hey jackass, the reason food farmers have a harder time making a profit than ones who make wine is because rich people pay a ton for wine as a status symbol while actively making things worse for most farmers by forcing them to sell to massive companies that dont pay them

i said intended to be funny. for example, the 67 meme is not funny. it is intended to be funny though, and like most new memes recently is intended to be funny mainly by referencing how it otherwise isn’t funny. theres a guy on yt shorts (I think the channel is etymologynerd or smth similar) who explains it a lot better.

there are also memes (meaning the kind intended to be funny on the internet in this case) which dont use images at all but are just a recurring reference or something like that. it is largely the same idea as the original meaning of the term but on the internet it generally refers to things that are intended to be funny (in recent years, usually through self-reference as a result of algorithm-based social media).

if you actually read the comment, I didnt say that anything was not a meme. what I said was that the person I was replying to was ignoring the other meaning of the word which, because of context, is clearly the relevant meaning in this case.

the word meme gained a second definition on the internet, which is similar to the first but focused on specifically things intended to be funny. because context is a part of language whether you like it or not, that meaning is the one that is being used any time you see the word on the internet unless otherwise specified or unless the context in which you’re seeing it is one where the other is more appropriate (like a discussion about linguistics or the spread of ideas).

there are a couple microblogmemes communities and whitepeopletwitter (and similar) communities, but the ones on .world have terrible moderation.

i hate that microblogmemes allows people to just post anything from any microblog platform. they always justify it with “well a meme is actually just a self-replicating idea” which is technically true, but it ignores the meaning the term ‘meme’ has on the internet, which is basically just an image based joke that plays off of internet culture in general, typically including previous memes. in the context of a scientific field like linguistics or phycology, the first definition makes more sense. in the context of an internet group with no scientific interest, the second is obviously correct. also they always use that excuse when they are posting US politics instead of memes, which is bullshit because there are communities for politics and political memes. dont make off-topic posts, go post it in a community where it is relevant.

can I drink an ungodly amount of tea instead?

i trust them more than google. they’ve been a little sketchy lately (bc of the ai stuff, not the ceos political stuff) but at least only one entity has my data this way. I’d rather self-host but i can’t rn.

its a console without the insane locked down interface. its a computer without the need to fiddle with stupid technical stuff that should just work. its linux without the need to learn all the things you think you just always knew about other systems but actually had to learn and aren’t willing to anymore.

now I’m generally a centrist but tell me more

you’d be pessimistic too if you lived under the tsardom and then the ussr. poor guys havent had good leadership in like 500 years.

the dogs we still have (rip the others) were free on Facebook marketplace and they are texas heelers. i love these dogs.

ive looked at that, but its really more an issue of phones not using generic hardware and therefore needing to be entirely reverse-engineered before they can have all of their features used, and by the time thats done they’re too old.

it was almost a thing but the kickstarter failed (despite huge interest). Ubuntu touch is a thing but its not really suitable.

honestly I just want the same install and use experience as fedora KDE gives me on my laptop. ive installed all kinds of goofy rice-esque stuff but the system itself has been entirely out of my way since install.

definitely 3

i cant wait for mobile Linux to be ready, I will switch in a heartbeat.

I thought none if what Texas has was classified as arid dessert, mb. i chose hill country because I’ve never really spent much time in west Texas and it was the closest to a desert that I was familiar with, and I didn’t express that correctly.

this is pretty my family’s view on this stuff (except some of the grandparents but theres not much to do but wait there). Texas has some very loud people that are all kinds of *ists and *phobics but the majority of people are much more along the lines of “the fuck that got to do with me”. I’ll skip the more political bits (bc its off topic here) but I bet if we could get rid of America’s two party system Texas would instantly tell both parties to fuck all the way off.

also, Texas is not a desert. this is unrelated but its a common misconception. the closest we have to a desert is hill country which is in central Texas and is not a desert.