I went to a Target on black friday once and I’ll never do it again. I always thought the shit about screaming matches and physical fights were just anomalies that got blown out of proportion by the media. I changed my mind after watching adults snatch popular toys from each others hands and one guy getting a haymaker to the side of his head for trying to take a flat-screen out of another dude’s cart and put it in his.

Oh, look. Sandy’s being charming instead of the hateful bile-spewing walrus he usually is.

I’ll tell you how magnets work.

It’s been fun watching Elon go from space Jesus to shorthand for any billionaire vanity project that will amount to nothing.

I hate this question.

“So why do you want to work with us?”

“Because you corpo cunts are going to steal less of the value my labor produces and help me afford teeth.”

The only thing Yarvin’s bloviating horseshit has convince me of is that high school wasn’t a good time for him and he’s still mad about.

I’m pretty sure if Jesus was around now he’d abandon his position as the savior of these cunts and go build houses for the homeless.

I can’t imagine what it feels like to find out the person who soundtracked your youth was a fucking monster. It’d be like me finding out Maynard James Keenan was keeping women prisoner in his basement for years.

The biggest thing that pushed out of nu metal fandom when I was younger was learning that for every Serj Tankian there were four fucking goobers like Draiman spouting pretentious shit like “sex is just an exchange of energy” or unironically wearing Ayn Rand t shirts.

“Republicans are fascist”

“I know. That’s why I’m voting Democrat.”

“Democrats aren’t real leftists”

“I’m aware but this isn’t the time for purity politics.”

“Democrats support genocide.”

“And Republicans don’t?”

“Both sides are equally bad so voting is dumb. Don’t vote.”

“Listen, I’ve got friends and family with skin in this game. Both parties fucking suck but you know what really sucks? Having a fucking fascist dimwit who thinks your cousin is subhuman because she was assigned male at birth as your president.”

“So you support genocide? Typical libshit.”

“Ok, then what is your alternative?”

“You would know what it is if you read this dry, arcane bullshit about the reification of contemporary autonomous groups in Third World popular movements.”

It’s not a Lemmy thing. People (at least here in the States) are feeling anxious and defeated about the state of the world. That shit makes people irritable. Irritable people are prone to lashing out at anything that trips over their last nerve.

My wife works for a nonprofit that focuses on providing services to families with children who have emotional or intellectual needs. She told me she’s witnessed more meltdowns from parents these last 6 months or so than she’s seen in her 15+ years in the field.

I learned to stop working off that strict either-or dichotomy when I met my first girlfriend. She was the crunchy blissed out (read: permanently stoned) type who was all about PLUR, good vibes, and hemp jewlery. At least until you brought up abortion, immigration, or any other conservative boogeyman. Then she was Pat Buchanan with a redheaded wig and a copy of Billy Breathes.

This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever read.

There is no “bias” in your example. There is only an asinine belief that you can locate ideological framing in innocuous questions about fruit and root vegetables.

I was still using Myspace in 2007 for my musical project. I hated Facebook from the word go and only signed up when it was apparent Myspace was being abandoned by all the musicians and bands I networked with. I deleted my Facebook around Covid after I got tired of watching friends and family buy into conspiracy theories and conservative horse shit.

One of God’s many mistakes.

I can only speak from personal experience, but my local Target has heavily downsized it’s Xbox section. Nintendo and Sony get their own aisles while Microsoft is basically an end cap.

Already do that shit, bro. It isn’t a justification for that trash to exist in the first place. And what the hell is a “biased search”?

I would have agreed with you about 15 years ago when everything on the Internet wasn’t AI slop, calculated misinformation spread by foreign governments, and white supremacists using memes to spread their ideology.

You don’t “own” the music on physical media. You just purchased a license to listen to that music for the lifetime of the media it comes on. If your CD, record, or cassette is destroyed, you don’t get another one for free because you “own the music”. You’re still not allowed to copy it for distribution, use it for commercial purposes, or any of the other happy horseshit their lawyers put in the fine print.

I miss the era of physical media, too, but let’s not kid ourselves into thinking it was some golden age of consumer rights.