I've found Thunder to be a great replacement with some modern, gesture and UX friendly enhancements. Raccoon for Lemmy is pure magic and I highly recommend it as well, but the UX and UI are more modern and has less of that RIF, old-school forum thread scroller vibe.

Us economy is driven by the military industrial complex. Taxpayer funded defense "aid" is given to countries, only for them to turn around and buy american weapons with said aid, thus funneling the money into private pockets. Legislature "pork" was/is notorious for kickbacks to local manufacturing plants for various military equipment. The entire scheme of "global defense" that the US has pushed over the last 70 years has been driven by the desire to monopolize military production and sales on a global scale. Sanctions are imposed on countries which otherwise agree ideologically with what the US professes are its ideals because those countries purchase arms from the US competitors, while notably hostile countries like Saudia Arabia are propped up bc they are good for business. Israel aid is given to be spent on US arms. The US doesn't give a shit how countries use their arms, as long as they're buying. Without the military industrial complex, much of the domestic economy would likewise grind to a halt. Hell, the US military is the biggest domestic employer. The system is simply not set up for a massive paradigm shift like that, though imo it's going to have to happen eventually because the current, unsustainable system is reaching it's last leg and starting to topple over.

Gotta say, I've been enjoying this saga. I'm curious to see how it wraps up

Pour one out for a real one. She's bangin' angels now.

Do you get off on having the absolute worst takes on every single thread, or are you legitimately that stupid?

Are the caravans in the room with us right now?

So who in the Democratic party gets to play kingmaker?

The same party insiders who've played kingmaker during the last two primaries

Absolutely agreed that he's miles better than the alternative, and if forced to vote for him I will, but it's not a good look for a party that markets itself as a sensible alternative to the dumpster fire that is the Republican party.

The man is clearly too old for the job and no amount of shining up the turd will make it anything other than a turd. Sure people will hold their nose and vote for it, but at the end of this whole thing, either way we're all covered in shit. And the thing is, it doesn't have to be that way.

Because it's clearly more than a fucking speech impediment or random words he misspoke a few times. People have eyes. No amount of spin is going to change the reality that he's an elderly man whose brain is slowly fucking degenerating in real time in front of our eyes.

Raises the question: does Lower Decks count as an anime?

One reason we like the remote thermostat is it allows us to adjust the temp automatically for house plants depending on temp and humidity.

By actually showing up and fucking voting?