vanontom

When relentless coverage of terrible people, and their insane words/actions, results in said people winning fair elections, I think the intelligence of the electorate might be the biggest problem.

But yes, that’s beside the point, as is their growing mental illnesses and instability. The wealth/power they’ve been allowed to accumulate will always make them a danger/threat that should be taken seriously.

I’m going to have to protest the fact that my cat’s top two strategies of “throwing up” and “covertly pooping (for maximum smellz)” are not available.

Yup. pats the old camera softly It should’ve been retired 5-10 years ago. Instead, it will work until death, like most things in “the richest country on Earth’”. Sad.

Stay Wendy’s® Frosty®.

Everything can be fine 97% of the time, but it only takes a second to get fucked up by a cat’s razor-sharp claws or fangs. Then it takes weeks to heal. Fewer declawed cats now, too.

Bitwarden has 2FA (for paid tier, like $10/year). I don’t consider it “real” 2FA, but it’s more secure than just a password, and super quick to copy code using browser addon. Useful for certain sites, that don’t stay logged in, require every time, etc.

I’m not too worried, until a Republican is president (and controlling military). Until then, I think “The Deep State” is well prepared now for insurrection and coups, and T**** guilty verdicts. Hope the GOP keeps cowering to the cult for a decade or so, they will continue to lose key elections. Those hardcore red states are going to be a tragedy, though.

I never thought about this at the time. It was all just shocking and frankly pathetic. Didn’t realize the men had the least at stake, while women had the most, but were not allowed to join the fight. Many men probably didn’t care or even resented the “changes”. (Women’s rights. Sounds familiar. MAGA?) Unwilling to put up any kind of fight for that kind of future for their partners and daughters.

I wonder what most Afghan women think of these men now. And if joining the military was ever a realistic possibility, and could have changed the result.

Nice! I’ve never caught one exiting. What a showoff with this backward dive. Somehow I’ve actually seen them more times screaming from a bird’s mouth…

Yup, Pulsar feels exactly like Atom, which I’ve enjoyed for years. Portable mode still works, bonus. My main complaint is the massive file size of install (over 1GB, no lighter option), which seems excessive and unnecessary for my use.

raises hand

I actually like cars. (They’re… “cool”. I play Forza sometimes, lol.) But the reality is they’re fucking expensive to maintain, along with insurance and taxes and fuel. And very much not fun to drive under normal circumstances, next to removeds and idiots. And terrible for the environment, at absurd US numbers at least.

I’d rather save thousands of dollars and have public transit or easily maintained bike. But bikes are not viable when planet is trying to kill us (Texas is 100-110 °F for 2 months straight now).

It’s almost as if she was conveniently placed at her exact position without actually being qualified.

I wanted to stay with World. But they are literally constantly having severe problems (errors, voting, comments). Gave them many chances. I’m sorry World, but I probably would abandon Lemmy if I had to stay, it’s just not an enjoyable experience.

Maybe it’s not even possible to keep a large (targeted) instance working with current limitations and tools? Hope they figure it out. I’m rooming with Stux at Geddit, he’s cool. So many cats…

Same boat. I remember being a big fan of Digg (and Kevin Rose), and looking down upon “new” copycat… Reddit. Then they completely changed (removed voting?) almost overnight, and so I gave Reddit a chance. Loved it (and later Sync) and used almost daily! Until… well, fuck Steve Huffman, we all know what happened. Hello Lemmy.

I have not deleted account or comments yet, but logged out everywhere, try to never visit, and will never use the (ad-infested) app. Lemmy community (and Liftoff) has been great, just needs to keep growing with good people.

Sounds like the story of how Tesla almost died. Basically they were determined to implement maximum tech and automation, but it actually caused serious problems and bottlenecks with mass production. It was solved by ditching some systems and adding more humans.

I’m pretty sure this info came from M***, though. Taking credit for the epiphany, as the savior with the genius idea before the company was bankrupted.