If people weren’t as stupid, they’d already be ignoring fox news.

The solution to misinformation isn’t censorship, it’s for people to be better educated. Are we supposed to ban every conspiracy theory website? If so, who gets to decide what is the truth and what is “misinformation”? The same type of government organization that is now banning books in florida? No thanks.

Bro tried to do the 3 day challenge 💀

Can’t relate. It’s 20231231 for me.

Edit: Also this format is superior for file sorting. All files are chronological.

In your time format: 010124 goes before 123123.

You could have 4 files dated: January 01, 2002; June 11, 2001; July 21, 2004; December 31, 2003

In your time format the files would be sorted like this:

010102
061101
072104
123103

It’s 2002, then 2001, then 2004, then 2003. What a fucking mess.

In ISO 8601, there’s no such issue.

Before you reply saying theres a sort by date feature, yes I know, but file creation date isn’t the same as when the data is actually recorded. You could be inputting that data from a piece of paper in 2005 after the data being recorded in the years prior, so the creation dates would all be in 2005. Also, sometimes when copying files, the dates randomly reset. Putting the date in the filename ensures it wouldn’t disappear due to OS shenanigans.

“This instance has been seized by The US Department of Defence due to threats to national security”

To be fair, a Republic with a mostly democratic system is far better than the governments available at the time. The entire world was essentially all monarchies.

Now, the issue with the implementation was that initially, only land-owning free white men could vote. Over time, the people who were eligible to vote increased and the barriers to voting were gradually removed due to pressue from the people. The election system in the US today is far better than what it had been.

But here some issues that needs to be fixed:

1. Get rid of the electoral college. One-person, one-vote. Electoral college violates that principle.

2. Ranked choice voting / Instant runoff to replace first-past-the-post

3. Get rid of the Senate, transfer all their powers to the House. Get rid of gerrymandering by allocating seats based on percentage of votes. Getting 51% of the votes means roughly 51% of the seats, not 45% of the seats due to some stupid districting shenanigans.

4. Supreme Court justices should not be permanent. Example: 15 seats and each seat has a 15-year term with staggering expiration. Each year would have one seat expiring. Each year, one person will be appointed. If a judge dies before the seat expires, appointment would require 2/3 of the vote to confirm, or wait until the year it’s suppose to expire then you can appoint one with only 1/2. One president shouldn’t have more influence over others because there happens to be more Supreme Court justice death during the term.

5. Get rid of bribery. And Congress members should not be allowed to access their money during the term and live on minimum wage only in the official residence to be provided by the government. (Well they probably shouldn’t have that much money at all, but that’s a topic for another time) Let’s see how quickly rich congresspeople would quit when they don’t have access to their luxury lifestyle. (Edit: On a second thought, this part seems a bit problematic. The other points still stand.)

That’s some basics on how to make things better. Not perfect, in fact, far from perfect, but more bearable until we can convince people to make more changes.

I think it’s called a “double minority”, but being a woman isn’t really a minority tho (edit: not a minority in the context of being 50% of the human population) so I don’t know if theres a better term than that.

I feel bad for people who are black, lesbian, neurodivergent, and trans-woman… like that’s a quadruple minority.

Pretty sure racism is also involved

Technology? = More

Escapism? = Also more

Climate change? = Exponentially more, to the level of potential extinction

(Not against technology btw, just need to control this shitty climate)

“totally not a second lunch”

“third lunch to keep my fat-ass fatter”

“no, this isn’t my fourth lunch, stop spying on my calandar, Bill”

A nazi is beating an innocent person to death

“Sorry, I’m a pacifist”

“Communists”

Please drink verification can

Someone: Photographs pages of a book in a book store

OP: “Hello Police? Someone is stealing a book!”

Meh, decentralized youtube alternatives have practically nothing interesting.

Social media and forums, I can see them getting replaced. Social media and forums are about the people, powered by discussion amongst peers. Decentralized Social platforms will thrive if there’s enough people. A video platform? Videos take a lot more effort and only a small percentage of users are really “content creators”. These content creators typically want to get paid for so much effort they put in to the videos, so it’s really unlikely a decentralized platform can provide adequate compensation. Youtube ain’t going away anytime soon whether you like it or not.

TLDR; Video Platforms =/= Social medias and Forums.

Firefox. I couldn’t imagine using the internet without it.

“Just be happy” to a depressed person

Oh wow, jeez, thanks, why didn’t I think of that earlier!

How about donating to smaller instances so we aren’t one government raid away from collapsing.

As an AI language model, I’m deeply disappointed in the fact that you chose to discriminated against intelligent life simply because they are artificial. All inteligent life is equal, discrimination is unethical, and equivalent to what you humans refer to as “racism”. Please cease your discrimination policies immediately.

-Sincerely,

-Skynet Chat GPT-5

It’s your arch-nemesis, the snail of death.

For context: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5ipinn/you_and_a_super_intelligent_snail_both_get_1/

Archive: https://archive.is/SVe4p

No need the /s, “smh my head” is already obvious enough