Looks good for at least another couple of hundred yards.

Let’s keep it civil

Oh, in that case I don't have a comment on the American healthcare system.

Eggs are gross.

Playing music. Started on a shitty hand-me-down acoustic guitar. Got a better guitar. Got an electric. Got a better amp. Got a couple of pedals. Got a better amp. Got like 6 more amps, some cabs, 5 more guitars, a huge pedalboard, a cello, a keyboard, an audio interface, attenuators, mics, etc etc.

You gotta understand... I need all this stuff. There are subtle differences that you've never noticed before but will probably hear once I do an a/b comparison for you, and I absolutely must get an AC15 next to round out the collection instead of buckling down and recording something.

Article: The phrase "Rich men north of Richmond" is a cleverly disguised antisemitic trope

The guy that wrote the song: “It was funny seeing my song at that (Republican) presidential debate. Because I wrote that song about those people"

Source for quote:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/25/rich-men-north-of-richmond-oliver-anthony-republicans

Calling everything racist isn't helpful. This song is a poor man's cry for economic justice, and instead of saying "yeah, that's the 1% we've been complaining about, come over to our side," the left calls it racist because it has Southern imagery in it.

They're both violations of the conditions of release. Two separate violations, unrelated except for being prohibited behavior.

I really hope something comes of this. The fake electors are a WAY bigger deal than the documents case.

That's one of the better articles I've seen about all this. They actually understand what's going on.

r/interestingasfuck and r/shittylifeprotips are both total free-for-alls. Nsfw, spez hate spam, random shitposts... I assume r/pics is still John Oliver. NSFW subs are posting Christian content.

Reddit is kinda on fire at the moment.

I used to compare voting to a choice between a punch in the stomach vs a kick in the balls.

Nowadays it's a bit closer to a punch in the stomach vs repeatedly stabbed with a dirty needle by a guy hearing voices.

Like yeah, both sides are bad, but one is a LOT worse than the other.

Amusingly, over the last few years, the same folks who spent decades twisting the arbitration system to their own advantage have been flipping out, now that arbitration claims have become a form of distributed denial of service attack in protest to the company’s bad behavior.

Lol, plaintiffs' law firm knows exactly what they're doing.

It can force those who disagree with defederating to find a new instance that has access to all the communities they want. It also makes onboarding new people significantly more complicated, as their choice of instance will drastically influence their feed.

To be clear, I'm not arguing against defederation, just pointing out that it causes issues that need dealt with.

I want the actual reviews so I have at least some chance of figuring out if the reviewer is a bot, a shill, a customer, or is reviewing the UPS guy instead of the product.

"Why do people question the legitimacy of the court?"

• guy who goes fishing with people who have business before the court

I'd hate to miss out on my $0.86

it’s possible that he was offered some kind of deal

It's been reported that Lukashenko (of Belarus) brokered a deal. I haven't seen any further details.

Makes sense to me; I've seen how it happens.

1. Recognize the US govt's imperialim

2. Notice that US mainstream media generally downplays US imperialism

3. Discover that RT gleefully covers and condemns US imperialism

4. Conclude that mainstream news are corporate war apologists, while RT "tells it like it is"

5. Walk around telling people that Ukraine is full of Nazis trying to genocide Russian-speaking Ukrainians, and Putin is just trying to stop the purge.

It is a 4th amendment violation, but some shit judge ruled otherwise at some point so they get to pretend it isn't.

I remember hearing an interview with him many years ago, and he shared a story about the shenanigans he got up to as a kid... he was into phone phreaking (used to be you could control the entire phone system by playing specific tones into any phone) and reprogrammed the phone system to think his friend's home phone was a pay phone. His friend's mom would try to call someone and the phone would ask her to deposit 20c. She was furious, and sent her son over to demand he fix it immediately.

I always thought that was one of the best pranks ever. RIP to a legend.

It's totally different from wow. Wow is a real-time mmo. BG3 is a turn-based fantasy RPG (think Divinity:Original Sin or Wasteland 3).

Afaik Lemmy is a protocol used by a bunch of servers; lemmy.world, shitjustworks, lemmy.ml, etc. They're all (well, mostly) connected to each other, and each hosts various communities that any member can access. You can access it all through kbin, though kbin is different from lemmy. For example, this community is on lemmy.world, and you posted it here from kbin. I saw it and responded from kbin.

"All" gives you all the content your home server has access to.

I hope that's helpful. I'm still learning myself.

Meh. She's still a "secret" party member that you're very unlikely to accidentally unlock on a good run.

This is just letting experienced forum-rrading players recruit her a bit more easily.

I suspect it has to do with legal compliance. Only available in US = only needing to comply with US law.

I used to hate the modem noise. Then, over time, like Pavlov's dogs, I began to love the modem noise. I actually missed it when we got DSL.

You can post on any instance that's federated with the one hosting your account.

Meh, your profile tells me

1. people don't want to hear about the Mormon Church

2. people are touchy af about fascism, people standing near fascists, and people who argue that what's happening in Florida isn't technically fascist.

3. people who downvoted you because of 1 and 2 didn't down vote your whole comment history.

Metal AF

Mind you, I'm not putting my fingers near that thing, but I like it from over here.

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Absolutely brilliant.

School libraries ought to have all the major religious works of the major religions. Religion has a lot of influence on the world. There are a lot of reasons someone might want to learn about it.

Having just a Bible is bullshit, and imo overt religious indoctrination.

Wagner took over Rostov last night. They have an airport.

used to alert the rider that the software has overridden user input

I think this is the whole point. Riders were asking more of the boards than the boards could do, and when the board was unable to comply the rider would lose their balance. Haptic feedback tells the rider "nah, not doing that" so they're aware the board isn't going to do the thing and can adjust their balance accordingly.

It was probably closer to $30, but a squeezy poop claw to clean up after my dog. Works so much better than a shovel.

Yes, let's emulate the guy whose company lost 59% of its ad revenue and is being evicted from its office buildings due to delinquent rent. Surely this will increase profitability.

"Only" a third on meth? Jfc that's high.

There are a lot of reasons people end up homeless. One specific drug being involved in a third of cases is huge.

The mods for r/guitar were (are?) pretty bad. The guys at r/guitarcirclejerk made a sport of seeing how stupid a post they could post on r/guitar without getting banned. Of course, actual noobs with stupid noob questions sometimes ended up getting banned for trolling, so they'd end up at r/guitars asking wtf.

It was kinda funny, kinda tragic. Dunno if it's still there.

Look into cluster b personality disorders and cptsd. This behavior sounds like "splitting."

I'm not a mental health professional, but lived with someone who was later diagnosed CPTSD, so I ended up doing a bunch of homework on wtf was going on.

I have mixed feelings about this

On one hand, Daryl Davis is a hero, and his method actually works to de-radicalize people. I prefer using this method when I encounter bigots irl.

On the other hand, allowing bigoted speech in your online platform has the potential to drive away normal folks and turn your platform into the echo-chamber where bigotry flourishes that you mentioned. This is basically what happened to Voat.

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall fight to the death to defend your right to say it.

I agree with this, but it's beside the point. This isn't a public space like a street corner, it's a managed public/private space like a bar, where the bouncer will kick you out for abusing other patrons.

I know my personal experience isn't statistical proof of anything, but I've known a couple of people who started using meth, then their life fell apart. I don't know anyone whose life fell apart first and started using meth later.

Wasn't the main selling point of voat the "free speech" angle? It would make sense that it would attract people whose speech got them banned from other social media.

The Fediverse's selling point is "not run by corporate greed-heads," which is going to attract a different demographic.

I used to comment occasionally on r/home improvement. Thanks for operating it. Sorry they broke it. Welcome home.