Both my parents (64) would say it was all exaggerations and he never said he wanted to be a dictator. He just says things to upset people.

And they found this to be a desirable quality in their candidate.

Loomer also took aim at U.S. representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who she said “carries roast beef in her pockets,” per TNR.

“I know she likes to eat at Arby’s,” Loomer added. When asked about whether she was trying to comment on Greene’s body or her sex life, Loomer said, “No. I’m talking about Arby’s, the sandwiches. I’m talking about Arby’s. I would — I’m a very direct person.”

I feel like I’m losing my grip on reality, am I supposed to take something away from this? Is this code or something? Are these people just trolling 24/7 like children despite being in charge of… everything?

Everybody who refuses to use Facebook has to make the same sacrifices that people who do not refuse to use it do not make. No amount of exposition will make us feel better about the fact Facebook continues to exist and contribute to the ruin of society in part because you are not willing to inconvenience yourselves like we already have. Same goes for you fucking X-fascists.

Edit: Every person downvoting this knows that they are a sack of shit because they know it sucks for society and they don’t give a fuck it’s all about ME ME ME. Well fuck the lot of you.

My entire family lives thousands of miles away and Facebook is all I have to feel connected with them.

Why feel compelled to defend yourself? Use it and accept that you support it - or don’t. No need to apologize to us, you’re not going to convince us that your use case is special or that phone calls and texting don’t exist.

I have never (and will never) use Threads. … Deceptive, garbage marketing practices from a deceptive garbage tech company.

Unfortunately, you use Facebook, which means you do support these practices. How much or how little you use Facebook doesn’t factor into it. Tangentially, it also means you use Threads, because using Facebook means you use anything Zuck wants you use. That’s literally how it works.

Edit: and of course the apologists come out with a nice little soundbite reply that completely ignores what I said here, which, to reiterate, is: defending yourself is a waste of your time because we’re going to “attack” you anyway. Using Facebook is bad for society and you should stop doing it.

Pb is gross

Premise rejected.

It’s worse than this even. I have an old Raspberry Pi 3B+ (1G) that I got in 2018. I hooked it up the other day to mess around with it, it’s been maybe 2 years since I did anything with it, ever since I got a Pi 4 (4G). 1 gigabyte of RAM is now insufficient to browse the web. The machine freezes when loading any type of interactive site. Web dev is now frameworks piled on frameworks with zero consideration for overhead and it’s pure shit. Outrageous.

Methamphetamine and cocaine in order to get nice and focused. Diet coke to keep a clean palate and provide a refresher as needed, but when the focus dies down, more meth and coke until I feel like my head is going to literally explode. While this is going on, I’m listening to Babymetal, Electric Callboy and any other party metal that gets my juices really flowing. I am relaxing, but I might clean the house also, sometimes Jesus just calls me. Eventually, it feels like I’m going to actually physically die so I decide the up cycle is over and I need to come nice and down. I take two hits of molly (which will be just fabulous in 20 minutes or so) but in the meantime, I need to take the edge off immediately, so I shoot two (fat) shots of Woodford Reserve Bourbon (typically Distiller’s Select, but I’ll slum on the basic stuff any day). This is the part where Pink Floyd is queued up. Typically Dark Side of the Moon, but also A Momentary Lapse of Reason, because the tears of Roger Waters fans serve to sustain me in these moments. I might also queue up some Dream Academy just to drive my love of David Gilmour home. The Molly kicks in, and I’ll almost always decide it’s time for a fruit and cheese board, grapes and brie, mixed nuts, apple slices and a really dry Manchego. Two more shots of Woodford and we’re just starting to get comfortable. Heroin is hard(er) to come by - but if I have it, it’s time to shoot it up. 10mg in .5ml suspension will be more than enough to complement the Woodford. If not, Fentanyl it is: I spin the wheel of fortune on the Mexican Percocet. Holy shit, I’m really feeling the groove now. This is where my love of 80s pop ballads kicks in. Stalwart standards like Duran Duran, Thompson Twins and Howard Jones pastiched with glam favorites like Poison, Motley Crue and Ozzy Osborne (God rest his soul). At this point I’m beginning to lose my ability to do remain conscious, and a nice glass of Merlot is absolutely necessary. The night must end with Enigma - anything off of Cross of Changes will do. If I remember anything in the morning, then I didn’t do it right and I need to start over.

Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default. Voting is private.

I don’t particularly care for these two items. I used to think user-curation was a good thing, but comparing Lemmy to Reddit, I have to say I no longer feel that way. Voting matters less on Lemmy and I think it’s better for it, all things considered.

feels a lot like early Reddit. Just need more active users.

Which will, ironically, ruin it.

And here I am, I don’t really like pop and I don’t really like metal but put them together and I’m in heaven.

Showerthought: mf is mezzo-forte. ff shouldn’t be fortissimo, it should be fezzo-forte.

Somebody in another thread took an interesting guess. It’s the kind of phrase you’ll find in legal demand letters and lawsuit notices and Christ knows he’s seen plenty of those. It made him feel weak so he uses it now because he wants to make others feel weak.

Damned if that doesn’t seem like a legit take to me.

If people are really dumb enough to eat this up, we’re fucked.

I’ve got some really bad news for you.

Rule of thumb: the more something is advertised, the more shit it is for one reason or another, and you’ll do well to avoid it altogether. When I’m advising people on contractors, my number 1 rule is: if they’re on TV, they’re criminals, I promise you.

This shitpost is bad and you should feel bad.

For me it’s because it seems evident that Microsoft wants Windows to be saas and here’s the thing: I don’t like Windows that much. For over 20 years now, I’ve preferred Linux for server stuff and Mac for daily driver stuff, I’ve only tolerated Windows, mainly for gaming.

Since Windows 7 died (I skipped 8 altogether and reluctantly have been dealing with 10 with lots of hacks to keep it locked down), I have only been barely tolerating it - and games were the sole reason.

Well, Proton has now obliterated that, conveniently right as Microsoft has decided that what people REALLY need is for them to be 100% shit. I refuse to install 11. So I’m out.

No, but I don’t use cloud at all, I have a system for doing manual local backups for all my machines. I also have two Windows machines for gaming (that I will be switching to Linux in October) and a Linux media server.

I subbed to salty caramel apple. Love the retro vibe.

I stay several generations behind on purpose now. For one thing, shit costs too much. My Mac is a 2020 Air I got from a friend when his dad died for $300. I can’t see myself getting rid of that anytime soon, as it replaced a 2012 model that is still going strong (and is the computer I take into the field for work).

I cannot stand the size of Apple’s phones, I had an 8 and then an SE and I tried then to move to a 12 and I absolutely hated everything about it, size, weight - the bullshit camera switching between lenses and turning my zoomed-in photos into bizarre cartoons.

I also far prefer the button, as I have to take hundreds of pictures a day for work and FaceID fails, either by not waking the phone up when I pull it from the holster or by just outright not recognizing me in the sweat and sunglasses, making me have to manually open it, shake it, enter the code, swearing the whole time.

I’m now on an SE2 and when I have to get rid of it I’ll go to SE3, but I don’t know what comes after that. Androids aren’t any better.

Came here specifically to say “Black” FUCK I hate that song.

DO DO DOOT DOO DO DO DOOOOOOO

I’m not exactly sure - far from it - but I have this theory that we might be witnessing the death throes of religion (via its secularization) even though it doesn’t quite look like it from the outside. All that repressed sexuality really fucks people up and when they get unmoored from it they go into a sort of psychic apoplexy, which is what we are witnessing. I’m grasping at straws here because goddamn is it weird rn.