This exact conversation happened to me IRL once - and it was about a decade ago. The shock expression of the woman who realized I wasn’t gong to protect Bill -hell anyone on my side- match my shocked expression a second later when I realized she was trying to set up a M.A.D. scenario about child sex traffickers. These people are gross.

It sounds like " QAnon talking points about child trafficking" would be horrible, so not a good topic for conversation anyway?

It’s not a meme, its both the theory and practice to require constant unending increase in profit. That is the central point that eliminates all of your points except for the one about the universe having infinite resources - my dude we do not have access to the UNIVERSE, all we have is this one planet, and due to the distances involved, space opera is bunk and every stellar system is going to have just that stellar system. Do you think that a trade route that takes 400 years to travel is going to be of practical use over a lifetime?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njos57IJf-0

I guarantee that the other drivers on that road didn’t opt for a “beta”.

Or a NUDE tag to cover all of the uncovered.

You’d have, like, five dollars?

No you unrepentant inmate, it’s Tia-land. I was in the Navy where we would jokingly refer to it as “Thighland” as we were looking forward to enjoying pulling in to port (giggitty). No body anywhere would take that literally. Well except for this one moron.

But if your car has flat tires every 3000 miles, the engine explodes occasionally for no reason, the dash display keeps telling you about accessories you don’t want instead of your speed, and the factory door locks are coat hangers twisted into an O ring, then shopping around seems like a good idea.

Laughing from Linux. Fedora, PCLinuxOS, OpenSUSE- all of Linux is laughing 😃

I ended my dual boot around Win XP days. I only saw the Win 8 horror in store displays, and I only installed Win11 one time. OMG it sucked - the hell was MS doing demanding I sign up a ms account to install an OS?

Heh, English. I’ll have you know the REAL Jesus speaks 'Murican!

Heh, after the “Feed the World” bullshit, I have no doubt this isn’t going anywhere.

The novelty has worn off. Contributions are going to fall to the baseline for this platform. Question is, is the Lemmy space going to expand from that point?

Adding to @[email protected] comment: The military has a peculiar concept for responsibility in command, such that a senior officer or even NCO could have thier career totally ruined for investigating a rape. Not for other crimes, mind you, but some arcane language held that they could be held culpable for not having prevented the attack. Biden has rather firmly corrected that error.

The last company I worked for has both NDA’s and arbitration agreements, which would keep me from spilling company secrets and would screw me over if I did. But here is a secret - they use online PDF forms and <whispers> don’t check what text is entered into the signature.