We live in the future! : programmer

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

But srsly to me it does feel like the future, because when I was a kid "by the year 2000" was synonymous with a glorious future of space hotels, undersea cities, moon bases... I can't believe we're a quarter of the way through the 21st Century and none of that has happened. On the plus side we did get really spiffy new ways to buy stuff we don't need with money we don't have, and fingertip access to pretty much all of human knowledge, which most of us ignore in our endless quest for entertainment. But oh well.

[–] FalcoLombardi1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

Fucked up thing is some of that has happened, but you need to have been born into generational wealth to be a part of those things. Ritchie Ricn is just moralisticly better version of Musk. Or at least a version less hooked on coach K

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

you dont have to put the meat on the sheet but at least put the sheet on the shelf below it

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 21 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Every time someone posts this meme, I feel compelled to add "forums for communists".

[–] WrathEnchanter@europe.pub 10 points 7 hours ago

Big Tech made Lemmy so that communists wouldn't organize in real life

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

But then the poll would make little sense, because forums for communists would win with 99.97% of votes...

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I wish the average person was as open minded as you're giving them credit.

[–] Leomas@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I think your priorities are in the wrong place if you think about "forums for communists" instead of "telegram channels with incel nazis".

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I interpreted it as them mentioning lemmy (since lots of lemmy users are communists or socialists of some flavor), but if they meant to complain I agree with you completely

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The former. Being subversive doesn't imply it's bad.

[–] Leomas@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Now I feel compelled to ask: Do you this meme is seriously asking for opinions on subversive innovations? Because I interpreted it as asking what is the most dystopian.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It appears to me that the meme is complaining about tech breaking laws, not soliciting opinions. In case this needs to be said, I'm using Lemmy because of its ability to resist (legal!) censorship, especially of long-overdue leftist speech.

[–] Leomas@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

And I hope you would agree nazis killing people are more dystopian than fucking larpers.

[–] GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Fake money for criminals helped me buy weed when I didn't have a local dealer. It's also how I pay for Mullvad. So fake money for criminals wins.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

I demand privacy, so I'm a criminal anyways

[–] QuantumStorm@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago

I miss when that was what the fake money was for instead of the bullshit broligarch grift.

[+] dismay3915@lemmy.world -6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"Fake money for criminals" is such a dumb, bootlicker thing to say.

Maybe most "1st world" people don't undersrand it yet but crypto (although most of it is scam, but the good ones like Monero) really enables international transactions and freedom of money and brings so much freedom to the people.

Scammers have ruined the image of cryptocurrenvies but there are actually useful currencies out there like XMR,LTC that are being used frequently for actuall services and products. Not just trading.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Found the ~~CryptoBro~~ Broligarch !

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 points 14 hours ago

The exposure of hotels using surveillance pricing. A room should cost a hunnert bucks a night. Not $100 or $150 or $200 or $250 etc., depending on which "app" you pray to. Am I right Trivago?

[–] Dack@programming.dev 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Why is everyone so toxic? If you wanna discuss something be nice. (Even if you think that the person you are discussing with is a complete idiot)

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[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 51 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Doorbell surveillance network
Self-service identity theft
State secrets betting house
Billionaire fan club fund

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

autonomous, moving surveillance network
activity detection across walls

[–] VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Very good additions.

I would add that the state-secrets betting houses are also more broadly insider-trading betting houses

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 20 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

fake money for criminals

I presume you must mean USD?

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