Calcifer

These look great! Did you follow a particular recipe?

I have one of these, and I really love it honestly. I mostly love that it folds so it actually fits in my pocket. I have tiny hands, and tiny emo girl skinny jean pockets, so the super long flat phone is terrible for me and it fits nicely. The folding screen itself is cool too, since I can prop it up or scroll with it at an angle if I want to. I can set it like a little old school makeup compact and have the top part of the screen be YouTube or something. My model has a screen on the cover as well, and that I can use Spotify directly on and skip songs in a Playlist, pause music etc. Which is nice when I’m on my walk outside, as I don’t even need to unlock my phone or open it to navigate.

I put a screen protector on it, the screen protector does wear out eventually but I’m going on two years of use with no issues on the underlying screen, just replaced the peel and stick screen protector once.

That said, I am rethinking my device use and consumption in general. I’ll get another screen protector when I need it, would love to get several more years of use out of it if I can.

This drastically depends on what part of Oregon you’re moving to (and FYI outside of the city areas is likely very similar to your red state in many ways) but around PDX there are a lot of small hobby stores. Also not my area of expertise but looks like there is URS Electronics and Surplus Gizmos that might fit what you’re looking for.

Mysteriously, Twitter also was miraculously “valued” at what he bought it for this week… All the same tricks everywhere.

I’ll have to see if I can find the video again, but I saw someone do a really interesting analysis on why this happens. The central idea was that it’s due to a whole ideology based on conformity. Everyone converges on the same “look” not necessarily because they even like it (though many of the choices do clearly represent a white cishet ideal) but because they hate the “alternatives”. For example, “creative” hair colors and makeup are things people do to try to be more individual, which is why these women paint those choices as “tacky” or marks of being an “evil lib” etc. Their fashion choices are self-limiting by design.

Okay, obvious queerphobia/freedom of expression issues and “how are these malignant societal tumors still on the debunked litter box thing” aside… Do none of these idiots remember that children often role play as animals because they have imagination and they are children? Have they even met children?!? Pretty sure “horse firefighters” or “we’re all evil cats today” etc. are a common type of game played at recess or whatever. They have nothing to do with being a furry and everything to do with just regular human development? Are these people really paranoid and threatened by childhood make-believe games?

I found a witchy memes community, which does have a similar feel, but would love to see WVP come to Lemmy. After the last reddit fiasco a few years ago they spun up a discord very quickly (honestly terrible format, but it did gain a lot of traction). A fair amount of users would probably join to give Lemmy a go if they opened up a community here.

At this point, I don’t know if even someone trusted would be able to change his mind. Admitting to being wrong about vaccines means admitting he basically killed their daughter. Horribly sad.

I am impressed at the level that this man (allegedly) scared the ruling class. I think they’re making a critical mistake though in assuming that these types of crackdowns combined with a spiraling economy won’t just make people who are even more desperate and motivated.

It hurt itself in it’s confusion!

The stock market is generally more of a “rich people’s feelings” graph - very few Americans relatively are invested in any meaningful way, most if they are do so through a 401k or similar. That said, what “the market” hates most is uncertainty - and there’s quite a lot of reasons to be uncertain at the moment between tariff threats and mass layoffs (not to mention geopolitical tensions).

Importantly though (and this is just a personal opinion) I think many stocks on the market are way overvalued. Executives and investors have used every trick in the book to “make a line go up”, which means they aren’t really operating on any business foundation designed for longevity or to withstand swings in the market. There’s bubbles lurking in a lot of sectors. I’d guess at least some of this downwards momentum will be a market correction for some of these issues.

As always though, it’s the folks invested through pensions and 401ks that have the most to lose relatively. The big players have probably already taken out their cash and are just waiting to see what they can buy up in a crash.

“A computer can never be held accountable - therefore a computer must never make a management decision”. - IBM Training manual, 1979.

So jazzed to live here in the future where we have AI making insurance denials and deciding drone targets! /s

Good on her for standing against the Silicon Valley doom hype machine.