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They won’t, because those congresscritters actually pay for the expensive business/first class tickets (from YOUR money), whereas the average people are stuck flying economy, which is simply just isn’t worth running in such cases.

Hear hear!

That sounds way too generic for it to be a proper smut community. Got a link?

Technically I’m a dude, but I will accept an honourary smut girlie title

Thanks! Looks like it’s my client blocking my view from all of these communities, including via search. First one isn’t even clickable and second appears empty.

I’m currently using Interstellar. Got any recommendations for iOS that can handle Lemmy, mBin AND PieFed, while not over-filtering NSFW? Interstellar doesn’t seem to have any proper toggles aside from “covering up sensitive content”, which I’ve already had disabled.

EDIT: Looks like the second link’s domain is down, and up for sale?

Of course it isn’t. A large number of the population is easily misled by even mediocre AI generated content. Which generates clicks, traffick, and thus revenue (through ads).

Why would a company with the sole priority of generating revenue, care about things like being truthful or legitimate or real, when that doesn’t generate revenue?

Given peopledotcom refuses to make their website actually usable (the cookie and privacy policy notice isn’t dismissable for example), I refuse to give them any level of traffic.

And the AI bubble hasn’t even burst yet.

Have you tried buddying up?

I find that my ADHD gets less in the way when there’s someone “observing” me while I do the task, leading me to much less random trailing off. They don’t actually have to do anything but be present or maybe talk to you.

I do some of my best cleanings when my mum calls. Guaranteed hour long chat where I can be actually productive because even though it’s just a voice call, I feel judged enough to start doing something about it.

Nah. He wasn’t wrong when he said his followers wouldn’t give a damn if he shot a man in the middle of Fifth Ave.

The only thing MAGA actually seems to genuinely care for - aside from their constant need to feed their rage and despicable beliefs like racism - is being against paedophilia. They might not care enough about kids to actually offer their tax money to ensure all of them gets to eat, gets proper education, but at the very least a majority of them doesn’t want powerful men to rape them. Which, I guess, is a small win?

Therefore anything that is truly damaging to Trump will be kid-diddling related.

Used to be on Reddit too, but spez killed it like he killed Aaron. Obligatory fuck spez.

I don’t know what else could be more damning than that.

Active participation in not just the rape but the trafficking operation, the big reveal being that he actually solicited these “services” to tons of so far unnamed people?

Remember this isn’t just about Trump. He’s protecting those padding his pockets and pulling his strings.

The media doesn’t care. People do, but the media hasn’t been for the benefit of the people for quite a while now.

I’ve got a nice stew recipe…

Trailer Grease has none of the pull the orange turd has, though. Most of MAGA considers her nuttier than squirrel shit and would NOT vote for her.

The main fracturing on the left is primarily caused by ideological purists (aka tankies), who refuse to even consider that going from current capitalist systems to communism doesn’t happen at the flip of a switch and we need to slowly but surely push for more and more progress towards it. Mind you the same people in the same breath will go on and praise authoritarian, state-capitalist systems as if they’re an example to follow, so…

Ideological debate should always be welcome when relevant and not detrimental to the goal. After all, everyone’s perspective is different and mutual understanding is a must for mutual respect. Even if we disagree on topics, debating them with logical reasoning is the way, and while that might look like fracturing, it’s still a much better option than, say, pooling behind a child rapist mango with pubes on top of it, just to appear united.

I’d like to think that Bernie winning the primaries would’ve actually energised the left wing of the US. Most of the apathy not just in the US, but all over the (western) world stems from the fact that the right always has a charismatic populist mouthpiece while the left keeps bringing out all the old, broken records, pushing actual trailblazers to the back.

With what support Bernie had, he could’ve easily moved tons more voters than Hillary could’ve ever dreamt of. Not just in the presidential election but all the other House and Senate and governor and state senate and mayoral votes.

But let’s presume that didn’t happen and Bernie is now POTUS with the same level of support as Biden had in 2020-2024, and with the same congressional setup as you guys ended up with in 2016.

The reason why Biden’s milquetoast agenda didn’t go anywhere was because he already did 50-60% of what the conservatives wanted, and readily negotiated the remaining 40-50% down to 10% just to get things passed. Of course that would barely move things anywhere.

Now think, if Bernie came out with an absurdly social-democrat plan/bill. 100% opposite of what Rs want. Even if THAT gets negotiated down to 10% to get past… that’s still a thousand times more progress for left agenda than Biden could’ve ever hoped to achieve.

I never really had a good relationship with my parents. I’m a first child, so they were literally learning the ropes with me, and being neurodivergent without appropriate early diagnosis and treatment… there was some major disconnect. Sure I was a “gifted” kid, but at every step they tried to force their own vision onto me, and thanks to that disconnect, I never had that truly supporting parentage. It was a constant barrage of high expectations with major punishments outlined if I didn’t meet those, and given the disconnect, the only time I felt “loved” was when they’d provide me with certain things - but all those things were tied to expectations.

A great example for this is my first computer. I needed one, for studies, for chasing my own interests, and finally I was allowed to buy one from my own money at the end of 8th grade, if my graduation average was above a specific (incredibly high, think 16-18 subjects, graded 1 to 5 where 5 is best, my average had to be above 4.5), and if I managed to get certified in my chosen secondary language at a B level (A is conversational, B is professional/daily, C is for official translation work).

This plus my parents rarely expressing emotions beyond anger was… not exactly helpful in my emotional development.

Now, after a decade of living abroad, I’m trying to close that gap, but it’s not easy. My mother… I get along with her much better, but she’s got tons of trauma she refuses to see a therapist about, and instead is working herself to death in her 50s. The worst part is I can’t even talk her out of it, and both my brothers are blind to it.

My father is the harder nut to crack. He’s gone down the alt-right slide about ten years ago, and this intelligent man I grew up admiring has gone incredibly racist, xenophobic, illogical, in constant support of a kleptocratic government that literally took away all his savings and pension and is now giving him a pittance…

All in all it’s not easy but I’m doing my best to build a passable relationship with them.

Just for a moment imagine if he ran against the orange turd in 2016 instead of Hillary, and WON.

Imagine the US not being international laughing stock between 2017 and 2021. COVID being handled properly, with a newly reformed healthcare system actually taking care of people, making your country one of the first to get out of endless lockdowns and furloughs, no record breaking death numbers and so on.

They banned all AI regulations unless it affects MAGA detrimentally