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I see you’ve never played Diablo II

PS: I don’t vote for speeding up the destruction of the world. Full stop.

1. Yes, you do, if you vote for a centrist Dem.
2. Translation: “I do vote for genociders.”

Keeping Dem incumbents in power by slavishly voting for them every time they come up for re-election is exactly how the party has stayed as limited as it has. Your solution works exactly as long as it takes for shitty centrist Dems to fuck everything up (with help from climate change and the generally awful state of the world right now), at which point the country swings back to the fascists. Your whole argument was made in 2020, and your side won then. Would you say “harm reduction” has worked? I wouldn’t.

PS: I don’t vote for genociders, full stop.

Buddy, I’m old enough to remember when Obama had 60 votes in the Senate while they were doing Obamacare. The vaunted public option, we were told, was a non-starter, because we only had 55 or so votes in support of it.

Then, a while later, they decided to do it via reconciliation, so they would only need 51 votes. But! The public option was still a no-go, because we only had like 48 or so votes in support of it. The other 7, we were told, still supported the public option–but not via reconciliation.

This is how the Democrats operate, and why voting for them never achieves anything meaningful: they are lying to you about what policies they support.

very interesting

Is it, though? It seems extremely boring to me, honestly

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So nakoichi, having been on the site since the first handful of days of its existence, went to the trouble of posting this comment to hide their tracks? Ngl, I think this is an absurd claim.

You’re positively wrong, then. OP’s account is 9 months old. The thread in question occurred a year ago.

Why let publishers gatekeep you? Indie publishing is easier than it’s ever been (not joking). You do probably have to make a deal with the devil (Amazon), but it’s definitely doable.

I’m an SE, have the issue where I complain to friends making more than half what I make and they just scoff at me because I should be happy that I make money/have a job/etc. Complained to a therapist that I need to quit because this job will kill me, told don’t do that the market is bad and you make a lot of money.

All the bottling up left me even more burned out because there’s truly no end in sight and no one to listen to my woes about this “amazing job” that’s absolutely killing me.

I feel this so hard, no one really sympathizes when you have a “good job” that’s making you miserable, and it feels foolish to just walk away, so you end up feeling stuck. I’ve been at my current job for over 14 years now and even though it keeps getting steadily worse*, and I keep getting lonelier (and older), I can’t think of a better alternative, so I just stay put.

*Nowhere near as bad as OP has it, though; I recently let my GitHub copilot license lapse because I never use it, and no one has criticized me for doing so. But that, too, only contributes to the too-good-to-leave issue.

https://hexbear.net/post/249555

The OP gives the correct side. The other side is basically, “Fuck you, I’ll do what I want.” (Yes, really.)

The Kingston Trio version of Where Have All the Flowers Gone always hits hard. It’s a Pete Seeger song originally but I believe it was the Kingston Trio that tacked on the extra final verse, and I think it adds a lot

Obama?

Ack nvm I guess he won his Senate race in '04, my memory was faulty here

Would prefer '28 tbh. Long shot, I know, but it has been done in the recent past (edit: sort of)

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They remain the gold standard, and unbreakable, and always will. Problem is, you need to distribute the pad(s) to the people doing the communicating beforehand

Personally, I like it. And I’m not the only one here who does: https://hexbear.net/post/8317101

PS: it is my opinion that the people shitting on it here in this thread absolutely do not get it at all

It actually is, yeah: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/49387821/lionel-messi-viral-lamine-yamal-baby-photo-incredible-playing-world-cup-final

Yes, but if you’re looking to have a long-term burner smartphone separate from your main phone, grapheneOS is pretty much the only secure option I’m aware of (although ‘long-term burner’ is a bit of an oxymoron, admittedly, given that a true burner is one-time-use).