I guess it’s great advice if you live in New York or Disney World. I have a forty minute walk to the nearest bus stop and depending on where I want to go in town and how many transfers it takes, it might take me 2 hours to get somewhere in my mid-side town.

Meanwhile, I can reach anywhere in town in twenty minutes by car, and I can carry $800 of groceries in my trunk. And I don’t freeze my ass off in the snow.

Trump called her big donors and told them to cut her off. They told her she was out. She resigned rather than lose.

The mainstream right is primarily center-leaning folks who believe in traditional Republican talking points and don’t really examine the underlying racism. For example, they believe welfare moms are a problem. They consider spending money on the arts wasteful and regulations to be anti-business. They believe in aggressive America-first foreign policy.

Many of them just want to exist in a world where they can do what they want and most everyone is basically like them.

Overtly anti-queer conservatives are the evangelicals, the “moral majority”, and are a significant but niche faction. And then obviously you have white supremacists who are even more niche. But the mainstream tolerates both because a world where they don’t ever have to feel uncomfortable around people whose speech they can’t understand or men kissing is fine with them. They don’t hate minorities, but they just don’t really care about them either. Mostly they think themselves good people and everyone should strive to be just like them.

That all being said, I think the growing rift between the left and the right is radicalizing some of the mainstream, due to vocal extremists driving the conversation and politicians trying to stay relevant in online discussions. To the point where it wouldn’t surprise me if mainstream right isn’t the minority.

And I say all this knowing the question is probably rhetorical.

I will pitch in to pay for a statue of the guy. He deserves to be immortalized.

A Lemmy server is like Facebook if there were a hundred other Facebooks people could be on and connect to. There’s no reason for you all not to join the same server. People who care enough can move easily.

The only thing I’d say is bad is if you pick the wrong server and it shuts down because then everyone is forced to find a new server.

Let’s say you have 800 friends. What service do you recommend to try to convince FB users to move ? This platform would have to have all the same functions, videos, pictures, events, pages, etc.

Mate, I don’t believe in hell, but you just described it to a ‘T’. Good luck in your search!

Unforgivable

I’ve been there for a long, long time.

If you’re going to give it, you have to be able to take.

That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.

So long as both sides enjoy identical standards for prosecution, I say have at it.

I was originally on programming.dev, but they had a database issue that lasted for weeks where lots of content would never appear. Someone suggested .zip and it’s been great. There is monthly communication/state-of-the-server posts, and otherwise it just works.

.dev was fixed long ago and I still maintain an account there, but I am invested in .zip at this point.

Swimming.

Shame on them. I mark my career by how long it takes me to regret the code I write. When I was a junior, it was often just a month or two. As I seasoned it became maybe as long as two years. Until finally i don’t regret my code, only the exigencies that prevented me from writing better.

Shitty code has been around far longer than AI. I should know, I wrote plenty of it.

I’m 52, and I don’t think I could date a 28-year-old. I mean, sooner a 28-year-old than a fascist, but either way I wouldn’t date her. I have children older than her.

I don’t know, but I hope she quotes him.

“When questioned about his inconsistent behavior regarding Epstein, Trump responded, ‘Quiet piggy,’ his neck skin flapping back and forth like a half-mast flag of surrender.”

Local LLM was up the whole time.

Better privacy, better uptime.

The talks:

DOJ: “You want $40 million from your pal, Trump?”

Flynn: “Can we make it a round $50 million?”

DOJ: “Sign here.”

They are damn good spices and put my American cooking to shame. Share your secrets to Vindaloo or GTFO.

I don’t know if there’s anything in there for you to take away, but I can relate.

You might’ve missed this part because it was kinda buried there. I’m not telling OP what to do or judging. But I related to the feeling and shared what I did.

I mean… yeah. I’m not going to hang our laundry out, dirty or otherwise, but we have plenty of conflicts and sometimes it’s good to know what is worth fighting over and what isn’t. This wasn’t.