You get offline and interact with real people in your community.

lol imagine if Harris, Biden, Obama, HRC did this.

To each their own, but similar to glp-1, not for me. I’ll just age naturally and do my best to maintain levels via diet and exercise.

I had one of the weirdest conversations with acquaintances at a lunch outing one time, and it was about them using testosterone to, uh, not look like Joe Rogan? Idk. They were all conservatives and certainly the first to be opposed to LGBTQ+ rights or other forms of gender-affirming care.

I listen to a lot of music in languages I don’t understand. Growing up I especially loved Rammstein. No clue what they were saying until I was older, but feeling is feeling.

There’s a time for both instrumental and vocals, and that’s of course dependent on my mood and focus. I’ll put on something like an elder scrolls soundtrack or lo fi hip hop if I need to focus.

Yeah. I’m sure China dominance is going to be so much better /s

Idk if it was White Lotus or what but I don’t even find her that attractive. Aubrey Plaza does deadpan stare better.

MCAB welcomes you.

Citizens United spelled the final nail in the coffin.

It should come as no surprise that with the

• Decentralization of media,
• The massive rise in wealth inequality and number of billionaires,
• Deregulation of money as speech,
• And foreign interference from Russia, Israel, China, etc. muddying the waters…

… And finally, combined with

• Eroding education standards
• Distancing of parents from their children
• Widespread mental disorders and substance addiction and sometimes literal brain damage (lead poisoning, head trauma from football, etc.)

… That intellectualism is losing the race. These people live in completely alternate realities. Principals of religious faith have now fully been incorporated into political ideology. Once untethered from reason, it’s all about what you want to believe.

I’ll keep a foot in both; for as much as I like Lemmy, its marketing and intuitiveness blows and will sadly likely forever remain niche. That has its qualities, but also its downsides.

Ah you got the early access for a couple bucks? I’m bummed I missed the window.

I have a lot of things to say having been in the software, journalism domain and thought heavily about conceptualizing what such a platform may look like for the betterment of society. Jimmy Wales has been trying, too. Was on their discord for a bit but I was a little skeptical of their direction, even if noble.

I confess, I’ve been cautiously optimistic about the new old Digg. What’s BS about it in your view?

Digg is returning to something resembling its OG days.

It’s being led by the unusual partnership of Alex Ohanian (one of 3 co-founders of Reddit, better than Huffman), and Kevin Rose (Digg founder).

They bought back the rights and are building it now. It may end up being more popular than reddit.

This kind of shit really leads me to believe that Russia has a sizable chunk of our government bought. The only thing this does is make us weaker on the national stage. Not only makes us a laughing stock with our closest allies (note the weird tariffs with Canada as another example of sabotage), but makes our enemies like Russia comparatively stronger.

Owl is who came to mind for me while Tigger represented ADHD

Addiction, OCD, Anxiety, Arrogance, ADHD, Depression.

WtP hit hard.

What conservatives alsp forget is their own system of capitalism they worship is what drives its high cost of living. People want to live there. If there wasn’t a demand to live there, cost of living would lower.

More homeless are seen in the west coast states also because the climate is more hospitable, and the governments and people a little more so, too. Also because right-wing media magnify the problem.

Dota without question. CS along with some rts games like zero hour and CoH used to be up there but it’s not even close. Got to a ranked immortal at my peak. Still, was a lot of fun playing with friends and family, so not like it was always a solo activity. Glad I quit though.

I guess psychopaths run in the family.

Normally the function of pardoning was self-regulating in that the media would exscoriate any President who did it in such an abusive way and the electorate would punish them and their party accordingly at the ballot box.

But corruption has become normalized and media has been completely hijacked by billionaires that reality isn’t so clear cut as it once was.

WaPo article from junior reporter brought on long after Bezos took over and began putting his thumb on the scale.

Article is trying to will this narrative into reality by pretending it’s already happening.