2026 Glass Half Full Award:

They don’t have to move their mattresses, he explains, because they don’t have any — the boys sold them when they needed money. Instead, they sleep on a bamboo mat on the floor and share a blanket

At an average return of 7 percent – extremely conservative in this day and age and in the context of the mega rich – having 1 000 billion dollars will make you 70 billion dollars in a year without lifting a finger.

So yeah.

Maybe I should have worded it differently. I’d wager that Lemmy, as is, is very few Lemmy users’ ideal platform, mainly because it’s very small. For instance, while it is a filter bubble of sorts, the small user base makes it hard to filter content to your preference. It’s more or less a take it or leave it proposition.

May I’m projecting, but at least I’m here seeking refuge from algorithmic enshitification, not necessarily the mixture of Linux memes and random politics I’m getting.

Not saying I hate it – many things I’m very fond of – just that it’s not all that I want in a platform (as is).

You’re not wrong, but a difference is that most lemmings don’t really want to be here, i.e are in exile and pretty up front about that. I’m not saying it isn’t an echo chamber, but it’s a much messier one than Bluesky.

We’ll burn more and more coal to power air conditioners to deal with unbearable global warming until that’s no longer possible.

The financial markets are the same. No reasonable person believes any of this is sane or sustainable. But what happens when the music stops? Very few chairs.

They’re basically Swedes under occupation by Moomin trolls

It’s a mystery to me why so many apparently serious investors are treating it like anything other than a scam.

Enter the assumption that serious investors basically consider the entire bubble/market a scam, and it becomes less of a mystery.

Reminder that, when I say that I’m technically not fucking any supermodels right now, it doesn’t imply that I actually am.

This gets glossed over too often, the US lacks any credibility, across the board. They’ve skipped right past the marrying your horse phase of civic collapse.

It’s plain as day and nobody gives a shit. Stunning.

To my mind, Russia is just ahead of the curve — it’s a country that underwent wholesale collapse in the 90’s and was ultimately stabilized by Putin and his oligarchs molding the ruins of the Soviet empire to their benefit.

Now the US is teetering on collapse as well, with dollar hegemony drawing to an end and global financial markets in some kind of a hissy fit to reshuffle wealth before the music stops for the AI bubble (and ultimately the real economy crumbling from climate destabilization).

Elon Musk soon becoming a trillionaire is the fourth horseman of the capitalist apocalypse. I have very little faith in the reasoning of anybody who cannot see that a failed car salesman and notorious lunatic being the richest person in the world – by a wide margin – is a sign of an economic system that is profoundly unwell.

Sadly, I think Trump and Putin may be previews for what’s to come when the oligarchs of world use the chaos to impose a new economic order, based on AI surveillance and severe policing of those not ”loyal” to the nebulous interests of the government(s). To my mind, it’s unlikely to be harmonious or pleasant to those in the ever expanding, bottom rung of societies like that.

I mean, they kinda already did a decade ago.

Some people have multiple personalities, debilitating gambling compulsions or think that the third Godfather movie was the best in the series. We draw different lines for what is crazy all the time.

Going deep in debt to, willfully, be in an exploitative relationship with a predatory mega corporation that regurgitates your childhood memories over and over, strikes me as clinically bat shit.

Disney adults don’t even have to leave the house to fully commune with their favorite corporation in the flesh because they can live full-time in a branded city. For a million dollars or two, you can buy a sprawling house at Cotino, a 618-acre gated community in Rancho Mirage, California — the first in Disney’s Storyliving venture, which is developing master-planned suburban developments throughout the United States.

But yeah, different strokes, I guess.

krasnov only gets you basic access. For admin privileges you need to sign in with putin.

Thanks!

So “apt-dist-upgrade” then? Sorry if obtuse.

Super hot take time: giving the bull a chance to go out swining isn’t that much worse than having it put down ”humanely” in a factory, spending it’s last time in a line that reeks of blood.

The real crime is against entertainment. Who am I supposed do be rooting for here? Apparently not the underdog that’s outnumbered and surrounded by a bunch of dirty spaniards with swords and near zero chance of winning.

Who watches this? Seriously!

Not sure if it will make a difference to you if I say that I’m not from USA.

Yes, in the sense that I find it mindboggling that anyone outside the US would be impressed with Trump’s domestic opposition.

Dude, your governement is verbatim (!) talking about killing whole civilzations.

The ratio of Americans that would take the risk of imporisonment or individual harm VS Americans that will risk their lives and die for killing babies (for no apparent reason) basically remains 0 : ∞.

It’s the most armed and violent country in the civilzed world and still it remains perfectly safe to be an operative of the fucking apocalypse.

What recent months have thaught us is that there are only two types of Americans: those that will actively fuck over the world and those that will them.

Trump cannot be undone by Americans, because they all either actively or passively support and enable him. The only possible solution is foreign intervention. Since European leaders are just as useless as the Americans and the Chinese have their own insane imperialist ambitions, I guess we’re all shit out of luck.