objectively not true. It happrns to work that way FOR NOW. It just isn’t profitable enough for the major players to sink any real resources into.
The fact that it’s adfree has more to do with the fact that 60k people on all of Lemmy with most instances having a few hundred people “on” it, and also advertising companies not understanding the concept of federation.
I could start my own instance, and sell ads to corporate overlords. The biggest problem I’d face is the idea of trying to convince any company with money to spend that money on me putting an ad on for such a small audience.
If/when the fediverse ever gains momentum and becomes mainstream, you can guarentee that ads will be everywhere.
Because nobody owns the fediverse. Which means if I sell an ad on my instance, all federated instances will see the ad. Sure, you could defederate from my instance. But what would happen right now if lemmy.world sold ads? Is every instance going to defederate from the biggest instance, with the majority of communities? That would essentially break the fediverse.
We’re all on a service that you think is immune to centralization, but forgot the core concept that humans like to socially congragate. Which means it’s inevitable that there will always be one big dominant instance. Which means if this thing ever goes mainstream, the ads are coming, and they’ll be on all the big instances.