tomenzgg
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- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 days ago:
Not unintentionally correct…because that was my very intentional point.
In spite of car manufacturers claiming seatbelts and air bags were unnecessary, the sheer number of resulting deaths caused us to actually do something about it. I don’t look at the lack of driver’s licenses as anything approaching a rosy past. I will never be sympathetic to the argument that a lack of common sense safety regulations which saves lives somehow grants us more freedom (other than to abdicate all of your freedoms instantaneously via early death, which overwhelmingly impacts the poor and marginalized); sorry.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 days ago:
Like all the car crashes that now require us to get a driver’s license…; can’t mow down the government if you’re trained on the rules of the road!
People can’t just use tools that impact the lives of others outside themselves in peace; smdh…
- Comment on xkcd #3073: Tariffs 3 days ago:
…honestly, throw some ham on that and I think it wouldn’t be half bad.
- Comment on Orange flavored recession is superior to the DeMoNCRaTs!!!1!1!! 3 days ago:
I saw this, reposted to Twitter, just the other day…
- Comment on Genius 4 days ago:
I was reading an article where he claimed he wasn’t as hardline, as some, and his immigration policies were actually motivated by the guaranteed safety to everyone when we follow the rules (he gave the example of a migrant nearly dying from falling down a ravine during zir trek).
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Anyway, color me surprised~
- Comment on Genius 4 days ago:
Associating this man is an insult to the mentally disabled, actually.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 days ago:
Dual-booting was how I first got into Linux; it truly leaves open the ability to keep everything you’re worried about not having.
What’s the VPN?
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 1 week ago:
If it helps, one of main arguments of the antitrust lawsuit against Amazon that the Biden administration opened was that Amazon routinely, actually, costs you money because they use their platform to offer more expensive options in your searches first and other means: ftc.gov/…/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-m… (I’m not sure if that link with detail or with a much clarity as wherever I first read it but I can’t recall where I originally read it 3 or so months ago, I’m afraid).
The only major advantage that I’ll fully admit Prime has is speed of delivery; I admit I do use it when our cats run out of food and I dropped the ball on making sure we had more or I need filters for our air purifiers that just noted they need new ones.
But, even if you can find cheaper versions on Amazon, it can become easy to fall for the setup of their site if you use it by default all the time.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 1 week ago:
To be fair, Lemmy’s UI does it no favors; I can’t entirely blame your friends for thinking it looks sketch.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Hey, bud; maybe let’s not bring whorephobic and misogynistic euphemisms into this.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 1 month ago:
Truly; it’s shocking how much people are still clinging to permissive licensing in the middle of everything going on.
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
O. K. but did anyone take care-of/in the kitten, after?
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 month ago:
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 month ago:
Also Bluesky isn’t an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn’t stealing so much of our publicity lately.
This; I’m so sick of hearing it pop up when people mention alternative.
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 1 month ago:
It shouldn’t be discounted, either, that they’re willfully abusing perception.
It’s like when they argue that voter suppression or them winning without a majority of the vote is actually what was intended because that’s why we’re a Republic and not a direct
