Truly unfortunate.

You know how one can tell that their parties platform and policy is working? That’s right, by restricting voting.

The only way republicans can see themselves winning elections, is by cheating the average voter. Republicans are cheaters, which is why they assume that everyone else is cheating as well.

Fucking garbage, the lot of them. I have nothing but contempt for the brain-dead zealotry that is the Republican Party, and its supporters. One of the guys at work, that voted for Trump, simply throws his hands up and says that “they’re all crooks anyway, what does it matter?”. He is coincidentally a fucking idiot.

The constitution is clear in that the executive does not control elections, but here we are.

What else do you expect from frauds, liars, and cheaters?

If there were enough food for me to cultivate, fish, as well as enough materials for me to make shelter, I’d finally rest. It would be very sad not knowing if I’d ever see my family again, but comforting in knowing that all I needed to do from then on was survive. No bills, no overlords; just me and nature.

That’s the gayest shit I’ve ever heard.

Let’s do better. A coworker of mine recently said “Ugh, we still have to go to that gay ass meeting this morning?” To another coworker, like 4 feet away from me. I shut that shit down real quick. His response? “My sister is a lesbian, my best friend is gay, and he hits on me all the time”. You see, knowing gays makes it ok to disparage us. I had to explain to him that in order for him to call himself an ally, he not only needs to refrain from such statements, but also much challenge those around him that say such things.

Pretty sure he didn’t get it, and will continue to say garbage like that, because he has a gay friend. He also says racist shit, which is ok, because he has black friends as well.

That right there is the bees knees, friend!

She fits right in

Myocardial infarction. Massive. Live TV. Please.

Punishment must be severe, to send a message to those that would attempt to bring fascism back again.

It’s advertising. Clickbait. Most people are bad at it, or just emulate other people who are also bad at it. I’ve got to imagine that full screen previews negate the need for text at all.

Awards. I know they were just a source of revenue for the corp, but they could also fund (donate to) the user’s instance receiving the award. Hell, they could also be set to donate to specific causes, selected by instance admins. The admins could give their users input on which causes to support, if the admins chose not to accept the funds themselves.

They could be optional to enable, and provide no special treatment or experience that the user would receive. They could even be not traceable per user, outside of admin consoles, which would make them useless as a way to accumulate internet points.

I’d bet there would be a good amount of folks that would take part in such an experiment. Instances cost real money to maintain, and making a sort of game of it might provide more donations than a simple “donate” button.

I’m sure there will be people who are vehemently against this idea, for privacy or who else knows reasons. There could be a way to scam money somehow, but if it was optional both as a way to give and receive by instance admins, there would be ways to kill it if necessary.

I remember an ice storm from when I was a kid, maybe 30 years ago, that left us without power for what might have been 3-7 days. We were lucky in that my stepfather had the money to get a generator, so we could keep the food cold, and plug in heaters and such. I don’t remember much of it, just things like showering by candle light and such. We lived in a decently sized city, where this sort of extended outage was unheard of.

In modern day, I’ve heard from people that live in the sticks, losing power for 1-2 weeks after bad summer storms. For them they just accept it.

Why are you taking such time to shit on an idea that is obviously not going to be implemented? Are you the lead developer?

Also ~40ish, classes start next week!

My ego demands more. Make it bigger, daddy.

iPhone 4S was one of my favorite phones. It was around the golden age of jailbreaking in my opinion. So much fun.

If we are going back before smartphones, then the RAZR V3i was a fun phone. SEEM editing was pretty sweet. Like, why was rhythm lights even a thing?

The Nokia 6820 will always have a special place in my heart as well. It was such a perfect little texting machine.

Hell yeah!

We are heavily dependent on oil in the US. In most places, if you do not have a car, you are severely limited on job prospects and other necessary things to live. Nothing gets cheaper, we pay for it in one way or another. For prices to come down, it would require good faith actors, who do not have fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to maximize profit and have unlimited growth. And in this economic system, bad faith is the stock and trade. This is why you never hear of growth-flation. Prices go up, quantities and sizes go down, and if we don’t like it, we are shit out of luck.

The president doesn’t have the power to do this own their own. It would take a ton of people working towards a common goal of a better society. And for most people, if it doesn’t make them money, they don’t care to try.

Wars have been started, heads of state have been kidnapped, millions have died, just for oil. Add to that that you are also attempting to reign in the military? You would be turning off the spigot for the most depraved people in the world. They’d make an example of you, for those that would try such a thing again. They would not even cover it up.

Doesn’t seem like it would be that difficult to do, and I just about guarantee that instances would receive much more in the way of donations if it were a simple click below a post or comment to do so. The whole settings and options don’t have to be a thing.

Humanity is the true evil in the world. Some twats make up some stories a couple thousand years ago, and a bunch of real bright people believe it as fact. People then hide their hatred behind “faith” and “god”. We allow those people into positions of power, and look what happens? They now impose their hatred upon us.

Getting the Christian’s out of all levels of government won’t solve everything, but it would certainly help.