Or just stick with an instance that doesn’t block others and judge for yourself. I thought Hexbears were descent people experiencing crisis as we all flooded in.

Send it to the admin(s) of the instance. I’m sure they don’t want to host that bullshit.

Ever since IBM / Red Hat ruined CentOS, I’ve been using Debian when I need Linux. Welcome in from the cold. We have hot coco and blankets.

PiHole and Plex? Plex will help generate need for a NAS. It worked for me.

Install Fedora in a VM if you can?

I’m still pretty pissed off about that. It’s when I learned that a huge number of my fellow citizens are really stupid. Covid was when I learned that they’re also hateful pieces of shit.

Freedom fries, you guys. Woohoo.

Fuck that. It was predicted a full year before. This is bullshit. Stop reading the NYT. They lied about the attack on Oct 7 (claimed sex crimes that didn’t happen) and never made a retraction. I cancelled my subscription to them and to the Washington Post (cause Bezos killed an opinion piece endorsing Biden, who I voted for because fuck Trump, but Biden was a terrible candidate).

Listen to the audio-book, “Manufacturing Consent,” from Noam Chomsky. Unfortunately, he’s in the Epstein docs, so I can’t recommend him otherwise. Oh well. All these people are monsters.

I’ll say it again: We need to disenfranchise older people from voting. They have no stakes in long-term decisions and they’re hurting us. Yes, my mom is a racist piece of shit who voted for Trump three times. Yes, she’s hurting us. Yes, I cut her off for doing so.

This was my first outloud-laugh of the day. I love it.

Oh shit, did he just make me respect him more than I already did?

“I mean, I would rather sleepwalk into fascism than put myself on the line to stop it.”

That’s what you said.

That’s some real dumbass shit to say.

I honestly couldn’t understand why we weren’t collectively beating the shit out of cops when they brutalized people in 2020 at protests and videos were all over twitter. Don’t count on our compatriots. They are mostly asleep.

Exactly. I’ve been doing it for so long (because otherwise my cats would splash the water) that I find it gross when people leave them open to flush.

They’ll tell you that they already tried it, but this time the outcome was different.

Oh, that’s interesting. My father had our lineage researched and learned that an ancestor took the side of the British during the USA revolutionary war. He had to move to Canada after the colonies won their independence due to a campaign of harassment in which his barn was burned down.

The most interesting thing about it before now was that someone in my family history had supported the other team. Now it might have actual bearing on my life instead of just being a fun story.

I take deliberate breaks from stuff like Lemmy and the news. I only came back here after a multi-month break this month. It works.

Stop making AI slop or Sarah Connor will stab you in the knee with a pen.

Wrong. District 9 is in Johannesburg. You’ll need a time machine to go back before then for this to be true. What a great film.

Sounds like you have people you can call? If so, ask someone to go do something physical together where conversation doesn’t have to be center-stage, like hiking. If you live in a place where there’s good hiking spots with challenging terrain, such as steep hills (hopefully accompanied by beautiful views), you might be too out of breath for the absence of conversation to be unnatural.