Oh yeah, that multiple organizations things absolutely fuuuucks me since I’m adjunct at multiple universities/colleges. It keeps trying to default me to a place I don’t even work at anymore and somehow still refuses to let me leave it without reinstalling Windows (which I won’t do as I’ll be moving to Linux full time once I do).

What blows my mind is MS fucking bought Skype and somehow Teams still can’t handle video calls correctly. The actual fuck did they do with that acquisition?

I was never much of a social media guy, especially after moonlighting one summer as a social media marketer on Twitter and Instagram (really, really kills it for ya), but I was a redditor for a while.

I swapped over to Lemmy exclusively during the API fees, but to be fair I was already getting frustrated by the service. The karma farming was just too much, so many stupid reposts of the same stupid made up wholesome stories and crap. I think I only miss r/comics and r/idiotsincars, the later requiring a critical mass of people to actually be worthwhile.

Lover’s quarrel that leads to a murder-suicide?

He’s spending more time with Trump at his home than Trump’s wife. Is there… something you’re not telling us, Elon? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Oh oh, I know a great revenge. Make it so nobody can individually donate millions through PACs. In fact, just do away with PACs and Citizens United. That’ll really stick it to those Democrats and that Soros fella you’re so worked up over!

I’d say we tend to still have a few good qualities from our culture (or at least a product of a subculture), but there absolutely no doubt about the bad ones. I especially hate how they are regarding education, since that’s one of the most important things we have.

It’s a shame we’re slowly losing those good qualities, though. Individualism, for instance, is at it’s extreme in the US and is one of the ways it’s attracted so many artists and creatives. Too bad corporate interests are eroding that steadily for decades, and fascism is likely to stifle the first amendment once and for all.

Indeed. Slightly better timeline had him die of heart disease in 2022. Won’t to us as much good now, though. (Although you gotta wonder if JD sans-Trump would take us out of NATO)

Oh I’m 100% with you and there is never a way to confirm how things would have gone. We were doomed since 2020, I knew Biden would have a hard time with a second term. I just hoped Trump would have died by now.

Honestly, I’m not sure it matters. It was never possible to change those minds just as it’s impossible to convince people that Republicans are always disasters for the economy. The best bet is that people simply stop caring about 2020 since they got their Trump and he’ll eventually die and less influential GOP will probably pick different talking points by 2028.

We really need to address foreign interference though, that’s the main problem as they stoke those fires. Only chance of that is a significantly different political landscape in 2028, assuming the ebb and flow gives the lead back to Dems as it usually does.

It’s been on my mind too, especially 2016 and 2020. My first vote was for Obama in the primary in 2007 and it got me interested in politics. What we have now just… sucks. I wanted Warren in 2020, but states that don’t even vote blue decided Biden was the pick.

Had there been a primary in 2024, though, it’d have likely gone to Harris anyway and we’d probably have had the same results. I don’t think we’ll have a good primary until the electorial college is abolished and the red states who vote on primaries actually have say that matters, or we change how primaries work so that it’s reflective of states that actually vote blue (and while we’re at it, have it on the same fucking day so it’s not first come first serve).

It’s ok, I got the joke. How unfortunate Josh Stein has that name, lol. (Btw he already won, I think).

It takes an awful lot to undo Citizens United and while they could try and put up more safeguards, without Congress it’s not going to happen. I like to think Dems getting Congress would lead to systematic change, but the moderate Democrats are too craven to fix what is effectively legal cheating.

Not sure what they can do about some of the illegal creating, though, like the bomb threats.

You’ve got way more patience than me. Just yesterday my own grandma was offended by my use of fuck randomly and I ended up defending myself instead of apologizing (she likes Tim Walz so I said the guy called Musk a dipshit and somehow that got me out of hot water lol). I don’t think I’d even have that much tact with a coworker.

You know, we kind of do have it and some apps will even let you know. But it’s got a lot of flaws as everyone else has pointed out.

You know what I kind of want is a way to see karma by instance. What you’re going to learn is that certain instances have rather extreme views (including the default lemmy.ml) and seeing how unpopular you are there while being popular elsewhere might actually make that feature more interesting.

Like, sure he’s a -100 on LemmyGrad but he’s a 200 on Sh.itjust.works; take that as you will. Lol

Thanks for your thread, I also have to upgrade my Blade 15. It automatically installed Windows 11 which broke the built in monitor (lol). Let me know if you have any success with these comments’ suggestions!

I generally don’t trust .io for that particular reason. It’s the Steve Jobs of the world picking that for buzz; the Steve Wozniaks of the world would simply choose .org.

And…, to make sure my joke didn’t lead me to find it Woz had a fucking io website, I looked it up and his personal cite is fucking org. Lol

A stupid article akin to someone on Lemmy misunderstanding an idium and going “well actually…”.

And that’s coming from me, a person who likes knowing how insanely unlikely it is a guess ever longer and longer pass phrases. A computer trying to brute force Hamlet would also fail before the heat death of the universe (probably, anyway- do the math and you too can publish junk!).

Aka most AI startups.

Not any worse that my first time voting, Starbucks gave us a free small black coffee. They didn’t do it to bribe back then, too.