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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 88 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Microplastics showing up in our organ tissue and managing to pass the blood brain barrier. We're going to cure Alzhemers just in time for Plazhemer's to take us down.

[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

Roman Empire > too much lead US Empire > too much plastic

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago

It's okay: our shareholders got their expected dividend growth this quarter.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

But how will you make money curing Alzheimer’s? Old people have Medicaid and the government won’t shell out for the goods so they’d have to sell it cheap