I stood my ground on not using this useless software for like 10 years. If there was no in-game chat or voice I just didn’t, but almost all games where that is necessary have it.

How validated I feel as it crumples.

Because 3D printer owners not only get to feel validated about owning a 3D printer, but also get to help the community during these harsh times.

There’s a lot of people saying here that it’s cheaper to 3D print. It is not. Even if the claim of 5 cents a 3D printed whistle is true, and I don’t really believe it, it’s not hard to find bulk plastic whistles with the price dropping as low as 2 cents per unit.

Will providence ever come for a soul as lost as my own.

Hi, I recommend drugs. Possibly start with thc, but plenty of others if that doesn’t suit your need! I haven’t been a doomer in years.

I don’t recommend nicotine as that can increase doomer behavior.

Twice.

It took an innocent white man with a gun getting merc’d for the alarm to sound on these folk. Whatever it takes I guess, but that’s a sad lot considering all the rights violations and death toll prior.

It’s not. A general strike would mean potentially losing some of our comforts and we just aren’t ready to do that yet I guess. :/

Anyone going to make comment how this isn’t actually a general strike?

Evangelist Christians genuinely believe that “earthly knowledge” is pointless once you are saved and are at the gates of heaven, so yes.

I quit my job and am advocating for a general strike. A method that will have an actual effect. I will also inform people about methods of protest that are ineffective because there’s too much on the line here to be so soft. Not everyone is as privileged, or they think fascism coming for them and their families will not be as harmful as lost labor.

Look in the dictionary what Archaic means. No one upon the advent of the Internet used that definition, that you took a paragraph to describe, and is not what current users are trying to invoke. I don’t know what the fuck knowyourmeme.com is and don’t care to. All I’m saying is if I’m going to create something or post something, I better damn well have some thought process backing it up and not just posting silly screenshots that are gonna hit some massive likes on your chosen platform. Either that or GTFO.

I have certainly never been one of the “memes are just image macros” people, and obviously I’m not very open to accepting anything shared online as a meme. But there’s a certain spirit of posts in-between that just has more effort and thought put into it (even if it’s a shitpost) that I think there’s some, be it ironic, integrity in a post that should be upheld if communities on a forum such as lemmy are to prosper. Which is why I think OPs image is a high quality meme, because at least some thought went into it, unlike Sarah’s random thoughts on twitter.

For the same reason my blog post doesn’t belong in a News community, the effortless screengrabs don’t belong on a meme forum.

Still were privileged little shits whose mommy and daddy’s bought them edgy clothes so they could appear as counter culture.

I would also like to add that this is our fault as consumers for lapping up and becoming dependent on the smartphone and centralized Internet. (Though on the fediverse you are probably aware of that, but almost all of the content here originates from it).

Don’t worry, this animal wielding a stick is still incomprehensibly dumb enough that it still would look good on a barbecue.

I get why you would think that vegans would use this as a “see! I told you animals were complex!” but no one ever said they weren’t, just that they are tasty.

Fried chicken got a chuckle out of me. I refuse to let the right take away my crispy chicken identity!!

I came here to comment that this looks like AI and don’t want to be repetitive but I would reckon this is 100% AI.

They don’t say what they mean. People aren’t trying to portray the original archaic definition in their posts, they are trying to invoke the newer much more modern meaning of the word, and it’s disenchanting because if any social evolution is a meme then the word becomes arbitrary. “Memes” today are just images for pointless engagement on that train.

I genuinely don’t believe anyone who thinks this way is over the age of 20. Memes being funny pictures on the Internet is all they’ve ever known because they never had any other experience. No one had that talking point you quoted until recent years, and they regurgitate it just like they do with everything else on the web.

Okay I got one for you. The No Kings protests amounted to absolutely nothing and things have only gotten worse. From my experience it sounds like the person you’re replying to is more correct.