Pushing from within alone does nothing. Finding a way to band together (in spite of our toxic individualism) and push back does everything. It’s literally the only thing that will work. It’s what we should have been doing all along. It’s what a country does to right itself. And the fact that we can’t seem to or up until this point, haven’t felt the need to do it is why other countries are pissed.

To add insult to injury, they’ve had loads of 2nd amendment dudebros coming into comment threads every time they have a very rare mass shooting, or police violence, telling them they never should have given up their guns lest they become servile to a rogue government.

Okay, but what happens if you spell favorites wrong?

At least the monks could vape.

Data centers will consume…

No, data centers that are slated to be built say they’ll consume. If they don’t get built because they run out of funding or the bubble bursts, then they won’t consume. They’re trying really fucking hard to make fetch happen.

My Boomer mom wouldn’t even show up to my sporting events. I feel taking a bullet isn’t in the cards.

On the edges. For the peace price, it says it’s engraved on the edge of the medal.

He’s using Darth Vader logic. Classic.

All the best in your fight. We’ll be here in your corner with cat pics and all the memes whenever you need.

Damn, that is brilliant. That’s a clever fucking concept and I’m probably going to steal it at some point.

There’s this second amendment loophole about being armed while black that our society just seems to be okay with.

You’re absolutely not wrong. And these people that constantly counter anything less progressive than their perfect idea of progressive give me vibes of “spoiling the opposition from both sides” and feel astroturfed a lot of times.

But that said, we fucking need progressive policies and candidates. I myself polished the Overton Window for far too long as discourse kept harming more and more people. We need politicians working passionately for the people and against corporate power. We need to fight for progress and fight even harder against fascism. And we need to convince people along the way. No more status quo. But I’ll be damned if I’ll let perfection stand in the way of improvement.

Yeah, I was being a bit glib about that. Who knows, maybe we can bankrupt Tesla before he does.

I think you’re looking at averages and not median. The US has a lot more billionaires and now trillionaires. Median household income in Australia is $1800/week and in the US it’s $1500/week and plummeting plus our unemployment is now through the roof to a degree that’s not even being measured accurately. And we go broke from healthcare.

I know you pay more for some elements of gaming, and you’re being shafted on that. But maybe check the news out a little and ask if Call of Duty is really worth all this.

I am in the midst of setting up a Friendica install for my larger community. I’m trying out Elest.io for it, using netcup servers so I don’t have to deal with the security and hardening and starting off as cheap as possible with expandability. Just to try to filter people away from Facebook. A lot of people are starting to leave Facebook and I think it’s time to go back to basics. I might try to set up a Matrix server as well, but one thing at a time.

Incogni feels like a product the data brokers created to double tap your data and get paid for doing it.

That’s federal immunity. Doesn’t apply to state crimes.

That is never a safe assumption in US schools

It sounds like that is exactly the plan. Russia gives up Venezuela to us and we give up Ukraine to Russia

Looks like one of my factories in Satisfactory.

Does she need to have your back? Was she even part of the dialogue until you whatabouted her into the conversation? She’s a shitty person and a fucking cop who supports bad historical policies that benefit the rich. But I can safely say that she wouldn’t invade a sovereign nation for her own personal gain. She doesn’t have a long history of fucking children and getting away with it. She wouldn’t tank the entire economy, remove people’s right to marry or get health care or endorse a reckless anti-vaxxer whose efforts will be felt for decades (but only by the survivors of outbreaks of what should be long extinct diseases). She would do shitty things to good people. She wouldn’t fix the system. But she wouldn’t be doing gestures around all of this. And maybe you can’t respect the idea of harm reduction. Maybe you don’t know a lot of people hanging on in the fringes or maybe you’ve crossed over it and don’t give a fuck about others anymore. But I still do. I still want my friends to live. I still want a future for the children of today.