The main benefit of sailing the high seas when I was younger was simply having access to things I couldn’t afford that helped make me more cultured. Now the main benefit is so I don’t financially contribute to shitstain corporations.

IT professional here.

Yup.

Everything is hardwired with multiple layers of security. Everything even remotely personal is on encrypted hard drives. No Alexa/Google. Made sure the smart TV and smartphones (no Apple, vanilla Android) have all data sharing disabled. And I drive a 1999 vehicle that doesn’t make me jump through any hoops.

There’s a fine line between technology making things better and making things worse. We’re definitely starting to drift into the making things worse era.

IT professional here with 20+ years work experience. Not once have I ever met another tech that liked Apple. Personally, I despise them. Unintuitive locked down garbage that can’t do anything a PC can’t do for half the price. And yes, I have seen viruses on Macs.

They’re just really good at advertising to people who don’t understand technology.

Streamers are like a Biblical plague.

Let’s take a bunch of dropouts with absolutely no credentials and have them be stewards of information to millions of people.

It’s wild that the “land of the free, home of the brave” let a bunch of incel basement dwelling grifter losers take over and tank the nation.

With the behavior of modern Christians the guy would probably beg to be put back in.

Both adults.

I have other things to care about.

Mine has a smile on their face as long as they can overcharge me for not helping me.

Which is every single time.

Come.

Let me show you the 9th level of hell called “Help Desk”.

Welp.

Lemmy open on one monitor. Jira open on the other.

So this tracks.

I pray for the apocalypse so I never have to look at a fucking ticket queue again. It’s a neverending list of other people’s problems I have to rapid fire solve.

Reminder that during the entirety of Biden’s 4 year term we saw job growth. Now we’ve seen 5 straight months of job loss under child rapist Donald Trump.

Thanks Biden.

I absolutely love the idea of only referring to him as Tim Apple for the rest of his sad life.

This guy’s such a pushover wimp he let a pedophile permanently change his name. A pedophile he has prostrated himself to.

These days I drug my cares away.

Better looking. Undoubtedly more intelligent.

Never have. Never will.

Can we start doing this with everything?

I mean, is it not apparent at this point?

If you watch someone do the thing where they step on a rake and hit themselves in the face more than once, you have to accept the reality that they’re probably stupid.

Americans have stepped on the rake a lot more than once.

Does this dipshit realize he’ll never be safe in public again? Probably anywhere on Earth.

And I don’t think he gets lifetime tax payer funded Secret Service protection like America is prepared to give a felon rapist pedophile.

Maybe it sticks around long enough to poison the waters for a couple more election cycles

This is kind of my best case scenario for the cult. Stick around and try their own thing, which results in siphoning votes from the Republican party.

the Republicans will eventually put the mask back on and try to pretend like nothing ever happened (though I can’t possibly predict whether that’ll work)

Oh it’ll work. After Bush Jr. Republicans pulled a “Who? Oh I didn’t know him that well”. Then they got a fascist elected. Their base has hamster brains. This whole ordeal should have buried the Republican party in a deep unmarked grave. But it won’t.

We’d get Vance, who is arguably worse. Seriously. Look into the guy. He’s a freakshow, but more subtle than Trump. Still very stupid though, so we’d still be led by a stupid extremist.

The cult as we know it would end though. Vance isn’t going to be able to take over as cult leader. He doesn’t have the flamboyant bigotry that Trump does, which is what draws low IQ conservatives to him like he’s some idol.

Doesn’t matter. I’ve witnessed conservatives all my life. With Trump gone, they’ll absolutely vote for the next shitstain racist/fascist/bigot/moron the Republican party hands them. Because they will never, under any circumstances, vote blue. And they’ll never vote 3rd party cuz they won’t want to risk baby eating Democrats gaining power. So they’ll bite their tongues and vote for whatever Republican is on the menu. And now that Trump has opened Pandora’s Box, we’re just going to see worse and worse candidates from Republicans because they watched and saw what Trump was able to get away with, so they’ll take advantage, because why wouldn’t they? They’ll want their turn to grift the presidency to create their own dynasty.

I don’t want to make a Monday even shittier than it already is, but realistically, things are probably going to get worse, not better, even with Trump gone. But hey, at least we won’t have to hear his fucking voice anymore or wake up wondering what monumentally stupid thing he’s said or done every fucking day.