I feel old because I remember when this conversation was happening with airbrushing photographs and then Photoshop.

And now these days, really good Photoshop is invisible. We can remove people from backgrounds. We can improve the lighting. Movie CGI is just photoshooting stills.

AI will reach that stage too, where it will be so good, it’s scary that you can’t tell.

Tennessee? Missouri? Alabama?

South Park guys too.

Politics so bad, you made the comedians who were mocking both sides in the 2000s apologize.

The pandemic showed us that we are willing to throw nice words around and call people heroes and then watch them melt down because nobody wants to work anymore to make my fajita.

Honestly if you’re anybody in the government with this bozo, just assume you’re already going to get compromised.

Now I feel weird because I’ve been blasted drunk and still write pretty darn well.

Not so well sober, oddly enough.

Funny you mentioned this.

Apparently feeding school kids for free was controversial (and still is controversial).

And I watched a fellow parent on Facebook post an event about bake sales to raise money, to immediately sharing talking points about why it’s bad for kids to get free school lunches.

I laughed way too hard at this. Its only been a month or two since I switched to Lemmy and already I’m getting the injokes.

And maybe we need that. We’ve been blessed with delicious bananas too easily for two long.

24 hour news is to blame.

You can’t have one story anymore. You need to turn it into like 20 stories. Which means that one story, but the perspective of every single other person. The CEO, the Janitor, Ja Rule, everyone.

I am currently stealing Amazon streaming from my neighbor, who let me use it. It’s full of ads now.

Can’t even watch Invincible without 8 minutes of ads.

Easier to just pirate.

But how will I know if I’m rich or poor without a nasdaq score telling me how the rich are feeling?

Pizza place near me has ranch pizza at discount for $1.

I thought I was getting a deal and then promptly threw it away.

I saw this at my local brewery.

A bunch of bachelorettes with their penis straws and hats with SLUT in LEDs were having a fun time in the corner while some parents with their 8yo kids running circles around their table were also at the same brewery. Random guy in a trench coat with his giant dog. Nerd on his apple laptop.

Nobody was acting a fool or making a scene. But it was a strange moment.

My apartment has motion censor faucets.

I live in a nightmare.

It’s all around us. Easier to remove the carbon based life forms.

Unless it was part of it, multiple levels of packaging.

Open up a bag of chips. It’s bag, then chips. Perfect world.

Open up a box of cookies from hell. Open up the box. Open up the freshness seal bag. Pull out the individually wrapped cookies, and open those too.

Straight to jail. No question.

Was a kid in the late 1980s. I never realized how bad smoking was.

My mom hated going out to dinner, so we never ever went. And when I took her to dinner to celebrate in the 2000s, she pulled me aside and cried about not wanting to smell like cigarettes, because her dad smoked and the smell would remind her of him/his abuse. Smoking was already banned and I had to make so many promises that we won’t go anywhere with smoking.

I doubt it.

Trump’s first presidency was supposed to be a wake up call.

They threw Hilary into the ring.

During the post-Biden election, after fixing the chaos that Trump made, and instead of pushing for reform and supporting the working class and everyone still left behind…

The idiots of the Democratic party said, “All these BLM/Police Reform protests and calls for workers rights seem interesting. Let’s put a pro-cop black woman that should make a bunch of people unhappy as a compromise.”

Bernie has been a loud voice since the 70s. America didnt pay attention until 2010. America’s Democrats won’t pay attention period.

Been on Ubuntu for years. Only use it for general computer work. Works just fine.

Am I stupid?