What sucks is you can’t even buy a truck like the second from the left anymore. I mean, you can buy a used one from a few decades ago, but nobody makes small utility trucks like the old Rangers. The new Ranger is basically just an old F150 (maybe even F250).

The label is accurate. Quit using AI if you don’t want your images labeled as such.

Just buy a Roku and never connect it online. They work just fine without an account or internet connection. You can even tell it to always go to the last input it was on when you boot it.

Big dog or small house?

What about birdwatching at a baseball game?

I see at least one pterosaur mixed in with those dinosaurs.

So no more Twitter on iPhones? How will we ever survive?

I don’t know. I have several old phones and a touch tone dialing adapter. I like the experience. I can say with high confidence that I’ll hear a dial tone in the future.

Plus, watch any movie from the seventies through the nineties that includes a phone, and you’ll probably hear a dial tone.

Spend as much time with your friends as you can. They may not always be there. It’s hard when they go, but you’ll get through it.

(If I’m allowed to change the future, I’d tell myself exactly which friend died, when, and how.)

It was separate from real life. Like, you had to make a conscious decision to “go online”, because otherwise you were always offline. Now it’s harder to be offline. I guess I’m saying I miss the days where we weren’t expected to always be reachable. The phone and the internet were at home.

Try it. It’s surprisingly good.

Ice cream on a hot dog. Just plain vanilla ice cream, on an all beef hot dog in a bun. Some chocolate fudge on top if you like.

Throwing rocks is really useful too when you never get tired while running. So we’ll chase down an animal for twenty kilometers then pelt it with rocks.

You use microtransactions all the time when you pay for things with cash. I’m using the term to refer to payments for one thing in a small amount. As opposed to subscription fees or buying a year’s worth of articles at once. And no, that’s not easy to do with crypto and browser wallets. We don’t need old people having their life savings irrevocably stolen, thanks.

The internet is a government solution, btw, so if you’re not fond of their “solutions”, well, you’re not fond of the internet.

The fourteenth amendment would probably bar this, but it’s never been tried.

The Constitution doesn’t do that, that’s up to the states. Also, you don’t have to be eligible to vote to be the president. The US Constitution outlines the only eligibility requirements for the president.

Pretty much. At least Lemmy is a lot more like Reddit was when I started on Reddit (~2015), than Reddit is now.

What I’d love to see is the government funding and running a way to do microtransactions over HTTPS.

Basically, one of the government’s jobs is to facilitate commerce, which it has done by issuing and regulating currency for centuries, and collecting sales tax. But we’ve moved beyond paper and metal currency. I can’t pay for an article on USA Today with a quarter. So the government should run a system, funded by automatically charged sales tax, that lets me do exactly that. Let me hook up my bank account to it, and say yes or no when a website wants to charge me 25¢ for an article (or however much).

It would be great to have a way that I can pay without a stupid subscription and without giving the website my credit card information. If I read 3 articles a month, I don’t want to pay a $14.99 subscription. But not charging that means news sites can’t survive. Wouldn’t it be great if we could pay for our media easily and news sites could charge for it in a non-exploitative way?

Yep, cause the constitution doesn’t forbid felons from running for president.

Because he owns a bunch of shit. That’s literally it. Nobody would give a single shit about him if he didn’t have money. I saw it put very eloquently like this:

Elon Musk is so poor that all he has is money.