I don’t like Harris very much. But the fact that half the country is willing to choose a deranged con artist over her is just beyond any rational thought.

The way things are going, if and when Trump exists there will be a crazier guy or gal replacing him. And we’ll keep circling the drain trying to make the other guy look stupid.

This is the level of our national discourse. And yeah the republicans started it and are worse in many ways. And maybe this sign is fake and just meant as a funny joke. But Jesus Christ we’re killing ourselves.

You might not give a shit but the American elections are going to have a huge impact no matter where you live. It’s world news. And yeah there’s a lot of nonsense news about the US elections but there’s plenty of nonsense news elsewhere too. Why not start a lemmy community specifically about non-US news if you feel that’s lacking?

I think this is exactly what I’d like to change about Lemmy’s culture, the same thing that happened (more extreme) to Reddit.

The guy above you made a stupid remark. Then you come along and say to yourself “I bet I can out-asshole this guy, let me write something equally asinine and insulting, that will raise the level of this discussion” The same lame brained tit-for-tat bullshit that destroys our political debate.

My girlfriend lies on my right arm, so she’s on the right side of the bed and I’m on the left.

I’d like to see those little city cars added here, those little two seaters that don’t go more than 45kph. Could be a good compromise for lots of people with limited mobility

Haven’t seen it myself but because Lemmy has a relatively small user base it’s fairly easy to just flood it with content and have a significant portion show up on the front page. If you’re seeing a sudden influx of a specific type of meme, my guess is that’s just someone sending a lot of the same kind of content ar once.

Much as I love TNG, Babylon 5 > Star Trek, don’t bother trying to change my mind.

I was hoping this was the link and I was not disappointed.

Great, virtue signalling is so important at this time of crisis. It’s not like we have real issues to deal with.

The dark pattern is making the shiny button “accept our spying advertising profiling cookies” and the gray one “go through some obtuse ui that takes 5 clicks to refuse being spied on”

Right, gaslighting CEOs not being dicks, that’s the day hell freezes over.

I hate the corporate grind too. So I only work for businesses small enough that I’m on a first name basis with the owner.

It’s all very romantic living in a cabin in the wilderniss but there’s a reason no one that has a choice lives that way.

You can work for your own reasons right now. But you don’t have the right to just grab any piece of land and confiscate it for your own use. There are too many of us for that.

Feels like 2000s social media. Not as much kneejerk reactions, not as much obvious karma farming.

In short: love it.

Of course those things will increase the more lemmy grows. Buy for now, great.

I mean 5 weeks vacation per year certainly isn’t ideal but if I talk to friends from abroad I can’t help but feel lucky.

Conversely be on guard against people that say this proves any particular population, especially based on specific phenotypes, is inherently more or less intelligent than any other. They most likely also have an ideological axe to grind.

That besides the fact that, as another commenter mentioned “intelligence” is a pretty nebulous term to begin with.