No, not really. Not for my own pleasure anyway. When I’m not working, helping my wife out keeping the house tidy and raising our kids, doing misc planning for the family, budgeting, and trying to just relax, I’m too tired to play games.

The only games I play are games with my kids, and even though it creates some fond memories, it kind of kills my enthusiasm for gaming in general. It’s sort of like when your job is your hobby, usually the shine of that hobby wears off and it largely becomes a grind.

You’re correct in the general sense. But it’s not even 49%. It’s basically 2-10% of the American electorate. They flip-flop based on their own myopic, selfish impulses, and whatever bullshit they’ve been fed by the media.

In 2016 they swung it for Trump because unlike his opponent he’s a white guy, they didn’t like Clinton, and because Trump’s promises of cheaper gas for their big trucks would save them a bit of money each month.

In 2020 they swung for Biden because he’s also a white guy, they had discovered Trump just caused chaos without really delivering any personal benefits to them, and Biden looked like the more stable option for their pocket book.

In 2024 they swung for Trump again because unlike his opponent he’s a white guy, and they apparently have fucking goldfish memories.

Meanwhile, millions of other people in America and elsewhere in the world are being put through hell to a lesser or greater degree because of these people.

The turd doesn’t fall far from the asshole.

It started happening a few years ago in my area. Maybe like right before the pandemic?

For a while some of the stations had a hidden option where you could hit one of the unmarked selection buttons and it would at least mute the ads. But starting around the end of last year they took that option away.

The only stations I know of that don’t show ads are Costco (and I assume Sam’s Club too, but idk). Plus they have slight discounts on gas because they are member only. But my local Costco station is such a headache to get through these days - even at around 9pm after the main store closes - that I not just go to a local Shell or Valero and resentfully try to ignore the fucking ads that always play.

Oh TACO Belle? Yeah, she’s a prime candidate of cluelessness too. But there are so many trump hires who fit this bill, and only so many characters allowed in a Lemmy comment field.

The same administration who…

• hired a FEMA Director who didn’t know the US has as hurricane season
• hired a Social Security Administration boss who had to Google what social security was after he accepted the job offer
• hired a completely unqualified Secretary of Education, whose major prior experience was in a wrestling federation
• hired a drunken talking head from a fake news station to be Secretary of Defense
• hired a drunken talking head from a fake news station to be the attorney of DC

(…the list goes on and on and on…)

Is making claims about a foreign news organization and what they published on their website… Yeah, I think I’ll believe the BBC on this one.

Is this the origin story for the super-villain Koch family?

Accelerando is such a weird but excellent novel.

Surprised nobody here has mentioned Mr Rogers Neighborhood yet.

He’s going to use his Shai Hulud to selectively breed with the dunes until the spice flows!

TIL Ghostery had their own browser.

It’s the rock crossover you never knew you wanted! Liza Mileili and Ted Nuget-Head!

“I’m gonna J-walk all over the place, and there’s nothing you fuckers can do about it! ANARCHY!!”

Oh maybe it is only FOSS.

Keep an eye on Revolt.

Hopefully Revolt (a Fediverse alternative to Discord) continues to improve and can completely take the place of Discord relatively soon.

Edit: it might only be FOSS, not federated. Still a promising project though.

As a parent I can confirm this is true. Lots of AI slop. But probably even more weird, random, quick-fire meme shorts. Although those two categories are rapidly bleeding together into one massive clusterfuck.

My oldest frequently says “gen alpha is so cooked!” due to all the meme and AI slop. Which considering he is gen alpha is both insightful and disturbing.

Ah yes, the notorious supervillain Cancer Dog, whose main power is casting ‘pervert cancer’ on his opponents.

🎶 Cancer Dog, Cancer Dog, leaves you in a pervert cancer fog! 🎶

They would have put up a fight, but their magical morale-boosting tiki torches were in the other u-haul truck.

Who would have thought that gutting the technical expertise of the company would lead to such vulnerabilities. 🤔

Ohh right… everyone with more than a few brain cells!