Guns are a great example under “accepting we’re mortals in an ugly world”, actually. Nobody is seriously claiming they’re going away, but the way they’re talked about by the left, you would think undoing a technology is on the table.

I mean, you can still want more gun control, and most other nations have gone that way, but the only people mentioning they’ll still be around in some way tend to be on the right - because that’s ugly.

For example: the US flag. It has become a stereotype in the US that if you fly an American flag on your house or car, you are a conservative/right-wing nationalist. “America bad” is a lefty stereotype for good reason.

Fun fact, it was leaking into Canada for a while. Unnecessary maple leafs meant you probably didn’t like vaccines or Trudeau. Then you guys (well, Trump; we know there’s another party) talked about annexing us and made patriotism neutral again. Thanks?

January 6th was a weapons demonstration, not a real attempt at coup.

That’s an interesting way of looking at it, although I’m not convinced it wasn’t just stupidity on their part. The right also have hangups that will self-correct, in their own way.

That’s kind of what I was going to say about tribalism as a force, too. Nobody turns their noses up at an Irish name today, and nobody will be impressed by lifted pickups and ill-informed scriptural references in the future. The idea of elected representatives has been around for centuries, though.

Caring about tech issues seems more like a gen X/Millennial thing to me. Most of gen Z hasn’t figured out the problem yet; most older people just see a magic box. Obviously there’s exceptions at both ends.

Edit: And gen Alpha might be old people all over again in a different way. We’ll see.

Conservative-coding of things that are actually just healthy personality balance is a real thing. Bravery, duty and basic acceptance we’re mortals in an ugly world also come to mind.

There’s enough history written down to say for sure it’s going to self correct. Hopefully not in the “everyone like that went to a camp, but some of their ideas found a new audience a century later” way.

You must have a very left-leaning sample of boomers.

Yeah, I’m still not used to those either.

Since this is Lemmy, I’m required to ask if you’ve considered a custom ROM.

Another vote for Rexodus.

Maybe the latest discovery by Dragonfly.

Far fewer people will be able to read it, without doing something illicit and maybe expensive, although certain countries will still be free enough. On the other hand, it (or PieFed or a future version) could be endorsed by the remaining nations, or just have had some more exoduses of users come in.

Slight chance the AI winter we’re going into is short and some specific fusion with classical algorithms succeeds at AGI, so singularity stuff is going on and being posted about. 2038 problem, as someone else mentioned.

Edit: Q-day stuff could be done, coming soon or ongoing. If it’s done - which I kinda expect - it’s still a massive source of both breaches and fun mods on old, locked software and hardware.

Allowing calls to proliferate in the first place and be addressed would indicate some level of free speech.

5% sounds high just by how things are, and how little people understand what it is. I’d buy 1%, though, and that’s something.

Trump is right that Canada in between the lower 48 and Alaska is border gore. But there’s another solution…

Probably, LLM-based will sound like web-enabled at that point - a dusty old buzzword. They’ll have something newer and shinier even if it’s still an LLM inside.

The drones giving migrants a scan first is on the optimistic side, if things go at all how they seem to be.

If the composition of Lemmy is even remotely the same that will be everywhere.

I shouldn’t.

Rereading that article makes me wonder if it’s a rod-related thing, since it’s only noticeable at night under dark skies, and apparently they can contribute to colour perception in those cases as well.

I think I can see more colours in the stars than most people. I can also tell the northern lights are coming up earlier, so probably just low-light cone sensitivity.

A wasp died in a vent a bit ago and it smelled awful to me, but nobody else could perceive it at all.

I have a different reason, but just a nice sturdy brush, and the hard edge to scrape anything stuck on.

Kitchen sponges are basically the dirtiest thing in your house, by amount and harmfulness of bacteria contained. It might just be something one of the species gives off.

Also notice that Lemmy is actually multiple sites connected together, so there might be more than one of each community, which can be confusing at first.

Other ones on other instances, too.

Not in an apartment right now, but I do tend to absentmindedly slam things. Sorry, I don’t mean to be loud.