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- Comment on If Open Source is so great... 1 day ago:
I’ve been thinking about this often lately as well. These fucking corporations with multiple billions at their disposal, and all they can produce is shit like Windows or macOS? AND it also costs money to use? AND it has ads in it?
Not only do I agree with you, I also want to point out the telemetry whackamole for those who care. (And those who don’t care aren’t going to bother with the whackamole, but their privacy is being violated just the same as those who do care.)
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 3 days ago:
Does beehaw no longer federate? Otherwise you can reach that community from lemmy.world and be a part of it you know.
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- Comment on Enshittification only hurts product itself, not users. 1 week ago:
I had the same reaction. Enshittification came for Windows more than a decade ago, WTH are they thinking with this meme?
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 week ago:
Hey you got what you wanted, and you got to post a lengthy manifesto about it. I don’t feel obligated to give you more of my time than I already have.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
Only in a two-party system.
So you mean - like the system this election took place within?
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
For the love of all that is holy, do not assume that they will figure out everything you just typed above from the fact that you didn’t vote for them.
I don’t actually agree with your choice, but I do agree with this:
The Dems can be better, but they choose not to.
So please, if you have convinced yourself that withholding one vote out of tens of millions will somehow sent them the message you are trying to send, please also convince yourself that it would be even more effective to drop them a line and let them know how you feel in explicit detail.
Same message for everyone else who chose a protest vote on Tuesday. It’s all great to feel like you did the right thing, but maybe now question whether your message will actually be received, and be sure that it does. Otherwise you put Trump in for literally nothing.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 week ago:
It’s OK, your explanation is not required.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 week ago:
And half of it is either not true for me personally, based on some hefty assumptions even if applied generally, etc…
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
Jokes on them, in 50+ years I’ve accumulated almost nothing anyhow!
- Comment on True Story 2 weeks ago:
Fair point! So which part of my reply to the other commenter was incorrect?
- Comment on True Story 2 weeks ago:
Sure, OK. But it’s not a universal observation. Leaving off “to me” makes it so. That commenter didn’t sound that way to me. See how that works?
- Comment on True Story 2 weeks ago:
I now wish he’d won in 2020. Maybe it would have finally been the thing that stopped D from tacking to the right. Plus, we’d be a month away from being done with him now. We’d be a month away from starting to rebuild from 8 years of his shit.
Instead, factoring in the supreme court, the house and senate, and figuring all the shit he dismantles will take more than just 4 years to put back together, I figure I’ll be dead of old age (as will anyone over 50) by the time any of the progressive goals that seemed like they could one day be obtainable at the end of 2020 actually have any chance of becoming obtainable again.
And that’s on top of the untold horrors that await the queer community, people of color, folks with special needs, etc etc during the next four years, and I’m now not 100% sure we’ll get another election at all.
- Comment on True Story 2 weeks ago:
Biden was never going to win. He is actively losing his marbles. It was so painfully obvious even Democrats had to accept it.
And yet now everyone has to pretend that a single coherent thought comes out of Trumps mouth in any given 5 minutes.
- Comment on True Story 2 weeks ago:
That’s how you sounded
To you.
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- George Carlin on White Fascism, the 1%, and US Elections (Discussion on Realtime, not standup)youtu.be ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 0 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You’re getting very different sorts of Democrat mailers than I am then
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 3 weeks ago:
I knew I’d receive that reply, and I know it to be true. It’s still very odd, as noted. I’m sure there are other examples where one definition contradicts another, but none immediately spring to mind.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but (IME) the Democrat version is essentially: No one will know if you vote Kamala, even your likely abusive maga spouse.
The R version is apparently: Those of you who didn’t vote will be up against the wall if Kamala gets in because it will be your fault. Busybody neighbors are important to ensure Trump gets in again, we’re watching you.
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 3 weeks ago:
It is truly bizarre that one of the definitions of the word is literally the opposite of the primary definition of the word, however.
- Comment on The grand prize 3 weeks ago:
All I can think of, sorry.
- Comment on First there was Truck Nutz. Then there was Truck Nutz XL. 4 weeks ago:
Me too!
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- Comment on Microsoft launches autonomous AI agents in November 4 weeks ago:
I’m going with serious societal issue.
- Comment on He Tried to Reignite an Old Flame 5 weeks ago:
I feel like that’s the mugshot of a man saying, “I have my reasons, and I’d do it again.”
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- Comment on I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend. 1 month ago:
Starting with my grandmother, I’ve been warned by the various bakers in my life for about 50 years that the various kinds of raw dough I have wheedled them into giving me or snuck off of their work area will give me a stomach ache or cause other issues. The most recent time I was warned in this way was surely less than 2 months ago.
So far so good, not a single problem, and I never pass up a chance to eat uncooked batter or dough.
I am absolutely not saying the risk doesn’t exist, but the chance of it seems so minuscule (based on my anecdotal lifelong experience) that I only ever think about it when someone brings it up.
If I bought something prepackaged on a grocery store shelf, like from nabisco or whatever, that was undercooked, I wouldn’t eat it. From the kitchen of a relative or right from a bakery - has never given me pause.
- Comment on I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend. 1 month ago:
This is how I’ve loved cookies for my entire life. I’m just happy they are easier to find now.
