Holy Fuck! All these dudes saying the Waymo freakout (over shut down traffic lights), is a "Cool experiment!"

Fuck these dudes! This is a real city, with real people, and some of them need ambulances that these fucked up rob-taxis may have blocked.

This is a city, full of real living and breathing people. Not some simulation or petri dish.

Fuck off with your stupid shit!

Black outs are bad enough, without tech-bro shit fucking things up even more!

#swearing

Joined #Fedi and Bsky on the same evening. Made basically the same intro post on both.

Woke to 67 followers on #Mastodon, several encouraging responses, and tons of faves/shares on intro post.

Bluesky: 1 follower, 1 reply, 5 faves, zero reposts.

Pretty evident where the real community is, wouldn't you say?

Thank you for the warm welcome! ❤️

So much for the "CO2 is good for plants' denialist argument.

"Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide

Researchers noticed ‘dramatic’ changes in nutrients in crops, including drop in zinc and rise in lead"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/19/higher-carbon-dioxide-food-more-calorific-less-nutritious-study

#ClimateChange

@pluralistic Every business is a bank now

Sorry your Iphone is bricked until you pay up

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/18/apple-becomes-a-debt-collector-with-its-new-developer-agreement/

NT government pulls funding for life saving medical treatments for children for no other reason than it likes to see children suffer.

The health minister said that it would only kill "a handful of young teenagers".

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-21/nt-government-defunds-puberty-blockers-gender-affirming-hormones/106167676

#NTPol

Trump lifts more sanctions on Putin:

This time companies delivering equipment to Putin’s war machine get taken of the US sanctions list.

You read that right: In the oval office sits a president who wants to help companies delivering equipment to the Russian military.

I truly hope the American people stop the Russian collaborator at the midterm elections in 2026.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/19/us-quietly-removes-sanctions-from-firms-accused-of-supplying-russias-military/

MAGA Boomer: At your age in 1970 I paid off college & bought a house with hard work.

Millennials: In 1970 college was 5% of median salary. Now it’s 44%. A median home was $24K. Now it’s $417K. The top marginal tax rate was 70%. Now it’s 37%. Sure maybe you did work hard—but then you closed the door behind you.