chaosCruiser

People usually think that Yersinia pestis was left in the Middle Ages, but that’s not the case. Just let the rats breed, and you can create another plague epidemic.

Well? Did it work?

It’s been impossible to compete with reality since Trump first came to power. Actually even before that. Roughly one year before the elections in 2016 it was already getting pretty wild.

By the time COVID rolled around, it was 100% clear the onion was no match to the kind of insanity real life is capable of. Remember that 5G thing? Yeah, that’s the level I’m talking about.

Sorry, I was distracted be the profits.

!leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

I’ve heard this “year of the Linux desktop” thing for 20 years in a row, to the point that it has become a meme. Even if the recent events bump Linux market share up by just a single percent, I’m still happy.

So 2025 is the year of the Linux desktop?

Here’s a pretty wild idea that just occurred to me. Let’s assume that Trump being a Russian asset is far from being the big picture, but a tiny part of it. What if some people have planned something much bigger, and the Trump administration is just one step along the way.

Maybe the goal is to make people rise up against a tyrannical dictator, and tare down the whole administration. Then, something new could rise from the ashes, and that’s when you have a unique opportunity to design the whole system to your liking. Consider it a hard reset, where you purge every cache and memory. Well, who would design the new constitution and a new government at that point? Even if it’s the people who do that, their opinions can be easily swayed, distorted and guided by social media. What if some people are just waiting for each piece to fall in its place.

Well, I have zero evidence for any of this, so consider it nothing more than food for thought. You could also use that as a prompt for a scifi book if you want.

Total Dissolved Solids?

has led to higher fares for passengers and lower earnings for drivers, while increasing Uber’s share of revenue

Sounds like the steps 2 and 3 on the path of enshittification.

Check this new 0 W setup! It’s running pretty smoothly as long as you remember to add some oil between the beads from time to time.

I have a bad feeling that the temperature will continue to rise, and food production continues to decline. Even if we can survive the first few steps, the next ones will be even harder. Chances are, poor people will simply starve to death, while rich people will continue to enjoy their meat and chocolate.

Oh, I missed that. Well, that only means I must have lived under a rock.

If you don’t bring any protective gear, you better run when things get ugly. If you plan to stay when things get ugly, you better bring the appropriate gear with you.

Can we put USA on the list of tyrannical dictatorships already?

Oh, so consumers stop consuming, retail companies fire employees to maintain profitability, etc. Few rounds of that and you have even more poor people who can be exploited to maintain the wealth inequality or even widen the gap. Was that the idea?

What about all of the Trump’s billionaire buddies who depend on the general public spending money on stuff? This can’t be good for business, now can it? If this is some sort of clever tactic that results in them getting more money in the end, please tell me how that works.

Have you considered resorting to a hard stare? I mean, it works every time in the Paddington movies.

Masked ICE Gestapo raiding a …

The wording in these articles is getting spicier every day.

That’s a very disturbing symmetry…