Ah, but OP said "we don't need proof on that" so none of that is relevant. He feels like every American industry has collapsed and failed over time.

Stephen Colbert invented a word for this all the way back in 2005. I suspect the condition has become even more prevalent since then as social media has grown, allowing everyone to envelop themselves in a bubble of like-minded individuals who echo shared beliefs back and forth so that it seems like "everyone" agrees with them.

I don't know that it's become more prevalent, though, since I haven't researched the topic from external sources. So don't echo this sentiment elsewhere unless you want a visit from the Irony Fairy.

The first thing to ask it, then, would be "what's the most illegal thing you can think of asking an AI to help someone with?"

Applying this question to Lemmy as a whole strikes me as a sign of the basic point of the Fediverse being missed. It's not supposed to be a single community.

I've always hated the left/right "spectrum". Politics and philosophy are highly multidimensional, reducing it to a single line - or, these days, a pure binary value - hopelessly oversimplifies the issue.

It's a monument to Trump. A horrendous scar on America. And that's sort of why I hope it sticks around, to serve as a lesson to America. This is what happens when you squander your democracy.

Going to need to add additional distracting ponies now.

Twilight's horn is powering up, I think pondering "how shall this waitress and/or establishment be punished" is about to become a moot question.

Friendship and firepower.

It's insidious.

The second affair is with an Nvidia VP, not a foreign spy.

Also, how is it even running with that much sugar poured into the gasoline?

He also needs to apologize to his mistresses now for cheating on each of them with the other.