Went camping at Olympic once. I was not ready for banana slugs.

This would almost be funny if the sign wasn’t intended as double-entendre in the fist place.

When is the last time he updated his material? He’s out here still spewing that new-atheist line like his mind is powered by Reddit circa 2013.

Ricky is his persona. A dim man, in a fortunate position, over his head. He’s a stuffy old “ya dad” medium-level bigot like Archie Bunker; he’s only able to get a laugh by being the joke.

I once saw a podcast or something that had Ricky, Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, and Louie CK. Now Ricky wasn’t the only shit-head at that table, but he did stand out sharply when back-lit by all that talent.

Bitcoin is for dodging sanctions and the influence America has over the international banking and payment systems. It’s also may shield third parties from sanctions the US may impose on those who transact with Iran.

Pihole has similar functionality, and it’s FOSS.

Sure, but advocates for prison reform don’t have to be incarcerated.

People leaving Twitter now is not very impressive. Less “seeing the light” and more “Trumpgret”.

I’ll remind you that the Debian project left Twitter over a year ago. So the EFF isn’t as fast moving or comfortable with change like … Debian.

I saw a post where a Cybertruck got T-boned by like a Nissan or something. The Tesla didn’t look damaged badly at all and the other car was modern art. Tesla people were bragging about it until someone pointed out that the Nissan driver walked away while the driver of the Tesla broke both legs.

I know this is anecdote, but the point is that vehicle damage doesn’t prove people injuries.

What is up with all these puerile jokes lately? Lemmy is turning into a cafeteria table for preteen boys.

I was thinking about commenting on misogyny, but I’m not sure the people making these jokes are ready for tall-talk.

I think the spirit of shitposting is in opposition to the spirit of taxonomy. And it’s super ironic to argue over the definition.

Precisely defining shitpost would annihilate it’s meaning and we’d be forced to use another word.

If you pay attention, you’ll notice that English is actually pretty bad at keeping slippery meanings contained inside her words.

I pulled this off reddit. I know that’s gross, but this was too good not to share.

Had a friend who did this with poison ivy. I’m still laughing decades later just thinking about it.

I’ve never understood secure drop-off for used drugs. My mother gives everything to second-hand stores when she’s finished, but when it’s time to throw away pain pills, she jaunts off to the drug store like Jason Borne, to keep the drugs away from junkies.

I keep meaning to tell her that a junkie who discovers her oxy is going to be so much more grateful than whoever finds her old Capris on the rack at Goodwill.

I’ve never trusted full disk encryption because I understand the person most likely to get locked out of my data is me.

I can see the use case for laptops, but my security policy is “if you have physical access, you win”.

You should keep in mind that this is a negotiation position, and it’s normal to ask for the world at the beginning so the inevitable compromise may be more in your favor.

40 years ago, this article was titled “the toxic chemicals in no-smoking signs are the real cause of lung cancer”

What I’ve come to understand is that even if Trump and MAGA become histories villains, with their ideology, ascetic, and personas become toxic and reviled, everyone will just forget after a few generations and it’ll happen all over again.

The only way to purge MAGA is to overcome American bigotry; the strongest god in the pantheon.

The idea that the existence of crack was a government plot is an old and debunked conspiracy theory.

Not that our government isn’t that racist, just that it’s not that competent or forward thinking.

The real racism was the response to crack. The drug became synonymous with black Americans the same way AIDS became synonymous with gay men: because they were the early and obvious victims. Unlike AIDS, crack is actually much less dangerous than people think. Opioids are way worse.

But even the idea that crack was a “black” problem is a myth. My cracker-ass friend group experimented with free-basing cocaine (which is turning cocaine into crystal inside the smoking vessel, a practice far older than “cooking” crack, but produces the same drug and effect)