Alex

all opinions belong to big bird

[Vic Vaiana @vicvaiana]

All this in just 4 years.

Remember when they insisted it was impossible to build green infrastructure quickly enough

[Ald. PhD. Leftino Socialist @ismslinehan]

BREAKING: CHICAGO POPE LEO CALLS FOR BUTLERIAN JIHAD ON ALL THINKING MACHINES

[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

the pope wrote a 42,000 word manifesto declaring war on AI. we are so freaking back.

[@pat @0xpatterns]

“Why don’t you just eat fucking ramen everyday? Just eat peanut butter and ramen for 50 years dumbass and invest all your money into the pico top of the gayest most fragile empire in history you dumbass idiot. Just starve and eat shit and dirt everyday for your entire life and then you can spend $30 on lunch when you’re old and about to die it’s simple. Don’t you know your 20’s are for grinding?? You’re supposed to eat shit for the majority of your life that’s why your ancestors built America. So you could eat shit and fucking die moron.”

[Robert (Durden) @realrobdurden]

Flock cameras are against the 4th Amendment. I will die on this hill.

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

“Trump purchased $500,000 to $1 million worth of Nvidia stock on Jan. 6, a week before the Commerce Department officially approved the sale of Nvidia chips to China.”

Insider trading, corruption, treason. Where are the calls for impeachment?

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Yeah turns out the people who hate data centers are being completely and totally reasonable

[Max Steele @maxasteele]

they're calling it The Single Worst Economic Message Ever Delivered By a President of the United States

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

When you accept the fact Donald Trump was installed by our sworn enemies two weaken America and kill as many Americans as possible, literally everything he does makes complete and logical sense.

[Dave Peasant, Aspiring Lorax @aspiringpeasant]

Un-American as Fuck

[Janerius Wickerson @TheMSeries1]

No amount of words can convey how far behind this country will be in every avenue for a number of years because of this administration and everyone associated with them with stuff like this happening.

[Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta]

He can’t stop making our lives worse.

[Commie Trucker @commie_trucker]

"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit"

What does that make us?

[Jesse Brenneman @Jesse_Brenneman]

If Democrats are able to get reelected it will take an extremely ambitious, aggressive, New Deal style administration just to get things back to where they were in 2023.

[Pope Respecter @poperespecter1]

Our Greatest Ally is not letting Catholics celebrate Holy Week.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨 Do you understand what SCOTUS is about to decide?

in 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that Black Americans... even those born free on American soil.. could never be citizens.. it was called the Dred Scott decision.. one of the most shameful rulings in legal history..

it took a Civil War and 360,000 Union deaths to fix it..

in 1868, Congress passed the 14th Amendment.. "all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens".. no exceptions.. no asterisks.. they wrote it that way on purpose.. so no government could ever again decide who counts as American on this soil..

it has stood for 156 years..

Trump signed an executive order trying to end it..

not a constitutional amendment.. not an act of Congress.. an executive order..
and SCOTUS is about to decide if that's allowed..

here's what nobody's saying out loud..

this isn't about immigration..
if a president can override the 14th Amendment with an executive order.. there is no amendment a president cannot override with an executive order..

one executive order just did what the Confederacy couldn't.

[cumweiser @cumweiser]

how that beer hit my hand on a friday

[Storyteller Lemmy @LemmySmackett]

"Jesus, Paul, look at this receipt—ten dollars for a single potato. This new Value-Mart AI surge pricing is killing me, man. Killing me."

“That’s nothing, Bill. Wait ’til the next update: the store will be able to see exactly how much money you have in your bank.”

“You’re kidding.”

“And your 401k.”

“@#$% me sideways.”

“That’s why I use URCHN to do my groceries.”

“Really? What’s URCHN?”

“URCHN is the latest in affordable concierge shopping.”

“Oh, you mean like Uber or Instacart. What makes them different?”

“Orphans.”

“𝑂𝑟𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑠?”

“That’s right, Bill. And not just any orphans. Dirty, starving orphans who live under overpasses.”

“Uuuh.”

“As you know, the cameras in the grocery aisle scan your face and adjust the price based on race, socioeconomic status, and dietary restrictions. But you know who always gets the best prices, no matter what?”

“…orphans?”

“Yep.”

“I don’t know, Paul, that seems a little-”

“Of course, the AI still discriminates based on race, which is why they send a multi-racial team of no less than four dirty orphans to buy your groceries.”

"Um."

“The Latino child buys your rice, and the Asian child buys your tortillas.”

“Yeah, no, I get it.”

“And the black child-”

“Sorry, uh, these are children, right? Small children?”

“Of course. Teens would raise the price.”

“How do they, uh, reach the items on the top shelves?”

“They stand on each other’s emaciated little shoulders.”

"Jesus."

"Yeah, the Hispanic orphan tends to be on the bottom."

"What?"

"Sturdy stock."

“…and how much do you save?”

“My last potato was 34 cents.”

“#$&@ it, I’m in.”
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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That road is Route 1 in Iceland. A week driving it costs roughly $2,500 per person. Flights from the US run $500-600 round trip. Gas is $8-9 per gallon. A glacier hike is $125. A night in a decent hotel near Vatnajökull is $160-200.

Total tab for two people to spend a week staring at that glacier instead of a monitor: somewhere around $7,000.

The median American household earns that in about 18 working days. Sitting in a room. Staring at a screen.

The people who actually drive that road on a random Tuesday in March fall into two categories: retirees who stared at screens for 40 years and saved enough to stop, or remote workers who figured out how to stare at a screen from Reykjavik instead of a cubicle in Ohio.

Both paths run through the screen.

The photo is real. The freedom it represents costs $7,000 and 10 days of PTO. The device you’re reading this complaint on is the same device that books the flight.