Remember guys, Tesla wants to have a living person sitting behind the wheel for “safety.” Don’t YOU want to get paid minimum wage to sit in a car all day, paying attention but doing nothing unless it’s about to crash, at which point you’ll be made the scapegoat for not preventing the crash?

Welcome to the future, you’re gonna hate it here.

Sucks to be you, bro, but that’s not a universal experience.

I grew up when cell phones weren’t common, then flip phones were the thing. I didn’t get my first smartphone until I was already out of high school. My life was improved immensely. Not just the connection that allows me multiple vectors of communication to the people who matter to me, and the ability to plausibly ignore communications from those who don’t, but the absolute plethora of utilities now at my fingertips.

Do you even know how to balance a checkbook? Have you ever had to do it? In less than a minute I can see not only my bank balance, but all transactions going back months.

My teachers all told me I wouldn’t have a calculator with me all the time. Turns out that was not to be.

If I need to know something, anything, ever, I have a device on my person that allows me immediate access to the sum total of human knowledge. Whether it’s a question of what time the hardware store opens, how to fix a cracked pipe, or what rocket fuel the Saturn V used, the information is right at my fingertips.

I don’t ever have to be lost again. First time in a city? I can get directions to anywhere, from anywhere, any time I want.

I even have a freakin flashlight at all times.

Yeah, it sucks that some people get stuck in a narcissistic spiral on facebook or obsessively doomscroll to the detriment of their own health, but that’s not the smartphone’s fault any more than it is just the invention of electricity’s fault.

No shit. I’m sure he won’t use his first report to try to move all space launches over to exclusively the company he owns, he’ll probably at least wait till the second or third.

So what you’re saying is Trump is probably going to pardon at least 2 of them.

Just because my house can burn down, doesn’t mean it will, so fire extinguishers and smoke detectors are just a waste of money.

It’s obvious why they’re suddenly obsessed with Raw Milk. It’s the same reason they were suddenly Anti-Vax, anti-Mask, and anti-plague-control.

Democrats said a thing, Republicans immediately reply with the opposite.

Democrats said Vaccines prevent disease, Republicans declared vaccines are poison. Democrats said wearing a mask can reduce the transmission of airborne pathogens, Republicans said masks will kill you and are illegal now. Democrats said “Don’t drink raw milk, it can transmit deadly diseases.” Republicans declare “You can take the raw milk from my cold dead hands.”

I honestly expect that if Democrats released a PSA against jumping off cliffs onto jagged rocks, because the fall could be dangerous, Republicans would immediately start taking picture standing on the edges of cliffs with the caption of “Don’t tell me what to do.”

Fortunately I absolutely get to refuse service to anyone giving me that kind of condescending attitude.

Hotel.

I plan to go to work like it’s any other day, including not getting any holiday pay. I will try not to roll my eyes as customers tell me it sucks I have to work, even while they themselves are the reason I have to work.

Okay but this one time I did exactly that thing I’m not supposed to and exactly what was expected happened so obviously cast iron bad?

When you come own again you should reread that word salad.

If you’re waiting until everything is stable and safe and comfortable, you’ll never actually act. It’s always easier to destabilize and scare than it is to actually fix something. If the plan is to not move until it’s safe, anyone with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo will always be able to scare you into inaction.

Isn’t Lex Luthor is supposed to be really smart?

If we’re very lucky they’ll destroy each other.

It’d be pretty rough if they couldn’t possibly find a jury that would convict, think of how the CEOs of the nation would feel if they realized fully just how many people are entirely okay with eating them.

Just the rifle alone costs almost as much as a whole warbond. It’s absolutely shameful, and with this only even being part 1, this absolutely should have been a warbond instead of a supercred cash grab. I sense Sony’s hand in this.

It’s a good thing Trump has a history of rigorously protecting classified documents, right guys?

Again, only on Lemmy would someone say “you can’t be fat in your seventies, these famous people aren’t”.

Get that Strawman! Nobody’s saying that. The sweeping claim that was made was in fact:

This is what a person in their seventies looks like.

A claim made by you. The point is, no, this is not just “what being in your 70’s looks like,” and no, involvement in combat sports does not automatically make you look like this in your 70’s.

Was anyone saying that the bag company was tracking the guy? It sounds to me like this is just a quiet way to confirm that it was their bag in case all the comments about this being the new hot fashion play out.

I’m homeless and unemployed by the end of the day and have to flee the state. Both my landlord and general manager are hardcore MAGAts, and I live in a small, remote town in a very red state. It would genuinely not be safe for my politics to be known.