When you’ve already got a dedicated following… ;)

Something on which we can all agree.

Another veteran under 40 here, also with depression. BSCS. I suffered a violent career upset / ending and lived in my car for a few months. Two years later I own my own house and have paid off the loan on said car making two thirds of what I used to.

You’re going to work your testes off but it can be done. Writing this from aforementioned car on a security guard shift as my second job.

THIS.

Seriously. Turn off corporate media and throw it in the garbage.

I will give you that. The DC area is incredibly cyclable / walkable and it’s nice, considering how scarce and expensive parking is.

Oh, yes, please!!!

Getting in and out of a higher-riding vehicle with an upright seating position is more natural and comfortable, particularly for the elderly and/or infirm. Furthermore, we have engineered away most of the drawbacks of crossovers and SUVs.

Not anymore they’re not. Not in the U.S., at least.

Well, when a County drops nearly a million dollars on a bus stop, it’s not hard to understand why.

Yes. Get everyone off the universe’s most prolific spyware already.

According to Eric Stephen Raymond, open source is creating more jobs than it destroys. Furthermore, how many software companies have fallen due to an open source competitor?

Pretty much anything will have Amazon workers demanding more.

Well, there were scuffles between so-called ANTIFA-BLM and Proud Boys.

Sounds about right

That’s right. I’m not sure if anyone federates with them, but Gab runs Mastodon, which has some ActivityPub compatibility with Kbin on toots / microblogging.

Nah. It says a lot about the largely tech-aware user base, virtually all of which votes in a single direction.

Well…Chevrolet does use patriotic imagery to sell (excluding their full-size vans and the Malibu) crappy cars, thus ripping people off. Their parent company, General Motors Corporation Company also did a sleight-of-hand trick that took all kinds of money from the American taxpayer we’ll never see again. So that’s a large contribution to our eventual default on the national debt, which will lead to an eventual overthrow of the government.

I should point out (even though I converted to a Ford guy) that it was Henry Ford who was awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the Third Reich. He was a rabid anti-Semite.

On that note, everyone who, as a result of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, is dumping their Teslas for Volkswagen EVs is supporting a company started by the Third Reich that used Nazi concentration camp slave labor.

It’s a cross-section of not of society but of the popular Lemmy instances’ respective user bases. You could argue all day about merits of right-wing philosophies and policies and you’d still be heckled into oblivion for this reason.

I’ll second what others have said: if you get heckled into oblivion by people who refuse to listen, go join or create another Lemmy instance and find some who will.

Welcome to the Fediverse!

There’s a business phone switch owned by many of our customers for which licenses for file-based music-on-hold are no longer available from the manufacturer. An old iPod / Nomad / Zune / etc. fits the bill to connect to its built-in, no-additional-license-required music-on-hold audio port perfectly. It even comes with its own built-in UPS.