Pirate everything.

Admittedly, I don’t know enough about monopolies and antitrust laws to know how much this matters. Can someone ELI5 this and give us more info?

Deleted mine two years ago.

Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.

There aren’t any ads on Mastodon. :)

You just search hashtags or set up a column so you have a feed giving you everything under a given hashtag, though it may be those communities are so niche there isn’t much on the Mastodon instance you chose. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a specific instance for Buddhism itself, though, given that it’s such a massive world religion.

That’s probably fair. There’s an abundance of smug assholery in the world right now. Apologies.

Must be nice to be so rich that you can just be this fucking weird in public.

I think this is the crowd that tried Mastodon and then abandoned it when they realized it required a modicum of effort.

“EDumper” is a great name for a dump truck.

I wouldn’t trust it. We now live in an era where, if you want control of any kind of information, you simply can’t share it digitally in any way.

This is the absolute weirdest thing about Trump’s governance to me: how sometimes he ends up doing good things for terrible reasons, like when the US redeployed from Syria.

If you only voted for trump based on the economy you deserve to face the worst of what this regime is about to bring.

Not a winning message if you want people to vote for your side one day. Dems are going to have to get over themselves and get on other people’s level if they want to win.

These memes demonstrate that Democrats and people who obsess over politics online know nothing, learned nothing, and it wouldn’t surprise me if four years of fascism isn’t enough to change their behavior.

Yes.

Voters told Democrats that their biggest concern was poverty and the economy. They not only nominated someone with evident brain damage, but said candidate presided over severe inflation that had workers enduring 2-3 jobs just to be stuck unable to pay for basic necessities, and they wasted two months telling these struggling workers to be joyful, without any irony or concept of how tone-deaf that was.

Here in deep-red Missouri, we passed a $15 minimum wage and mandatory sick leave in a landslide. We voted down the abortion ban in a landslide. We also elected a Republican for governor and voted Trump as a state.

This should tell you that yes, the economy was in fact the most important issue on the ballot, not putting women in their place.

What democracy?

The Democrats and Republicans fought harder to keep the party I support off the ballot than they did to stop each other from getting elected.

Agreed. Those fuckers are rich enough to treat workers fairly. Full stop.

Yeah, there was a TV show once where the plot of the episode was the theft of some new, important classified tech.

In the last scene the bad guy drops their suitcase and this important, secret tech falls out.

The prop master used vanilla, recognizable RAM chips. It annoyed me so much.

Please go look up the Dow as of October 1994.

Thank you.

In gambling, the house always wins, by extracting value from the players. In stock trading, the players (capitalists) collectively always win, by extracting value from labor, technological growth, and natural resources. These are not the same picture.

Excellent analogy. People who equate the stock market and gambling should go look up where the DJIA stood in October 1994. The slot machines in Vegas don’t magically start spitting out profit just because you’re patient, but stocks generally do over time.

This is the shit we need to be thinking about when we read about a black person getting shot by a cop for stealing a loaf of bread, if you ask me.

Also that CEO has an eminently punchable face.