I mean, vote blue, but primary the fuck out of people like that.

I have 85 people blocked. Most of them for spamming, probably. The rest for harshing my mellow by aggressively being assholes to others or just because I’ve realized my personal experience is more pleasant with their absence.

I don’t owe my attention to anyone. I see lots of comments here about refusing to censor alternate points of view, but that’s not it. I can enjoy healthy disagreement, but some folks make some agenda their entire identity and I just get tired of them constantly injecting it into every conversation.

On the other hand there’ve been many people I’ve disagreed with, engaged with, found some common ground, and continue to enjoy their presence even knowing we don’t see eye to eye. Or, if they post about other things, I just ignore the rants I disagree with. It’s not filtering out points of view, it’s filtering out people whose presence makes Lemmy a source of stress rather than an interesting, vibrant community. That’s obviously very subjective, but it’s my block list and my peace of mind.

I think you should ask a lawyer and not a therapist or internet randos.

lol. What fucking jokes those people are.

I’ve tried multiple times to go IP6 only. I mostly thought, despite my reasonable understanding of IP4, that I was the problem in trying to set it up. I found my dns host was being forgotten multiple times a day, set to something invalid, then it would time out and revert back to the working one. I couldn’t figure out how to connect two computers together for Minecraft.

Now I hear it was just garbage consumer hardware and software? Fuck me. So much wasted time and effort to say nothing of believing I had turned into a tech idiot.

I don’t know how excited I am about the high republic, but the article is right that they fucked up the sequels badly enough that I have no interest in any story after TRoS that references any of that canon in any way. That movie was so garbage I had to mentally delete everything after the throne room scene in TLJ and just pretend they left the story open-ended.

Andor is fucking brilliant. But everything else has been disappointing and half-baked. Ahsoka has potential, but there was a lot of bad in it, and I love Rosario Dawson especially in the marvel Netflix series, but I’m not sold on her for Ahsoka. Mando started off great and still has echoes of that greatness, but I think it’s getting weaker. Boba Fett was about ten good minutes sandwiched into the worst garbage I’ve ever wasted my time watching (short of TRoS) - and I used to own Shark Tornado.

It’s pretty clear that Disney doesn’t know what the fuck to do and they just get lucky sometimes and then when they get something that works they ruin it with their need to make it huge.

I do have some trust in Dave Filoni because he seems to be a common thread in their successes, but I just don’t know if Disney is the right owner for Star Wars. Bring on the high republic but if this show sucks… well I have almost fifty years of fond memories, and that’s not a bad legacy for a dead horse still being beaten.

That is stated, but I’m not sure I’d consider the Netherbrain a reliable narrator. I feel like it was an attempt to intimidate the party. The sheer amount of secret knowledge and unlikely events that come together to begin freeing the brain at the end of A1 seems beyond the ability of an elder brain, which is all it would’ve been when it formed the plan.

The whole idea that it would use use an artifact that had only been seen once, very briefly, with no measurement or understanding of its true capabilities, to evolve itself into a being powerful enough to overcome the control it was submitting to as part of its plan… I know elder brains are scary smart, but this seems a ludicrous proposition.

Consider: what part of its plan could it not have achieved simply by tadpoling Gortash and anyone else to begin with?

Now it could be that what the brain says is canonically true and this is just weaker writing, but until I see confirmation I think the brain was trying to demoralize the party into thinking they’d always been dancing to the brain’s tune the whole time and everything they had done had been in service to its plot the whole time, when the truth is it has been (very capably) trying to regain the upper hand since Ketheric’s death.

That’s definitely possible, but mostly I’ve been blocking over unnecessarily hostile responses either to me or to someone else, not ideology, so hopefully I won’t get too far up my own ass.

Beautiful. I’d plan a trip to that beach.

It sucks to get to the end of social media. On Reddit I could always find plenty of posts with hundreds of comments and many were worth reading or replying to. Lemmy absolutely has good content and good comments, but you can get to the end where there’s no more. It probably doesn’t help that I’ve been much quicker to block people over the cut of their jib. I don’t come here to argue or hate people more than I already do, so I spend a lot less time and words embroiled in pointless conflict.

But I still haven’t been back to Reddit and won’t. When I get to the end of content I find myself going to TikTok or Instagram - two things that I’ve never liked but at least it’s a stress free way to kill time, just louder.

Can’t gerrymander the entire state now can ya?

Wyoming might have something to say about that…

No idea what you’re talking about, but it’s our second vehicle. Primary is a Volt, so PHEV with the longest range. Most days we use no gas because I work from home and we only use the van a couple times a week when the kids need to be in different places at the same time.

I would 2-3 times a year. And when I did it would be probably 3 charges in each direction, maybe 4 considering heat and a/c and several suitcases of weight. Enough that it wouldn’t be convenient, but that’s why we’ll keep an ICE van around for a while yet.

Honestly, you’ll do a hell of a lot more good staying and helping Texas turn purple. I’ve thought a few times about leaving the states, but last election I got to help my whole state flip blue. It’s hard, because the assholes will never stop fighting to turn America into a shithole, and so the fight to turn it into something better is never over. But America isn’t unique in that aspect.

I’ve never owned a gun and still agree with them. There are certainly people who shouldn’t have guns but the vast majority haven’t yet had an incident to get them taken away by any hypothetical law.

You can’t prevent every gun death. It’s certainly worth preventing the ones we can, but this particular story has no indications that these ladies had previously given cause for taking them away. They were at least seen by the state as responsible enough to foster children.

So to come to this particular story to advocate taking guns away from folks under circumstances that wouldn’t have changed the outcome feels more like grandstanding than conversation.

I don’t disagree with that, but I’m saying they cared more about white revolution than Trump specifically. These aren’t folks who got duped into simping for Trump, he just provided them the opportunity they’d been looking for all along.

Sure, but also consider that Trump is incidental or perhaps convenient to his goals. The violent revolution is what this guy wanted, not Trump. This was just the best opportunity that was ever going to come along in his lifetime.

Biden is fine. A lot of people are looking for someone who is going to revolutionize things overnight. A lot of folks also like to give the President blame or credit for things out of his control. Overall I’ve been pleasantly surprised. All I really wanted was not Trump, but Biden has been a lot better than that.

Yes, I agree with this. I also want to see the video because sometimes what a cop calls charging isn’t how I would use the word. But until I see otherwise, this sounds like a reasonable response.

I’m not obligated to patronize businesses or artists who promote things I object to.