MonkeMischief

That is REALLY nice.

Let's have that, but a full-blown pocket Linux machine with a decent resolution and a cell-modem and let's gooo!

The term "internet appliance" is pretty awful though lol.

I think you're taking it too lightly.

Sorry, there was no way I could find to phrase that without it reading sarcastically but sincerely, I wasn't trying to downplay your insights!

I was being mildly sarcastic, but also totally serious, in that the birthright of Millenials and onward has been on the "and find out" end of eroding social safety nets and a generally declining civilization.

The idea of living in peace without constantly playing the "weather the next socioeconomic crisis" roguelike dice game is basically a foreign concept at this point. (To anybody who must work for a living.)

• "Oh wow, what a major recession! The worldwide economy sucks! There's no jobs! Groceries are expensive! Bosses are kings! Wages are frozen!" (Which year, amirite?)

• "Wow these natural disasters are crazy! Look, the water catches fire! Woah, everyone's full of plastic!"

• Hey that thing there was a steady supply of? Everybody's freaking out and ready to fight over it.(Jobs, toilet paper, gasoline, twinkies, silicon, whatever.)

• "Hey everything was alright for a while! Workers are winning raises and sick days! But corpos complain and fire everybody to make line go up. Unemployment at record highs again. Here's 42 ways to suck up to your boss and beg to keep your income."

• "Haha wow we were SURE that plague was extinct."

• "Rents skyrocketing. Nobody's having children. People who want them are increasingly infertile. People who don't, make it an entire political identity.

• (Insert the entirety of 2020-onward here)

• Everything is hyper competitive and a requires luck. The lucky want to tell you it's all about Just Working Harder and "everything is actually better than it's ever been!"

• Hey remember when the whole world went to war against fascists? Ha they're seen as legitimate again because they've got memes now.

**TL;DR: **

I agree with you, it's like watching the fall of the Soviet Union, except instead of The Party chanting "everything is fine keep working", it's mainly private interests. And nobody's learned anything.

I'm trying to keep my head up lol...

Hell, add Double Dragon to that list.

I gotta watch it...I just remember panicked guys shoving trash into a van to fuel it during a car chase or something. It looked radical lmao.

I love coming across this shortly after using this meme on Lemmy. Enjoy lol

Funny I was just discussing this movie nostalgically with my wife and we had an interesting realization:

The Night at the Museum movies were a fantastic improvement on the concept. :D

Thank you for this. It's like 2005-youtube all over again and my sides hurt. 😂

I remember a friend sending me something called "MagicBox" that could essentially Denial-of-Service someone from Yahoo Messenger.

Haven't been able to find it since.

Kinda like that?

I too laughed at "enthusiast mulls."

That being said, I too, am an enthusiast who'd love to see these handheld-like PCs come back.

Everyone is absolutely right when they say "President Musk."

Ugh. :(

SFW nature of this comic

✅ SFW: Dude getting snatched by a giant eagle and devoured, bits can be seen falling from its beak and a foot sticks out. Strong language.

❌ NSFW: tiddy.

Work is so weird. Lol

• Worker-owned and operated.
• "CEO" is just an algorithm that occasionally suggests CEO-y things the employees vote on. You don't even have to pay it and all it wants is to be included in an occasional pizza party and told it's doing good work.
• ????
• Profit (but for everyone!)!

Peak comedy, OP. :)

That news really rustles my Jimmies though. I really hate the stonk market but I got a couple shares of Intel thinking it would at least start to recover eventually.