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Hi, I’m The Fediverse Chick, and I’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty!

No, they’re unreliable enough that whoever they want to be caught, will be caught.

“Our state is declaring that no matter what you do to make up for your wrongdoing, we reserve the right to kill you.”

How do you “make up for” killing two people with a baseball bat? I’ve got my own qualms about the death penalty, but that’s not exactly something you walk back from.

I’ve heard that this is the reason dogs will tilt their head when looking curiously at something, as this lets them better differentiate sound positions vertically.

Replace us govt with Elon

Conservative erotica.

Your mouth and anus are the same tube.

So did I at that age, but how do they feel about Elon?

(Kidding, kidding)

Uhh, isn’t that kinda against the whole point of being a spokesperson in the first place? To put a name and a face behind a message?

Dunno why The Verge plays along.

“Local news blocked,” one employee said. “So if there was a local shooting or something, I wouldn’t be able to see.”

Seems like this burger has some fries on the side.

My Bill Murray story:

I live in Austin, but I never go to SXSW because it’s an absolute clusterfuck. Some time in the early 2010s, some friends managed to finally drag me out to a few free shows one year. We were getting drinks at this bar that had a bunch of bands playing, and after a while we see Bill Murray is behind the bar serving drinks. Like, actually Bill Murray. I didn’t think it was him at first, because nobody seemed to even notice that Bill fuckin’ Murray is tending bar right now. He definitely wasn’t there when we walked in, but that’s him right now, taking orders at the bar.

Though, “taking orders” may be generous. He’d hear your order. He’d nod his head, say “Comin’ up”, and pour you a shot of tequila. Doesn’t matter what you actually ordered, he gave you tequila. Oh you wanted a whiskey sour? Sure thing, here’s some tequila. Margarita with a lime wedge? You betcha, enjoy your tequila. Oh your table wants another round of Lone Stars? You betcha, six tequilas, on the way.

One of the bands got really angry with him, saying that he got them too drunk to play, and blamed him for ruining their set. Dude gets on the mic and says “I’m sorry you guys, y’all deserve better… but fuckin Bill Murray over there got us shitfaced!” And then Bill shouts from behind the bar “I don’t even work here!”

Never went back to SXSW. Why would I, when it’d be impossible to top that experience?

While defeating such a restriction is usually trivial, the point isn’t so much to stop you from using the app, as much as it is to make you aware of just how much time you’re spending on it. Sometimes being made aware of how much time you’re dedicating to a habit can help you in breaking it.

I know somebody who used a similar mechanism to quit smoking. He’d tally up each cigarette he’d have throughout the day, and having a number to reference helped to quantify the problem for him. Counting his smokes wasn’t what made him quit, but it helped him realize just how severe his problem was, so he was able to actually find the motivation to do something about it. Similarly, an app timer may trigger the thought of “I keep spending more time on this app than I promised myself I would, I need to figure out what keeps drawing me to do this”.

Have we learned nothing from Jurassic Park?

I used to play RF2 multiplayer on GameCube with my brother when we were kids. We’d go onto that space map and try to snipe each other from across the map with the railgun.

The early RF games are really underrated.

Americans who support Ukraine

voting for the orange hatred

There is nearly zero overlap on this Venn diagram.

I’ve been wanting a replacement for ages now. The problem is that Discord does everything it does very well (with a few exceptions), way better than any of its competitors. It’s incredibly hard to replace, because no other product really matches it in any category. Cost, ease of use, feature set, cross-app API support… Nobody else comes close; even if you paid a ton of money for premium services to replace Discord, you’re still likely going to downgrade your overall experience.

I really want to see more competition in this space.

This advice only applies if you have inkjet showers, this isn’t an issue if you have a laser shower.

I’m a bit torn on the idea, myself. On one hand, fuck fascists, don’t let ‘em have an inch. But on the other hand, this does kinda take away a users’ freedoms with the software.

Honestly, I think it’s fine if it’s a plugin or something that you can install at your own discretion or something. Or if it’s baked-in, it should be an opt-in setting. I’m of the opinion that the actual software, itself, should be apolitical. It’s something I can respect the Lemmy devs for, after all; even though I disagree with their politics, the actual Lemmy code is politically agnostic, and I think that’s for the best.

Die Of Gonorrhea, Elon

Betcha won’t make that mistake twice, Jon!

At what point do we declare this a coup? This isn’t what even the most diehard conservatives out there voted for, I don’t understand how this isn’t considered a hostile takeover.