m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@nyanide
A-aw! You're cute! 😍

@fluffykittenspambot

@bunnyhero
Preparing for the Epochalypse — with dates and computers it never gets boring 😅

@mcc
When you know a couple dozen of them you start creating your own one so you would never forget how to get the length of a string ever again — and when you've created five of them… you can't remember anything anymore 🥺

@phoronix
For whom the xdg-system-bell tolls 😱

@randahl
The headlines in nearly every news media are very misleading!

@vint
Нет, ну правильно же, а то: «Мы вас убьём!»— ну убьёте и что? А так сразу понятно ЧТО 😱
@neural_meduza

@newt
Ever seen a biker play grand piano? Well, except for Meat Loaf… 🤔
But he doesn't count! 🫣
@JoseMariaHDZ

@Tony
Five? I barely ever have less than nine open! 🤣

@gemlog
Ha-ha-ha, true!
It was a best-effort parody of the next sentence in the article to make it sound like an old-fashioned quote having a very modern meaning 😆

Oxford's Word of the Year: "Brain Rot"
https://slashdot.org/story/436075
The first recorded use of brain rot dates much before the creation of the internet — it was written down in 1854 by Henry David Thoreau in his book Walden.

Gentlemen, don't we exhibit a tendency to devalue complex ideas by consooming le slop? 🧐

@Merc @theorytoe
No, I get what you mean of course, I'm just exaggerating a bit for funsies 😄

@Merc @theorytoe
Yeah, farmers might be way better at it than Windows sysadmins… Or not — on the surface, they might posses a more useful skillset, but would they be able to put up a good fight for long enough if their John Deere shit suddenly breaks down, if there is no fuel, no electricity, no fertilisers? I'm honestly not sure — they would probably still have to re-learn a lot, same as those with "useless" professions 🤷

@Merc @theorytoe
But otherwise — yeah, sure, people are just scamming each other for money that you can't buy shit with anymore, but somehow modern equipment enables us to do it in a way that we manage to avoid famine and other catastrophic things.
Trading exchanges used to be helpful in determining market value of goods — but they no longer are and are often used for speculative purposes and cryptocurrency exchange is of course the epitome of that.

@Merc @theorytoe
On a serious note though, you might argue that farmers and coal-miners are at least self-sustainable — but they aren't! What are they going to eat, coal? Farmers aren't any better on a closer look — they aren't using "grandpa tools" anymore: with limited amount of farmlands and billions of people they have to feed, they can only stay productive if they use modern equipment — that's where engineers, mathematicians and software developers come it.

@Merc @theorytoe
And yet… Coal-mining industry is loss-making in every country I can think of: Russia, Poland, UK: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2130231-uk-government-subsidises-coal-sector-with-356-million-a-year/
Farmers too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy
A 2021 study by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization found $540 billion was given to farmers every year between 2013 and 2018 in global subsidies.

Governments keep sponsoring this bunch of botanists-speleologists! They've been leeching off taxes paid by honest crypto-investors and OnlyFans models for years!

@Merc @theorytoe
Those are more like lifestyles than jobs — and they aren't getting paid either, they keep begging the state for subsidies. No one's ever getting paid, all "jobs" are made up 😢

@romin
And you come to me on a summer breeze
Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave
And it's me you need to show
How blue are your tits?