Yeah people just seem determined to make terrible choices. I am glad people are finally leaving twitter–but–like–why so late!? Why to Bluesky!?!
But I actually wound up making an account on Bluesky today and followed a few accounts from people I like. I figure at the very least, if they’re able to successfully move once, maybe they’ll be more willing to do it again at some point? Hopefully they come to Mastodon and I can follow them with the account I’ve already had there for years now…
It absolutely does. Go out with a bang, not a whimper! Show the people that you wanted to fight for them! Show them what you really think of this stupid, hateful rich asshole! Have a spine! Voters’ memory is short, sure, but it wouldn’t be nothing! And there are vulnerable people in the interim who need to know they’re not alone!
But of course this is the team that thought leaning even more conservative would win them an election. Of course they’ll happily wave this in.
He absolutely has a choice in exactly how welcoming he wants to be
It’s because being “gentlemanly” by sitting back and letting this happen is the absolute pinnacle of falling victim to the paradox of intolerance. Trump has zero tolerance for democracy. Letting this traitor back into office to dismantle any hope of free and fair elections in the future is fucking stupid, and the more decorum shown to this fascist moron, the more his future actions are legitimized to the public.
It’s true that refusing to hand over the office in any way is undemocratic in its own right. I can’t pretend to know what the exact right answer is: the dumbass, impressionable electorate put us here by voting how it did. But smiling and shaking hands while this fuck prepares to dismantle our freedoms is so, so dumb.
Oh cool, good job waiting until AFTER the election to do this incredibly basic and easy move, everyone. Jesus fucking christ
I thought it was the new pizza rat
The whole “trans women in sports” thing is one of those talking points that technically has some validity, but is used in bad faith as a wedge by bigots to try to enact far reaching bans on all trans people in all spaces. Trying to talk to people who bring that up is exasperating because if you give them that inch, they’ll take a mile, instead of acknowledging how puberty blockers and long-term HRT level the playing field, or trans men.
I think most of them simply opt to not use the Internet as often
… Goofier than Flo?? God help me I hope I’m never subjected to one of those commercials
You can download Firefox and install Ublock on the mobile app, then just go to YouTube.com. That’s how I usually do it on my android phone anyway; I assume it works for iOS too
I wasn’t really referring to the free years, but the many years where people put up with increasingly loud and lengthy commercial breaks which became so invasive that shows would literally design their beats around being interrupted
Yep. Two weeks ago I was thinking I’d wait through at least one more gen of CPUs and GPUs before upgrading–I’ve got a 6700XT which works great, but everything else is basically 2012-era tech. Now I’m getting ready to pull the trigger on replacing basically everything but the GPU as soon as tomorrow. If the country is going to implode I may as well have some extra pretty distractions.
I bet a big reason they get pilfered is because no one has any confidence in the outcome being changed. The biggest contributors aren’t being forced to reduce emissions, we’re shooting past “acceptable” temps, and in that kind of environment, even people who joined with good intentions may decide to cash out and enjoy what they can, while they can.
And once that process starts, it gets cyclical… corruption because goals aren’t being met anyway because of corruption…
The same way people watched cable TV for decades. The slow ramp up of ads has a portion of the population prepped to be slightly frustrated, but willing to deal with it.
But yeah having been spoiled with no ads for years now, I have to mute my parents TV every time I go over. Even muted, there’s still something about lots of ads that draws my eye more than whatever the actual show is. Drives me nuts.
Don’t worry, there’s enough blame for everyone to share
On the one hand I imagine they’ve done some kinda analysis on how number go up, on the other it’s hard for me to imagine that the money you spend on paying your employees is better directed towards making everyone frustrated rather than just keeping the store a clean and pleasant place to be in
Actually, that’s an avocado
This is somehow simultaneously incredibly optimistic (no way this happens for at least another hundred years, if ever) and pessimistic (surely we’d do tons of way cooler stuff than Not Believing In Skyman)
Voting isn’t an endorsement for literally everything a candidate says and does. No one even knows who you vote for unless you tell them. It’s about picking the best of the choices. Your lack of a vote is just as much an endorsement of genocide as a vote for Trump, especially since he won.