Ah, Good Guy Valve helping us prepare for October eh?

When everybody’s credit scores are shit, nobody’s credit scores are shit. I learned that in 2008 after the housing crash.

This, exactly. And running to Canada. Like fleeing the coming Nazi Germany by emigrating to Poland. Congratulations, you accomplished almost nothing.

Yay, slavery to Windows, sign me up! Now that we’re getting devices running Linux that can do gaming thanks to Valve and Steam/Proton, the last fucking thing in the world I want to do is stay on Windows. I’ve switched literally all my applications to FOSS - games are the sole remaining reason I’ve stayed on Windows for this long. Come October, I’m switching to Linux 100%.

Lemmy is how Reddit was in 2010. Size is what degrades the experience, the larger Reddit got the more shit it became. I am hopeful that federation will be the secret sauce that saves Lemmy from the same enshittification as it grows.

Going to shows is a hobby of mine, I go to a lot of shows. But there is only one artist who I will never miss when he comes to town and it’s Weird Al.

I cannot express strongly enough to anyone reading this who has never seen Al: do it! It’s an elaborate comedy show, you don’t have to know a single song to enjoy it. It’s always drop-dead hilarious and worth twice whatever you pay for it.

Perhaps with the notable exception of his “Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tours” (there have been two so far, iirc) which are definitely more for the hardcore fans, though still funny as hell.

I never used RIF but I came over at the same time due to the fuckery over mods. I quit all my mod positions that day too, no more working for Reddit for free.

Sadly true, but take heart. These people have stupid opinions about non-communicable things too. So many stupid opinions.

Every time I interact on reddit, I’m reminded about how superior my experience is every day on Lemmy. So I guess what I’m saying is “I don’t see it.” Oh, there are some assholes, alright - but they’re the exception, not the rule.

Also, the relative lack of bots. Reddit is so overrun with bots that in any mainstream sub a genuine opinion cannot help but be drowned in a sea of corporate sponsored bullshit.

I’m not seeing how this explains why Alito and Thomas would vote for it? Seems like they’d love the idea for the FBI to be able to make “honest mistakes.” Perhaps they’re going to leverage this to put Biden’s dessicated husk in jail or something idfk?

Edit: I’m trying to say this makes no sense for these two ghouls to be on this side of the effort, so I’m cynically asking what’s the shadow agenda.

This is a way for the monied class to deflect criticism about the country’s various failures to improve the situation for their citizens. Like healthcare, when you suggest that you want to do it like they do it in, say… Scandinavia, you always get a wave of a hand and a vaguely worded “yes well, this country is just too big for that. <insert country here> can only get away with that because of their tiny, homogenous population.”

Anybody with an inside track on this story that can explain this? A unanimous decision by this SCOTUS is rare, particularly one that would benefit a minority family terrorized by government goons. I would think Thomas and Alito would be positively salivating at the idea.

Meanwhile, eggs are still $8 no longer available for purchase and gas is still upwards of $4.

I’m gonna say Cruella. I’m sure lots of people always thought it was gonna be great, but not me. I absolutely expected it to be mediocre at best and I was so wrong. It’s now one of my favorite movies.

So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then? I’m not really clear on how communicating freely between them works. I understand that’s how the Fediverse supposedly works, but I have a Mastodon account and I haven’t sorted out any way to post on/read lemmy content with it, so I’m not sure what the integration actually means in practical application? Maybe someone could help me understand.

My first thought: This is theater.

Yeah I just can’t see any other explanation. It’s too sudden, too all-encompassing - too quickly. It’s artificial.

Nah, Kavanaugh said he wants them to take one up, this isn’t the right one to suit him apparently. They just need one more vote to take one up.

Heads up, y’all, don’t buy a D.R. Horton house if you can possibly avoid it, the more you know✨️

Not for nothing, but every home “builder” in America subs out to (multiple) General Contractors who sub out to their contractors work that gets inspected by the local municipality in stages. When people warn against particular builders, I always feel obliged to temper this by saying “they’re all actually pretty equally shit.” Residential building is complicated field work done pretty much by randos with varying levels of addictions, it’s not like a factory building cars. There’s only so much that can be expected.

Instead of avoiding particular builders, I would recommend buying a house that’s around 10 years old or so and which has been thoroughly inspected by someone who has been inspecting for more than 10 years (and who has been recommended to you by someone you know if possible). It will have had time to do any bad shit it’s gonna do (generally speaking). New houses are always a roll of the dice to some extent.

Same here man, it was many years ago. My ex was crazy - I don’t mean the kind of crazy like “everybody has a crazy ex crazy,” I mean literally crazy. I never knew whether I was coming home to someone weeping uncontrollably with her face buried in the couch - or bleary eyed with rage, screaming - pulling knives on me in the kitchen and threatening to kill me in my sleep. I am not exaggerating.

Five years of this shit getting increasingly worse before I finally said “this ain’t living” and pulled the plug. She tried desperately to get me to change my mind, but I was done. Then she turned on me in earnest, lying to everyone I knew and telling them all sorts of crazy shit. They should have known better - these people grew up with me, they knew I was a good guy.

But here’s the thing (and it still bugs me to this day) - when you’re the one doing the divorcing, you’re the one who gets blamed, right or wrong. There’s this sort of unspoken rule that the partner that wants to keep the marriage around must be the one that’s blameless. Nevermind if they’re abusive, manipulative, gaslighting pieces of shit who fuck around on you - they only want to make the marriage work!

But there’s a silver lining. People always get the truth eventually. She won’t be able to hide her true nature forever, and eventually people will come around. When they do, they will come to you and they will apologize. In the meantime, get your counseling, know it isn’t you, be good to yourself, and find someone who will treat you like you deserve to be treated.

I am married to my second wife now for over 15 years. She is, was and always will be: NORMAL. Thank goodness. Sometimes you can wonder if it was maybe somehow partly your fault. A good woman will disabuse you of that notion.

I set my avatar, but I use old.lemmy.world and can’t see it anyway.