Basically this. I will pay for good coverage and news that doesn’t normalize insane bullshit.

I like your last point. The American people long ago fell asleep at the wheel. We either gobble up propaganda and vote for his insanity or don’t think it matters and sit out. Chickens are coming home to roost.

I’d argue the people who thought their smug self righteousness was more important are shit myself.

But hey, now we all get to live in this hell right? Or not live I guess.

I think we should stop using their terms.

Llms spout BULLSHIT half the time. They don’t hallucinate. They confidently state incorrect garbage.

What gets me is there is still people supporting this. I find it hard to imagine how we’ll ever progress given we can’t even agree on the problems to be solved.

Given how it’s amended I’m OK with it not. Seems to me it’d only get worse at this moment.

Anecdotal but Lemmy seems full of germaphobes. It’s whatever but just my observation.

I’ve lived long enough and dealt with this without getting sick so I also don’t really care personally.

https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/stablecoin-giant-is-cryptos-fragile-foundation-2026-02-20/

Not necessarily. They can fail whenever and it seems they’re piling into more unstable assets like bitcoin vs treasury assets.

I wouldn’t trust it personally but that’s just me.

Mental shortcut to me is the easiest thing to look at.

It’s super easy to just default to something. It requires no thought, introspection, etc. Just a simple, quick answer that may or may not be right but you wouldn’t care.

So much of modern life is people defaulting to a lazy, easy option.

My response concerned the duopoly though. Graphene is still dependent on google regardless. They can’t maintain all of android themselves even if they tried. So it’s the best of a bad situation but does nothing to alleviate the overall problem.

We somehow always top ourselves. Sadly enough.

The similarity to the wall street protests is exactly what comes to mind for me. At a certain point you need actionable goals and them to be clearly known.

If China wasn’t dealing with unknowns in their military due to corruption I think they definitely would. Still might.

Is magic earth Foss? Im not entirely sure but they at least do traffic.

The problem is graphene is entirely dependent on one arm of that duopoly though.

Tunarr? https://tunarr.com/

I thought there was something else too but I don’t recall it. I see a Claude. MD in the repo which makes me sus but unsure how vibe coded this is or not.

I don’t want an EV. I want vastly improved public transit.

That’s really the problem. There weren’t enough interested people during the election and they STILL are mostly checked out.

It’s really depressing just knowing you’re at the mercy of the ignorant and the apathetic because they just clearly outnumber everyone who sees all this for what it really is.

Email.

Bunch of open source projects.

I see no reasons not to as long as you have backups. Email can be moved, files, calendar, etc.