lol, ok, but i’m actually still baffled as to how you interpreted this meme – both before and now

do you read this meme as being either for or against the US telling Ukraine to stop bombing Russian energy infrastructure? 🤔

what was the prompt you used?

what is the end result?

Doesn’t OPEC control oil prices? 🤔

It hasn’t for a long time.

do you have a source? Everything I am find online is still showing OPEC going strong

They don’t set the price; they influence it by ostensibly controlling the supply from member countries. But, as Wikipedia says:

Since the 1980s, OPEC has had a limited impact on world oil-supply and oil-price stability, as there is frequent cheating by members on their commitments to one another, and as member commitments reflect what they would do even in the absence of OPEC. [4]

Really? This meme which I just made, with the detailed image transcript for accessibility?

Please, check my lemmy history. Do you really think I’m a Russian troll? 🤣

protects you from any

i think “mitigates the” would be more accurate here

farmin techniques

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/tetrapod-zoology/tiny-frogs-and-giant-spiders-best-of-friends/

You interpret this meme as being in favor of the US banning TikTok? I don’t.

The spiders tell themselves that they’re keeping the tiny frogs around because they’re killing pests and also kind of cute but, really, there is a brain parasite in the frogs’ feces - tiny amounts of which are all over the floor of the spiders’ burrows - which makes the spiders believe this.

I think it’s pretty great that Zuckerberg went all-in on the thankfully-wrong bet that his Second Life knockoff would somehow be popular and that people would actually want to strap a computer on their face to use it. 🤡

Which is to say, VR isn’t particularly high on the list of things I’m concerned about giant tech companies’ control of.

I recommend reading The Verge’s review of the Apple Vision Pro which concludes:

Apple may have inadvertently revealed that some of these core ideas are actually dead ends — that they can’t ever be executed well enough to become mainstream. This is the best video passthrough headset ever made, and that might mean camera-based mixed reality passthrough could just be a road to nowhere. This is the best hand- and eye-tracking ever, and it feels like the mouse, keyboard, and touchscreen are going to remain undefeated for years to come.

As someone who doesn’t want to live in a world where head-mounted cameras in public spaces become ubiquitous or even socially acceptable, I found that review to be good news.

via https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/our-blessed-homeland-their-barbarous-wastes

https://twitter.com/tomgauld/status/571994690289061888 is the original

What is “the enshitification face”