Many many times. Because I boxed. Nothing more fun than being punched in the face under the right conditions.

R/conservative had the habit of locking most comment threads to members only. It may have been an exclude instead of include list.

We can defederate them now. Content will move as it reaches fewer eyes.

It’s different but the same. We used to get hit by the conservative bury brigades. Now, we get people actually trying to steer the narrative with somewhat thoughtful bad faith arguments.

It’s far more insidious now, and takes vigilance to shut down.

The redesign elevated paid advertisers to the front page, masquerading as real articles.

Suddenly 1/4th of the top content was fluff articles not very subtly advertising shit

You just described a somewhat progressive leaning liberal.

You believe that the government should stay our of our homes, socially. Progressives have been leading that charge for decades, and moderates have been on board for a while now.

You believe in universal Healthcare and income. Those are very progressive ideals. Those are about as anti libertarian as it gets, because they take away a lot of “individual” freedom, because to fund that, roughly half of your income will need to go to taxes. Maybe more, I haven’t looked at the numbers in a long time, but plenty of current examples to pick from.

You believe in industrial regulation to combat bad actors when necessary. That is a general liberal ideal.

Nothing besides keeping the government away from your personal life is even marginally libertarian. And that’s pretty much the only overlap between libertarianism and liberalism.

This is all from a U.S. point of view.

Uh huh. If aliens were able to reach our solar system, do you think they would give one shit about being seen by a primitive civilization with zero space defenses?

If we’re talking about signs of alien life from deep space scans, do you really think that the scientists that found this evidence, who have spent their life pursuing the better understanding of the galaxy, would keep quiet about it at the behest of whatever government?

Life isn’t that interesting. There’s no massive multi-government conspiracy. We couldn’t even get governments to shut down borders or enforce mandates on wearing mask when a global pandemic of unknown severity was ongoing.

You’ve watched too much fictional media if you think any conspiracy of that level is remotely plausible.

That’s a pretty elaborate plan to crop dust your wife from two floors away. Respect.

Depends on how much maintenance it requires. And someone is going to need to be paid to deploy it and watch it to ensure that nobody fucks with it and that it doesn’t eat some park sunbather or something. And to make sure the grounds are clear of debris. Etc.

Don’t think you can count on just removing a salary here.

Everything in red lobster is frozen anyway.

But then again, all fish is frozen before being served to kill parasites. Even the most delicious sushi will be flash frozen first. I’ve had high end raw fish in Las Vegas, a literal dessert.

That said, yeah, Red Lobster isn’t going to be top notch on the coast, let alone butt fuck nowhere.

There’s a bunch of very active non-ml users that always turn any political discussion to “both sides are terrible, don’t vote for genocide”.

Once you start recognizing names (or blocking), it gets less depressing. But it does feel like there are a lot more fascist enablers in the political communities than there really are, just because of how fervent those few users are.

Tildes might work for you. Politics is a banned subject, but you’ll get polite discourse on most subjects.

I found it stifling, personally. But if you like overly verbose, overly polite discussions where all opinions are respected as long as it’s long winded and politely communicated, well, that’s your place.

Fun fact. Other mammals besides humans can have bathroom emergencies, too.

Those times you unexpectedly needed to diarrhea immediately and had a photo finish to a bathroom (or not)? Yeah, a dog in an airplane isn’t going to have the same luxury. Its bathroom is the floor

Will half life 3 be worth the wait?

If it was their own asses, I wouldn’t care. The problem is that they’re putting their heads up everyone else’s asses.

How is proximity to recovered stolen goods, found in a public area, enough to gain a warrant for a (no knock?) SWAT raid?

Man, you really set up some naked strawman arguments on the regular. At least put some old jeans on your poor strawmen.

Trump is the biggest grifter, in a party of grifters. Trump literally 1st party fleeces with shit like golden sneakers, Trump trading card NFTs, Trump bibles, etc. Straight from the horses mouth.

Then, as a grifter of grifters, there’s a whole other layer of 3rd party grifters trying to cash in with Trump gold coins, Trump bucks, etc.

And you’re trying to both sides equate this to a shitty poll on a Democratic fund raising group’s website.

GTFO

Biden doesn’t give a fuck what voters think, he just wants money.

You think Biden is remotely involved in the programming of some shitty poll? Right.

At a glance, that looks like $30/mo. Or $160/year, which they’re hoping you never cancel because it becomes a huge task to download and purge before you can cancel your plan.

Or we could do something silly, like have a modern amount of internal storage and a microsd slot, so we can store lots of pictures and videos, and transfer them off the device quickly and easily.

Storage is cheap. Don’t let these pricing models fool you otherwise.

Maybe I’m weird, but I feel entitled to significant storage (options) on my device, but I don’t feel entitled to free cloud storage (of significant size)