And the engines can’t make the power.

Project 2025 has been around for years. How have people not noticed it?

Shhh, just let it happen.

Snowflake “revolution” wants to hit the ”easy button”.

I could see that working for the relative short term, but the renewal of what should be public domain copyrights is pretty insane.

Unless you drive a big pickup.

I’d bet that those that are in the “extreme pride” bracket have ratcheted up their pride to ever higher levels.

Why would copyright ever drive culture? The only thing it’s designed to do is drive profits.

Ok, I follow. I think we’re already there. Plenty of people are doing stupid things that are dangerous, either out of ignorance, lack of forethought, or nowadays for clout on social media. Pretty sure people have been doing dumb things for a long time, but they were more lethal in the past.

I thought the title said “We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computers.”

My immediate thought was “That seems way too low…”

Well that makes it all right then, doesn’t it?

We already know what happens.

Anti-vax

Pro-war

Pro-authoritarianism

Anti-education

Etc.

Once you’ve divorced yourself completely from the dangers of watching family and people around you die from preventable diseases all the time, the horrors of actually having to live through your city destroyed and people you know be devastated by war, the crushing oppression and greed of authoritarian regimes, your education controlled specifically to prevent you from you getting any ideas about real freedoms, that’s what you get when you remove real danger from society.

But I think you probably meant something more mundane like kids will start making graffiti or something.

“‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says the Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.”

— The Onion

Cuts in to the bottom line profits. Can’t have that. The shareholders are more important than your 91 day old bricked TV.

Yes. Injury and fires are compounding factors, no denying that.

Waste of money? No more so than any other form of entertainment that is temporary.

Environmentally, yeah…they’re pretty bad. Air pollution is a big issue. Some birds get killed when they run into things because they can’t see very well after being scared off by the fireworks. Any large human event is environmentally bad, like a sporting event.

We generate literal tons of plastic and other human waste when we gather for mass entertainment.

Costco no longer has those return policies on electronics specifically because people abused them.

A big tech transition generation.

X.

#adhdlife

This ruling was made for trump.

Think of how much trump has done, legally, questionably legal, and illegal, while in office.

Now remove accountability for any of it while ignoring the virtually Sisyphean task already faced to prosecute what he’s (and those surrounding him have) already done, and we have yet to see any sufficiently deterrent sentence being passed.

Now also imagine the arguing over what constitutes “official” acts, you bet your ass that one side is going to be perfectly happy to “officially” let trump shoot someone on 5th avenue.

This strips trump and those like him of the merest inconvenience of facing charges when they leave office. If they leave office.

It’s potentially disastrous on multiple levels.

It’s like the late ‘90s where they tried to connect every common activity to the internet, like bar codes in the newspaper for coupons online.

They got it “right” when they stopped trying to make non-internet things direct you to the internet and just moved the non-internet things to the internet.

Now they’re trying to cram AI into everything. What’s the next step…moving your brain into the AI?