Doug Holland @ DougHolland @lemmy.world

Obese gray male, introverted, cranky, woke but needs a nap. Enjoys solitude

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Repeating “but were they a drag queen” in our little echo chambers is surely cathartic

Full stop. It's cathartic, does no harm, adds a momentary smile to my otherwise dreary, humdrum, frustrating life. Bring on the drag queens, please!

We must always always always vote for the turd in every election, for if the turd doesn't win we'll be stuck with turd plus vomit.

This is piffle.

Without evidence to the contrary, I generally assume people are competent in their jobs. As even the article mentions, there's a chain of command and work at the Defense Department went along just fine without Lloyd Austin for a few days.

Asleeped.

"Both sides do it. Both sides do it."

Your stupidity is my first belly-laugh of the day, thanks.

I am not annoyed by Lemmy's constant glitches. It adds to the charm of the place.

Lemmy is a volunteer effort. You want everything to run corporate-smooth, that's 'X' and TikTok and Reddit.

Another "negotiated settlement" and a payment that sounds impressive — ooh, $47,000,000 — but won't amount to a day's business for a giant hospital network. Why no prosecutions? Why no prison time?

A few free ways around paywalls, region-blocking, adblock-blocking, and URL glitches:

• archive.today
slow-loading, virtually unreadable without adblocker

• Ghostarchive
poor layout, spotty uptime

• Google Cache
frequently fails, but reliably captures video when it works

• Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
slow-loading, but works

• One Foot Away
poor layout, quick-loading, spotty uptime

• 12-Foor Ladder
poor layout, quick-loading, spotty uptime, blocks major newspapers

If there are other workarounds, please let me know.

I will try to hold back too many profanities, but it's seriously FUCKED UP that anyone but this woman and her doctor know that she's pregnant, with a doomed fetus, and needs an abortion, and it's FUCKED UP that anyone gets to overrule her decision, and it's FUCKED UP that she has to flee the state during an obviously traumatic time, and it's FUCKED UP that the FUCKERS will vilify her now, hell maybe even prosecute her, and it's FUCKED UP that making a difficult time much more difficult is "good politics" in the state of Texas, which, by the way, is an utterly FUCKED UP place.

Oooh, we're winning friends and influencing people...

Heck of a sweetheart deal, for treason.

Firefox, or Mozilla, continues to be the only browser (at least among the biggies) that's for the users, not the trackers and marketers.

Hadn't thought of that, and it makes sense. Thanks.

Like Trump, Santos never told the truth about anything, but remember that a majority of Republicans in the House, 112 of 222, voted not to expel him.

Just the headline is reason enough not to click.

Israel is fighting for its life.

What hogwash. As if Hamas presents an actual threat to Israel's existence?

I can't even get past the user interface at Discord. Rarely have I felt so uninvited to participate, even as the site aggressively invites me to participate.

But we can't hear the climate alarm, over all the cacophony of all the other climate alarms we're busily ignoring.

Exactly.

Whatever the fines and judgments, even if he's found guilty of crimes in other trials, Donald Trump cannot be imprisoned. He will die of old age or a McDonald's-fueled heart attack, but he'll die rich, in a comfortable mansion, having never known punishment.

It sucks, sure, but pretending otherwise is just that — pretending.

I'd never used that sort before, but got the same result — no results.