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I feel like I should get around to renewing my passport.

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That would be rad if you did.

I assume not even that. Doesn’t the fungus just compel an ant to climb up high? The fungus doesn’t experience anything beyond what it normally does and the ant just gets a craving for going up.

Seriously, I think the vast majority of Trump voters could not tell you one thing about the bill. Maybe the no taxes on tips thing. It does not matter to them. Not thinking is a perk of MAGA.

Absolutely. Not because I think it would necessarily be better off, but because I don’t want us to contribute to the empire and the loss of our economy would devastate the US.

Echoing what others have already said, but also anyone who was at City Hall today can tell you it was not just some liberal parade. The entire fucking crowd gathered up and took it straight to the cops around the corner.

Damn, that sucks. I didn’t even know this was a Mozilla website. Why are they shutting down?

Plenty of valid answers already, but also: Humans vs humans is an easy source of conflict. Writers could create nuanced stories of cooperation in the face of apocalyptic adversity, but it’s probably way harder to keep that interesting for multiple seasons than bad people are going to try to kill us and take our shit.

I’ve used Windows my whole life at home. Last year I realized I kind of hate gaming at a desk since I’m at one all day for work, so I bought a used Steam Deck. Literally have not touched Windows since. I probably don’t need a home computer anymore and if I need one in the future, I’m confident it won’t be running Windows.

I went to several meetings with some MLMZT folks in my neighborhood and all this time I referred to them as Maoists. I am still so fucking uneducated sometimes it’s unreal lol.

Maybe I should start getting to know my fellow vegan coworkers better.

I knew immediately that’s what this was about. Fucking Zionists.

You mean the military that’s been failing to hit all its recruitment goals for years?

Can’t do that without outing the entire staff to ICE, unfortunately.

Is Luka in it? Asking for a friend.

It’s objectively a good thing that at least some of the vast amounts of e-waste out there is getting repurposed, but it’s also funny as fuck that US tech companies are already in scavenger mode over China’s halted exports.

I know way more people who would at least attempt to save my life in an emergency than I think are genuinely good people. But I do actually think that’s part of identifying a decent person. Empathizing with someone suffering in front of you and wanting to help is such a low standard for empathy that even untrained animals sometimes pass this bar. Empathizing with living things more broadly and outside of your personal bubble is a task that’s apparently too much to ask of most people I’ve met. Good way to gauge this is to get someone talking for a bit about the unhoused population of their hometown.

The “progressive” independent country of California is still gonna use prison slave labor to put out the fires while our tech oligarchs’ treat machines drain the state’s water and power supply. Look, I live here and would love nothing more than to sever myself from Burgerland without the inconvenience of uprooting my whole life. But if that means pledging my allegiance to President Gavin Newsom, this place can get fucked.

I recently had to digitize dozens of photos from family scrapbooks, many of which had annoying novelty pattern borders cut out of the edges. Sure, I could have just cropped the photos more to hide the stupid zigzagged missing portions. But I had the beta version of Photoshop installed with the generative fill function, so I tried it. Half the time it was garbage, but the other half it filled in a bit of grass or sky convincingly enough that you couldn’t tell the photo was damaged. +1 acceptable use case for generative AI, I guess.