gru:Bz
Average millennial living life on the edge (of the Midwest). Probably too immature for Micro.blog but I like it here.
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Elon Musk is being sued by the feds over the way he bought Twitter - The Verge
It’s hilarious that this is even a news story. Like as if it will have any repercussions whatsoever for Elon. It’s no different than how Jack Smith decided Trump is absolutely 100% responsible for the Jan 6th insurrection and if he was anyone else he’d be serving hard time, but in reality he doesn’t even get a slap on the wrist. Instead he gets to run the free world into the ground.
It’s just a thing that happened followed by a bunch of meaningless media coverage that translates to static.
It makes for good filler in between multimillion dollar advertisements, but it’s no different than watching an episode of Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones on digital cable.
They could fine Elon Musk $100 billion and it would have absolutely no noticeable effect on his life or his power as an oligarch.
2024 Word of the Year Is “Rawdog” - American Dialect Society
The verb rawdog is defined as “to undertake without usual protection, preparation, or comfort.” While the word originated as a vulgar slang term referring to having sex without a condom, rawdogging ended up crossing over into mainstream usage for a wide variety of activities, like the travel trend in which a passenger sits through a flight without any distractions.
Hmmmmm 🤨
Crazy to think the golden age of streaming has already came and went before we even knew it. Now it’s all corporate mergers to make executives richer while regular people keep paying more and more for shittier service.
They’re turning the internet into cable tv.
Crypto Platforms Like Polymarket Now Taking Bets on Los Angeles Fire Devastation
Wow crypto bros have hit a new low o.O
A dumb week for Apple
We’re living in a surveillance state run by oligarchs, but the surveillance is mostly to serve you the finest targeted ads. We are in the dumbest possible timeline.
I don’t know why I’m surprised about anything anymore lol
🔗 What to know about Apple’s $95 million settlement of the snooping Siri case
🔗 Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration
Clay Aiken says it was crucial to come out when he did even though he lost half his fans
“It was the first decision I made as a father,” he said at the time. “I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn’t raised that way, and I’m not going to raise a child to do that.”
This is one reason I’m so open about my bisexuality even though I’m in a straight relationship. I could hide it to fit in better, but I’d rather be honest about who I am. Also some straight people like to say a lot of terrible shit when they think a gay isn’t in the room with them.
MAGA civil war pits Ramaswamy and Musk vs Cernovich and Loomer in immigration fight
Elon Musk’s X is the town square for the MAGA movement, and by stepping into that square and firmly criticizing American culture – while praising the immigrant work ethic and parenting model – Ramaswamy threw down a gauntlet.
I thought they’d at least make it into the White House before the real infighting started 🍿
Headlights seem a lot brighter these days — because they are
Although the human eye can adapt to a wide range of light from sunlight to darkness, it takes some time to adjust. Especially for aging eyes, LEDs can be too bright, too blue and too concentrated.
This has been driving me absolutely insane lately. The LED headlights are bad enough, but if you’re in the more… rural parts of ‘merica you also have dipshits in jacked up trucks covered in cheap LED light bars from Walmart tailgating you in the slow lane.
‘Malcolm in the Middle’ cast to reunite for new episodes
Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek are reuniting for a new four-episode run of “Malcolm in the Middle” for Disney+ — 25 years after the beloved sitcom first launched.
I love this show. Who doesn’t? Hoping the new episodes will be a little longer since there are only four of them but either way I’ll take it!
Will Luigi Mangione’s tipster get the $60K reward? It’s complicated
…it’s not guaranteed that any one individual will get the full $60,000, especially considering taxes and the possibility of the reward being split between multiple people.
NYPD officials said more than 400 tips came in during the five-day period, with about 30 of them proving useful about the gunman’s whereabouts
Never trust a cop lmao this thing is going to pay out like a class action lawsuit.
This Is How Political Violence Goes Mainstream
Experts have different theories as to what’s driving this, but many agree that we’re due for more acts of political violence before the trend dissipates.
The original title I saw in my RSS feed was “Luigi Mangione and the Era of Normie Extremism” before they immediately changed it lol. Wild how every big news outlet thinks they need to over analyze this into oblivion. “Normies” are sick of living in a world tailored to the wealthy. Simple as that.
NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’
In the game, called “Among Us,”
Only context you need 😂
The Onion’s Infowars Bid Gets Blocked
In a statement, an attorney for the families told The New York Times that they “remain resilient and determined as ever to hold Alex Jones and his corrupt businesses accountable for the harm he has caused.”
Alex Jones won’t be held accountable. He’s learned nothing from this legal battle considering he still talks shit about the Sandy Hook families every chance he gets. Half of our government is being replaced with the same kind of batshit crazy radical right conspiracy theorists as we speak.
‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year: ‘Something everyone agrees on’
Oxford University chose brain rot and the Macquarie Dictionary picked enshittification. I’m noticing a trend here 🤔
US Food and Drug Administration moves to ban red food dye
Red 3 is used in nearly 3,000 different food products, according to a database by one environmental health group, including Pez, Peeps, Betty Crocker’s products and Dubble Bubble chewing gum. Like other food dyes, it adds nothing of nutritional value and is used instead to add color to foods for marketing purposes.
I’ve always thought adding dye to everything we eat is dumb. Like how they add red dye to raw meat to make it look like it’s bleeding. o.O
…also Crystal Pepsi tastes the same as regular Pepsi. I’ll die on this hill.
Mariah Carey Denies That Her Holiday Video Is AI Slop, But We’re Not Convinced, for Obvious Reasons
The video…immediately felt off: the diva’s lips didn’t match up with her words, she was swaying strangely, and her perfectly-coiffed blonde hair was moving in peculiar ways.
Plot twist: Mariah Carey has been a robot all along 🤪
‘Hawk Tuah’ Creator Haliey Welch Criticized For Memecoin Launch After Price Crashes
I wondered why “hawk tuah” was trending across social media again. I didn’t even read this article; the title says it all. Literally every cryptocurrency ‘project’ follows the same process.
Build hype around a new coin which is literally just a copy of the 20,000 different ones that came before it.
Promise a bunch of people on twitter that you’ve locked your entire holdings for X amount of years because you have a long term vision for it. Tell everyone you haven’t sold a single coin and you don’t plan on it. At least not for the foreseeable future. You might have a staking plan to make your investors passive income until the end of time, maybe a NFT project or an airdrop in a year (or three) for all the diamond hand holders.
We’re all gonna make it!
You aren’t doing this to make a quick buck, you tell your investors. This is a real project with real world utility. It looks exactly the same as last week’s big meme coin but you promise everyone it’s truly unique and different. This is going to be the biggest transfer of wealth in history!!11!
Publish the official contract address so no one buys the wrong thing and gets scammed - remember - this is definitely not a scam but there are so many scammers out there who want to steal the generational wealth you’re about to make!
The coin goes live, the people who got in early dump on all the dipshits who are YOLOing their life savings into it, it crashes and you assure everyone that it’s all going to be fine. Crypto is a volatile market after all. We’re definitely all still going to make it, you just have to hold until the next phase of this cycle.
Sure, it’s possible to make a lot of money if you learn how to play the market and exploit the greater fool, but then you can do the same thing selling crack too.
Want to Try Tab Groups in Firefox? Here’s How
if you have upgraded to Firefox 133 you can manually enable tab groups to try it out. Just keep in mind it’s not enabled by default for a very good reason: it’s not finished!
I’ve wanted this for SO LONG. Might have to switch from Firefox ESR to try it out 👀
No, Trump Didn’t Nominate El Chapo as US Ambassador to Mexico
The fact that Snopes.com even felt the need to post this says a lot about the state of things 😅
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is much better without microtransactions
The original Pocket Camp has technically shut down, replaced by Pocket Camp Complete, which gets rid of all the in-app purchases in exchange for a one-time fee.
Love this! The microtransactions are the reason I couldn’t keep it installed on my phone for more than a day or two. It’s now $10 for the full game and it looks like it’ll go up to $20 next month, according to The Verge. Well worth the price in the name of de-enshittification.