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Well, as a former political official, he is among them. It's also a bad look to say this because the president has to work with other politicians. If you are an independent or reasonable republican, please vote against him in the primary. Vote for maybe Tim Scott or Nikki Haley or the North Dakota guy or the mayor of Miami. Off the top of my head, they seem milder in bigotry and tyranny. They still are a little bigoted and tyrannical, but not at Trump, DeSantis, or Pence's level.

I honestly don't understand why they act like Joe Biden is the only politician with a child who has addiction issues and/or failed relationships. Donald Trump Jr. is also divorced and has had alcohol addiction problems. During the Biden/Trump debates I almost wanted Biden to mention Don Jr's problems since Don Sr kept bringing up Hunter, but fortunately familial attacks are beneath Biden.

Mckenzie needs to read that Reddit story about the bartender who kicked out a guy with the Third Reich eagle ensign on his shirt despite him quietly minding his own business. I really don't want Substack to "suddenly become a Nazi bar." I'm just a reader, but if I ever start a newsletter I may reconsider my platform. I am on a basic free plan for all Substack channels I read. I've thought about upgrading my subscription to some, but now I will hesitate.

Can he just be quiet for once? Why is he even saying that? It's a death threat but I think he's too stupid to realize it. This is probably why so many of your family members don't want to help on your campaign. Melania, Barron, Ivanka, Jared... and Tiffany and her husband. You don't have to talk every time you are interviewed. You can ignore or decline requests to talk. Lord knows you do that enough with invoices.

Remember to vote against BJP. India has a beautiful culture and a lot of the Indian students I met in college were really amiable, thoughtful people, but BJP is ruining it.

I use the subscription feed. Definitely don't use the bell. Bell is so cumbersome where you get a email for a new video, then you get that pop-up preview on your browser, and push notifications on your mobile device. Too much for me, especially since I'm at a point where I subscribe to 600 channels or so, which makes it hard to play favorites. That's sort of what the bell is for I guess, determining whose content you value the most.

This thread has already mentioned a lot of artists I was already going to mention...and I'll add a semi-recent one for me, Scott Adams. I started reading Dilbert while I was still learning to read and my exposure to it helped me recover from my literacy anxiety (which I sometimes still have to an extent). I've mentioned a bit of my associations of it in previous posts but to recap, my mom worked at another "Baby Bell" company, Nynex, later Bell Atlantic then Verizon, (like Scott who worked at Pacific Bell and Dilbert and friends who worked at an unnamed company implied to be in the telecom sector) I liked the simplistic designs a lot, as well as the introduction of new vocabulary. I soon started making my own comic strips. Scott Adams' views on race, medicine, politics and several other subjects are perplexing. If I could logically follow them, I'd be offended. My dad's high school experience was diminished by segregation apologists during Boston bussing mandates of the 1970s when they would protest at school campuses. The fact that Adams was on board with such a stupid practice in that infamous vlog is upsetting. Then again, Adams is a contrarian so I can't be sure if he sincerely feels that way, especially since he tweeted something afterwards saying "I'm not actually bothered by black people. I am actually just annoyed by white people who advocate for black people" (paraphrase). Maybe it's a true clarification or maybe he's just trying to walk back his statements. He needs help. There's probably something traumatic in his life that made him snap. Off hand, I know his wife filed for divorce from him and his stepson died of an overdose, and he may still be mourning in a strange way. Still, if I see Dilbert merch at a secondhand shop or in the library, I'd gladly take them out. I will not subscribe to his new pay-walled comic, but if his distributors and publishers ever decide to re-sign their contracts with him and start printing new Dilbert books again, I may buy them. Anecdotally print publishers seem to do more vetting than web publishers, so I'd hope that if they ever reunite he'd be in the right headspace. Anyway, great comic, troubled person. Hope the guy gets some help.

Yes, and I was thinking how confusing it could be. A: "Hey, did you see that trend on X?" B: "What? No, I don't talk to my ex anymore."

The Kushner family sounds almost even more dysfunctional than the Trump or Biden families combined. Jared's dad has been in jail for a while because he solicited a prostitute for Jared's uncle(elder Kushner's brother-in-law) because he wanted to prove to his sister that her husband was a bad person and divorce him. Jared and Ivanka's kids will probably have to have a lot of therapy, not to mention Jared's cousins and their children.

That was actually Major, their younger dog at the time. Champ was their elderly dog who died a couple years ago. They since got a younger pup, Commander, and he too, has been biting staffers, but I don't know if they revealed which agencies the victims work for. Maybe Commander is copying what his elder brother does, but iirc Major doesn't live in the White House too often nowadays. He might just have the same intuition.

Mark Zuckerberg was planning on introducing some subscription service like Twitter checkmarks to Meta, but at least he responded to questions about it in his comments section. Iirc the program might even have been delayed due to its apathy from users, but I haven't heard much about its plans lately. At least he understood how stupid he sounded once he spoke with consumers.

It's okay. I still peruse reddit sometimes because the subs here aren't sufficient enough. Also, reddit has more variety. Lemmy is a bit too political. Like /c/news seems to only post political stuff. And it's mostly liberal leaning (which I am), but too liberal occasionally. People hate nazis here but curiously, they also hate Israel. I'm looking for more communities that are less intense and charged. Stuff about crafting, plant rearing, literature, etc. The other big fediverse site, Mastodon, has a similar prevalence of charged stuff, but I've found a bit more silly things both on my own and with suggestions over there. I suppose I could start some new communities here but I'm doubtful I have the fortitude to make them get increased traction.

I almost feel bad how little personal emotional and/or spiritual time he takes for himself. He continues posting this crap after his brother died, after his first wife/mother of his three eldest died, while he was getting ready to attend his younger daughter's wedding, and more recently, after his sister died. He's so relatitory. Just be happy or somber in these landmark occasions. His sister Maryanne who just died even seemed to be pretty important to him. He wanted to transfer colleges and Maryanne had a friend who was on their admissions team, so she set up an interview for him, and even drove him to the interview. Not to mention her being a circuit judge in New Jersey helped his casino get its gambling and liquor licenses issued quickly. She really looked out for her little brother, and he'd rather post about how due process is against him than how much she meant to him on the day she died. She'd said in Mary L. Trump's book that Donald's comments on how the death of their older brother Fred inspired his sobriety was emotional manipulation. Now that more impactful events have come in his life and he's only focusing on the ones that effect him directly, I realize she was right.

I'm hardly an expert, just someone who loves studying law by myself until I can afford formal law school, and I did a little PR work during my internship, but despise my rudimentary exposure, Trump, his spokespeople, and legal team are approaching these indictments in the completely wrong way. They are too adversial and argumentative. Speaking little and gently would be much more helpful, and maybe even opting for a guilty plea. Trump needs to stop whining about how much he hates being prosecuted and the publicists and attorneys on his payroll need to stop regurgitating his bellyaches. It's not like I think he won't be sentenced for being agreeable. He likely will, but maybe they'd be able to make some compromises. Now I know why Ivanka will not work on her father's current campaign. Her style of arguing is much more reserved, while her two eldest brothers have an aggressive style which seems to be the only one their father seems willing to emulate. I bet Trump did not listen to his daughter's advice often enough. Edited a word.

I laughed aloud when I first saw that episode of SpongeBob "Selling Out," where Karl takes over the Krusty Krab and he threatens Squidward with Human Resources. The Human resources guy isn't a human, nor are any of the employees, yet they have HR anyway. But still, HR guy is scary and another reason the crew lives their work lives in fear. As cheap as Mr. Krabs is as a manager, he always let Squidward and SpongeBob express themselves in their own personalities. Human resources sometimes tries to squash your individuality.

I mean, it still is Twitter. That's the URL that people use to access the site. Tbh I have no idea if Musk actually went through the effort of changing the company name in the business licensing or other company paperwork. Just the logo and header seem to say X. But I agree, I'm getting so annoyed with journalists calling it "the site formerly known as Twitter." so dumb.

I learned about Aaron in college in a communication class when we talked about the open access and open source movements. I didn't know he had anything to do with Reddit or Internet Archive until years later. Reddit's vision lately seems really backward from what Swartz wanted. How was he ever friends with Steve Huffman? Was Huffman always such an insensitive tyrant or did he only become so since becoming CEO? Even Ohanian. What did he see in Huffman? I've admired Ohanian for his advocacy on mental health, parental leave, and racial equality. Huffman seems to only care about himself. It's just hard for me to imagine a time where thoughtful people like Swartz or Ohanian would have the time of day for someone like Huffman. Of course, I'm not sure how much Ohanian works on Reddit lately, but it's a shame he's allowed these draconian changes to happen through Huffman and his cronies.

I did a Google search on the Ristick family and saw a comment you made on Ars Technica Forums, back when you were Punk Walrus and your wife was alive. (At least given the similarity to username and background, I think it's you.) My condolences on your wife. Did her death bring her father's side of the family back into the picture at all? And did she end up writing the book everyone wants to read about the situation? They sound like a fascinating, but exhausting family. I'd think you'd need a robust journalism team to conduct all those interviews.

For real. I'm really jealous that the courts in Brazil have already banned Bolsanaro from running for office for the next 10 years and Pakistan's parliament ousted Khan for being ungenerous to the Ukraine conflict and then later the police arrested him for bribery. Those are supposedly developing countries but they are doing a better job of controlling their tyrannical despots than we are. Fortunately, like I keep saying, Trump has too much work cut out for him to effectively campaign with so many charges. He's been in the lead, but I don't know if he can stay that way.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromYourServer/comments/hsiisw/kicking_a_nazi_out_as_soon_as_they_walk_in/

There's a site called rehab.sub that allows you to transport your reddit subscriptions and finds equivalent communities across the fediverse and Discord. It includes Lemmy, KBin, and Scribbles for the fediverse communities.

Could disabling Javascript get rid of this message? Javascript I think assists video playback, so maybe not.

There was this asshole who wanted to buy my grandparents' house after they both died. He'd text my sister, brother, dad, maybe even my mom. Fortunately not me. It's so insidious because he probably got all the info from my grandfather's obituary. He just needed our names and town and then could look up the phone numbers on those "people search" sites or phone books. The house hadn't even been put on sale yet, and we were not the executors. What kind of sicko reads the obits so they can buy a house? And doesn't even bother to go through a realtor or attend an open house when the time comes. The gall of some people is unbelievable. I'm glad my uncle gave it to one of the first families that formally offered after attending the open house.

Trump may be in the lead now, but he cannot campaign effectively with so many legal problems looming. He's already planning on skipping the first debate this month and instead doing an interview with Tucker Carlson. Although I am unsure how that will be done. Fox News told Tucker to stop doing his Twitter show because he's violating contract by doing such. Also, why would Trump still want to appear on any Tucker Carlson appearance now? While Tucker flirts with him in public, his texts to colleagues said he hated him and was sick of talking to or about him in the Dominion lawsuit evidence. I hope as part of sentencing for his indictments, the judge or jury really throws the book at Trump and tells him he must forfeit the presidential race. I'm not even sure if that's a punishment they can issue, but I hope they can.

I feel you about the sane middle. I am a Democrat and likely will vote for Biden regardless, but even the prospect of having a republican nominee like Trump, Pence, or DeSantis terrifies me. I really hope unenrolled, independents and moderate Republicans vote for almost anyone else in the primary. I think the mayor of Miami and someone from North Dakota (a senator?) are running. Don't know a ton about them but they seem less mean-spirited as far as I know. I just have this horrible imaginary scene in my head where the Republican National Convention has a remote telecast set up from Donald Trump's cell block. Or maybe there's an announcement that says "Our candidate must leave the convention early because he has a curfew with his house arrest." Or even Trump just excusing himself several times throughout the convention to return correspondence from his lawyers, the courts, or publicists. It would be so embarrassing for the party and to the country to allow a convict or near-convict to compete so closely for the highest office in the land.

Well, that, too, probably. Not to mention all comments like "Why would a woman with grown and married daughter act that way?!!?!"

If Hunter were a woman, and likely if Greene were a man too, I feel there would be more significant pressure on Greene to apologize.

I'm going to innocently guess it's because the tips are small parts put under duress and with more use, the looser they become and just... Fall off? And then they aren't seen on the ground of the station because people drive over them and they get scattered or smashed on the street. Of course I'm still learning to drive (in my mid-twenties) and my family members who are licensed are more often the ones who get work done on our cars. I also live in a state were self-pumping isn't that common.

Most of the Bush paintings I've seen are of dogs, lol.

Oh, I was similar. When Chrome was new I liked it, but it seems to be vulnerable to get these weird superfluous add-ons that I may have acquired through malicious links. When I switched to Firefox I wasn't as suseptible to malware, and the speed was just as good.

I guess I've been acculumating subscriptions for a long time. I do occasionally unsubscribe when a channel goes defunct or I lose interest or whatever, but I don't do it regularly. I had been a videographer and broadcasting student as a teenager so I guess I wanted to find a lot of inspiration.

Well, my aunt kinda, but she's mostly just following along with her husband (her most recent and current husbands have both sealed themselves off during my lifetime and I've never had an "uncle" relationship with either of them). She hardly has her own opinions anymore. I think both her husband and daughter had to get Covid vaccines for work and school, so I don't know what they did. I hope my cousin has a mind of her own and went to get her vaccines with her sisters, but who knows. I feel like the husband might have some forged paperwork saying he's vaccinated or he's claiming a religious exemption (hahaha, he's not devout, I mean he is Catholic but the Vatican and USCCB both said to get vaccinated). Same thing with this family friend of ours. Her daughters got her into vaccine hesitation. She doesn't seem to feel as strongly about it as the daughters but still didn't get the Covid shots last I heard, though her husband did. The older daughter had a kid who's probably a kindergartner now, but she's insisted she wasn't going to get him vaccinated (specifically MMR) as a baby because that's bad for development or something. She said he would eventually get vaccinated but not until he started school, which is probably around now but I don't know if he's vaccinated yet. She has another kid now too and I imagine she's giving her the same approach. The younger daughter has a baby now too and is probably doing the same thing. Worse about the younger daughter is she is a nurse. Both the daughters are in their thirties and I grew up admiring them. I'm the oldest sibling so I always look to those somewhat older than me as guides for my near future. But now I realize how off-base they are from what I aspire to be.

I realize that you still can't play youtube videos and switch apps

You can do that with ReVanced though!

I get that activists like "people-centered" language nowadays, but in essence, it is kind of weird. Maybe it's just because I have NVLD that I'm always analyzing these language things. Like in a community with which I'm more aligned, the autistic community, "person with autism" doesn't sound any better to me than "autistic person." Of course, as someone with NVLD, you're not always described as autistic to begin with. I prefer the word "minorities" to "people of color" but what are currently minority communities now are on track to become a majority in some communities, and maybe the country at large one day too, so that term may likely be rendered inaccurate soon. Of course "colored people" had been an acceptable term a few decades ago so maybe this guy is just behind on the times. Still, I do find it weird how society often tires of some words and phrases over a few generations.

Good call. I think rudimentary is the word I was looking for.

I'd seen speeches of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, etc and other civil rights leaders use the term before. But it is out of fashion now. Yeah, I guess being a politician and not knowing language stylistics is dumb. But political rhetoric and legalese is filled with antiquities. Between stuff like this and politicians who don't know know how new technology works is frustrating and embarrassing. Sometimes I try to think wishfully about it but when they repeated make the same mistakes it can be hard.

My reddit account is a little shy of 10 years, I think I might be at 8 or 9. I haven't really commented on Reddit for a while. I won't delete my account completely, at least not yet. There's some more subs on Reddit that haven't moved to Lemmy/KBin yet, and of course I could be the one to bring them over and create a copycat, but that's a bit of responsibility and work. I am kind of surprised how populated Lemmy is already though.

Sometimes I wonder if he became pedophilic because of his sad life. Between losing family in the Holocaust and losing more family and friends in the Tate/LaBianca murders by the Manson family, he must felt like his life was out of control. But it's easy to control teenaged girls into having sex with you. Or maybe the genocide and murders he experienced had nothing to do with his sins. But it's something I think about occasionally. I've seen only a couple of his movies so far but I notice some themes from his life, like the death of babies or babies being evil, and I feel like it's some personal allegory.

Iirc, while Beatles management did encourage Lennon and Cynthia Powell to get married, they were instructed to keep the marriage and child private for a
period of time. They were trying to lean into the "boy band" desirability, and they must have figured a married father isn't someone young women feel comfortable pining over. Of course, Cynthia and Julian didn't stay a secret forever though.