My old job did this.

“Oh Monkeybutthair01,02,03 has already been used…Monkeybutthair04 it is.”

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SECURITY. 👍👍

I think you’re taking it too lightly.

Sorry, there was no way I could find to phrase that without it reading sarcastically but sincerely, I wasn’t trying to downplay your insights!

I was being mildly sarcastic, but also totally serious, in that the birthright of Millenials and onward has been on the “and find out” end of eroding social safety nets and a generally declining civilization.

The idea of living in peace without constantly playing the “weather the next socioeconomic crisis” roguelike dice game is basically a foreign concept at this point. (To anybody who must work for a living.)

• “Oh wow, what a major recession! The worldwide economy sucks! There’s no jobs! Groceries are expensive! Bosses are kings! Wages are frozen!” (Which year, amirite?)

• “Wow these natural disasters are crazy! Look, the water catches fire! Woah, everyone’s full of plastic!”

• Hey that thing there was a steady supply of? Everybody’s freaking out and ready to fight over it.(Jobs, toilet paper, gasoline, twinkies, silicon, whatever.)

• “Hey everything was alright for a while! Workers are winning raises and sick days! But corpos complain and fire everybody to make line go up. Unemployment at record highs again. Here’s 42 ways to suck up to your boss and beg to keep your income.”

• “Haha wow we were SURE that plague was extinct.”

• "Rents skyrocketing. Nobody’s having children. People who want them are increasingly infertile. People who don’t, make it an entire political identity.

• (Insert the entirety of 2020-onward here)

• Everything is hyper competitive and a requires luck. The lucky want to tell you it’s all about Just Working Harder and “everything is actually better than it’s ever been!”

• Hey remember when the whole world went to war against fascists? Ha they’re seen as legitimate again because they’ve got memes now.

**TL;DR: **

I agree with you, it’s like watching the fall of the Soviet Union, except instead of The Party chanting “everything is fine keep working”, it’s mainly private interests. And nobody’s learned anything.

I’m trying to keep my head up lol…

Hell, add Double Dragon to that list.

I gotta watch it…I just remember panicked guys shoving trash into a van to fuel it during a car chase or something. It looked radical lmao.

I love coming across this shortly after using this meme on Lemmy. Enjoy lol

Funny I was just discussing this movie nostalgically with my wife and we had an interesting realization:

The Night at the Museum movies were a fantastic improvement on the concept. :D

Everyone is absolutely right when they say “President Musk.”

Ugh. :(

Peak comedy, OP. :)

That news really rustles my Jimmies though. I really hate the stonk market but I got a couple shares of Intel thinking it would at least start to recover eventually.

Its a very “Adults have left the room” feeling.

And for a shocking number of EU nations: “Oh hey, your weird street-corner-arms-dealer cousin who hangs out on 4chan a lot says he wants to be ‘man of the house’ now, whaddya think?”

Well okay fine, just SoCal then!

…damn, your point still stands. ._.

Nice! I spent like one day in Vancouver and it blew my mind how CLEAN that big city was.

And also it was the first foreign country I had ever visited. I expected it to feel a lot…stranger? But nah. It felt like home. Just with occasional maple leaf flags instead of 1000 Stars and Stripes flying off every building lol.

People were super nice, too.

I got the vibe I could never afford to live there in a million years. Lol

(whispers) “Go Knights, go!”

I dunno I’d like to think we’d get along. :) (wave)

The weirdest thing is that their thinking is so short-term. Like it didn’t occur to her that those “crazy taxes” would also cover someone else’s maternity process?

Texans seem to think they’re top of the world and unstoppable “without those pesky taxes” until some family-illness or accident shows up and threatens to bankrupt them overnight.

I think you’re right, and all of this is a side effect of mortgage-level paywalling of such education, and subsequent devaluing and even demonizing of it.

Resources like AP textbooks don’t just come up in peoples’ feeds. So they’re probably not even aware of them even if they were interested in the subject. And if they are, they gotta scrounge around eBay or those “library” sites.

Either way, it won’t reach the people who need to hear it most.

YouTube’s gotten really bad with commercial and ideological interests, but I do appreciate some creators out there making an effort to create digestible educational material.

But yes, the cryptobros phenomenon , or “DOGE” just being a re-vomit of failed Reagan/Thatcher-esque grifting policies, it’s all being pitched as something brand new and never done before.

Thanks for highlighting that I should check out 1800’s era “free banking” economics though. I’m really curious. :)

Also they’d get to live their dream: Actively competing to outlive their neighbors in a struggle for resources or something.

This is actually pretty mind-blowing as a U.Statesian (lol).

I mean how we’re neighbors and yet we just DON’T get any news about Canada. Like, at all.

And yeah I have no doubt the Canadian forces have done a ton in the world, but are they just really humble about it and don’t go stomping around in front of the global camera network all day or what? Do they spend most of their time embedding with allies maybe?

You just don’t hear about it. Canada’s just quietly there being chill…except for all that anti-vax-trucker nonsense and various whining about Trudeau, of course.

If it’s just a matter of humility as policy. Respect. Lol

…it’s an economic depression! hope you’re ready for your grocery bill to quadruple.

complete economic meltdown.

Aw man I seem to vaguely remember a short time when this wasn’t happening ever since I’ve been of working age, but it already feels so distant now…

I dunno this kinda cracks me up a little because like…if you dig deep enough, were people flame-warring on usenet or BBS (wait lemme finish! Lol) over:

“Email needs way better UX and an insta-one-click-sign-up zero-thinking on-ramp so even a single-celled organism can figure it out!”?

That’s the easiest descriptor nowadays that explains the Fediverse. Email. “What if Twitter but as a generalized service that anybody could run, like email. Yahoo? Gmail? RobertLovesSurfing.net? They can all email each other but your account lives on one.”

A better way of seeking out an instance could be handy perhaps. I found Mastodon pretty smooth with “Hey you might like these if…!” Sort of suggestions. The openness of the platform should make this a much easier task than it might be otherwise, I think.

I also think better explaining the portability of your account data would help people see the benefit there.

I’d like more kinds of nerds to have an easier time getting on the Fediverse with us, so let’s improve that, but I also think we’re less popular BECAUSE the Fediverse is more about human communication much like “The Old Internet”, and less about desperate vapid fame-seeking and self-marketing and identity-as-brand, like Web2/3.0.

A lot of me thinks we’re here because corpo-net “disrupted” our forums and blogs away.

IMHO, the commercial-verse can keep its skibidis and hauk-tuas and *“Oh suddenly I’m famous! thanks for the gold kind stranger!”*s

I don’t think it’s cruel elitist “gatekeeping” to say the Fediverse is for anybody! But maybe not for Everybody. (Imagine if major brands discovered everybody moved to the Fediverse, for instance. Yikes.)

BTW it’s 2025 and plenty of people I’ve observed, here in the U.S, still complain that email is “too complicated.” (And no, they weren’t formerly from an uncontacted tribe or rescued from a sealed 1950’s fallout shelter.)

We could make things a bit easier to understand and smoother to experience, but trying to UX-away the requirement for a modicum of intelligence required is not a great end goal, I think.

It could be that sorta thing, but I think it was the same aim as the “salt typhoon” attack on U.S telecomms corpos.

A majority of the vulnerabilities and data dumps are, yes, worthless, but somewhere there’s dumb U.S officials or people with clearances doom-scrolling TikTok , and their data or meta-data is giving valuable insight into how they can be manipulated, blackmailed, who they’re connected to, whatever.

That’s some good humor LMAO.