Fair enough, I just disagree. Gaining independence seems to me like a positive thing worth celebrating. I’m happy whenever I see an ex-colony celebrating their day.

Not saying we Americans don’t take it a little far, but hey, it’s the one day where you can be patriotic without that creepy vibe.

Independence day celebrations are not unique to America.

I wonder what environments Americans dream of like maybe more like large roads or suburban type environments. Maybe more rural/warm nature type environments. (I guess it also heavily depends where you are from like city vs rural)

Here I am, as an American, dreaming of smaller roads and walkable cities.

Grass is always greener, maybe.

With the help of gravity!

The only reason I started using cases is because they made the latest Pixels so low friction that they refuse to stay put on most surfaces.

Didn’t know shrubs could use the Internet.

Maybe better to link the source article on this one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

I’ve been on the receiving end of these. It’s such a monumental time waster. All the reports look legit until you get into the details and realize it’s complete bullshit.

But if you don’t look into it maybe you ignored a real report…

Contributors is my favorite metric. It shows that there are lots of eyes on the code. Makes it less likely of a single bad actor being able to do bad things.

That said, the supply chain and sometimes packaging is very opaque. So it almost renders all of that moot.

Article doesn’t name the agent, nor go into any useful detail.

They run the closest mirrors to me. Would be a shame to see them go.

Square, because otherwise the dimples wouldn’t be uniform.

Also, square plates are better.

That’s just chaos.

Pizza is primarily a bread first. Toppings are only an enhancement of said bread. And if the bread sucks, the whole pizza sucks and no combination of toppings will save it.

The only real change was how open those assholes felt they could be. Doubt they increased or declined at all. They just got platformed.

Kind of. All you need is fat and lye. Some experimenting would need to be done but I’m somewhat confident I could figure it out.

And you could make a living selling it. Assuming you can convince people of its benefits.

I’d make some fucking soap.

That I was a republican. The teacher gave out this political alignment quiz that was incredibly biased asking things like “do you like lower taxes or higher taxes?” and “do you like more freedom or less freedom?” All the questions basically lead you to the same answers. So the entire class basically had the same result.

This was in middle school so I wasn’t even politically engaged yet. I didn’t realize how crazy this was until years later.

Electrical circuits are ridiculous. And it’s just interconnected circuits upon circuits spanning the globe. A device in Montana is physically connected to a device in California through an unbroken (ignoring transformers) series of wires.

The fact that we got materials to move electrons from a hundred miles away to do things like calculate 3d shapes for entertainment is insane.