Poggervania

Nah, DDG is arguably worse than Google now with their search results - I just ended up going back to Google after a couple of years of using DDG.

Unfortunately, a lot of our government is crooked as hell and Trump was basically able to put people that align with him into certain positions, such as two of the supreme justices that oversee very high profile cases such as the one where Trump argued presidents should have immunity from crimes done during presidency.

Then you compound that with the actual literal fascist party that is the Republican party who only care about lining their pockets with money and being ok with corporations running things, and you get the shitshow that is the US today where citizens will actually support a fascist insurrectionist who clearly wants to align himself more with Russia and potentially even China, and says things such as “I will be a dictator for one day” and “the US should pull out of NATO”.

I fear for this country and genuinely am glad I don’t live in the mainland USA - and I wouldn’t be too opposed to having my state go back to being a British Territory if Trump gets elected again.

Oh sick, does that mean we can sue Elongated Muskrat for the exact same thing? Pretty sure he abandoned “benefiting humanity” goal as well with SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal (formerly X.com), and Twitter.

“Am I out of touch? No, it is the kids general public that is wrong.”

Said every oil exec ever

be me, Putin

world’s most straight man who has definitely not done something as gay as riding a horse without a shirt

put in anti-LGTBQ+ laws because I want Russia to be the most straight third-world country in the world

life is good

hear phone calling, it’s trump

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pick up phone to hear what nonsense trump has for me this time

he starts going off about some fuckin kid’s show he’s been obsessed with, My Little Pony

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starts getting mad and raging about two lesbian horses in the show

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hang up immediately and ask how many Russians watch this gay horse anime

apparently tons of Russians pirate it from the US, as well as importing tons of toys and jars from other countries

need to stop this somehow

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send police to raid a My Little Pony convention since it’s filthy LGTBQ+ propaganda

Russia is still straight for another day

leave my office to fuck the femboy twink I hired nonstop for the next 24 hours (definitely not gay)

Kid: “I’m trans.”

Senator Carden Summers: “What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.”

Tbh I was kinda sad they killed her off instead of trying to make her an actually useful AI assistant. Seemed like a missed opportunity since her Halo counterpart is an AI as well, and it would’ve been cool to maybe have an AR partner app that would have shown pre-Halo 4 version of her.

As somebody who’s dual-booting Windows and Mint on an older laptop and saw battery life improvement in Linux… are you sure the battery isn’t just bad? I could use the laptop for hours before going to 50% on Mint while on Windows I could go maybe 2 hours before going to 50%.

EDIT: Should clarify, actually curious about the battery life on OP’s end and not trying to be a Linux snob. Wondering if maybe OP should look into a battery replacement if that’s a possibility since I know some batteries suck.

Ideally, we’d be able to have a healthy mix of hotels either in or near city centers and short-term rentals for maybe tourist destinations that are away from the center, with a hard limit on how many AirBNBs and hotels can be existing at a time. The idea sounds nice on paper, at least.

Adam Something made a video on how awful AirBNBs are for locals, and the same concept applies to a lot of places where it’s mainly hotels in the area.

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Only if they don’t pick up reinforcements from Florida.

how are users supposed to put new muscle on a skeleton to make a different beast?

By perhaps not engaging in the things they didn’t like about reddit? I suppose that was doomed from the start though since people were clamoring for literally getting reddit posts ported over to the fediverse in an effort to “get content” and continue doomscrolling on here versus on reddit.

Correct on the other points and it makes sense , but

Most people here who left reddit wanted to be using reddit. Just not the way reddit wanted.

Which is true, but a lot of redditors also talked about leaving reddit culture behind and trying to make a new thing. Instead, a few months later they basically turned parts of the fediverse into Diet Reddit with some of the same trends happening and same cultures being adopted (for instance, just going for ragebait and posting low effort “this” posts). Which also makes sense - that’s people being people.

What is dumb is when people act surprised or go “oh wow, it’s like we never left reddit!” when redditors are acting like… well, redditors in other parts of the internet. I personally am not a huge fan of reddit culture at large and do dislike it’s coming over here, but I’m also not gonna go “whaaaaaat that’s crazy”.

mfw a ton of people mad at reddit left reddit to make a new place like reddit

Which is unfortunate because it then becomes a matter of “I am voting against the candidate I don’t like” rather than “I am voting for the candidate I like”, and the voice of the people get lost.

Let’s be real here: lobbying is, for all intents and purposes except in a legal sense for the US, a legal bribe. It’s a corporation (read: the CEO or somebody on the executive board) paying a politician to take whatever fuck position the corporate interest wants. The fact that politicians basically dress up bribes as literally anything except a bribe is disingenuous and disgusting because they can just go “oh, that wasn’t a bribe that was a uhhhh - checks notes - ‘donation to my SuperPAC’,” and somehow that is ok.

Shit like this is what happens when you let greedy rich fucks have power over legislation.

I’d be down for this if this also applied to all the CEOs and executives.

In fact, let’s make them come back to the office too - and make it mandatory that they have to be in their office working for ~12 hours a day 6 days a week with a 1 hour lunch break.

“ermahgerd i can’t wait to post something BAD and HORRIBLE about Elongated Muskrat! imma post to fediverse for some sick internet points.”

Seriously, touch grass. I hate Elongated Muskrat as much as the next person, but sometimes a bad thing is a bad thing regardless of the owner. Actually make an opinion on the topic instead of immediately trying to ride the karma train.

US Defaultism at its finest lol

Try reading the title again.

I really hope that SNW keeps any more references to the TOS crew to either one-shot episodes or really short cameos, because I genuinely dig it when SNW does it own thing.

It’s cool to explore Spock, Uhura, and Chapel at this point in their careers, and I’m starting to warm up to including Kirk as a semi-regular on the show, but stuff like putting Scotty in an episode where it would’ve been fine if he was replace by a different character is where I can see it going in an unhealthy direction for the show. We, the viewers, don’t need a ton of these call forwards to the TOS crew because we can reasonably say “oh, they’re all in training/serving on different ships right now” and be ok with it - we don’t need to see Chekov, Sulu, Bones, or anybody else from TOS here if it’s gonna be at the expense of the show itself.