I don’t buy any videogames new anymore, and pretty much never buy any unless it’s on a very good sale. I’ve got a big enough backlog anyways I guess. I used to go out to some cheaper dine in restaurants but that had to be cut.

Political violence that will make change will be larger scale and organized, not individuals trying to kill a bad president, or two, or three.

It’s not defeatism, at all, it’s the recognition of an ineffective method of resolving things. Real life isn’t a movie where things just work out when you do stupid shit.

For what? Another will take his place. There’s no shortage of people pushing for project 2025 and supporting his political policies. It’s not just trump.

One too many dabs

Do you expect the average American to just be able to stroll up to him with a gun and shoot him? We’re literally a police state. He’s got secret service watching him. It’s complicated, and if somebody was successful they would be throwing away their own entire life guaranteed.

As if everyone is actually ironing their clothes…

A lot of life is about perspective. I have a checklist, of things that make life worth it for me. They’re gonna vary from person to person, obviously, but when I get super depressed, I go through my checklist in my head. I have cats that depend on me and I value their wellbeing. I have relationships with people I care about and want to see. (and kids I want to see grow up) There’s still things I want to learn, places I want to see, and things I want to do. Small things, too, like wanting to see the end of a show or enjoy a favorite food. Life has it’s hardships, but it also has a lot of things we get to enjoy - and I want to be strong enough to live through the hardships to enjoy the good things. Idk man it all probably sounds kind of cheesy, but watching the sunset brings me a lot of joy. Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be worth living.

It’s used in the context of a micro-blogging platform where your feed consists of individual posts that don’t show the whole comment thread. If I replied to a post on mastodon, my followers only see my post on their timeline unless they click on my post to see it’s context. A quote post can be used to present someone else’s post to your followers, with whatever you want to say about it.

The bubble would be the actual post itself, you know? Like having the full post within another post. Similar to what you just showed but clicking the bubble brings to to the original post.

It’s like a repost, but it lets you add your own post to it and shows the original post as a quote bubble.

The biggest advantage of federated social media is that there’s multiple servers. I know it can be a rough point for new users, but most people can just join whatever the largest server is and they’ll be perfectly fine. You need to pick a server because lemmy isn’t one website, and it shouldn’t be one website. People should be able to host an instance if they disagree with another one’s moderation/rules, and spreading the load across many servers helps to prevent large scale downtime when servers go down. All of these advantages can coexist with new users just being pointed to lemmy.world.

I don’t use loops, but I used tiktok for a long time and short form video isn’t bad. You get some pointless/garbage stuff, but it can totally be great for sharing information, or memes. The point is whatever users want it to be.

I don’t think it’s fair to attribute his winning the election on people that didn’t vote for Kamala. Young white men came out in droves voting for him - we cannot underestimate the political results of figures like Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate, and Ben Shapiro and the kind of rhetoric they’re able to spread.

You get tired of eating microwave meals, and anything that leaves dishes I have to clean later is certainly not easier than going to fast food

Lack of time, lack of energy, or both. Cooking is exhausting and difficult when you’re already tired from working.

I cannot believe this post is getting upvotes. There’s certainly advantages to living in the US, and people do move here seeking a better life. Neither of those statements make this country “great”. It’s “great” for a very particular demographic of people, white men - especially wealthy white men. If you’re any racial minority, or are queer, police violence is very common. If you have a uterus, your reproductive rights are being targeted. Our health care system in general is completely broken and doesn’t take care of people. Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck barely getting by, while our politicians squabble over trans people using restrooms to keep us distracted and hostile to one another. I’d like to know what “freedoms” we have that the rest of the world doesn’t. There are certainly a lot of places worse than this - but that doesn’t make the US an even remotely good place to live. It’s work for the corporate overlords, or die, for most of us - whether we recognize it or not. If you can’t work because of a disability? Well, you’re pretty screwed.

Yeah, there was certainly a lot of propaganda and lies to help elect Donald, but let’s be very real here - leftists not voting or voting third party over Gaza wasn’t a major part of his victory. Kamala Harris had a very weak campaign that didn’t address the concerns of young, white male voters. Personalities like Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and others really do appeal to those people, telling them that they’re just fine and pointing their fingers at an endless list of targets to keep these people angry and afraid - and ultimately to vote for people like Donald who claim they’ll fix everything. I wasn’t trying to strawman but I have seen a lot of online comments purely blaming leftists for this election, and it’s frustrating.

Did you even look at the votes in the election? Not enough people voted third party to make a difference in the results of the election. But sure, try to blame people that oppose the genocide in gaza. Sure…

I don’t think it’s the responsibility of the state to tell us what recreational activities we can participate in, honestly. Making sure the content is appropriate and time spent is appropriate is the parent/guardian’s responsibility.