This FedEx driver never played Tetris in his life, and probably doesn’t even know what it is

Well— it’s more like: they did that 250 years ago, and they’ve been trying to ‘manage’ the grumbling serfdom since by attempting to mitigate various popular uprisings with varying degrees of success.

They (us, the United States) decided to speedrun Rome in 1/10th the time, and now find themselves shocked that they’re at the end of it, like those final Roman emperors, feeling very much entitled to more and not understanding: How dare those Visigoths come storming over the Seventh Hill as our citizens and slaves revolt yet again…?

“BY ALL THAT IS DIVINE: FEED MY UNQUENCHABLE THIRST FOR WEALTH AND POWER FOREVER, FOR IT IS MY RIGHT!!!”

— the famous last words of Emperor Honorius of Rome, I’m sure, had the Visigoths given enough of a shit to make record of it before they slit his throat

The reason why boomers drank so much, and why Gen Xers loved heroin and the word “whatever“

Aka, just another brick in the wall

Edit: sorry, best I could do while out grocery shopping. Wanted to do something from Final Mission, but I can’t Photoshop while shopping for eggs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

well, Picard, as you’ve said: [My] first duty is to the truth

I dunno… in 19th century Italy (when this painting was made (The Confession (Molteni))), a Catholic priest might have called this a “bodily perversion” in order to extract a fee for an Indulgence, especially if the priest believed it would be an habitual occurance.

if my art degree is worth anything, its for parsing the moral value of a meme (and booby Italian toast fetishes) in its historic context!

The Mlem app on iOS is very much like the Apollo app (or, at least how it used to be)

I like gnome because it’s a very clean, slick, and minimalist interface. it stays out of my way so I can use the tools I need to use. It’s very like macOS (in the way that KDE is like Windows). I also like its extensions.

I have also seen what’s coming up in GNOME 51, and I like the direction they’re going.

As far as I’m concerned, a DE should be a thin layer between me and my apps. In my experience, KDE is just “too much“.

All in all it’s

I can’t remember where I read this, but if carefully managed, humanity, in a highly controlled environment, could start off with as little as around 36 individuals. But population and reproduction would have to be highly controlled for dozens of generations before we could breed freely. this is all purely from a genetic standpoint.

And, of course, we would have to be in an environment where we wouldn’t worry about food or pathogens or predators, or anything else that might be a threat to our survival— including each other, or, possibly, ourselves.

The comment you were responding to is estimating a necessary population that takes into account a lot of other environmental factors.

Only because of the shortage of eggs during the first world war, and all they had was an excess of war vinegar produced by millions of sour Krauts.

Whatever, Droste

Remind me of the babe!

You do

These sorts of attacks rely on a person finding themselves in a pretty shady situation already. You would have had to responded to some shady Web link or some shady email, and already clicked on a few shady links to get to the point where you were screen sharing with some bad actor somewhere. This exploit would have to be run on someone who was already pretty far down the rabbit hole.

If you’re pretty careful, you would never get started in the first place.

In fact, sometimes you will see these reports, and it turns out that these exploits exist only in a lab where they tested it, and haven’t been discovered in the real world

In both my mobile app (Mlem) and on piefed, there is a crosspost function, so I don’t mind when people use that because it collapses all of the multiple posts into a single post. It gets annoying when I see the same post over and over and over in my feed

Yeah, that too.

As more and more people flee windows and seek alternatives, expect to see this sort of thing to increase.

Get a loofah

“WHAT?‽!”

“Mmph mmphm!!”

Ah, Labyrinth aka “Alice in Wonderland in the 80s” as designed by Jim Henson and David Bowie. One of my favorite movies.

Including this scene which was choreographed by our favorite dancing doctor, Gates McFadden (then Cheryl McFadden).