Yes.

What era would you rather have been born in?

Why is there a watermelon there?

Subs or dubs?

Lemmy isn’t a site at all. It’s a piece of software.

I’ve just started doing #11 and intend to stay with it.

I think a central part of the strategy here is for Republicans who want to avoid being too brazen about their own lust for power to conveniently not oppose Trump but not overtly support him either, in the hope that they can reap the benefits while avoiding the blame.

And I like the idea of holding their feet to the fire - of driving home the fact that Trump isn’t doing any of this alone, but with the active support of Republicans at all levels and in all branches of government.

There are few things more painfully stupid than a mass media version of a scientific take on a matter with strong philosophical elements.

I obviously can’t know this is him, but it tracks.

More broadly, I’ve been certain for years that he spends a lot of time on 4chan. Anyone who’s at all familiar with /pol/ should be able to see that.

I’m not clear on what it is.

Broadly, they seem to have just lost track of the fact that their privilege is paid for by other people’s labor. Yeah - I think that part of it is thinking that AI can pick up the slack, but I think a lot of it is just not really thinking much at all.

I really think a lot of it, especially for Trump specifically, is looking at the amount of money that’s spent on social programs and education and housing and environmental protection and workplace safety and so on, and just dreaming about all the things he could buy with that much money.

I’m just the opposite.

I still own my SNES and all of its games from back in the day (and an NES, an original XBox and a PSX with their games), and they’re all in boxes in my garage. Pretty much as soon as emulation became viable, that became my preferred way to play, since I don’t have screw with wires and connections and consoles and cartridges or discs and all the rest of that clutter. I just click on an icon, select a game from a list, and away I go.

I was waiting for that one.

And no.

The same thing happens in state communism - in fact, it generally happens even faster, since the disconnect between work and reward is there from the start, and the party leaders are in such a perfect position to siphon off reward other people earned. They can do immediately what a capitalist system can only do after wealth has been concentrated and used to buy political power.

It comes with the establishment of a hierarchy by which some can arrange things such that they enjoy unearned privilege - it doesn’t much matter specifically how that hierarchy is established or nominally justified, and “capitalism” is just one of them.

At this point, I’m assuming that “reforms” that are going to lead to deaths are a deliberate eugenic strategy - that the underlying idea is that the owner class will be able to deal with problems privately, so it will be the working class that will be disproportionately affected and will disproportionately die, and that’s actually part of the point.

I wonder if there’s a specific name for that dynamic by which the ruling class separates work from reward so that they can keep the reward of other people’s work for themselves, then ends up conplaining that nobody wants to work any more.

Well… yeah. True.

Nobody tell him that when he says things like that, it doesn’t make them look pathetic - it makes him look pathetic.

I’d go even further - get them from people who emulatecthe games rather than people who play them on (or merely buy them for) the original hardware.

People who emulate retro games are demonstrably SOLELY interested in playing the games, without any of the collector cachet getting in the way.

Since Trump appears to have no personal stake in this (as opposed to his attacks on the Justice Department, the FBI, the federal court system and so on), I have to assume that this is something he’s doing entirely for Putin’s benefit.

So they’re basically voting explicitly to void the Constitution.

Interesting tidbit there…

Clinton was impeached for perjury - specifically for lying under osth.

The thing is though that the “lying” part of it wasn’t the actual crime. The “under oath” part is the actual crime. Perjury is actually the violation of a legally sworn oath, and it’s just that the oath to tell the truth in a court is the one most often violated

But violaing an oath of office is also technically perjury, and a crime, and impeachable. And congresspeople swear oaths to, among other things, uphold the Constitution.

So that could be interesting if the Democrats demolish the Republicans in the midterms.

It likely won’t be, since Congresspeople are pretty much universally corrupt cowards, but still…

Those aren’t actually lemmy.world communities.

Everything on that list is a community on that instance (whatever it is - lemm.ee I guess).

For example, a post from a lemm.ee account to [email protected] is actually a post to an entirely separate community - [email protected]@lemm.ee That lemm.ee community is a mirror of the lemmy.world community (and of all the other communities on all the other instances that mirror it.

That’s how federation actually works. You never actually leave your home instance, and what seems like a post to a community on another instance is actually a post to a locally hosted mirror of that community.

On another note, I wonder, as I generally do, how they define “autism.”

I wonder because my own opinion, quite seriously, is that an awful lot of what’s included in “the spectrum” is actually a superior way of seeing the world and of conducting human interactions - an evolutionary gain for humanity.

I think there’s no question that humans for whom the very idea of injecting unnecessary emotion into an interaction or hiding ones true morivations behind a screen of deception is entirely foreign are clearly superior to those who wallow in emotionalism and lies, and further, I think that at some level, the lying manipulators fear that that’s exactly the case. At the very least, they don’t know how to deal with us - they’re lying and manipulating for all they’re worth and we just insist on ignoring their emotivism and rejecting their lies.

So again, as I generally do, I’m wondering how exactly these particular lying manipulatirs are defining “autism.”

Even if he has to make it up.

Only much, much uglier.