Good news: you’re free to decide the meaning of your own life. For me, it’s helping people, loving my family, and enjoying beauty.

yeah. slaves don’t have to pay for the privilege

My Panasonic microwave is 22, still going strong. Cast iron cookware and stainless pots i got from my mum (50+). Sunbeam hand mixer and Braun immersion blender from the 80s. Lots of glassware. Fridge, stove, washer, dryer.

2 steel desks from the 40s - they’re in the basement now, but the drawers glide like new.

No plans to replace anything unless it breaks. New stuff isn’t made well.

Sweet, i will add this to my Roomba’s playlist.

All the strong and smart people I know are CONSTANTLY reminding everyone how STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) they are.

They also commonly use the term “Treasonists”.

Haha I’m glad I checked the comments before I posted. This is the first case where AI would be an improvement!

Cancer!

I agree with part of what he said: “Israel is disgusting”

Dig him up and shoot him again.

I am.

To answer your question, though: no. Some people are doing GREAT. It may not be a majority of people, but anyone who was rich in 2015 is now super rich. The super rich are now obscenely rich. Even a majority of the moderately well-off - e.g. people who own their houses outright or people with >3 times their annual income in investments - are doing pretty damn well. That is part of the reason that Trump, no matter how vile or incompetent, never dips below 30% approval. People will overlook all kinds of evil when their bottom line is improving.

There used to be a saying: “Don’t get high on your own supply.” I love that MS is succumbing to the nefarious effects of its own harmful products.

Your brain is very plastic. If you can endure the discomfort of quitting AI cold turkey, you will start to lift out of your fog quickly. I went through a period of severe depression and heavy drug use that lasted so, so long. By the end, I could barely read 5 pages. Things improved and I started reading/writing again. My skills came back, and it didn’t take years. If you are like me, you can bounce back before 2026 is over. Read easy stuff, keep a journal, do simple coding projects - but use no AI. Your momentum will build fast.

I agree if they are outdoor shoes. When I heard that Americans wear shoes in the house, I was initially “WTF”. However, someone explained to me that they wear indoor shoes, not the same shoes they wear outside

Trump is finally waking up to the deep, bipartisan unpopularity of AI and AI datacentres. Aside: the “single dumbest way imaginable” is the GOP brand.

I deleted my accounts and came here. Occasionally, I would still browse reddit - but I haven’t posted or commented since that day. I am not alone, either: the quantity and quality of content on Reddit has noticeably declined. I used to go up to 10 pages deep (250 posts) during a browsing session; for the last year, I have been seeing repeat shit on the second page. Reddit gets boring after, like, 15 min tops.

I can’t use their app: it is terrible. Seriously, the person who designed it should take up farming. The new reddit browser page is just as bad. While typing this response, I navigated over there in another tab to confirm how bad things have gotten: I could see 2 posts. Two. Fucking. Posts. before I had to scroll (which I did not do, by the way). Reddit, get the fuck out of here with that bullshit.

Now that I can’t browse old.reddit.com without an account, they have lost even the meagre advertising revenue my viewing generated.

Reddit did not survive the API protest. It’s bleeding out, slowly. For me, Lemmy is the front page of the Internet now.

Qobuz has a big library and I can almost always find what I am looking for. I also tend to listen to whole albums, so I like the way Qobuz is organized. They have human-curated playlists for discovering music, as well as a ‘similar to this’ section under each artist. Really, their service is very similar to apple music, but I wanted to avoid American services.

So that absolute morons can say stuff like “the Nazis were socialist, it’s right there in their name”

The Internet is too useful. Email, online banking, and the ability to find reasearch materials are essential to me.

However, i have abandoned all social media except the fediverse. I only use youtube for specific instructional videos - not for entertainment. If i am looking for fun, i look somewhere else. One exception: Qobuz for music (they are a French streaming platform).

So you’re saying there’s gonna be a run on TP? I better head to the store!!

Yarrr, it be a good shitpost. Stupid, provocative …