I was never rich enough to afford a whole room for a computer
“Spare battery”? What year is this XKCD from? Pre-2012?
A power bank could also fill the same role, albeit external
I still carry a spare battery for my phone
Fairphone owner? External batteries don’t count.
You’re not Randall Munroe, you don’t get to choose what counts. I think external batteries do count.
Common sense disagrees.
I don’t think xkcd is for people who value common sense.
Elon is one of the biggest sacks of shit on the face of the planet, but he wasn’t wrong when he said people have become cyborgs. Everyone voluntarily plugged into a hivemind that exists to sell us shit we don’t need and manipulate our emotions to keep us engaged.
We voluntarily became the Borg. We hard wired ourselves into an ever-present stream of voices that kills critical thinking and independent thought. And now we’re living in the world created by a river of ignorance everyone drowns in.
I want to go back to being TNG Borg who were all equal and didn’t have a queen
Borg queen kinda killed the Borg idea, didn’t it? It was much more sublime when it was a completely alien hivemind that is more like a force of nature. But the show runners were just too stupid to grapple with that idea, apparently, and needed a singular melodramatic villain
It’s like the writers couldn’t understand that the Borg was a collective consciousness. They seemed to think there needed to be one voice above the cacophony of many… Instead of realizing the collective would have its own overriding imperatives that squash down the anarchy of the many into the will of the collective.
I like the conspiracy theory that the Borg just fake having a queen to scare primitive civilisations
At those times I’m really glad I prefer my desktop over my phone. When I get up and leave, I’m way less likely to check social media. (Granted, nowadays social media for me is just YouTube and Lemmy, but… you know.)
It’s a great MP3 player though. And gameboy.
Cutting out socials was the best move on my part. I’ve only got Lemmy, Snapchat which I only use for messaging, Instagram which I only really use to follow bands and message, and YouTube
