We also need to keep protesting for them to do the things we need them to do.

Getting complacent when a D is elected won’t fix these problems.

I played Warcraft 2 with a 14.4 modem dialing directly to my friend’s modem across town in 1996.

It was novel and kinda fun to tell my mom what we were doing, but it was so slow that we never bothered again. The taste led to wanting to go nuts when broadband hit, whcih coincided with going to college and getting on a T1 line.

Right before Napster killed all college network speeds.

Yeah, I started out using Lemmy with the All feed and removing comms I didn’t like, but more recently I’m trying to only use the home section and curate more.

Hey now, scavengers have some amazing benefits to the world.

Vultures limit disease transmission and clean up dead stuff that would otherwise stink to high hell.

They’ll find a way to only pay republican voters. Possibly while looking to expel anyone who isn’t at the same time.

Trump should be afraid of what losing the majority will do to his dictatorship.

Also don’t forget that he has dementia and likely thinks of values from the early 80s, when $5000 still bought a decent new car, and the average income was 25k (median around 20k).

Thanks. I made an edit. I should stop scrolling in the morning.

You mean north Tennessee? I wouldn’t count on them.

I read it, I think the ratchet theory is fucking stupid, especially once these candidates have been selected in a primary. The consultants will still be choosing positions for the next primary based on what primary voters did the previous time.

In the general election it’s too late for this bullshit and we can’t give Republicans ANY seats for ANY terms while their dictator is in power. This is exactly how we got Trump 2 and look how fucked the community is as a result!

One more term of Republican control could mean a genocide for Trans people, not just their rights.

$5.50 diesel vs the $3.75 high of the Biden years is $8,750 $875 a year extra in diesel for someone getting average 20mpg and driving 10,000 miles a year (both those are generous figures for coal rolling brodozer owners).

Edit: thanks I was a little tired when I divided the 10,000 in my head!

Now I need to look up real mileage and real driving distances too, it’s probably closer to 12k miles a year on average, but the real costs from expensive fuel are obviously the food production costs, and the delivery of everything.

Yeah turning off ad tracking gets you insane boner pill, fake health tricks, fake electrician tips, and all manner of shyster bullshit advertising from the lowest bidders if you ever load YouTube without an ad blocker.

I suspect the same will happen with this.

A platform that lets you only see people you anpprove and force opt-in to all others is probably a better plan.

Our 1/4 mile long road has a slight kink and telephone pole close to the road (and no sidewalks because our town hates poor people). Since Google maps shows it saving 1 minute over taking the adjacent main road, everyone bombs down it during rush hours and especially lunch time.

At least 1 mirror per week is rapidly disassembled by that pole. I’m collecting parts so that I can bring a bucket of it to the town meeting demanding they install a summer speed bump at the very least.

Seriously, both towns on either side have sidewalks, and crosswalks across the main roads. We only moved here to care for elderly parents and plan to leave as soon as the situation changes.