vanontom

joined 1 year ago
[–] vanontom@geddit.social 13 points 1 year ago

I never thought about this at the time. It was all just shocking and frankly pathetic. Didn't realize the men had the least at stake, while women had the most, but were not allowed to join the fight. Many men probably didn't care or even resented the "changes". (Women's rights. Sounds familiar. MAGA?) Unwilling to put up any kind of fight for that kind of future for their partners and daughters.

I wonder what most Afghan women think of these men now. And if joining the military was ever a realistic possibility, and could have changed the result.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago

Nice! I've never caught one exiting. What a showoff with this backward dive. Somehow I've actually seen them more times screaming from a bird's mouth...

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what DeJoy is really doing behind the scenes. Slow walking everything? Inserting his companies into transactions? Are there literally any electric USPS trucks delivered or in service yet from the (very strangely) "chosen" manufacturer? How is the quality? He has not earned the trust back yet.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, Pulsar feels exactly like Atom, which I've enjoyed for years. Portable mode still works, bonus. My main complaint is the massive file size of install (over 1GB, no lighter option), which seems excessive and unnecessary for my use.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is fish considered meat?

We’re not sure what this all means for the fish sticks from deep in the freezer aisle, but from a definitions-based perspective, a fish out of water sure appears to be meat.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 2 points 1 year ago

raises hand

I actually like cars. (They're... "cool". I play Forza sometimes, lol.) But the reality is they're fucking expensive to maintain, along with insurance and taxes and fuel. And very much not fun to drive under normal circumstances, next to removeds and idiots. And terrible for the environment, at absurd US numbers at least.

I'd rather save thousands of dollars and have public transit or easily maintained bike. But bikes are not viable when planet is trying to kill us (Texas is 100-110 °F for 2 months straight now).

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maher completely lost focus after T**** was kicked out of the White House. Last I checked, he was obsessed with GOP culture war nonsense (woke, gen z, etc). Spends valuable time on show whining about personal problems (like his mansion's solar panels). Increasingly out of touch, or unable to care about important issues. Needs to be liked more than ever (esp. certain celebs, see Musk interview). Extremely sensitive about his age. He'll be off HBO soon, unless daddy CEO loves him.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago

And that is literally his legal argument as well. "Your honor, I'm a fucking clown! Exclusively nonsense! No reasonable person could possibly believe I'm an honest source of information! Defamation suit won!?" (No.)

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's almost as if she was conveniently placed at her exact position without actually being qualified.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wanted to stay with World. But they are literally constantly having severe problems (errors, voting, comments). Gave them many chances. I'm sorry World, but I probably would abandon Lemmy if I had to stay, it's just not an enjoyable experience.

Maybe it's not even possible to keep a large (targeted) instance working with current limitations and tools? Hope they figure it out. I'm rooming with Stux at Geddit, he's cool. So many cats...

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's way too complicated for them to understand. I'm not joking. We should all be very afraid of their weaponized stupidity. Idiocracy is here.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same boat. I remember being a big fan of Digg (and Kevin Rose), and looking down upon "new" copycat... Reddit. Then they completely changed (removed voting?) almost overnight, and so I gave Reddit a chance. Loved it (and later Sync) and used almost daily! Until... well, fuck Steve Huffman, we all know what happened. Hello Lemmy.

I have not deleted account or comments yet, but logged out everywhere, try to never visit, and will never use the (ad-infested) app. Lemmy community (and Liftoff) has been great, just needs to keep growing with good people.

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