It wasn’t that they’d go bad, it was the flexibility to have a spare, but more importantly an easy way to do a hard reset or even clear the CMOS.

He’s retiring after the end of this term, around the time he announced (I think) is when he kept “freezing” in public…

But he’s back out of his shell, and seems to have a reverse Fettermen situation going on…

https://newrepublic.com/post/196689/mitch-mcconnell-pete-hegseth-russia-ukraine

But McConnell has always been about the long game, he’s spent an entire lifetime setting up a conservative coup of the US government…

And then trump showed up out of nowhere and has zero patience or planning and is blowing the whole thing up by acting early.

It’s possible McConnell isnt pissed about what’s happening, he’s just mad they didn’t wait another decade or so till the coup would be a sure thing. But out of all the Senate Republicans, he’s by far been the most critical of this admin.

And the best search engine was HotBot. Fight me.

Dogpile 4 life…

30 some years ago?

Everything was just more fractured. Instead of a handful of options for social media, there were thousands of forums on their own websites. ICQ handled IMs and away messages was basically twitter. Before YouTube/spotify everyone used Winamp and internet radio streams for music, you didn’t have songs on demand, but compared to local “real” radio or MTV it was an overwhelming about of choice.

It’s honestly not that much different though.

Trolls trying to argue in bad faith.

The brand new accounts that keep asking this same question over and over again?

Yeah. They’re absolutely trolling this sub…

It’s trump…

If you’re trying to argue he’s loyal and won’t switch sides in an instant, well, I’d be shocked anyone but a trump supporter would say that.

trump supports whoever gave the largest bribe, or the most recent substantial bribe. Hed turn on Israel in a heartbeat if it was personally profitable

Since nothing is going to stand in their way, how can we make sure they are held accountable for generations to come?

All that needs done is America threatening to cut off funding.

If Obama hadn’t have done that, this would have all happened a decade ago

Biden openly said he’d never do that, and talked shit as VP when Obama did. Kamala said she’d be the same as Biden.

trump, depends on if someone bribes him more.

But if America gets a progressive president next with the courage to say “genocide is bad” and actually cut off Israel…

That will make Israel stop electing genocidal maniacs. The only reason they can vote for people like Bibi, is knowing no matter what they have the backing of America.

Without that, they wouldn’t constantly be attacking other countries.

It’s like if you had a annoying little brother that picks on everyone despite being small and weak, because if shit goes down, you protect them

Sometimes, you got to let your little bro learn what happens when no one else fights their fights for them…

Rental properties.

Get one of those label makers and label it “Ethernet” then forget for a couple years till someone tries to use it.

I mean, I always thought that was the point of all this…

Like, the strength of the fediverse is that any instance can go away for any number of issues.

Maybe admins go power mad, maybe the servers catch on fire, maybe a userbase just gets incredibly toxic.

But for whatever reason, instances will eventually go under

But the fediverse will keep going.

Everybody’s holy book says everyone else’s holy book is ballocks. I

Not really.

For the Abrahamic ones they built off the earlier ones.

The most named person in the Quran is Jesus after all, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Jesus beat out John Smith in the Book of Morman either.

Sometimes they rewrite it, sometimes they just copy/paste

I’m just going to ignore you

If you were ignoring people, you wouldn’t be responding to them saying “I’m ignoring you”.

Does that make sense?

To ignore someone, you simply ignore them. I can’t think of a simpler way to explain that…

So…

You won’t say what you want to say, until I tell you a place it’s allowed to be said?

Do you legitimately and truthfully not understand how that’s impossible?

How is anyone supposed to know where you can say something if you won’t tell them what you want to say?

Logically. How is anyone ever going to be able to answer your question?

Do you know any communities that allow criticism of transgenderism?

Again:

What kind of criticism?

Like I can criticize my friend for not recycling, no one will complain. If I say they shouldn’t be allowed to exist because of an immutable physical characteristic, I’d be a horrible fucking person.

So what exactly do you want to criticize besides their right to exist?

instead of only allowing comments that support the trans agenda.

The agenda of being able to exist?

What other “agenda” do you think they have?

What’s actually bad about it?

Like, this is something you opt into and is only relevant if you’re watching their ad supported stuff, which I don’t know anyone who watches that over their own media on Plex.

And honestly, every “bad” thing I’ve ever heard about Plex has been the same thing, something that sounds horrible until you understand it

If you’re watching their “free” content and agree to that box…

The title made it seem waaaaay worse than what the screenshot actually says

We’re gonna start running into kids who “learn” from AI.

Even if they never generated anything, they consume so much AI slop without knowing that they start to emulate the style because they think that’s how humans communicate

And also 1 post for 24 days. 0 comments?

Lots of brand new accounts make these posts about “fixing” the platform they’re on. Most of the time they have a different account, it’s just so toxic they know no one will listen to their ideas.

So they make a clean account that obviously doesn’t line up with the post.

It took a lot more than 4 weeks for it to get annoying…

A lemmy user lets say “blaze” who has many accounts. Its not unusual to see a new account with the name “blaze” in this circumstamce made by a completely different person who can use that to give the actual blaze a bad name which can lead to consequences for the actual blaze getting removed/blocked.

I’ve blocked them like ten times…

But they have to have like 30 accounts because I’m always seeing new ones and having to block them too

No one could ruin that person’s reputation more than they do themselves. No rational person makes that many identical accounts to use simultaneously.