This is the problem. I’m in my mid-40s and I have seen new “good ol’ boys” move into the system as their predecessors die or retire.

The system is self-perpetuating.

Well, we’re not buying the product, so maybe they can extort us into paying to solve a problem instead.

Probably price increases to offset corporate losses.

If they had healthier attitudes toward sex, maybe they would just be happier/nicer in general.

My parents got divorced in 1981. My mom was raised Pentecostal (the Tammy Faye Bakker kind, not the long skirts kind), and she was intermittently ultra-involved in the church.

During one of those times (in the mid-'90s), she came to the understanding that she could never remarry because the only “biblically acceptable” reason for divorce was unfaithfulness. Since that wasn’t why she and my dad got divorced, dating anyone else would be considered adultery. So she swore off dating.

To be fair, I don’t know if this is something that came from the church or something she came up with on her own. I just remember thinking it was pretty ridiculous.

So whether it’s official church doctrine or not, I do think that the more extreme the church, the more extreme the rules are.

That used to be a problem on Reddit, too. Maybe the current drama will drive more traffic to the Fediverse.

I know we’d like a Good Guy With Money™ to swoop in and rescue various corners of the internet, but I think Sir Paul has other things to do.

Let’s not forget the years of literal psychological experiments that Meta conducted on its users to find out exactly what factors led to higher engagement.

This isn’t a simple message board. This is a highly-engineered, personalized content delivery system with the goal of serving as many ads as possible.

Aerodynamics was obviously not a concern in the process of designing a vehicle that has (checks notes) literal corners.

Only 60,000 Cybertrucks have been sold. Not “half a million.”

While the total number of deaths from fire may seem insignificant to you, it is a far greater death rate than major auto manufacturers usually tolerate.

In the 1970s, Ford had to recall the Pinto over 27 deaths out of 1.5 million units sold. That’s 18 deaths per million units.

Cybertrucks are sitting at five known fire deaths per 60,000 units sold. That would be a ratio of 83 deaths per million units.

Wait. You’re saying that The Mirror, noted bastion of low-quality tabloid reporting, has stated something incorrectly?

Shocking.

His handlers would probably just claim that he meant “Why didn’t you warn POTUS?”

But that doesn’t mean that every news outlet shouldn’t be pointing out that what he said, in addition to being extremely rude and undiplomatic, was utterly nonsensical.

If you compare his performance now with videos of him from his first term, the decline is extremely obvious.

I’d just like to take a moment to say how glad I am that most US presidents didn’t have social media to tell us their thoughts 24/7.

It’s very possible that some of them were just as dumb as their 21st-century counterparts, but at least we don’t have the tweets to prove it.

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They didn’t, though. The US government took over Argentina for a reason.

Kind of like a second strike on a boat meant to kill anyone who survived the first strike?

It’s too bad that the US government doesn’t recognize the ICC. I doubt anyone in the Trump administration will ever be held accountable for their war crimes.

We also had more trollies in mid-sized cities until the tire lobby persuaded city governments to invest in buses.

I think at some point it will come out that the corporate subscription is no different and the LLM companies have been scraping everything for training data.

I don’t think the LLM made your response better in a meaningful way. Sure, it cleaned up the grammar a little bit, but the rephrasing in a few places is not necessary.

Trust yourself to communicate without help from external software.

That’s the thing with lawyers. They know how to stay just inside the legal boundary while still doing the most shady things.

It’s not technically a lie, but he’s also not technically a good person.