Lots of naysayers trying to convince everyone not to participate, or to fragment efforts with competing ideas.

So much of our consumer culture is buying shit we don’t need like impulse buys and stupid movies and fast food. That’s profitable stuff, and skipping that for one day doesn’t mean you’ll just buy it the next day.

I’m just worried about another No Labels situation.

Who is funding this?

When did brute force switch from being an antipattern to the preferred pattern?

These are what I use to dim them without blocking them entirely: https://lightdims.com/

Feels like a pretense to discourage protests.

Touché. Hit a nerve, I guess.

I’m pretty sure they only care about their performative solipsism.

True, but two copies is one, and one is none. Multiple backups are critical, especially as archive.org has been targeted by the last few book publishers, who want it gone. As politicians and news sites quietly modify their content and hope nobody notices, this should really be a service of the Library of Congress, too.

Weird that we’re still doing “heiress”, after abandoning “aviatrix”, “actress”, &c.

I did not attend the funeral, but I approved of it.

The FDA is a joke. I repeatedly got food poisoning from a bag of hard boiled eggs before I figured it out. I reported it to the FDA/USDA to try and get the batch tested to keep anyone else from getting sick, and they just had me call someone that ended up being a lawyer for the store that sold the eggs, whose sole interest was to tell me I couldn’t prove anything so I shouldn’t sue.

It’s actually meditation, isn’t it?

This company has been caught multiple times going back and changing the location of recorded shots in their system after the fact. I don’t know why they’re still in business.

So do feature testing, not user-agent sniffing! For Pete’s sake, it’s 2024! That’s been the best practice for decades!

Dismissing entire groups based on stupid labels is ugly.

But voting third party doesn’t actually accomplish anything. Take it from someone who did it for decades. It doesn’t shake up or change the system, it just perpetuates the minority rule set up by Project Redmap.

The right way to do it is to vote your conscience locally, until there is enough support at higher levels. Skipping right to voting for third party presidential candidates is simply naive, I’m afraid.

Edit: Steve Hofstetter lays it out well (I wish I could find this one elsewhere) https://m.facebook.com/stevehofstetter/videos/why-voting-third-party-for-president-makes-no-sense/359024631794244/