From the interviews I’ve been seeing, at least some of them voted against Trump due to concerns about bullshit like this. I expect the majority did vote for him, in which case yes, karma’s a bitch. But a) we shouldn’t be treating them as a single voting block that all vote the same way, and b) regardless of the schadenfreude we get watching the Trump supporters among them freaking out now, there are grave knock-on effects for consumers looming - including those consumers who didn’t vote for Trump.

Ah yes, more antivax nonsense. Just what the world needs right now. Especially with the growing measles outbreak due to people not vaccinating their kids.

Orange soda is very different from pure orange.

Extra tip: use pulpy pure orange so you get little bits floating around in the brown drink. It adds extra texture. It looks absolutely disgusting, but it tastes great.

Half pure orange juice and half cola.

And of course it features Margarine Trailer Queen. Whenever there’s an insane story it turns out that troll has stumbled out from under her bridge to be the center of attention.

Didn’t she publication state recently that she was terminally ill as well? Something like liver failure. Maybe she chose to go on her terms in the end.

I’m genuinely shocked by this. But only because I didn’t think Bessent had the spine or the personality depth to get into a heated argument with anyone. The guy comes across like a timid sloth on Valium, and has all the personality of a wet sock.

Some counter points:

• I’m not seeing a lot of mod abuse here. I’m sure some occurs, but generalizing it to all or most mods is a gross exaggeration. And aside from that, it happens on Reddit too, worse from what I’ve seen. So it’s still not as bad here.
• Again, I’m not seeing lemmy.world acting like a company (whatever that even means). You know what is a company, and one that sells it’s data and flagrantly shits on its users? Yeah, Reddit.
• Some instances block VPN and Tor? Okay. If you say so. That’s not a big concern of mine personally. At least Lenny instances didn’t go to war with their users, mods, or API developers.
• Federation doesn’t need to be perfect. It’s still better than a closed system in principle, even with its flaws.
• That’s a bold claim about no instances defending their users privacy. Where’s the proof? Either way, at least all or most of them don’t seem to be aggressively selling their users data to AI company as training material. So they are still better than reddit even if assuming they don’t defend user privacy.

Side note: reading the title of this post gave me a headache. But I know sometimes it’s easy to over-edit and have text get away from you. Or maybe English isn’t your primary language.

True. Twitter is ordered of magnitude worse than the other.

Yeah… A ‘slip up’. Suuuuure.

Wouldn’t be the first time, won’t be the last.

Talk is usually cheap. But to his followers it’s all that matters.

I’ve tried to get away from WhatsApp. I’ve got the majority of my friends off it (at least when they communicated with me). But some people just will not leave due to familiarity/fear of change. I’m still working on them, but I’m pretty sure it’s a lost cause.

You can only go so far. And cutting people off because they won’t move away from something like WhatsApp isn’t always feasible.

But I agree with you: I don’t understand why people still use those platforms. I think it’s because they don’t keep up on things, or just don’t care.

Wow. Finally this administration does something that seems like a good idea.

Nobody tell them they will be following the EU’s lead by doing this.

And the globe Earth and the moon landing conspiracies! What about that whole pizzaria blood drinking thing too! Piss all the tax payer money down the drain on stupid shit!

DOGE could report it as money saved and then abruptly remove those line items from their website list.

I’ve met Mormons who don’t consider Catholics to be Christian, which is pretty fucking hilarious.

ETA: Speaking of Catholics who try to cozy up to the right-wing evangelical Protestant movement because they have common causes but don’t realize they are being used… The Mormons are even further up the enemies list of the right-wing Protestants than the Catholics. And they too don’t seem to be aware of this. Basically if the likes of MTG get their wish to crush gays, trans, feminists, atheists, and liberals under their boot heels, they will turn on themselves. Starting with the non-Christian religions, then the JWs, then the Mormons, then the Catholics. They will go with the lowest hanging fruit.

Is he past the 1 Scaramuchi mark yet?

Must have been that greasy Samsquatch!

Not if you’re willing and able to pay an arbitrary $30 a month extra. That lifts the oh-so essential data cap. Yeah… fuck Comcast, or whatever they are calling themselves this month.

“Rules for thee but not for me!”

Yeah they have a really fucked-up way of looking at autism. There are tons of autistic people out there living great lives and contributing a hell of a lot more to society than many of these antivax ghouls.