Come on people. Is this what we’ve devolved to? First, you throw a rock to break a window then you throw the Molotov inside the house.

• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
• Earth’s Children, technically “prehistorical fiction” but I think that qualifies as fantasy.

The patents have expired everywhere except USA, Brazil and Malaysia.

This is a blatant money grab before they expire everywhere.

You have to understand that there are places in the USA where “city planning” is completely unheard of. They seem to let landowners develop however the fuck they want. They end up with grids of identical houses with little thought of connections to services such as shopping, healthcare, recreation, etc.

So, telling someone they aren’t who/what they think they are is ok? Not just telling them but pushing a program of persuasion to change their mind.

They’re going to overturn hate speech laws next. And all advertising restrictions.

Someone needs to start a trans conversion therapy program that tries to make people trans. See how fast that gets banned.

The people I know that use BlueSky just wanted Twitter without Musk. It wasn’t much more complicated than that and BlueSky has provided that.

Adding AI is very Musk-like so I’m not surprised there’s backlash.

“That reminds me I still have about 8 grams left. Guess I’ll just eat them all tonight.”

Like other commenter said, it’s hard from your perspective to tell the difference.

Depression is a weird way we evolved to protect ourselves that has gotten out of hand.

Depression will tell you that you’re undesirable and unlovable. And, if you believe it, it’ll get louder and more insistent. It actually feels safer and safer the more you listen to it. You might not realize it but you will try to stay depressed. Because it feels safe.

The hard thing to do is to tell Depression to fuck off and to do things in contradiction to the narrative that you are undesirable and unlovable. The more you ignore Depression, the weaker it gets and those negative thoughts and opinions of yourself fade away.

Foxes will eat carrion. It probably washed up onto the shore.

Soma is one of my favorite ways to learn about new music. And, their Christmas stations are a good alternative typical playlists.

I’d rather see a 1000 individual cases than a class action. It would probably be more expensive for Meta to fight and lose individual cases all across the world.

No, I didn’t know about those. Thanks, I’ll check that out.

Yes. I want All to be just other instances that I’m interested in. Not every available (federated) instance.

The only problem with that is not seeing posts from other instances I don’t want to block.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d prefer Subscribed to be personally curated communities, Local to be instance curated, and All to be a place to get a broader picture of, well, everything.

I’d just find it easier/more natural to opt-in to other instance content rather than opt-out.

Essentially, yes. I think you still see comments from users on that instance if they comment on a post on an instance that isn’t blocked.

You should call her an ambulance if you’re referencing the bottom photo.

It’s not insolvent. The treasury didn’t say it was insolvent. It’s a consecutive org pushing a “balanced budget amendment”.

You fell for their propaganda.

But, they’re (two authors) also wrong. The US is not insolvent. The treasury report did not say It was insolvent. For a country to be insolvent it would have to be unable or unwilling to pay its debts.

The article relies on readers not understanding how government financials work. They use a household metaphor which is completely irrelevant.

The article is propaganda pushing the “we need balanced budget” narrative which is a ridiculous way to run a government.

No one said being wasteful is a good thing. This article is not about how much or where money should be spent. They want to push a narrative that the government spends more than it can afford. This is false.

The real aim is to limit government spending on entitlements, social programs, arts, sciences, etc.

It’s a bullshit article pushed by a conservative organization that wants a balanced budget amendment.

It’s a roundabout way of hamstringing the federal government and killing social services.

Also, vaccines work in the exact same way as exposure to live viruses. The difference is that the vaccine can’t cause an infection because it’s either a dead or disabled version of the virus. Anti-vax people don’t seem to get this.

And, some people think that their body’s reaction to the vaccine means that the vaccine made them sick. It’s normal to have flu symptoms with the flu vaccine. Your body fights it the same way That’s intentional. It’s how your immune system builds a defense against the virus.