The lowest common denominator fuck up a lot of stuff.

Can’t win any way except to cheat.

They had to put a comma in there somewhere. Even of it was in the wrong place and upside down.

The cold is fine. The short days absolutely suck.

Yeah. That’s what happens when you absolutely refuse to understand that tariffs are passed on to the consumer and not some tax on a foreign country that magically won’t affect you.

They’re plating politics?

Frustrated they can’t just steamroll everything, the dems are forcing the republicans to own their shitty policy they are trying to get the dems to vote for.

Self reinforcing policy for republicans in the US. Just keep making things shittier and more difficult which causes more unrest, so they justify more extreme responses and power grabs. Sounds like they know exactly what they’re doing.

Yeah.

I “blame” popular neighborhoods. Used to be you went around your neighborhood or went with a friend in town if you were more rural or something.

Now there are “it” neighborhoods or even small towns that seem to attract large groups, it’s almost like a block party. Tons of people arrive, there’s wild and extreme halloween decorations, effort gets put into costumes, and sometimes even full-size candy bars. My kids started going to popular areas with friends, one friend lives in a neighborhood like that so everyone uses his house as a starting point. It’s cool, but unfortunately large gatherings tend to bring assholes, too, and now there’s a cop nearby on standby because some people have to be dipshits and start being destructive or try to start fights.

We barely handed out one bag of candy in our neighborhood, last year we went through two big ones.

And there was the HDD shortage, the CPU shortage, and I’m sure we’ll see some variant repeat of any of them again.

My heroes? The instance operators and good mods, of course, along with everyone who contributes material.

Plus there’s more community when dealing with issues, such as problem instances and users. The fediverse doesn’t have the “old internet” feel, it’s still more restrained than that thanks to instance owners probably not wanting to host a lot of darker material thanks to the instances being under private ownership, but it feels more free than a place like reddit.

Trump says [insert completely wrong bullshit here]. Again.

In the US quite a bit these days. The far right supply-side Jesus accelerationists are gunning for total collapse of the system, and if that’s their religious armageddon, they’re fine with that.

’ Accelerationism’ refers to the spreading far-right and evangelical belief that we’re in or nearing the ‘end times,’ and that our society is SO corrupt and immoral that it all needs to be torn down and totally replaced ASAP.

https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-the-heck-is-accelerationism-and-why-is-it-so-dangerous-1fbada4f1679

That’s obviously a certain segment’s take on accelerationism, but nonetheless it exists.

The accelerationists.

Pity they’d rather set this Earth on fire in a rush to get to the next one.

Sounds like it could be. In drugged out bliss and thrall to a god in its domain. No change, no learning…nothing except stasis until the end of time.

But what % of overall traffic do these bots make up?

The real punchline is that he came to America and voted for trump.

The republicans took every shitty thing they said they hated about other countries like Russia, China and even North Korea and made those things goals.

Good luck.