Those people look just like you'd expect
Meanwhile they imagine farming works like Minecraft
The West has fallen
At least all those weird MS Paint scribbles of a pregnant Sonic the Hedgehog or whatever were expressing some kind of human impulse
Trained on DeviantArt
we need to make sure that we can deter the Russians or the North Koreans or whoever to attack us
Man I'm so glad my clownshoes Nazi sidekick country joined this fucking shitshow
lmao, I had someone tell me that Ukrainians would prefer death to the horror living in a Belarus-style Russian satellite state
Also liberals sincerely believe Russia is going to exterminate every last Ukrainian if they win because Putin wants "Lebensraum." Someone literally said this to my face
The tiny little Russians have infiltrated every coal plant in Europe!!!
Tell Euros climate change is caused by tiny little Russians in the atmosphere and they'll pledge 15% of their GDP to stop it
I hear "CO2-turned protein" and I imagine chicken nuggets conjured from car exhaust fumes
At a job fair in Berlin, the Bundeswehr, Germany's armed forces, has set up a recruiting booth staffed by Marco Mann, who has recruited at fairs like this for 18 years. He says the German public's attitude toward its armed forces is improving.
"I never used to hear 'Thank you for your service' from others, but that's starting to change," he observes. "People now are thanking us for our support of Ukraine, thanking us for being here — it's a nice change."
I did not expect to run into Bored Ape t-shirts in a Finnish dollar store in the year 2025
I'm calling for a total ban on glass containers until people learn to clean up after themselves 
Just move to Lemmy
The techbro asswipes that run Duolingo have been making a lot of noise about AI lately, boasting about how much they're going to use it while firing all of the actual human beings who used to make their lessons 
Their newest AI feature is a new lesson type called Video Calls where you chat with an AI bot in your target language. The bot asks you questions about basic topics and then does follow-up questions based on your answers while reacting and commenting on the stuff you say. It manages to kind of emulate the awkwardness of conversation practice in an actual language class with some rando you don't know too well
I've only done a few of these because it feels really weird and creepy talking to a cartoon character on your phone that's actually just a mask for an electricity-wasting corpo machine. Anyway, the AI just randomly brought up my pet that I mentioned a few weeks ago the last time I did one of these lessons. So yes, the Duolingo chatbot retains any information you disclose to it. Cool 
The kicker is that this shit is gated behind the Duolingo Max paywall which costs 170 bucks a year, or 13 bucks a month (I run a modded apk with unlocked paid features, I'm not paying a cent for a fucking app)
Edit: I actually wouldn't be opposed to paying for an app, it's the subscription model I'm vehemently opposed to. I will never rent an app or program
What's this world coming to? Is nothing sacred? 
The names you see on old gravestones are a hoot
"Eufrosyne"
Instead, you get a new feed with the channel's videos in reverse chronological order broken up by a selection of shorts
You have to click a link on that page to actually visit the channel
I got a new (second-hand) bike this week. It's got swept back handlebars and I just don't like them after riding with them for a few days. It feels like I'm holding onto a zimmer frame and I hate how I have to hold my arms to the sides 
I wanna replace em with cool, non-lame handlebars like these 
l will almost certainly need longer cables for my brakes and shifters though. How much of a pain in the ass would swapping out the cables be?
An increasing percentage of animal-related shorts seem to be reposted content with an AI narrator spouting completely made-up bullshit clearly written by someone for whom English is a second language at best
One video mashed together several random videos featuring the same type of animal while the narration tried to pass it off as some heart-warming clickbait story about one individual animal
Remember that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where the Nazi with the glasses grabs the hot medallion
I was reminded of it after I absent-mindedly grabbed a cast iron pan that had come out of the oven just five minutes earlier