So he’s complaining that Milley responded too late to Jan 6th but at the same time is taking credit for starting the insurrection? Which is it Gosar? Did you or did you not want Jan 6th to happen?

Pay up Rudy boy!

Pok guy - Cantonese phrase meaning falling on the street (literal translation) or hope you die on the street/suddenly (as an insult)

Does teaching Holocaust make us hate modern Germany? Does teaching about Pearl Harbor makes us hate modern Japan? Why do they think that teaching black history is exclusively spreading hate?

Don’t want to encourage complacency, but back then he was a wild card in every sense of the word. Not even his supporters today knew if they were going to vote for him back then. These days, he’s a known variable, and observing trends are important. But like I said, don’t be complacent, go out there and vote next year.

Ya, but it proves I lived through the 90’s 😆

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I visited California a few times, and LA is not a great tourist destination imo. But other parts of California is beautiful

Gentle turbulence actually helps, believe it or not.

Definitely resonates with my own personal experiences. During a period of my life where I was feeling lost and doing menial jobs and not in college like I had originally planned, I listened to a lot of conservative radio and agreed with many of the fake outrages they spoused. Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Bill O’Reilly, Jay Severin (local to Boston), etc… Didn’t care too much for some of the racial dog whistle undertones, but I easily ignored it.

Now, nearly 20 years later with a degree, a career, and a family, I can’t believe I not only listened, but I enjoyed, agreed with, and absorbed their talking points. I was pro Iraq war, pro torture, pro-small to no government (i.e. low taxes, no handouts), hated PC culture. Things that would have turned the odds against me in life given my status at the time and I didn’t even realize it. Fortunately, id consider myself a reformed conservative today.

Yeah it’s the reason, back on Reddit, that I’m able to see posts from smaller subreddits show up near the top of my feed because it’s popular relative to the number of subscribers of that subreddit.

I might be in the minority, but shitpost memes like “I’ll draw a shitty picture every day until x happens” or “I’ll do this based on Y upvotes”, and the “here’s a random hotdog/Gatorade bottle everyday”. I know I can probably just block these kinds of posts, I just never got the appeal of it.

Yea, I eventually just resorted to playing the offline modes. It’s much more fun than the rat race that is myteam

It’s probably the closest thing to reddit right now (even down to the shitposting memes unfortunately) but I wouldn’t say it has the same feel quite yet. I still find the distributed nature confusing (am I in the lemmy.world’s technology community, or lemmy.ml’s? How do I get to beehaws instance?) and navigating between instances is a chore. I realize though that situation is very fluid and if users can get over the hump and start investing into their communities and lemmy as a technology it can get better.

Also I rely on mobile apps to navigate the majority of the time. There are some decent ones out there now, like Connect for Android. But it definitely is still buggy, and is not as fluid as my experience with Relay for reddit. But again, nothing that can’t be fixed.

Some of my favorite subreddits still hasn’t shown up yet as communities in any of the major lemmy instances, and I honestly feel it’s going to take a very long time for that to happen for some of the more niche ones. The user base I honestly believe will never reach even close to reddit’s numbers.

So in a nutshell, good promise, closest thing to reddit, but still has a long way to go.

NBA 2K games. Terrible loot system that never gives you good stuff until it enters endgame near the end of the year. Then they turn off the servers a few months later and force you to buy next year’s game that has the same graphics and a slightly tweaked playing mechanics.

But I honestly personally spent quite literally hundreds of hours on that series. Mainly cause I’m a huge NBA fan and I love building out custom teams and there’s not much competition in realistic basketball simulators at the moment.

It’s just annoying how everything has to follow the “meta” and if you do dare to try something else and you don’t perform above expectations you’ll get shit on. I just want to play the game the way I enjoy it sometimes.

Im guessing it’s this: https://www.dexerto.com/tech/raspberry-pis-latest-hire-is-an-ex-cop-who-built-surveillance-devices-2009036/

Their PR and social media managers are pretty shit honestly. But I can’t say for the other founders, or if this applies to the the Raspberry Pi foundation itself.

One other thing polls didn’t really capture was voter enthusiasm or maybe not enough people was paying attention to it. Just because you answered Hilary when asked who would you vote for, it didn’t mean you went out on Election day to vote. A combination of lack of enthusiasm for Hilary, coupled with news constantly reporting that it will be a landslide kept many Democrat voters home.

I believe that’s why there’s such a huge push for “get out the vote” campaigns in 2020 by the Democrats. Generally, the more people voting means better chances for a Democrat win, given general (non-electoral) election results.