All he really wanted was the Happy Meal toy.

Oh debianastro made an alt account, or an alt instance. That explains how this got past my block filter.

Subtle propaganda for diverting public school funds to segregated private schools through vouchers.

Thereby further weakening unionized teachers, and the middle class as a whole.

Fuck Linda McMahon and Betsy DeVos

I forgot how hard this rocks.

The guitar riffs are by the great Eddie Martinez, who also played on Run DMC’s Rock Box (1984) one year before this:

Martinez talks about what he was doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQQYHjKxcck&t=1484s

The old guy is Larry “Bud” Melman, a character on the Late Night With David Letterman, a late night talk show that came on after the Tonight Show in the 1980s.

There are interesting stories and background to the song, and the band, Wall Of Voodoo, and the music video.

https://americansongwriter.com/the-story-behind-mexican-radio-by-wall-of-voodoo-and-how-a-nascent-mtv-helped-it-become-a-radio-hit/

Voyager seems to work fine with the newly migrated communities.

Try [email protected] for example, the official migrated community of [email protected]

Unfortunately, adding a piefed user account doesn’t work because Vger fails at the capcha step.

So register at a different Lemmy instance, and access piefed communities.

At least until Vger gets fixed.

World Of Warships had a great selection of Triremes back then

Betty converting to Islam and wearing a burkini in…

or [email protected] so people on other servers can actually subscribe

United Healthcare loves Dr. Kirby.

Who was Thorstein Veblen

pecuniary emulation drives consumers to spend more on displays of wealth and status symbols, as opposed to more useful commodities.

aka, Keeping Up With The Joneses, Conspicuous Consumption.

All I wanted was a Pepsi

You’re in luck: There’s a Peanuts /c [email protected]

Cthulhu does give good service when you call, unlike my bank with the fucking phone tree.

Not when the community notes will be written by AI, and voted on by bots.

Whomever has the most AI and bots to swamp the notes with their text and generate votes wins.

Does that sound like a good way to get facts?

Good point.

1. Mastodon’s recommendation algorithm isn’t sufficiently addicting
2. Mastodon lacks venture capital to fund an army of PR flacks to plant stories in EVERY FUCKING NEWS WEBSITE IN THE UNIVERSE.

Also trying out Bluesky, and it is a lot like Twitter used to be, but it has the potential to turn out like Xitter is today, because at the end of the day Bluesky is a for-profit startup corporation.

Sooner or later, Bluesky is going to want to make money for its shareholders, and that means any of: 1) Selling advertisements, 2) Selling your personal data, and/or 3) In a classic tech startup play, selling itself to the highest bidder like: Android, YouTube, and yes, Twitter.

And with commercialization, or in Xitter’s case a fool with too much money, comes enshittification.

Lemmy is nothing like a for-profit startup company, as far as I know, but that doesn’t make it enshittification-proof, but at least it won’t take the commercialization route.