I don’t want to discuss the incident in detail because it was very traumatic, but long story short, I had a near-drowning incident when I was 12 (technically not a drowning because I survived). I was technically dead for several minutes.

I saw nothing. total blank. I remember flashes of struggling to get to the side of the pool one moment, and flashes of waking up in an ambulance the next. then it cuts out again, and then I woke up in a hospital room with tubes in all my holes (plus some tubes in new holes) and surrounded by my mom and brothers.

I feel bad for the employees who have to clean that mess.

especially because 1) it will be trashed again in 30 minutes, and 2) they get paid crap

oops!

IIRC, lemmy.world is hosted in the US, making them liable under US laws.

edit: IR incorrectly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

by getting it surgically altered. I could never show the old face ever again.

also, moving and changing my name.

yikes

pay your workers a fair wage! end tipping culture!

Plus the Founders caused their own bout of chaos

well, technically, FC assimilated Earth happened in an alternate timeline, but you make a good point about the Domino War and wanting to avoid that. So, yeah, I’d want to arrive after that ended.

oh, definitely TNG-era Star Trek.

Socialist Space Utopia where I can be or do whatever I like anywhere I like, free of need and want? Sounds awesome!

What would I do? Explore the endless opportunities!

Flagged where?

where I live + self-identifier

As somebody who’s been using macOS as a platform for piracy for over 20 years, I assure you it does not make it more difficult in anyway whatsoever. I’m sorry you’re having troubles, but they’re not related to the platform.

super-relevant video:

The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie

lol, paying for media 🤣

join us over at !plex@lemmy.ml

this sounds like a sci-fi novel

brainwashed Fox/MSNBC/CNN people

this represents 3 different groups of people who, largely, not only disagree on many sociopolitical issues, but also largely hate each other.

just FYI

Fox is pretty far right, CNN is kind of in the middle, and MSNBC leans leftish, as mainstream US cable media outlets go

oh, I’m so glad I could scratch that memory itch!

it was a problem form another time. but, honestly, I’m so glad to be able to answer a tech support issue from, what, 20 years ago? yay!

I’m a little more selective than that, personally. I also engage in conversation more liberally while encouraging people to follow hashtags rather than individuals, which helps discovery.

I worked for Dell tech support in the 90s. sometimes that arcane troubleshooting knowledge still comes in handy!

It’s possible they had a dead BIOS battery, and whenever they had to boot up, they had to reset the BIOS clock, or the system would go haywire thinking it was Jan 1, 1992 or whatever the default date was.