If it came out today, it might hit that sweet spot of being too edgy for liberal parents and too "woke" for conservatives

18 is old enough to give them a rifle.

Actually 17 with parental consent.

I certainly am in favor of a popular vote for president. The only reason anyone would want the president elected by a convoluted system whereby our votes don't directly count toward who we want to represent us all is because the system is currently benefiting their side disproportionately. The only reasons the electoral college exists at this point are to give some states an outsized weight on the end result and to override the will of the people in the form of faithless electors. But electors could've prevented the disastrous Trump presidency and chose not to, so if they're going to rubber stamp an unpopular and unqualified candidate, they are not fulfilling their original purpose.

The only way I'm in favor of keeping the electoral college is if we uncap the size of the House of Representatives (which I think we should do anyway). The House no longer represents the makeup of the entire American public because it's now unnaturally skewed conservative and each representative represents over 700,000 constituents. If we'd kept expanding the House about the same rate we used to (and should), we'd have almost 700 representatives. This system is increasingly unfair and undemocratic.

It's not an app issue, you'll notice the same behavior in any Lemmy client. Once you're subscribed successfully, new content should be coming in normally unless, again, there is an instance/federation issue.

The addition of the delta symbol is exactly the kind of creativity we need around here. I'd give you Lemmy silver if I could afford it.

Calibre is a fantastic and underrated tool.

Right, why would people assume he's saying Jews killed Jesus when he did not, in fact, say anything about Jews and Jews did not kill Jesus? I could make the argument that people assuming the worst possible interpretation of Jamie Foxx's words is, in itself, potentially offensive, but I'm not going to jump to conclusions about why they jumped to those conclusions. These types of non stories happen all the time on Twitter and get way more traction than they ever should. We shouldn't even be talking about this right now lol

What's ironic is it's usually the type of people with your type of attitude that I miss and grieve for the most.

That would require Musk to either be intelligent or willing to listen to people who are and I'm unconvinced he's either.

I know some creators that are moving to Substack and it really seems like a good way forward for certain content. I can't blame folks for leaving, I'd be pissed if a platform caused me to miss out on income.

I used to love IRC and have a fair amount of nostalgia for it. That said, a post advocating for IRC that doesn't even mention Matrix is failing to discuss the best replacement for IRC. Matrix is the IRC killer. After using Matrix, I don't understand how anyone could want to go back to IRC with its net splits, non persistent chat history, lack of rich text, etc.

Wu-Tang is for the children, after all...