What you say is totally rational, which is why many of the people supporting these monsters are doing it for irrational reasons. Things like hate, anger, and bigotry seem to be very effective right now!

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It’s like these insane old fucks running the world actually want to make sure that part of their legacy is leaving a constant trail of traumatized "other"s in their wake that will grow into the “terrorist” targets for the next generation to kill.

To these people, human joy is an indulgence for the weak.

You know how over-exaggerated cartoonish villains will talk about how love and caring make you weak? Basically that.

They seem like exactly the kind of evil that has to push the bounds of human depravity just to prove to themselves how privileged and powerful they truly are.

Like with those Epstein files we aren’t talking about as much since we’re waiting to see if this is WW3 – you have a variety of powerful people who are probably not pedophiles in the mental illness sense, but they fuck teenagers because it’s a combination of forbidden fruit and domination/control and half a dozen other things that stimulate their dark triad brains.

That sounds like an awful situation where a bunnch of young lives would be sacrificed in an ongoing series of attacks so that the evening news could be saturated with graphic tragic shit leading up to Trump being “forced” to do whatever they have planned next.

So I assume that’s literally evil plan A, and reality will turn out worse.

I find the balance. They are less than a half hour drive away and we don’t see them all that often.

My kid has grandparents and cousins he likes. Fortunately at most of the get-togethers at grandma’s house, we tend to separate into two floors of the house. So I get to hang with my nieces and nephews and spend most of the time with walls between me and the old miserable people.

What’s astonishing to me, as an American who grew up in white conservative rural and suburban areas, is that the racism is just one facet of a much larger shitty state of existence.

I see the same things IRL from ordinary people, like extended family, that I see from the people in the media who seem like hyperbolic caricatures trying to test Poe’s law.

It’s just an existence based in negativity. Every request has a hurried frustrated tone. Every discussion is composed entirely of complaints. The complaints about others are bigoted sure, but also very focused on money and material possessions which those other people never deserve and the speaker is neverrrrr jealous about. Personal identity is built from all the things you don’t like.

I have a good relationship with my family, but they are still miserable and draining to be around.

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Same with what we were hearing about the Linux desktop!

…yet here we are in 2026 and literally all my desktops have since become Linux, lol.

Narcissism + recklessness + greed + privilege, filtered through a heavy layer of survivorship bias, and whatever jackass makes it to the end was apparently a bold visionary genius the whole time.

But then once they’re in that club, the money and notoriety are their own advantage.

I finally got to read this article and the situation is even better/dumber with more context. I didn’t realize the layering at first.

This CEO used AI to avoid paying human lawyers to help him figure out how to avoid paying human game developers.

This asshole needs to get some kind of “Yo Dawg I heard you like AI” anti-award.

Trapped Americans getting whoopsie-killed as shit all over the place gets blown up? That sounds like a great justification for throwing more money and lives at attacking the Epstein Files-- I mean, Iran.

Honestly I would be more surprised if it were simply a gutted and incompetent goverment, rather than intentional.

The question is: did he even read it before it got sent over?

It seems like having a staffer draft the letter isn’t a huge deal, but a normal president would personally approve it, I imagine.

You know, believing oneself to be the antichrist DOES mean you are pretty much the important and impactful human on the planet. Like Time Person of the Year multiplied by Jesus.

That sounds like peak narcissism.

That makes me think it could be true. :/

The fuckers driving this stuff are so mustache-twirling stupidly evil that they are probably doing it on purpose to ensure that part of their legacy is that the next generation can be convinced to treat entire nations’ worth of people as violent animals.

There are a lot of people out there, so many things can be true at once.

I think it’s inevitable that some people use labels as excuses just because awareness of those conditions is so much higher. I also think it’s inevitable that there are a lot of people who struggled all their life with things that are difficult to diagnose or weren’t on the minds of parents and teachers 30 years ago.

And there’s probably no way to ever say definitively, with evidence, either way on this – but it would blow my fucking mind to find out that Lemmy didn’t have a neurospicy percentage of participants significantly higher than the general population.

And even if that were known to be untrue, I think Lemmy also attracts people who are more aware, open, and accepting of that stuff in themselves and others.

My Windows partition at work went unused for several months before I wiped it.

At home it took about two weeks before I reclaimed that space!

My employer has the usual setup of M365 enterprise shit running on Dell laptops.

Fortunately we devs are able to “dual boot” to run Linux on our machines, since our product is an embedded Linux system. (has anybody seen my Windows partition btw? I can’t even find anything NTFS formatted, whoopsie!)

All that background info is just so I can pay Microsoft a compliment, even if it has asterisks all over it:

The entire Microsoft suite works just fine in a browser, and in LibreWolf too! I do typically add some permissions for those sites for convenience, since librewolf is privacy/tracking hardened (firefox fork) out of the box. I use Teams and Outlook every day, and occasionally will drop a file into OneDrive or edit something in MS Office. I don’t write many office-format documents though, so I’m more likely to be in LibreOffice or a PDF viewer just reading a doc.

You know how in media streaming and gaming there’s that balance of whether it is more convenient to be a paying customer versus pirate everything?

Microsoft’s stuff is literally better to use in Linux. Even if I need to test the Windows build of something, a VM is SO much more convenient. And I’m not even logged into the microsoft shit on that. If I need something from OneDrive, I go to the browser there too.

Looks like he forgot where he was for a second.