I assume it’s UK/EU’s expanding social media laws that are driving this, in addition to Discord’s imminent Initial Public Offering coming in March. They’re trying to clean house to show how profitable they can be, the same way Reddit created their walled garden by restricting third-party connections prior to their IPO.
It’s bog-standard enshittification to please the shareholders.
How many polling stations are there in solidly blue areas?
If I needed to intimidate people into not voting but I only had 30,000 brownshirts I would just be very selective about where I send them, where they’ll have the most impact. Sending one anywhere isn’t going to do anything, it needs to be a large visible presence in order to more effectively spread that fear.
I bet 30,000 ICE agents at the “15 or so” places where Trump needs a better handle on the voting would be enough to change people’s minds about being there. Or maybe even stir up the base to have them come out and “help” the ICE army “monitor” the process. It feels like anything is on the table at this point.
Are they still good? How long do VHS tapes last?
And -40°F!
I can buy that, I suppose. As press conference material, though? Maybe my bias against him is showing.
What context could possibly justify asking people to imagine what raping a child is like?
In a healthy relationship, yes, be trustworthy and you’ll gain trust.
I’m with you, I love arcades but I just wish I didn’t have to buy SpaceBucks (tokens, credits, chips) in order to play. Oh, Capitalism, is there nothing you can’t enshittify?
When you start applying logic to these situations they have a tendency to unravel, don’t they?
“Who was it, honey?” “It was Bob. They had a baby. It’s a boy.”
Man, commercials just used to live in your head like that. This was for 1-800 collect or one of the many, many copycats, right?
Just make sure to bring a mop and a bucket for that WAP
I think plasma should just be one of the commonly accepted Christmas decorations, you know? Quit fucking around with those other, lamer states of matter and just give the people what they want.
Maybe it’s just my algorithm but I don’t think I’ve been presented any slop videos. Surely not long videos, right?
Walking backward is just walking negatively forward by another name
I don’t think they posted on Lemmy to get search results
I don’t know, man, I think I might just stand up and walk out on him
I served with a trans person, on a ship no less. People still said insensitive shit behind closed doors, so I can only imagine what their private thoughts might have been. I never saw anything overt and everybody seemed more interested in how well she did her job, but I bet she would tell it very differently.
This is why online discourse is so hard! Beyond the anonymity, which causes its own problems, the absence of nonverbal cues and lack of immediacy in feedback leaves a lot open to interpretation, so anything can be taken in any way.
Opinions become accusations and idle musings become absolute certainty in the vacuum of supporting information that is text-only communication. I worry that the only real solution is for people to–like you–embrace the uncertainty and gracefully admit that their interpretation could be wrong. And it seems likely that the only way to collectively get to that point is to fuck it up a lot for a long time.
I’m a non-lonely male and my answer is basically the same.
Maybe use contact cleaner?
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