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- Comment on Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other? 1 day ago:
I never knew B&T to say that phrase. Their faves were always “Party on, dudes” and the like.
I’m pretty sure Wayne’s World skit on SNL in the mid 80’s is where the phrase was born.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 days ago:
Ah, a change.org petition . I eagerly await the sweeping improvements to life abroad.
- Comment on 42 US states support call for social media warning labels 2 months ago:
Because children are so well known for their strict adherence to warning labels.
- Submitted 2 months ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Sail The Fediverse With Tuba Client for Linux 3 months ago:
“Mastodon instance, and more*.”
There’s no more, it’s a just another Mastodon client, a connection to other Fediverse systems like Lemmy are not provided.
- Comment on The people left behind when the automakers abandon a city. 3 months ago:
I disagree but we’ll revisit the conversation in a decade as I added the task to my calendar so I’ll talk to you in 2034.
- Submitted 3 months ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Senators Expose Car Companies’ Terrible Data Privacy Practices. 3 months ago:
The senators were not the ones that exposed anything.
- Comment on We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny 3 months ago:
The John Doe profiles were set up in April as generic 24-year-old males
Does the fact that they only used dummy male accounts and didn’t bother to find out what women are subjected to represent the authors’ own misogyny? Perhaps The Guardian should look at cleaning it’s own house up before finding dirt on others’.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It wouldn’t surprise me if Twitter is pushing it due to it being proven that outrage boosts engagement. Facebook has been doing that for years.
- Comment on Leaked Windows 11 "Government Edition” that has no telemetry tracking or bloatware is actually FAKE 4 months ago:
Appreciate the capital letters so we know what words are important, WindowsCentral.
- Comment on The ErgO Ring Makes Computer Interactions Comfortable 4 months ago:
It looks like its goal is to make everything less comfortable, not more.
- Comment on American Pride Remains Near Record Low 4 months ago:
Doubtful that it will be for us, we’re fairly well insulated from the goings on around us, income/Bureaucracy wise.
- Comment on American Pride Remains Near Record Low 4 months ago:
Not only am I embarrassed by the US and it’s inhabitants, my family has been planning an international move for some time. Once we are no longer caring for the elders in the family, we will make our exit stage right.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Its not weird to you and as you said, nothing untoward is occurring so I don’t see a reason to stop. I wouldn’t share with peers though for obvious reasons. The small-minded would have a field day.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It sank in 1912. Length of time is relative.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
The statement is completely age dependent. Not too long ago(before the movie), it was pretty newsworthy any time the next group reported that they were trying to find it.
- Comment on Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA 4 months ago:
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
threads
I came to lemm.ee solely for it’s defederation from threads. If they ever choose to federate, I’ll move again.
I’m not going to shit on you, you seem pretty nifty. I think you’re right, as well. Many people have forgotten how to disagree with someone and now just regurgitate catch-phrases at each other. I’ve been working on improving that myself. It’s like reversing brainwashing or reconditioning. It’s been hard-wired into us at this point by the social network scene.
- Comment on Reddit And Lemmy Alternatives 4 months ago:
AOL chatrooms
- Comment on Chat AI GPT Free - Unlimited AI Chatbot and AI Tools 4 months ago:
What a great ad.
- Comment on Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI 5 months ago:
This is moree appropriate sitting a boring dystopia with this one: feddit.nl/post/16883082
- Comment on People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? 5 months ago:
I know and consider those to be squarely on the fringe.
- Comment on People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? 5 months ago:
I don’t think major manufacturers ever will make them. We’ll continue to get one-off kickstarter-esque fringe phones that’ll keep the most devout Luddite happy and the rest of us will buy what we are offered whether we want a dumb phone or not.
- Comment on Google has an idea to prevent phone scams, but it'll mean allowing its AI to listen in on your calls 6 months ago:
Given the rarity in which I use my phone as a phone, they can knock themselves out with the bot call hangups that make up almost 100% of my call logs.
- Comment on Not only is this not how anyone writes, I do not understand why anyone would want to read anything that sounds anything like this 6 months ago:
I know Adam Smith. He’s John Doe’s cousin.
- Comment on Russia-linked network uses AI to mass-produce misinformation, modifying content from legitimate sources and tailoring political messages with specific biases, security researchers say 6 months ago:
I’m well insulated from the threat thanks to not reading any news source.
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 6 months ago:
No, I reordered the items, then returned without requesting refund, as some helpful commenter suggested here while you were writing your epic diatribe.
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 6 months ago:
Thanks very much, that’s what we ended up doing. We just reordered the canceled items and then returned them with the “no refund needed” option chosen.
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 6 months ago:
lol, calm down there, captain commenter. You’re going to blow a gasket.