Saw it last night, and yes. Lex had more than one scene inspired by actual Musk actions.

Everyone’s experience will be personal to them, so it’s not anyone’s place to say your experience isn’t worse, but as a whole, things are better.

Crime, no matter the category, is down ~33% since the mid-90s.
Median household income, adjusted for inflation, is up ~25% (despite the narrative).

Here’s a post/graph I think about all the time: https://bsky.app/profile/simongerman600.bsky.social/post/3ktds56nqus25

Regardless of age, we are generally nostalgic for a time in our youth. Or even earlier. Notice that something like half (or nearly so) of people think “the most moral society” was before they were born.

Cats

A delicate native ecosystem is being ravaged to enable mass commerce. Spice = oil.

He was born in 1946. The world came together to reject what he stands for before he was even born.

Absolutely essential for the full experience in a retro roguelike.

Usually repetitive and boring in 3D.

Have they even said ‘thank you’ once for not dropping a nuke?

Dumb question: which one draws more media attention in Chicago?

In my own experience (not Chicago), the local news is dominated by where the rush-hour crash is today, while national news talks way more about gun deaths.

I’m going to go with the general vibe of Lemmy here and assume you mean that auto deaths need to get more attention in America. To that I would say there is a general cultural attitude that cars are a necessary evil (even among most people who don’t outright love them, which is a huge demographic), and fixing the zoning and infrastructure would take decades and many tens of billions of dollars to restructure a large city around public transit. Besides bumper-sticker-slogan politics (“more public transit!”) there are precious few real, concrete plans for getting from the current situation to the car-free utopia.

Even then, you’d not eliminate cars entirely. Among the more developed western European nations that are known for good public transit, Ireland seems (at a quick glance) to have the fewest cars per person at 536 per 1,000, while the car-happy US has 850/1,000. So best case, you reduce cars by ~35%.

Gun deaths, on the other hand, are easier to imagine as a problem that can be solved relatively quickly and with less disruption. From an advocacy point of view, it’s the lower-hanging fruit.

ICE Budget Now Bigger Than Most of the World’s Militaries

Ok, Agent Smith.

Win10 EOL is surely driving some people away, but it’s difficult to put a number on that. Measuring by market share is tricky and can be misleading. Steam Deck popularity may be driving increased usage, but those users aren’t necessarily migrating their main OS, just adding a new machine to the mix. But maybe “migrating” their time spent in a given OS counts? It’s messy.

I don’t remember who said it (so I’m likely butchering the phrase), but I’ve heard that any creative work exists in three forms: The mind of the author, the physical copy, and the mind of the audience.

For example, a book/story exists as the author intends, as the author writes, and as the reader interprets.

No one of the three is more “correct” than the other.

I mean its not even too late for this to happen starting like right now 2025, right?

No, it’s not. The US, and increasingly the rest of the western world, is infected by a bunch of politicians who think ‘1984’ is an instruction manual rather than a cautionary tale.

IT being used to weaponize surveillance against the people is happening right now.

Yep. “1” is 12:00am on 1-Jan-1900

Numbers less than zero just give a weird error. Between zero and less than one give a nonsense date-formatted non-date.

The “late, great” Hannibal Lector.

That’s not an argument, that’s somebody who only looked at the cover of the cliff notes on presidential terms but didn’t read it.

Right, but he can’t read, so it can still be his position.

One is a perfect foil to a fat fascist politician and the other is the same.

And of course, anything passed by the normal legislative processes can just as easily be repealed that way.

Lasting change is going to require constitutional amendment(s) to harden the democracy against bad actors.

Is this a “what happens if we outlaw all News Organizations” situation, or a “What if the world evolved without News Organizations” scenario?

From there, the answer depends entirely on how you define “news” and “organization.”

Nobody would define aunt Sharon gossiping about her neighbor’s cat’s digestive issues as being a “news organization.” Almost everybody would define the New York Times, or CNN as one.

Between them lies a million shades of gray, and any distinction is going to be arbitrary.

In the “outlaw” scenario above, even the best attempts to define clear and unambiguous rules will just lead to gamesmanship and disappointment.