I’m losing my freaking mind over it. People, news, just going along like this is still business is usual. Real life Don’t Look Up.

But I’m going to bow out of this. You don’t seem capable of self reflection

Reading through this page, you certainly don’t seem wrong at all, but on the other hand, it may be a language issue.

I really want to say something snarky, but in the end they are people and I hope they are safe and get the help they need to recover.

“Get a college degree and the world will be your oyster”

“Put in those extra hours/days/years, do more than the people around you, and it will payoff”

Same age, but shit’s just gotten worse every year for a good decade or so for me.

I stopped enjoying Idiocracy as satire or humor about 10-15 years ago when I watched it the 3rd time.

Farting. I had a teacher who would send kids to the nurse for farting. So, of course, we’d fart as loud as possible and blame it on someone around us. You know, whip your head to the side and say,“Damn, Chris!” They usually got sent to the nurse. This was at least 2-3 times a week. I got blamed enough times that she upped the seriousness and sent me to the principal. Fair enough, I mean, I had gotten more kids sent to the nurse than they got me, and the principal just sort of rolled his eyes and sent me back to class. 7th grade.

Most news sources use AP, but sensationalize the shit out of the stories. I agree with you, AP is fine. Not perfect, but what source is, but respectable.

A couple decades ago I included that in my Senior English class. I was able to make a lot of connections to the then political landscape. Now I’d imagine it’s like watching Idiocracy.

In 10 years they’ll have laid off the senior developers and will be using actual AI to translate C-suite dorks’ grunts and marketing speak to code.

I take like 1 minute to poop

What sort of wizardry is this?

Paintball cosplay.

You aren’t wrong, and I’m not sure why the other person is arguing with you. Seems like that Monty Python sketch about arguing.

.ml is awful, but you’ll find a lot of those knee jerk purity types spread all over the lemmyverse.

righteous?

I’ve heard that about redheads, but never about black people.

I just can’t engage because for some reason in righty’s mind, liberal == progressive. Like, for them also, fascism == communist. It’s just a complete failure to agree on basic, high school level definitions.

I thought this comparison between Michael Jackson and Bob Fosse pretty eye-opening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LE_TYTxRxg

Wait! Biden isn’t even in office anymore. How could this happen?

The Constitution is pretty clear that trump doesn’t qualify for the office, yet here we are. It’s freaking insane watching this happen in my lifetime.