Well, I suppose he’s already one of the most unpopular politicians in history. Why not throw more things on the dumpster fire? Coming up next: Keir Starmer asks Parliament “What what so terrible about the poll tax then? Isn’t it time for another go at it?”. Meanwhile Rachel Reeves has started an investigation to find out if she can tax breathing.

Maybe it’s just all these years being stuck in this darkest timeline, but all that headline translates to in my mind is “Trump decides Putin is weak enough for him to have a go at re-negotiating his pee-pee tape deal with him”. Putin will either push back or fold and when he does then Trump will just “change his mind about Ukraine” again. So to summarise… meh.

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Breaks at 8:37 if you’re curious 🙂 :::

Weird to jump the gun like that. Should probably have waited a bit till you’re 100% sure. I guess there must be huge pressure to re-gain control of the narrative right now. This has rattled them for sure. Will it lead to less violent and aggressive rhetoric in politics? Sure would be nice…

Questioned and released. Not involved apparently.

I’m at the “Happy with Windows, thanks” stage.

Wow… there’s already labels for the sides that would fight each other: “Accelerationists” and “Doomers”. I really hope that’s not a road we all end up going down for real. Would make interesting fiction though!

Just wait till someone turns AI worship into a literal religion. I’m kinda surprised it hasn’t already started happening. That would be a heck of a turning point for humanity. Just takes someone to train an AI into thinking it’s a God and then we really are done.

See, this is why I keep struggling when I’m telling someone about something I heard on here and they ask if it was on reddit

“No… it was on erm… well… it’s this other place. It’s not reddit… thank God it’s not reddit but it’s called erm… well it was Mbin and then that shut down and then it was kbin and now I’m on fedia.io but actually it’s lemmy… but it’s part of the fediverse… I think? it’s… yeah it’s like reddit basically but it’s not… anyway this asteroid is going to zip by the earth later today. Here’s a live youtube page that’s tracking it” 🤣

This feels like the sort of thing a scumbag boss would make a giant print of and hang in an office where he underpays everyone and forces them to work a 60 hour week. I have had bosses like this. I once had a boss force everyone in his little sweatshop business (hidden in a basement in the UK) to write him a grovelling letter begging for their job. He demanded this by speakerphone from his office on the other side of the world. He would have loved this cartoon.

What is giant head Tom Hanks doing to Meg Ryan??

The thing about climate change that most governments seem to want more than anything, is for us ordinary people to know that it’s our fault it’s happening, not theirs. Decades of gaslighting just to make sure we all feel the climate is going crazy because we didn’t individually recycle enough.

Maybe the reveal will be that it was made entirely with AI? Shenanigans vibes for sure…

This seems deliberately bad. It kind of reminds me of those games designed to prove a point about Steam or something “HAHA Nobody saw the trick I was playing on them. I made this game in 20 minutes and thousands of people wishlisted it.” That sort of thing? I could be wrong though. Just feels like it’s something along those lines.

Quick update apparently 5 days later, I’ve now played 55 hours of this… Such an addictive game! 😁

“Ukraine’s Zelenskyy”? Phew I’m so glad they specified the country. I thought they were talking about my local postman for a minute. What’s old Barnaby Zelenskyy done now, I wondered.

Yeah, mine would be the same, with an added bit describing how by the time I left I had gotten trapped in an inescapable cycle of toxic posting and was actually very grateful for the mod wars giving me the lever I needed to get out and stay out. On that note I just wanted to also say how genuinely thankful I am to the multi named beast that is Fedia.io/Mbin/Kbin/Lemmy/PieFed for giving me a much nicer place to exchange thought noodles with others 😁

I would have said Super Mini Mart when I started this thread but then @Kolanaki mentioned Supermarket Simulator and I’ve been playing it ever since (13hrs so far lol). It’s got a few issues out of the box, including some oddly loud chirpy bird sounds but also has such an active nexus mod community that you can pretty much fix anything you want that you don’t like in it (including those damn birds😆). Id’ say give either that or Super Mini Mart a go. The inKonbini prologue demo is great too.

I just bought Supermarket Simulator and played it for 5 hours straight. It’s so addictive!! 😆 That birdsong gets on your nerves after a while but I saw there’s a mod that removes it so I’ll try that tomorrow.

That looks pretty cool actually and I’ve just seen you can get self checkout tills too. Might have to give it a try. Not a big fan of them adding crime though. I used to run a shop a few years ago and crime was never a fun thing to have to deal with.