I want to believe in this so I will

yes it was; i meant to say communists instead of chinese, but it still works and especially so today.

it’s funny that americans got life improvements because the american gov’t was worried that the chinese success with mortality, birth, literacy, and housing rates increased so dramatically and now the american gov’t doesn’t care anymore.

i’m okay with the epstein class not having so much money that they can make everyone ignore what they’re doing.

i though that was just a canadian thing

but, but we have to protect the women and queers from the authoritarian dictators!!1 lol

the democrats are going to try again; that’s why they blocked the release of their post-mortem investigation into the last election.

I aM nEuTrAl. I aM sO mUcH BeTtEr ThAn YoU, bEcAuSe I dOn’T hAvE aN OpInIoN

sounds like moderate voters. lol

and then when you defend yourself, the world calls it an unprovoked attack. lol

i last saw it the last time i was a system admin tasked w spec-ing out hardware for our offices in austin, ft. lauderdale, denver, and inland empire and i remember being surprised at how much worse they were than the thinkpads i had grown accustomed to supporting as front line tech in mountain view 10 years before that.

and now w that in mind: it would have been circa 2015 so the landscape should have changed by now; maybe they reversed course like they did the rubycon capacitors that caused the capacitor plague 15ish years ago.

the batteries are being soldered onto the motherboard now-a-days

i really hope iran succeeds in proving to the world that the us empire is not as powerful as everyone thinks it is.

thank you for doing this; it’s badly needed in today’s environment.

it already has niche communities but they’re on topics that most people try to avoid; namely leftist politics and open source technology.

if you don’t like either, then i image lemmy is fairly dull for you.

we have always been at war with east asia …

is that the windows me background?!

i will forever hold a soft spot in my heart for windows me because it forced me to switch to linux when windows me broke and trapped all my semester’s work inside of it. lol

it’s not a hereditary monarchy: https://www.tiktok.com/@madeline_pendleton/video/7610963982198770975

https://www.tiktok.com/@madeline_pendleton/video/7610963982198770975

I bet they’re going to default to nuclear missiles once Iran makes enough progress wiping out Western assets in the region.

it helps if you’re middle aged and some characters like “l”, “1” and “I” look too much alike for comfort.