I think that’s part of the problem with conservatives. They’re already living in abject fear of everything.

They’ve been groomed into believing a civil war is imminent and their neighbors are the enemy, to the point where they’ve started making moves toward actual civil war with their neighbors.

They’ve been all been told: “There is the enemy, these are their flags, here is a gun, we can keep you out of jail.”

Just admiring the kill.

I was thinking about this the other day. I support some very, very technologically limited users and I wondered if anyone out there is working on a distro/DE that looks and feels just enough like windows to get them by

I would never have considered this before they announced Recall. Now it feels like I’m waiting to see just how hard they push it

I remember this sentiment being floated around a lot leading up to 2016. If 2020 should have taught us anything, it’s that things can get worse in ways we won’t expect.

A lot of people knew a global pandemic was on the horizon. That much was expected.

Trump knew. He knew and threw out the established response plan his first year. We did not expect him to be able to do that much harm.

Let’s throw out first-past-the-post voting while we’re at it.

You mean a benefit besides being a nuke depot in the middle east?

A funny thing happens to a word when you give it additional definitions: the original definition loses meaning.

Great news for traditional antisemites

Normies = lurkers

AJJ - People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People

I knew them by their original name (Andrew Jackson Jihad) and was basically given this album as a demo from someone who knew the band.

There is something so raw and real about this album that just did not make it to anything that came later. It was like they gave up the edge that set them apart when they rebranded to make themselves more marketable.

I get it, the original name was bad. Like actually pretty bad. But I also genuinely feel like the name wasn’t the only thing they changed.

Okay then, where did all the young and in-touch people end up?

it’s becoming more obvious every day that lemmy is where the old and out of touch people migrated to

Hey I’ve heard there’s this really cool app for lipsyncing and dancing. Apparently it’s getting pretty popular. Sounds like you’d have more fun there

Given how many politicians are deeply closeted, I like to imagine they hurried this one along quietly

Upvoting because I’ve never seen this

but also I am now sad

My wife and I LOVE our house and don’t want to leave, but we definitely thought it was going to be a starter home. We straight up could not afford the mortgage payments anywhere else at today’s rates, even in a much smaller house

NO.

If anyone has a term for this specific phobia, please let me know

Times like this I wish I was still talking to her and she knew I was queer.

Ugh, same. I broke all contact with mine a little before the pandemic and now a tiny part of me will always be dying to know how deep into the cult she sank.

True! And those people vote.

I will be using manipulatious in conversation now. Thank you

One is trying to tangle a ball of yarn into.a mess and the other is attempting to untangle it and knit a cardigan.

Building on this metaphor, one of my single biggest frustrations with the left is how many of them won’t accept anything short of a fully knit cardigan; unless they get exactly what they want, they’d rather just hand it over to the tanglers.

“Et al” is a pretty funny honorific though