People do that. Like kids talking about their favorite baseball team. The same focus on things that move them to the core, while having no effect on to their life apart the place they willingly give them.

Looks like they hit the nail strong and sharp on this one. I am still using my 2019 Nokia which does not look like it’s going bust anytime soon. Too bad, I would have loved to use the FF6

European cheese villages, unite!

Roquefort is indeed a nice village in south-western France

Yeah, I sorta shortcuted my comment. Happens all the time

Yeah, it got hot for a moment

I use NewPipe, all YT links are redirected to NP app. It is flawless.

I don’t see your point. I am using a front end that feeds me YT content without ever opening the YT app that I actually disabled. You don’t have to use YouTube.

You don’t have to use YouTube

Asimov wrote a short story about exactly that: Liar

Well, they could partner with Fairphone to develop and sell products in North America

The MAGA crowd are today’s brown shirts. US democracy won’t survive this term.

Both conditions can coexist, they are not necessarily exclusive alternatives.

That’s some quality shower thought!

Yoy’re raising super cheap retro handhelds, I am raising the one and only analog retro handheld!

Yep, I wonder what would happen in the US if gas was suddenly taxed 50% up (much more than the yellow vests case, but it is a thought exercise)

One could argue that the Church had been extremely efficient at manufacturing consent for centuries. It was still the case for most of French society in the late 1780s. It also led to a civil war between Revolutionaries and traditionalists (including peasants).

Yet if you keep the comparison until present times, you can only acknowledge the fact that the French once again rioted very violently and for months back in 2018-20. The “yellow vests” were mostly lower-income workers from far away suburbs and villages. Facebook let them organize and have a real impact on national politics and policy.

But this is Lemmy. I thought this place allowed people to exchange about important topics.

These eruptions can eject more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of material into the atmosphere Sounds like a good way of rapidly decreasing global temperatures!