Basically this. I will pay for good coverage and news that doesn’t normalize insane bullshit.

I’d argue the people who thought their smug self righteousness was more important are shit myself.

But hey, now we all get to live in this hell right? Or not live I guess.

Anecdotal but Lemmy seems full of germaphobes. It’s whatever but just my observation.

I’ve lived long enough and dealt with this without getting sick so I also don’t really care personally.

https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/stablecoin-giant-is-cryptos-fragile-foundation-2026-02-20/

Not necessarily. They can fail whenever and it seems they’re piling into more unstable assets like bitcoin vs treasury assets.

I wouldn’t trust it personally but that’s just me.

Mental shortcut to me is the easiest thing to look at.

It’s super easy to just default to something. It requires no thought, introspection, etc. Just a simple, quick answer that may or may not be right but you wouldn’t care.

So much of modern life is people defaulting to a lazy, easy option.

My response concerned the duopoly though. Graphene is still dependent on google regardless. They can’t maintain all of android themselves even if they tried. So it’s the best of a bad situation but does nothing to alleviate the overall problem.

Is magic earth Foss? Im not entirely sure but they at least do traffic.

The problem is graphene is entirely dependent on one arm of that duopoly though.

Which is why they do it. Stock markets don’t like idle money. For all they wasted here they made it back anyway. They’ll do it again with some other bullshit too.

That’s really the problem. There weren’t enough interested people during the election and they STILL are mostly checked out.

It’s really depressing just knowing you’re at the mercy of the ignorant and the apathetic because they just clearly outnumber everyone who sees all this for what it really is.

I mean, there’s plenty of non voters who guzzle up bullshit too.

I think it is a big shift honestly. Before he would pretend to give a shit, etc.

Between this and “yeah, some people will die” he’s not even making an effort anymore.

To me that is saying something. Precisely what I’m not sure but it’s a marked change.

You’d think but shiftphone, fair phone, others all abandoned it and thus lost my business at least.

Big disagree here. Still offer a jack, SD card, etc. Worth way more to me than a high end processor that I don’t use any more than a mid range one.

More to save the car industry than the planet, surely.

Im more interested in why we aren’t excoriating Republicans. They can end this all today.

I have one. It’s honestly not bad. The only thing it could use is 8GB RAM and not 4. Otherwise it’s perfectly good for my uses. Seems quick enough, has a jack, etc.

Would rather his intern run for president based on the posts.

I’ve been fooled by this before.

Somehow Texas always sends the Republicans back into office.

Maybe those people should take their disapproval straight into the voting booth during the primaries.