It’s because he needs to feel powerful and big booms make small men feel strong

It turns out that it takes more than 3 decades to recover from a radical right presidential administration.

It sucks that we’re gonna have to do it again now

Meh…

I was successful in science/engineering for about 25 years before I burned out. I did make it, I’m just tired.

Hey Kirk fans,

I’ll show him just as much respect as the right showed the minnesota democrats who were attacked by a right wing nut job (just like Kirk was, I might add)

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It was true then, and it’s still true now.

Inciting violence is OK if you’re a conservative.

Time or technical challenge are not the issue. The issue is that the utility of a social network is a function of the number of individuals in that network.

That’s why Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit all still have dominant positions in their regimes. If you want to see what your friends are saying you need to be on the same network they are on. And if they are on Twitter, signing up for Bluesky doesn’t magically get you their content. I’m off twitter, never really used insta, I have my FB account, but I only log in now when I need to check on specific things (like seeing if people were OK after the wildfires swept through the town I used to live in), and I guiltily admit I still use reddit, largely because a lot of the niche subs I frequent aren’t here. I know the solution to that last problem is for someone like me to step up and make them, but… I’m tired boss. I can either be a volunteer firefighter, or I can admin a firefighter com on Lemmy. I can’t do both.

I built one back when I lived in California during fire season, and then again during the pandemic. They do such a nice job making the air less gross.

I think that’s about what mine looked like after 3 or 4 weeks too…

*measurable if you have some damn good instruments.

It will put off about as much heat as a single incandescent light bulb

I was coming here to say that! It’s possibly apocryphal, but the way I heard it was that the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign did this when they did their main quad (I still remember them telling me this when I got a tour before applying there 30 years ago). And they didn’t just look for where the plants were dead, but they also looked for broadleaf weeds, which sustain trampling better than grasses (it’s a land grant university in the midwest. Of course there’s an agriculture angle).

Tell us you’re not paying attention to the rest of the world without telling us you’re not paying attention to the rest of the world.

I’m working on it too. I’m part way there. (47 year old telecommuting engineer and off grid homesteader hoping to retire to do farm stuff full time as soon as I can)

All the post said was that she voted for Trump to piss off liberals. She never said she was hardcore maga.

If you weren’t talking about the post in question, I think my mistake in assuming that you were was reasonable, given where we are…

Have a good one

You’re making a really common mistake.

You assume that everyone who voted for trump is ultra hardcore maga. A lot of them are just ignorant shits who fear the woke boogeyman.

I live in a district that voted for Trump. I’m around people who voted for him all the time. The vast majority of them are extremely low information voters and are uncomfortable with change. It’s not that they all think Trump is the second coming. The most visible ones think Trump is the second coming, but that’s not most of them…

I personally know at least 2 who have changed their mind about him since the election. And I try not to talk to them about him, so I probably know others who just haven’t told me yet.

At this point I’m not going to be looking to the US institutions for medical recommendations. I’ll be looking at Canada and the UK.

And I’m fortunate enough to be day trip range to canada, so as long as the border stays open I’ll be able to get vaccines.

Yeah, and the problem isn’t the trains, it’s the politics, and ultimately the voters.

The train would make things better, and we could build it, but the will to do so isn’t there.

Yeah, it’s not extinct yet, but free worksite coffee is endangered where it was thriving 3 decades ago

In the US most employers used to provide coffee and some kind of creamer free for employees.

About 25-30 years ago the capitalists realized their employees wouldn’t quit over not having free coffee, so they stopped providing free coffee.

Maybe you got the custom from them, but they have decivilized while y’all have maintained?

I don’t like violence.

But some people need to get punched in the mouth

It’s really sad that we practically have to forgive them if we want to progress as a society. Because I agree with your sentiment…

But

We can’t exterminate them. They are gonna live here on the other side of this, whatever that looks like. Those who have a genuine change and see not just that trump was wrong, but that they were either wrong or very very gullible should be forgiven and accepted as allies. We’re gonna need all the people we can get on our side through what’s coming.

“We tried to warn you. Welcome to the resistance.”