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that may be true, but for every hyperbolic asshole who says shit like that on the internet or tv, there are 500 quiet, reasonably sane multi-millionaires who know that global thermonuclear war is pretty fucking bad for business who just want to play golf and cheat on their wives who act as a countervailing force

You know, surveys show 100% of people polled about the future don’t have a fucking clue what the future holds.

BUT! Over half of respondents predicted the scary future, here’s a picture of a nuclear mushroom cloud

I truly can’t tell if you can mean this. You play games to see the 3D polygonal breast

yeah it fuckin sucks. you dont need to believe it or not, I swear to you (it also happened to my wife, Im a US citizen and she isn’t) this was in the dublin ireland departures when you go to the states. you actually go through immigration when youre still in ireland. so you go down an escalator to a specific part of the airport thats sectioned off from the rest for this. walking up to the desk, before i had a chance to take my passport out of my bag, while I was still about 10 feet away, he TSA agent said “hello [name]” they did the same thing to my wife. its disarming as youre not expecting it. there’s no knowing where in the line the facial recognition already took place. the idea you can consent/not consent is almost certainly purely theater.

I had a TSA agent say my name as I walked up to the booth. They 100% scanned me before I was in earshot of the agent.

I quite literally remember having teachers in elementary school teaching about the holocaust/hitler and asking the class if if they could foresee this happening in the US. Every kid shoot their head and chuckled assuredly, how absurd to even consider.

I still remember the look on Mrs. Begasto’s face of “oh yeah? so confident, I know something you don’t, I know the world in a way you are entirely naive to.” I didn’t understand why she felt that way, but I could tell she was certain about something I didn’t get. The closer we edge to a fearful, uneducated public thinking a bully king is what would be good for the country and the world the more I find myself thinking about Mrs. Begasto’s worried smirk.

isn’t that exactly what trimp is saying it’ll be like for america

No don’t misunderstand, if BB made a new phone I’d preorder. I just think this post couldn’t be more full of shit

yeah, me neither…

voip.ms has been great, and I was able to get help through the chat window basically immediately each time I needed it

there is no way this is legit, guys.

if you’re jonsing for the physical keyboard, I don’t hate the titan slim. Its no key2, but it types. you can install blackberry keyboard on it, also.

if you want a better, more private OS, I hear GraphineOS is quite good, and you can install it on a Pixel, then use the Clicks Keyboard case with it. https://www.clicks.tech/en/products/clicks-for-google-pixel

This post is silly.

fair enough :)

Well, this is a little unusual. I’ve marched in DC and attended more protests than I can count. Thanks for making assumptions though, its neat

no listen, the fediverse is good! you should try the fediverse!!

yeah thats totally fair, cause it doesn’t surprise me at all either

yeah look, that’s all a reasonable point of view.

I’m not trying to call you out, but I’d be curious as to what you have done personally to stand up to injustices that were doled out by the government of your own country.

I’ll also still stand by my original statement that it’s not useful to go on the internet and write “typical out-group person”, full stop.

yeah, no, of course. I get it, I just think statements like that are completely unhelpful

I’m not sure saying its typical of Russians is helpful. I know two Russian people and neither of them are blackmailing kids into performing terroristic acts.

I’m not defending Russia’s government nor the attitudes of many of the country’s civilians. I also have my own biases and prejudices that I’ve been working most of my life to extinguish.

I just don’t think it’s helpful to go on the internet and write “typical X, X’s are all the same” in essentially any situation.

you just outgrew it. same shit, different words of the day

when is the last time you were in Germany and spoke in English to someone under 30?