[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 75 points 5 months ago

I was going to ask when has it ever made sense to run Windows, but then I noticed how old those logos are. Carry on!:-)

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[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 86 points 5 months ago

Impeachment exists, if only there were a functioning body of government left to do such a thing.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 78 points 6 months ago

I like to think that he forgets, keeps trying and then makes a new post about it

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 80 points 6 months ago

Gasp, you all surely don't believe that conservatives would ever engage in voter manipulation tactics... r-r-right!?

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 78 points 6 months ago

It sounds rather more like the first one... for spiders.

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[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 97 points 8 months ago

Omg I understood every word of that - should I be worried now? :-P

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 89 points 8 months ago

So close! 😂

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Honestly though, "get on board or STFU" is not a particularly compelling pro-democracy bumper sticker, nor is "meh, what are you going to do?"

All we want is for someone to keep it 💯 - the percentage, not the age.

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[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 87 points 9 months ago

(1) trillionaires (such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk) bought out the media - "prime time news" no longer exists, as it used to, now instead we have advertising segments meant to increase profitz

(2) the christians do not care - as evidenced by the fact that they already know. They just used him to accomplish their ends, of restricting abortion and whatever. Authoritarians just don't think in terms like right or wrong, and rather what am I told to feel about this or that?

(3) also, yes they are THAT MUCH against the LGBTQIA+ "agenda" (of living life free from outside interference) that they could have watched the event happen live, heard her screams, and still vote for Trump. Some would still vote that way even if he had done it personally to them. It is an entirely different mindset, and we would do well to listen to it, rather than be surprised a few months from now (as we were before in 2016).

(4) if you want to understand it moar better-er, the best teacher I've seen is The Alt Right Playbook, by Innuendo Studios - I recommend starting at the beginning and going all the way through it, but the most relevant one to this discussion I think is this one.

TLDR: they know, they don't care in the slightest - truly.

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[Opinion] Biden Must Resign (www.theatlantic.com)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/16476649

For the good of the republic and to demonstrate new leadership before the election.

Lays out an argument about how to navigate the difficulties ahead, addressing the challenges that would result.

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Jon Stewart is outstanding, but also this video seems like one of his better ones. Aside from gun issues specifically, part of what makes this great is his calling the for-profit media sources out for their hypocrisy and willful ignorance, and callousness to the lives of innocents including our children.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by OpenStars@discuss.online to c/bestoflemmy@lemmy.world

icon used on lemmygrad.ml

Originally a light-hearted post poking fun at and doing a survey to gather input, but it has turned into a thought-provoking deeper dive into what it really means to be someone that people would call a "tankie". Note that to some (die-hard conservatives), we all are "tankies" on the Fediverse, but is there a meaning beyond the pejorative of merely "holding a belief that I do not personally agree with"? Come and join the fun, or read about the community consensus even long into the future?

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 79 points 10 months ago

Some of us left it behind quite awhile ago:-).

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by OpenStars@discuss.online to c/bestoflemmy@lemmy.world

https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

Lemmy.ml, like lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net, has consistently been accused of improper Federation practices and many instances have decided to ban one or both of the latter by default, with many individual users having already gone further to block the former as well. However, many individual users on lemmy.ml seem unaware of the accusations of the practices of their admins, and some people go so far as to see lemmy.ml as a sort of default instance on the Fediverse.

This discussion promotes wider knowledge of the situation and what might be done about it in the future, in order to e.g. not turn away new potential Federation members (Fedizens?:-) that could otherwise associate what happens on that instance as something relating to the Fediverse as a whole.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 89 points 10 months ago

Who would downvote something like this, without leaving a comment to explain why!?

Sometimes I wish I could see that info, in rare circumstances like this.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 75 points 10 months ago

For many years now, almost the only way to find tech-related answers was to add the word "reddit" to your search. Before the Rexodus ofc.

Nowadays a lot of people go straight to where they wanted to find info - Wikipedia, StackOverflow, IMDB, etc. - and search from there.

Google itself has admitted how bad it has gotten, and in response they decided to voluntarily reduce their profits and return everything back to when it all worked... - no I'm just kidding, they said wait a bit and AI will save us all, somehow (from ourselves?).

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 91 points 10 months ago

It's like all those "heat records" that supposedly "proves" that climate is "changing".

Every single month they keep getting broken, sheesh!

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It looks like a conspiracy if you ask me - all those "scientists" with their... "facts"! Everyone saying the same thing all the time - it sure sounds like they are pushing an agenda to me! What if I don't want to be educated though - did they ever stop to think about that, hrm!?

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by OpenStars@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world

A video titled "This Video Will Make You Angry", by CGP Grey, about how memes evolve in the same manner as living organisms, though in this case those most successful tend to be the ones that engender anger in their target audience.

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