What are magats saying these days? I seem to have filtered most of that from my life. All I’ve seen is a couple posts about the hypocrisy of them, but that’s not surprising.

Do you have to deal with a lot of pervy fetishist types?

Not Vim? WTF?

I hope they find the guy and just blow an air horn directly into his face for a few days straight. What a dingus.

Have you seen these voters’ fucking voting record?

Yeah, that wouldn’t surprise me.

And at least one murder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia

This shit show is no joke, but I can’t stop laughing. Every day. It’s all just so unbelievably (yet somehow easily predicted as well) stupid.

Another challenge is the robot’s reliance on a strong magnetic field generated by an electromagnetic coil for operation, although researchers believe that further miniaturization could address this issue. Reducing the robot’s size to less than one millimeter could allow it to be powered by weaker magnetic fields, such as those from radio waves.

It’s pretty cool now, but that upgrade sounds crazy. Just imagining a swarm of them powered by a radio station. The morning FM wars will come back, but for real. Tens of thousands of these robots facing off above our heads. Forming a more invasive advertisement path, with counter open source hackers releasing their own clouds, powered by the same frequency, but with radically disruptive goals.

I’m pretty sure there are a handful of states that cloud seed. It has nothing to do with the imaginary chem trails though.

It’s such a dichotomy. Women get catcalled every day and feel uncomfortable and harassed. Understandable. The average man gets catcalled a handful of times in his life and cherishes those moments almost as much as their children’s births.

Such a fucking letdown. I didn’t have a lot of faith in him, but I hoped that his being shut out of the SC would at least light a fire under his ass, hell what did he have to lose? FUUUCK!!

That is such a great book. I’ve liked a lot of his other books, liked them a lot, but Ministry… is just another level.

It’s kind of funny, in a gallow’s humor way. It’s like people saying at any point after the first month of that first magat administration,“I was with him up to now…” I’m happy that they finally come around, but hoooleeey!

…I thought it was don’t vote for Harris? And yippee, it sure is great that you couldn’t be fucked to vote for the lesser of two evils. Although maybe the current burn-it-all-to-the ground (focused on both Gaza and the US), will allow some type of phoenix resurrection in a few decades. I guess time will tell if your one-issue non-voting really made a difference or not. Short term, pretty obvious fuck-up, but long term you might have been onto something all along.

I thought zionism was a belief that Israel should exist.

From WordNet ® 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

Zionism

n 1: a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine

2: a movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine [syn: {Zionism}, {Zionist movement}]

therefore I’ve always taken anyone who says,“I’m not antisemetic, I just think Israel shouldn’t exist (IE, anti-zionist)” is a closet antisemite at best. Like a smug dork saying,“I’m not Republican, I’m Libertarian!” And I don’t really thinks it’s a game of semantics. It is semantics.

I can say that I really think the current Israeli gov’t should be exiled on St. Helena and not allowed to leave or communicate forever, but that doesn’t mean I’m anti-zionist. People who are anti-zionist seem to only have a selective and limited knowledge of a few thousand years of the history of the area.

Edit: Wow. A lot of “fuck the Jews” (historically from the area and persecuted in every surrounding country). Also a lot of “no, that means what I want it to mean, not what the word’s definition is”. Very right wingy. One of the topics I once again failed to keep away from. Freaking third rail on Lemmy to say anything about the problems in the mideast other than,“It’s the Jews fault.” I agree, fuck the settlers and the Israeli gov’t right now, but that doesn’t seem to matter. Again, very right wingy. Something doesn’t work to satisfaction, so instead of fixing it, just get rid of it. Seems like the current US gov’t approach to “fixing”.

Yeah, I spent 20 years living outside the US. The ignorance, even the “good” people, about the rest of the world has been painful to me for most of my adult life. It’s been really weird hearing all this rah-rah USA! USA! shit every time I moved back and just experiencing a place getting shittier every time. I’ve had way too many fellow Americans ask, “If it’s so bad here, where else in the world is as good?” That type of ignorance. Most of us can’t even imagine the idea of there being better countries. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

When I’m on my home instance (piefed.social for you I suppose), I see a list of subscribed communities on the sidebar. I think you can go into your profile and see as well. I used to just look at someplace like https://lemmyverse.net/communities to find new communities, but I don’t know what the goto is now, it’s been awhile since I’ve looked.

One weakness/strength of the fediverse is that it’s not a single point of failure. By that I mean reddit might just nuke /r/foobar and it’s all gone. The fediverse may break up that single community into several, ie foobar@piefed.social, foobar@lemmy.world, foobar@whateverhost. Now you have 3 or more communities discussing foobar, but they aren’t linked. The weakness is that they aren’t linked and can split the userbase. The strength is that if the owner of lemmy.world fucks off and their server disappeared, the other choices are still there. If you find <hobby or interest>@skism.net, but there only are a handful of people and 3 posts over the past 6 months, you may find the same <hobby or interest>@another.com that has a super active userbase.

It can be a little annoying at first, if you are used to reddit and 10k people commenting stupid shit all over the place, most of Lemmy you’ll usually find 10s or 100s of people commenting stupid shit. It’s worth it for me, and I haven’t opened reddit in over a year. Your mileage may vary.

Well no, you can’t trust the US for food safety. I live here and am starting to doubt it myself.

Everyone with any education on economics or history knew this would be the result. The magat brain trust thinks they are actually smart and played themselves. Again.