For years my reaction to this has always been the same. Who uses straws?

It appears that you are looking to get all of the benefits of community, while absolving yourself of any of the responsibilities. You want to use someone else’s i stance, without having to follow any of their rules. You want to have your own little safe space to spew whatever it is that obviously goes against community guidelines, but also for that space to be able to interact freely with the community. We don’t want to interact with you on that level, that’s why we are all here, following those rules.

If you really want a place where you can say whatever shitty thing you think everyone eeds to hear, then go make your own instance.

Which will be de-federated from all of these instances.

‘I wish the US government would finally go after corporations!’ Monkeys paw curls.

Dude, the ice was melting at the North Pole a couple days ago. Real world results show us in all of the fastest tracked models, and just like every year, we released more co2 than we did the year prior. This is why I can’t share the same optimism as people like Dr Michael Mann, why would I take the best case model when humanity exhibits worst case behavior?

I’m saying that won’t be a factor in their decision. In a sane world, you would want to avoid that. Over here in the Land of the Free, y’all can raise our costs by 25% and the people at the top will pander about how unfair the 35% increase is while pocketing the extra money the whole time. When all news sources a person gets parrot that same information repeatedly, the populace buys in.

Sadly, you are very mistaken if you believe that anyone in America, including large portions of its populace, are concerned with actual health outcomes or costs. I once had a coworker use the fact that his mother currently could not afford the costs of her broken hip as a reason that we should NOT have universal healthcare access. Literally told me ‘where is her help’ while also asking why he should pay for others healthcare.

We will darken our skies before we make the needed changes.

Love it, Trump is sanctioning us for being dumb enough to re-elect him. Is there a term for the schadenfreude you get when just trying to cope? Copenfreude?

In Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future, having a government backed social media platform helped to turn around humanity’s prospects. Since we are obviously in the dark timeline, we get government twitter.

My thoughts exactly. Releasing water before the growing season begins makes zero sense. They said it wasn’t to make capacity for an upcoming storm either so just pure dumbassery all around.

I’ve never seen (or heard of it until) now, but Will Oldham may also be known as the musician Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billie. Will give it a watch sometime.

‘You were there for us for covid’, haha Newsome really knows how to get under his skin.

Holy shit that’s great! Gonna get a lot of use from that the next four years.

Oh cool, they get to play the moderates when he gets confirmed 51-49. I forgot all about the distraction we get from the two of them, just wish ol’ Mittens was still around to espouse the need for decorum as the furnaces are lit.

These asshats are gonna come back and say ‘if this was such a violent event, why aren’t there any convictions four years after it happened?’

Song got me through the first year of covid. Absolutely love the Mountain Goats.

I’ve always loved self-deprecating jokes, I’m just not very good at them.

Ohioans also like to claim first in flight, even though it happened in NC.

Now that we’ve identified it, it’ll just be a short time before it never gets resolved.

When this first got announced, I remember reading a comment on here saying something along the lines of, Qualcomm has zero interest in purchasing Intel but they do want to look at where they can hurt them the most so they really go under.