How DARE they vote for the candidate they wanted! They should be maligned!

What kind of conceited child tells people to “do some real work” and talks like no one else could exist but by the grace of their work?

• hyper individualism
• blind support for oversized trucks

Gotta be from the US, huh?

Take a look outside your country and see how things are done elsewhere. I can’t fault you for the shitty US auto.industry continuing to needlessly bloat the size of vehicles past what is reasonable, but I can fault you for your blind support of it.

Go do some real work and take a good hard look at how your truck compares to those from the 1990s or the early 2000s. Unless it’s specialized, does it have a bigger bed? Is the bed at a reasonable height for lifting things in and out of, or is it needlessly tall? Where are your spark plugs - do you need to take the entire cab off to access and replace them? How tall is the hood - when you hit a pedestrian, do they roll on top of the hood and survive or do they go under the vehicle and get dragged along and killed? Can you see around your vehicle enough to park and maneuver easily, or do you require a dedicated GPU and camera system that renders a 3D image of your surroundings because otherwise you couldn’t park your rig because you can’t see a single thing within 30 ft of your vehicle in any direction? When something goes wrong and your vehicle needs work, do you have to take it to a specialized mechanic to fix it, or can you take it to almost any mechanic to fix? Better yet, can you do some real work and fix it yourself, or does it require proprietary tools and specialized software to maintain?

You tell me: what is needed and what is not needed? New trucks suck. They are bloated, ostentatious pieces of trash.

I do get it. You have no reasonable excuse to drive a multi-ton pickup that’s tall enough that you can’t see people standing in front of it. There are alternatives or it’s not needed as a daily driver. How is it that the rest of the world manages to accomplish the same things with smaller vehicles?

Keep trying to justify it to yourself or just own the fact that it’s ostentatious and ridiculous.

Excuses.

Why should I have to subsidize your oversized work vehicle and the extra wear and tear it causes our infrastructure?

Drive a van. Drive a truck that is reasonably sized and designed for human work (like are used in many countries around the world). Pickups don’t have to be built on frames sized for semis.

Thank you! Whenever I see new interactions of this meme, its annoying rather than entertaining now because it propagates the very same misperceptions about history that you debunk here.

Ultimately, the quintessential history of the US taught to the youth in the US (and reinforced in pop media for adults) is a fairy tale.

It was kind of the opposite. Bush Sr did the setup and the blowback landed on his son’s administration…which then made it worse before they kicked the can further down the road.

Umm, I have it on pretty good authority that electric cars will solve the climate crisis and are immune to effects on the globe. Just do your part and buy an $TSLA Tesla EV.

I experienced the same thing. Thankfully it eventually stopped automatically feeding up his vids.

Still won’t make it funny.

How about 14 seconds?

Intellectual property laws are theft of human potential. Instead of focusing on actual progress, everyone is focused on how to get around patents. Incentivize innovation, not the opposite.

Also Don’t look up how the US military was able to influence that movie! It’s uselessly vague or redacted!

I think you misunderstood their comment? They’re saying the high number of active users coming from Reddit was too much for the computers to handle at the time, not that the Redditors themselves were scaring people away. The speed and downtime of the .ml instance at the time is what they are saying drove people to .world.

I remember world was a bit better at the time, but both instances were frequently struggling with performance after the third-party app ban.

If you don’t want to be called Nazis, then stop putting up with all the fascists in your instance. Pretending the problem doesn’t exist is definitely the mature stance to take when someone points out that your instance is harboring fascists.

The barrier of an application is enough to scare off most non-serious users. I used to favor open registration, but after making an account and participating on an instance with open registration vs closed, I found the closed registration shuts down a lot of bad actors and makes the instance a more pleasant community.

I’m not even advocating for rejecting any of the applications, just having questions to answer before joining seems to significantly cut down on the trolls.

No disadvantages? Idk, there is the whole disadvantage of .world being defederated from lemmygrad. :)

Why would you leave a passive-aggressive comment about hexbear when the user made a legitimate point about the influx of redditors overloading .ml servers during the exodus?

What a weird comment all around.

I’ll definitely keep FidelCatstro in my back pocket though.

I completely understand blocking or ignoring those who engage you in bad faith, but when someone disagrees with you and also engages in a discussion in good faith, you are merely silencing voices of dissent by blocking them.

How is that approach not creating an echo chamber? It seems hypocritical to label spaces that welcome good faith discourse “echo chambers” while creating your own.