Catoblepas

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I don’t know what about that comment signaled to you that I’d be okay with my family members that live in a red state dying because RFK fucked with vaccines, but I’m not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Where you live is a location, not an ideology.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Mask your biohazard self if you’re not getting vaccinated for the next 4 years, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

In practice what it probably means is removing all the modern preservatives and added vitamins/minerals. Who’s excited to get goiter and pellagra?!

Doing that would also mean a return to traditional preservatives: salt and sugar. Because we don’t have enough of that in the American diet already.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago

If you needed a trans person to come tell you this is not okay: hi! Here I am! Don’t do this. All it does is advertise that you view using someone’s correct name as a privilege that can be revoked for bad behavior.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If anything that makes it more important. We already know how essentially all the Democrats are going to vote. A couple of Republican defections is all it takes to hold the Senate.

The key here is they don’t have to defect on everything. Turning every Republican senator into a never Trumper isn’t happening. But making some of them defect some of the time is a lot more feasible, and requires constant pressure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Again, easy to tell others to do it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It’s real easy to tell other people to flush their livelihoods down the drain and also go to prison so that they can never help anyone ever again.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

God, the doomerism in the comments here fucking sucks. If you won’t even pick up a phone why am I expected to believe you’ll be the hardest antifa soldier there ever was when the revolution comes (which, conveniently, is never)?

This is more embarrassing than those people who spend real life money prepping for a zombie apocalypse. At least those people have things that might actually be useful in a real disaster.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It is literally night and day for queer people. Large accounts can’t post about queer subjects on Twitter without harassment anymore due to how the algorithm works, but if you subscribe to a couple of block lists on Bluesky that is GONE. You might run into the odd freak, but community run block lists will keep the tide at bay.

When Mastodon takes user safety practices as seriously as Bluesky does I’ll consider switching.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (4 children)

My memory of the exacts here are fuzzy, but I think this depended on whether or not your TV picked up digital signal, analog, or both. I remember around that time we had a TV that would pick up static on some channels and have a blue input screen on others.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, my youngest sibling has definitely seen CRTs. My niblings probably haven’t, though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

They haven’t called the results of the minimum wage vote yet, god dammit! Don’t take this from me yet!

 
 
 
 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/13137257

FBI Indicts Doc Who Leaked Trans Kids’ Medical Info to Chris Rufo

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16314906

From Us Steel 1960 series - by Syd Mead

 
 

It has always amused me that the tourists to the US that I’ve spoken to are often very excited to see raccoons, and disappointed if they don’t see them before they leave.

Some others I’ve noticed on the east coast of the US are blue jays and cardinals. Boy, do people get excited about those if they’ve never seen them before! Very pretty birds of course, just very easy to get used to and see as uninteresting as well.

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