TrueStoryBob @ TrueStoryBob @lemmy.world

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"All corporations are inherently right wing... I mean, unless it's like a worker cooperative run exclusively by sternum piercing bisexuals, but no, all corporations are inherently right wing at least in an economic sense." -Hassan Piker (Turkish-American Twitch Steamer and Political Commentator)

It's nice that the House has its own Ted Cruz.

Yeah, I'll still check out Reddit when it pops up in search results, but I'm not on there passing the time like I used to be.

The 2021 Congressional testimony of the Facebook whistle blower drove me to try out Mastodon. Elon Musk buying and ruining Twitter convinced me to stay on Mastodon and to learn more about the Fediverse. Reddit API changes shuttered Bacon Reader; that was the only way I got on Reddit and that's how I found this place. Hadn't even heard of Lemmy or Kbin until Reddit started messing around with their modmins and API.

I still go to Reddit when Google results lead me there, but I haven't downloaded their app and have no plans to do so. Still cross posting between Facebook and Mastodon, but have completely left Twitter X and haven't looked back.

Well, only about two thirds of registered voters turn out. That statistic, minus everyone who couldn't vote (those under 18, people not registered, resident aliens who haven't gotten their citizenship yet, the massive number of our citizens who are incarcerated along with all the convicted felons who finished serving their time, etc) and it's like only 23% of the country wanted him as president... same coin different side only slightly more than 23% wanted someone else.

First thing, I'd probably solve practical fusion power and distribute that info worldwide... make it as available as the knowledge for building a fission reactor is today. Then, I'd set out away from humanity, into space. I'd start by visiting the nearest several dozen solar systems to begin the terraforming process on a handful of planets. Once started, I'd signal back to Earth that I'd done this and that the planets would be ready for settlement in about two hundred years. I would then go on to build an Expanse type "ring space" pocket dimension with wormholes connecting all these star systems, but put the "Sol gate" to this network in orbit of Saturn. Hopefully this would limit humanity's settlement rush to some unmanned probes for the first dozen or so years, possibly only seeing manned missions in about a century, but not make it impossible that humans could spread amongst the stars using the gates. Once most of the systems wirh gates are settled, I'd return to gift the knowledge of gate building along with several dozen more star systems all with ready terraformed planets.

My parents work at the job factory and make taxes!

Kept the covers over my head for this exact same reason. I figured I would feel it if a vampire tried to remove the blanket or sheet and I could defend myself... no real thought or planning put into how I would defeat a vampire, but at least I'd be awake. A very religious aunt told me vampires don't exist and that it was in fact demons sent from hell that were trying to get me and all children... I was four when this was explained to me. It's one thing to get scared because you saw a movie about a kind of monster and quite another to have an adult you've been told by your parents to respect explain what to her was a real monster and one of which she was convinced actually existed. I was a very light sleeper well into my teens.

I can't give you a breakdown of the numbers but, some of the public hospitals in the state have been privatized, yes.

It's also that the roads aren't treated and won't be treated. Y'all are used to de-icing (or whatever it is) to help clear up all the frozen patches. We got 3.5 inches overnight like five years ago and, in some shady spots, the roads had ice for days afterwards.

Right! Also I would rather our state, counties, and municipalities spend their emergency prep dollars on things that actually hit us hard and often... like hurricanes. We might not be ready for what Wisconsin considers a laughably small amount of snow, but those cheese heads have no idea what even just a Cat 1 named storm can do in just six hours.

The infra bill was a huge shot in the arm and, based on the ads I'm seeing, he's going to run on its passing... that bill is beyond amazing, but they should have gone harder. While the ~$1.6 trillion is an eye watering amount of money, ~$4-6 trillion is what was originally asked for and what is needed. Hopefully he'll run on a Build Back Better: Part Deux. Also his appointees to the NLRB have been super progressive and aggressive, the return to Joy Silk will give the reinvigorated labor movement serious steam, but he also busted the RR workers ability to strike and he seriously shouldn't have done that. Overall, I'm not mad at the Biden WH on domestic issues... but more is needed and he should have let the RR workers strike. Like, the economy be damned, call the hedge fund's bet and end the Reagan era union busting.

I nailed him once.

Southern Georgia, USA.

This is more of a regional rationalization about occasional weather hazards. Here in coastal Georgia, we get snow from time to time, about a half an inch to two inches once every three to five years. There's a lot of people from colder climates that move here for work or retirement; they hear "a possible light dusting of snow" on the news or from a weather app and think that means nothing. Where they're from it's just normal, happens every year and there's often more. They'll even laugh at us for shutting down the schools and staying home from work for freezing rain. Here's the thing: no one here knows how to drive in snow and will likely only see black ice a dozen times in their lifetime. Further, we have no salt/sand trucks, we have no plows, we have zero civic infrastructure to meant to deal with our very occasional ice storm or light snow. It happens so infrequently that there's no way to justify spending taxpayers' money to prepare in that way for those kinds of situations. So we shut down the schools and most businesses for a day or so and everyone mostly stays home. We're not necessarily unprepared for winter weather, we just prepare in a different way that makes sense for the situation.

Yeah, Israeli intelligence services attempting to nerf the USA in any way makes about as much sense as New Zealand conspiring against Australia or the DRK dealing the PRC a bad hand. Aren't we the ones keeping Israel's tactical nuke program an unofficial one with like blocking UN votes or something? Israel has nukes, so do the Saudis, but like internationally it's like unrecognized because US foreign policy won't acknowledge it.

Can Musk do that? I would think this goes against Apple and Android app store rules right?

Lol, same.

Lol. I read the header as "Lemmy World PsyOp" and was like "well, that's disappointing," lol.

Most things don't have to be for most everyone... welcome to the Fediverse!

For Millennial's it's wild to have had our parents tell us "TV will rot your brain" and "don't just trust anything you see online" to them now where cable news has turned their brains to goo and anything posted by some guy in a truck wearing sun glasses on Facebook Reels must be reality.