JonEFive

“You know who had a weird flex? Jesus, when he was nice to all those poor people and everyone hated him for it…”

The flex get’s weirder. Do you have bo skills? Do you also like nunchucks?

I don’t trust all these scientists! They want to trick me and do something bad for some reason. I don’t understand what’s really happening because I can’t fathom anyone I don’t agree with being smarter than me.

Water? You mean like from the toilet?

Your not very good at speling.

Great write-up. However, since this is intended to be more educational, referring to the GOP without explaining then turning it into a pejorative isn’t useful. That said, you could of course keep it in as commentary.

For anyone reading who doesn’t know (perhaps international): GOP stands for Grand ol’ Party and it’s another slightly antiquated term for Republicans. The “Good ole pedophiles” is obviously an insult, but one based on actual actions and evidence backed claims. They have blocked and refused to investigate or prosecute anyone in the Epstein files, even with coroborating accusers and witnesses.

Because it’s 2026

Non binary god… uhh, doesn’t the bible basically say that God the spirit is genderless?

Oh come on now, we both know he’s sitting in that chair with his pants around his ankles more often than not.

Neither is “I tried wet wipes and literally nothing else”. Dude needs an education in how to clean everything, not just his ass.

Help computah 😞

Nobody wins when humans and microwaves argue

That’s what she said!

You do not want to ride a bike on a lot of US roads. They’re designed for high-speed/high-volume vehicle traffic. Drivers don’t even think to look for bicyclists in most places.

You’re right that a bicycle should be a good alternative, it’s just not realistic based on our current infrastructure.

I take it you’ve never been to the US. There is no “just walk there” in most of the US. Most places don’t have functional mass transit - no busses or local trains or trollys. Even bicycle infrastructure is minimal if it even exists in most places. It’s a huge country and everything is far apart. A lot of Americans commute driving up to an hour or more every day to get to work.

Beyond people traveling, everything we need or buy has to be moved around the country. Trains, trucks, planes, and delivery vehicles all require fuel.

Cheap gas is a requirement for our economy to function. If gas is expensive, people drive less and prices go up across the board. If they drive less, they don’t go out as often, and if they don’t go out, they aren’t spending money in the community.

Something I haven’t seen people talk about is the nature of the fediverse in terms of the philosophy of separate instances.

There are a lot of “general” instances that are kind of like mini-reddits. Lots of users sign up from all over, communities for a wide variety of interests. But there are also instances with a specific focus.

For example, I’m a member of midwest.social so when I look at the “local” feed, I only get communities relating to the US midwest. But of course, I can still subscribe and interact with other communities on federated insances.

Think of it like email. You can sign up for the big general purpose emails (google, outlook, icloud, etc). But you might want something different, perhaps privacy focused like Proton or Tuta. Or you can have an “instance” for your work where everyone gets an @company.com email. Or maybe you just want to spin up your own email with a vanity domain.

No matter which email server you use, you can still communicate with people on separate servers.

You don’t have to stick with the first account you create. In fact, I’d recommend that you try a few instances before you settle on one.

Beyond separate instances, there are also alternatives to Lemmy that are very similar but do some things differently. Mbin, Kbin, and Piefed are examples. And again, thanks to federation standards and everything being built to be compatible, you can subscribe to a Lemmy community from Mbin and vice versa.

A lot of instances do. They’re usually blocklisted due to trolling or exclusionary/supremacist posting.

Janeway was right!

Though that Tuvix uniform was hot, you have to admit.

You can block posts marked as NSFW in your settings. Well moderated instances require their users to properly tag their NSFW content.

Some instances have rules against posting NSFW altogether or place limits on what can be posted.

That’s perfectly valid. If Windows suits your needs and priorities, use it. I use Windows on my work laptop because Linux would be a nightmare with all the tools and apps we use. But personal laptop? Linux all the way.