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@ruemaleficent Well, i do hope that my bitterly cynical optimism has at least been a bit of a distraction, of the nice kind. Didn't mean to say something stupid with it, like "cheer up" or such.

@ruemaleficent I'd say the bottom is where humanity (or the people in one country, if you want to look per country) die. That's pretty final.

But until that happens, every step has potential to worsen things or it kills us.

Luckily, our lifespans are finite. So we either get spared from further suffering (if we all die), we get spared the worst of it (if we die before humanity does) or we see things improve. Logically, there's an upside to every possibility :-)

@ruemaleficent Capitalism paved the way by taking ever more, fascism puts an axe into the smoking ruins... is "it cannot get worse" reached?

I'm not religious, but i always liked this saying:
God spoke: be happy and smile, for it could be worse.
And they were happy and smiled.
And it got worse.

@sophamir Since "once in a century" natural disasters are now more like "five times a decade", the length of a decade has been adjusted. We are some two digit number of decades after 2020, no wonder your vibe is off. It's not you :-D

@VeroniqueB99 I feel that one, i don't even have a pet (partially) because i don't want to guarantee anything for dependants.

@OpenComputeDesign Saw an instance of that. An old proprietary online banking software got abandoned, and the mandatory replacement is specifically only for win10/11.

Can't make this shit up, the big players making our computing infrastructure are working against the people.

@Stoned_Deva_ I love it when the emojis are dancing and it's not powered by a big ass datacenter guzzling up water and electricity but biologically sustainable on cake. Hope you got that comfort food you were missing!

@ekis Idk, how is the question of drones connected to buying faulty military hardware?
As long as russia is known to start wars when expecting to get away with it (big yes), there is a risk. (there are many more risks, coming from inside the house) But buying faulty military hardware is not actually adressing that, so it's unconnected in my mind.

I'd say what we do (i am in europe, but i mean most countries, connected to unregulated capitalism) is unsustainable, shifting around faulty products is one aspect of that. Many, many faulty products, not only military hardware. That is one problem.
This problem then gets (on purpose, i assume) mistakenly connected to the external risk of another country/entity that also would start wars, just like europe/us.

I call that misdirection. Cutting back on social problems is not a result of a russian threat, it's an internal problem. The social programs value, even if there was no net loss effect from cutting them, could not buy functional military hardware anyway.

@LRRRonEarth The part that really sucks is that some entity that does something useful (the actual shop that makes your windshield wipers) gets windshield-wiped out despite noone there having any involvement in the gambling part going on elsewhere.

I have this idea... let the scrooge mcducks play with monopoly money, seperate from the actual economy, i.e. entities that produce goods and services.

@interfluidity So you have proven that santa clause can be part of the fediverse? :-)

@vriska Not if i get stuck on the toilet for years!

@OpenComputeDesign @RetroFox Hmm... only the ones with windows on them count for the too many category.

Recently got some cheap refurbed ones, it was delicious installing debian before even booting the preinstalled windows once.

@vtbee80 Now i wonder if you melted cheese over edible stuff and dodged a bullet by getting rid of him or if you melted cheese over the keyboard and he dodged a bullet ^^

@ruemaleficent Just saw someone i thought had a rather well payed job crack a joke about making an onlyfans for the dental work. From the outside, it is always surprising that it can get even worse over there.

@DaddyJew *drags someone to the gutter* Friends don't let friends bleed out in the middle of the street!

@AppleFangirl Wait, US states ban pornhub, but the feds push people to open onlyfans with health care policy?

Damn, i didn't think i'd ever see any effective promotion of small businesses, but call me XXXHungryForApplesXXX and slap my butt, there it is!

@ruemaleficent I feel a bit conflicted about laughing because of the topic, but "retina people" from HG Wells is a banger!

Wish you best of luck that you get a lot more milage out of those eyes!

@VeroniqueB99 Just imagine being blind and having a guide dog this handsome. Tons of people follow you home and you can't even see if you're alone when you close the door!