Yeah, well two days ago I made little ramekin sized cheesecakes with no bake cheesecake, chocolate mousse, and a graham cracker crust as a nice gesture and it had the opposite effect.
So, suck it, you cracker-lovin’ kill-joys!

Hehe. Horny Grahams.

No, because there isn’t a single IP range or user agent, and many developers are going to lengths to defeat anti-scraping measures, which include user agent spoofing as well as vpns and the like to mask the source of the traffic.

It helps because just like all the things Reagan destroyed, the American people will never be able to get those things back. Even when they do vote in politicians that pretend to represent them, the U.S. political system is too easily swayed with donor money to allow in things that truly benefit people again.
And if the government can close or sell facilities by the time sane policies prevail again (if they ever do), then it still benefits ‘them’, because the government can’t just create land and buildings from nothing. The only places they would be able to do that are new towns and rural areas. (White flight areas and conservative areas) So, you know, destroyed government services can’t even be reliably recreated in population-dense areas. (Cities - liberal areas)

I mean, it doesn’t help normal people, but it sure helps all the businesses that trade well-being for dollars. They’re going to do great.

Do you instinctively shudder and roll your eyes when you hear “Fever” start playing?

A shaken Stephen Miller is trying to figure out which family members he can threaten to deport to gain leverage over the ‘epic rap battles’ guys, so they can beatbox us into WW3.

Not without prosthetics.

The mask really gets in the way of eating ass, though.

All of the red ‘notification’ dots on my apps give off a nice warm glow that makes the screen feel homey.

Silliness aside, it’s an act of self care to only do what you have the desire and capacity to do. Don’t make yourself unhappy for an expectation that you get to set.

Senior English teacher was having an affair with a student. She disclosed this to another teacher who, herself, was rumored to be at our school because she slept with students in her previous school district. (The second teacher was very friendly with the senior boys.) The second teacher reported the first, and the entire school believed the first teacher got caught giving a blowjob to the boy she was sleeping with. When confronted, the teacher and the boy admitted their relationship to administrators.
I know this because I read it on the report our school principle had written up after a virus took down our school’s network and they accidentally put it back up without all the ‘walls’ in place.

I think it also comes and goes in waves. For a while, a specific model of Ford SUV was having its factory alloy rims stolen. Because they were being stolen so much, and there weren’t replacements available, junk yards were able to sell rims they ‘happened’ to buy sans vehicle for near retail prices. They also paid more for the wheels than other parts, so it was sort of a self-sustaining theft economy.

Huh. It’s like little criminal entrepreneurs chasing pricing bubbles in inelastic goods. But they also create demand for those goods by doing crime.

They say regulations are written in blood.

Elaine Chao is a conservative government official who is famous for not enforcing safety rules or following up on safety complaints and may have violated ethics laws while Secretary of Transportation under Trump’s first regime. While in that role, she rubber stamped a sketchy driver control system implemented by Tesla that later helped kill her own sister (in addition to drunk driving).

Can the lightning bolt of consequences strike twice?

They are FLIGHTLESS birds, okay? Thems the rules.

I hate voicing my dark thoughts sometimes because it feels like breathing life into them, but the nationwide protests are set to occur again on April 19th. On April 20th, there’s all that hoopla about hitting the 90 day point for the Trump admin releasing a determination if they can use the enemies and insurrection act.
Ostensibly the original executive order was about the southern border, but really, all that needs to happen is violence at 1 or two rallies, for the police to either over-react, or for them to pull back and let die-hard Trump supporters who already think we’re in a civil war to commit a terror attack against the protestors, and enough random footage that the news channels can skew the interpretation and put it on a loop.

And it’s sort of self-perpetuating from there. If he invokes the insurrection act, then arrests someone beloved (or at least widely liked), I can’t imagine it wouldn’t trigger more protests, which get targeted more, and in much the same way the anti-genocide protests were. Except instead of playing the protests as a way to portray national support for Trump as divided (as republicans did under Biden), they’ll portray protestors as anti-American revolutionaries plotting to take away guns and replace them with strap ones and forced gender transitions or some nonsense.

And for those who aren’t rich but have jobs with decent employer-provided healthcare, it will make those people fearful of undertaking any protest actions that may see them on the wrong side of a doxxing campaign or an illegal detention.

It’s about threading fear through the fabric of society.

Those darn millennials!
Such rascals.

Those are very well considered points, but Trump is an idiot.

Wait, wait, wait.

Trump, under the direction of parties unknown, is trying to force the EU to buy U.S. energy resources, and that’s the linchpin of his trade war with them?

Is he trying to give Europe a nudge back to Russian oil supplies?

Either my testosterone is high or low but doesn’t the chart above say it covers 16k men and is from 2018?
(I know it also says a longitudinal study, but I wouldn’t consider the inception to be the year the study is from.)

Back then the internet was a bunch of coffee shops. Not literally, of course - but for me it was about 30 people on messenger, my favorite chatroom, a random message board, a small but far flung group of people on LiveJournal, and sometimes even my Neopets guild.
Each was my own retreat. The weird and funny stuff we shared there was created and shared because people had a passion for whatever. It also was great in that you could learn about something, and share it with another group that had not seen it yet.

Today the internet is the infinite cul-de-sacs of meme pages, political messaging groups, and disinformation rings on Facebook, along with approximately 6 people that keep showing up from your friends list of hundreds. Or it’s the screaming gladiatorial stadium of Reddit, where the sheer volume of noise smothers any particular voice. Maybe it’s the infinite lawless Walmart of X or even the carefully manicured Target that is BlueSky.
From mining your attention, to hawking trinkets amidst the spectacle, or attempting to sell a little bit of everything to anyone, the new internet lacks third places. It’s all business, all the time, and you can feel it. Every meme is created to engage with that platform’s broadest audience. Everything is homogenized and lacks uniqueness. All the content has been aggregated and reshared, and in the endless and futile search for validation from the algorithm it’s lost something that makes it meaningful.

And that’s why I like Lemmy. It’s a digital third place.