If they voted Republican, they voted for exactly this.

There is just no other way to spin it.

Have the day you voted for.

If America has another legitimate election before it has another civil war, I will be shocked.

Because evidence is oozing out of the woodwork that the last election was stolen.

The only vehicle I will ever buy is one I have full and total control over. No remote shutdown, no DRM, no limp-home mode, nothing to prevent me from using it and enjoying it.

When you target journalists, your enemy is the truth.

There are a lot of reasonable people who can get behind that statement…

Yyyyyup.

“Desert Racists”
“Swamp Racists”

ROTFLMAO 🤣🤣🤣

Bloody accurate, you are.

We are absolutely fucked.

Oh, it’s worse than that. We may have fucked the planet and all life on it.

Anything that is in motion - like the climate - has an “inertia”.

In past warming events, the planetary ecosystem was able to migrate across thousands of kilometers to provide “resistance” to that inertia, because said climate changes were happening across tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years.

Our current changes are happening in 0.01% of the time.

That means it has massive inertia, and there is far too little time for carbon-sequestering ecosystems to migrate in order to survive. That even if we stop pumping out CO2e - and no, our output is still accelerating - the feedback loops that are kicking off across the planet will push us into +12-16℃ of warming without any more input from us.

You know what happens at +12-16℃ of warming? A Venus Scenario.

And we are now discovering credible evidence that warming has kicked into overdrive in the last 2-3 years, in that we will see more warming in the next 10 years than we have seen in the last 50. Think +3℃ by some time in the late 2030s, and +4℃ by the 2050s.

And you know what will happen at +4℃? The extinction of megafauna - anything over 45Kg - planet-wide. Including humans.

Fun times.

Every time I see food with gaps, that scene with Stitch going “NO TOUCHY!!” to Lilo pops into my head.

The Socratic Method tends to be effective in many cases so long as the other person remains open to reason and logic, especially the requirement for evidence.

From Google? Probably vibe-coded crap.

Brainwashing gets increasingly easy the younger the subject is. Children, in particular, have an evolutionary need to automatically trust adults and what adults tell them, as they don’t yet have the cognitive tools to handle the world around them. Trusting adults have been baked into that part of childhood development because, historically speaking, it gave a distinct evolutionary advantage. Those children that listened to adults had a much stronger probability of surviving until adulthood.

It’s why religions so strongly proselytize the young – get them young, get them for life.

Take a large country, like Canada. Promote some truly leftist politicians (and not just solid centrists like the NDP) to see if the country can go left on political merit alone.

Then, if that happens, move to a minimalist socialist state using UBI and degrowth policies. Nationalize any truly inelastic needs - healthcare, education, utilities, mass transportation, Vienna-style social housing, the like.

Go with a hands-off policy for anything else - including corporate welfare. Loans for small businesses, yes, but a complete and abrupt end to corporate hand-outs of any kind. If a company cannot compete, it should be allowed to collapse no matter how big it is.

In the end, the only government left would be institutions to nurture the people, maintain their safety and rights, protect the country, uphold laws, redistribute wealth, and preserve the environment.

All you have to do is make it illegal to expose or proselytize religion to anyone under 22, and religion would likely die out within 2-3 generations.

When you have been raised as a rationalist and know, at a fundamental level, the bullshit detection system called the Scientific Method, you need to have some pretty powerful mental illness in play to willingly grasp at religion.

I find myself bizarrely conflicted - for the first time in my life - with wanting Disney to actually win a copyright/piracy lawsuit.

Strange times. Strange f**king times.

One is light hosting using VMs. It boots normally.

The other is for experimenting on various OS’ in VMs. It does not boot normally. Even before the 2nd CPU caddy, it always POSTed 10 times - no more, no less - with a memory error code before booting into the hypervisor. And yet, no issues with memory, no issues with RAM slots themselves. Or, at least, it’s affecting all 4 of the on-mobo slots equally.

Oh hey, another T7500 owner! You have the second-CPU caddy installed in that thing?

All Lemmy instances need to implement Anubis ASAP.

I’m morbidly curious about the downvoter we routinely have in posts like this… cultivated ignorance or religious anti-reality?