Zohran keeps things on policy, which is the only arena the personality cult and party faithful can’t go.

Fake or not, they too buy the line of "If you vote for us and get us total control you’ll get everything you want.’ despite there being a precedent of getting the opposite under the current system. They’ll say their party just hasn’t gotten all or enough of the power yet and that’s why there’s problems. And those people continue to vote for party because ‘that’s what you do’ in their community.

There was this whole phase of Lemmy where it was looking like an alternative instead of a clone.

So maybe Lemmy was almost like a clone of Schwartz-era reddit, before becoming more of a transplant of post-2014 or even Spez era reddit.

How does piefed handle when communities have the same name but different purposes? Like ‘conservative’ being a ‘satire’ community on one instance and a breitbart repost community on another?

It’s a little salty exaggeration but it was a group mainly of military people. The main guy went to work for the Pentagon years back and scrubbed his internet identity and sold/gave things to a member he trusted.

That member went nuts over covid and BLM. Started things like messaging me that because I wanted to invest in solar energy I was an enslaver of humanity working for China.

Knew the guy since we were teenagers but I just became an internet ‘other’ to him one day. He’s the one that made it a safe space for himself to post 13/50 screeds and shit.

So in this instance, the buddy became the Nazi.

Nope. I never really used Reddit. I haven’t touched Facebook since you needed an .edu email. Never got on any of the other platforms.

Main thing I used to use was just a small forum with a few people I knew for 20+ years until the guy who took over code and server maintenance made it a Nazi safe space.

If a state is to be held accountable for non-state actors then I do not believe Israel or the United States has any moral high ground whatsoever. Even less than if we strictly limit the scope to only state actions.

Very plausibly what started as a FBI monitoring tool which no longer has any staff with knowledge of the program anymore.

Why can’t your workers be your workers, your family be your family, your friends be your friends?

As an adult with a family: Yes, but nothing like when I was younger. The biggest shift for me primarily was to games that are not competitive or multiplayer.

I can’t do the 25-60 minute intense gaming sessions with or against other players. I have to be able to stop everything I am doing at a moment’s notice. I feel bad having to drop on people.

Also I can’t do the FPS games now because I’m old and my eyes just can’t anymore.

They don’t seem to know what the ‘T’ stands for.

There are more varieties of Mountain Dew than ever.

They’re likely repurposing existing mechanisms western companies already have built and use. IIRC Apple or Amazon admitted this when they clarified they weren’t ‘listening’ per se.

Hamas being a terrorist organization.

For what it is worth the Warsaw Uprising and the Yugoslavian Partizans were also terrorist uprisings against their legal governments that were committing a (technically legal) Holocaust.

I like her, and we also share some common ground. I am only interest in having sex with her. (I’m also not interested in any friendship).

Sort these sentences out for yourself.

You’ve made a throwaway account to make a thread about it and discuss.

So just as a counterpoint: Have you considered you do have interest in friendship and that’s intimidating?

I still have a tick where I rate the shelterability of nooks and crannies in public spaces. Dry stairwell here, unlocked gate there, and so on.

It’s an odd feeling, being a homeowner these many years later.

What makes a man, Mr. Lebowski? Is it being prepared to do the right thing, whatever the cost? Isn’t that what makes a man?’

Bill Watterson was my childhood philosopher.

As a sweatshop, where civilized at all.

And that mostly went for Asia as a whole in the average American portrayal.

Poor depressurized deep sea fish. That thing is dead from being turned inside out from the vacuum pressure of being hauled out of the ocean. They don’t look like that until we do that to 'em.