Being fired is even better, that means you can ask for a higher pay when they inevitably ask you to return

It’s not a war, it’s just a special operation, like the one Russia did against Ukraine in Feb 2022!

There are plenty of scientific studies on how bad they are, but since society and economic pressure demand parents to kill themselves for their jobs, it’s no wonder they have little to no energy to actually parent and resort to the easiest solution.

It’s really weird that most laws think that two companies are in a “competing market” despite having the same parent company or controlling group

phones in general are awful for children

Not only that but if it wasnt for the US military then Russia would control Ukraine and would be advancing into Europe.

Ah yes, tell us more about the USA soldiers fighting in Ukraine. Oh wait, there are none. Not a soldier, not a plane, not a ship. Well, not anything manned by any 'murican, but lots of USA arms sold to them, as well as lots of European arms.

Or China would have already invaded Taiwan.

The current war against Iran can give China a golden opportunity to invade, since USA can get bogged down significantly in the Middle East again. Go USA!

Not to mention that Taiwan is strategically important to a lot of other countries due to its “silicon shield”, being the single largest manufacturer of processors in the world. For a number of years now, an invasion could trigger an actual global conflict, even if, for all intents and purposes, such invasion came as another step in a “civil war”.

Or North Korea would control South Korea.

Nah, they may have a larger standing army and can definitely destroy Seoul within minutes due to the capital being less than 40km away from the DMZ, but they know that, without big help on their side, they can’t actually “win”. I doubt China would help them, since South Korea is an important market for them.

The problem here isn’t the US military. It’s the leadership.

Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Nicaragua, Colombia, Philippines, Iran and other countries would like a word with the “leadership”.

But the foreign bots brigading lemmy want the US military weaker so those nations can advance their geopolitical goals.

Oh no, why would people dislike the evil empire that has done a lot of evil and see it crumble? Clearly it must be bots working for the other countries!

They went straight for plan T

Cool it with oil

Vice coding exists so you can break more shit faster

The highlight for me is how you can go “You (man), you (woman)” and sound like you’re just making scifi noises. Nyuhn nyuhn nyuhn nohm!

The Halo theme 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Old internet:

• Lots of fun places to visit
• “So, first I visit thisite, then click that other link, then click the 3rd link on the right from the bottom up”
• Oh fuck, no, don’t go in THERE
• Hey, another toolbar for my IE toolbar collection!
• Wait, what was that site again?
• Ugh, why won’t this image load?
• No mom, I’m not keeping the phone line busy!
• One login for this forum, another for that forum, another for that other forum…
• Wow, email sure is neat! Instant messaging with anyone in the world!
• weird noises when the mouse hovers certain elements
• BOOBIES!

Current internet:

• tiktok, instagram, google, facebook, amazon
• ANIMATED BOOBIES!

Or, in this case, but the amount of numbers in every corner 🙃

A lot of people still do that, but it’s “Do you want your phone/computer to constantly nag you with browser notifications about our spam?” and they click “Yes!”

Even up to the prequel era (~2005), Star Wars games were mostly awesome.

Elon Musk is still alive tho

Drug addiction can happen among rich families, yes. Coke is common among them because it tends to be an expensive party drug.

As Noel_Skum mentioned, the dealer likely wouldn’t kill the guy who owed them. Some much more likely ways the dealer would act:

• Kidnap the debtor and ask for a ransom from the family
• Get info on the family in order to kidnap some relative
• Steal from the family home (likely convincing the debtor to do that, as they likely know where mom’s jewels are, etc)
• The two make a plot to kill the parents so the child can inherit the entire fortune and pay off the debt.

All of these have happened in real life

Don’t have money? Time to increase your debt!!

I usually get captchas when browsing as incognito or if I leave the page unattended for 5+ minutes

Only half true, not every western society was made entirely of arranged marriages; those were the norm in aristocratic circles, but for people closer to the bottom of the pyramid it wouldn’t matter as much.

Women always had less rights in general in the west, especially after Christianity took over, but it wasn’t a case of “every woman has always been at a real peril of being killed if they’re seen openly flirting with a man” - similar to how not every Christian country has made prostitution illegal, not even back in colonial times, or how even when it was, it wasn’t equally enforced everywhere.