medem

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[โ€“] medem@lemmy.wtf 14 points 1 month ago

This idiotic 'administration' is a porn parody of itself.

"Trumpin' Donald: America Fist"

[โ€“] medem@lemmy.wtf 25 points 1 month ago

They wanted America First, they gettin' it.

[โ€“] medem@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

'mostly open source'? I'm intrigued....

[โ€“] medem@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 month ago

I love Lemmy.

Here we are, in this holy year of our lord 2025

Wondering if cats have post-nut clarity

[โ€“] medem@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 month ago

Try Guix instead :)

Big, welcoming community; Fully libre distribution; Time-tested Scheme (Guile) instead of that stupid nix stuff.

[โ€“] medem@lemmy.wtf 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Have you never had a corporate job? A technology can be very much useless while incompetent 'managers' who believe it can do better than humans WILL buy the former to get rid of the latter, even though that's a stupid thing to do, in order to meet their yearly targets and other similar idiotic measures of division/team 'productivity'

[โ€“] medem@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 month ago

Thx, corrected

[โ€“] medem@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's also not the first or only 21st century technology that is or was waaaaaaaaay overhyped.

First it was the Blockchain

Then it was the Cloud

Now it's Artificial Stupidity.

[โ€“] medem@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We do. 'Spring fever' is very real. What's less clear is why.

[โ€“] medem@lemmy.wtf 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I have a friend who was addicted to both cocaine and alcohol. While he, of course, is convinced that cocaine is one of the worst substances to have ever existed, he is even more wary of alcohol because of: (I'm obviously both paraphrasing AND excluding most countries with a Muslim majority here)

a) Social acceptance. No one is ever going to judge you for quietly sitting in the corner of a bar drinking your beer. Try snorting a line on the same setting and see what happens.

b) Availability. Even in sparsely populated areas, you are never too far away (say, a 10 minute walk) from a bottle of wine/spirit/beer.

c) Practicality (which is what answers your question). You don't need a syringe, spoon, knife, bill, bong or lighter, not even another recipient, to start binging on booze. Once you buy/steal the stuff, you're all set - and drinking something definitely IS more 'natural' (as in, it's a reflex) than injecting or smoking something.

[โ€“] medem@lemmy.wtf 0 points 1 month ago

Shit, man. WHY did you have to bring this up...

[โ€“] medem@lemmy.wtf 6 points 2 months ago

Because they are such a tiny AND unprotected minority, they are fairly easy targets for othering / discrimination.

[ I am not condoning, just informing ]

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