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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

As usual we've found an engaging distraction to play whack-a-mole with for a while. When we get bored with bashing Elon Musk we'll find another one, never addressing the core problem of how to take down the oligarchy. Because that will take methodical work and a huge amount of diligent research and objective thinking - assuming anybody ever gets around to doing it at all. Most of us just entertain ourselves with angry memes, created by the few people with enough motivation to do even that much. This is why aristocracy systems can keep perpetuating themselves - they rely on human inertia - most people prioritize entertainment over doing anything substantial. Bottom line, that's the real reason things are the way they are.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

thank you

edit: actually the main page is pretty much dead links R us.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 144 points 1 week ago (36 children)

I think I figured out one reason Trump is going after Greenland. It looks huge on a Mercator Projection map even though it isn’t that large.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

It looks huge on a Mercator Projection map even though it isn’t that large.

In the Mercator projection it appears to have about the same area as Africa, while in reality it is about a 14th of it. But, I wouldn't say that "isn't that large": if Greenland was independent it would be (and Denmark is, because of it) the 12th largest country in the world.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 88 points 1 week ago

That is genuinely stupid enough to be plausible.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With Tump back in the office, soon enough they’ll be auctioning off federal lands and the postal service. Privatization is back on the menu.

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] lemon@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To the extent that the billboard never existed while the image implies it did – sure.

I love the term ‘slop’. It’s one of my favorite new words along with ‘nontent’.

But this, to me, isn’t that. I think of slop as ‘unrequested, unconvincing, lazy, and lifeless’. In short, ineffective and unwelcome.

I feel like this meme gets the message across. It’s not great, but it’s not terrible. The AI tells are subtle enough: the multi lane pileup in the background and some poor small size text rendering.

Not sure why I felt the need to write this. Guess I’m of the opinion that just because something is AI-generated doesn’t mean it should be discounted immediately, unless it really feels like zero effort went into it. Have a nice day!

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 week ago

Things you can do when you have fuck-you money to burn: buy a billboard.

I thought about buying / renting a billboard in a small town in Texas where a shitty family mistreated my partner's nephew when he did a cultural-exchange program (her family is Thai). It would be essentially this but about that family. I didn't go through with it because they got kicked out of the program via other avenues.

I did buy a discounted ad on a podcast to rail about how much I hate ads. That was fun. I think I paid like $175 or something. I don't have fuck-you money, but I do have low level fuck-around money.

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