Curiousfur @ Curiousfur @lemmy.world

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They're running our country like a civil war surgeon, they're just going to hack off limbs, and if God wills it, we'll survive.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" -Arthur C. Clarke

Always loved this one as a sci-fi and fantasy kid. When you love dragons and teleportation and talking animals, it kinda doesn't matter how they are delivered to your brain.

Their blacklist is just a list of people who happen to be black 🤔🤔🤔

Totally did Nazi that coming...

I only still go to reddit for that on one account (in incognito). My main account has only recently logged back in for regular browsing (but I try not to comment and I only use old.reddit + res) because Reddit is where a huge amount of the information I'm trying to find online is still housed, game information, niche hobbies, etc... It may be rotting from the inside, but its corpse is still walking and talking, and until the situation gets bad enough people are going to continue using it. I only interact here, but with the nature of how small the communities are, and the fact that I use [All - Top -Past 6 hours] my front page is still basically just the same articles about every fucked up thing going on around me posted onto every instance so I see the same headlines and pictures of Trump almost a dozen times, interspersed with various fetish porn communities.

Unless you're indigenous, then there's a risk...

They've got fascist misogynists who reference the Bible, which to the casual observer (or Republican voter), are hard to distinguish from actual Christian Nationalists, but none of these people actually worship anything other than the dollar and absolute power.

Doubled in the past month. ~$220 Billion to $440 Billion or something.

Shoo him away you mean?

I'm surprised the NKs haven't cannibalized him out of desperation yet

There's a place similar in Providence, RI. Ogie's Trailer Park.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

I think there is one, but I don't know which instance it's on

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/thomastheplankengine

I mean, all of the moving parts involved outside of the friction brake portion do usually need lubrication. Usually a silicone or molybdenum based lubricant depending on where it's used. I use silicone for the slide pins inside the caliper and moly grease for between the pads and the caliper brackets and backing plates

What game?

You are missing the point and at this point, I'm assuming it's deliberate.

You are missing the point of my original comment, there are podcasts that do get sponsored by conservative or hard right/religious right money that are filling the same niche that AM radio used to, and they are being sponsored because the right knows that it works because they already did the same thing with AM radio.

As an aside, I have never seen a handyman with an ad for a sponsor on their vehicle, ever. Maybe an ad for their own business, but that's how a service industry works, you need to advertise yourself. Podcasters are entertainers or influencers, and in our economic system, if your income isn't directly generated by the work you do (service), then it is given to you to perform or advertise (entertainment). An entertainer doesn't work for their audience. They put in work to gain and keep an audience, but no one person in the audience has the ability to tell an entertainer what to do or say, that power solely covers from the group that pays that entertainer to entertain. The owner of a venue pays a comedian or band, you pay the venue to be allowed to be entertained at that venue. The venue decides what content they put on stage because it can become associated with their brand. Patreon does allow people to directly support podcasters, yes, but if you run ads at all, you are beholden to their terms in order to continue receiving payment. It is statistically improbable that the vast majority of conservative leaning podcasters are either self funded or entirely crowd funded, just like most influencers. Those cross country Van-Lifers are largely either independently wealthy or sponsored by the brands they showcase, serving as an advertisement to their viewers, many of whom are also wealthier. Podcast hosting has a similar barrier to entry as being a SoundCloud hip-hop artist or maybe a country singer, a computer and maybe a camera, so anybody can do for extra income if there are brands or causes willing to actually make it worth the effort to do

No, if they run ads, they are sponsored. A handyman is self employed. I don't stop working to thank DeWalt or Snap-on for providing my tools, I bought them myself.

Yeah, people really don't understand how powerful a surveillance state can be when it focuses it's eye on you. It's not safe to talk about resistance around basically anything internet connected with a microphone.

And the people bankrolling these podcasts, or at least sponsoring them to push a slant to the right, are fully aware of the similarities. It's why they do it, they already did the math.

It sucks, trust me