Came here to post the same advice. 30 minutes… Absolute max.

Seconded. Have read it 4 times now.

Likely owns a vending machine business. They’re easier to return than a handful of quarters if someone uses a 5 dollar bill to buy something for a buck and change.

Not sure what you mean about sending one of these posts…

Thanks for responding, all the same!

What client are you using?

Is that a function of Lemmy, or just federated links, I wonder.

Exactly. Sometimes I can get it to load if I try opening it it a few times… But not that often.

Huh. Are you using Connect, or something else?

This feels like culling the herd with extra steps. Like… Someone smart was like… Hey, we need to get rid of dumb people. How do we do that? Oh, I know… Make a place where the dumb people really want to go by relaxing laws that protect people from being dumb. Then, we’ll make the dummies believe they’re the smart and patriotic ones for moving there. When they all wind up in this insane distopia, let’s just… Infect them with measles and tell them it’s fine! As long as Facebook and a bunch of weirdo authority figures reinforce their dumb feelings of being smart, in the end, we won’t even need a genocidal dictator or gas chambers! The dummies will do the job for us!

I mean… it’s just a thought. That’s not really what’s happening…

… Right?

Nine NIIIINE!!

Thought you were joking because homeslice used the term, “Sauce”… Then I realized it’s spelled “Bernaise”.

Seconded! Someone explain me, please?

I’ve not yet met a device whose Bluetooth name i couldn’t change. Just Google, “How do I change the Bluetooth name on “x device”?”, and substitute, “x device”, with the manufacturer, make, and model of the device whose Bluetooth name you want to change. I believe in you.

Heard this a lot in basic training. “You all ate up like a soup sandwich, private!”, meant you were all kinds of screwed up.

This is the part where someone comes along and tells me this bird is suffering from some neurologic disorder that will lead to it’s starvation and eventual death.

You are 100% correct in your assertion, my anti Mario sex toy friend, and I love your passion. I worry that the minute you call someone’s intelligence into question, they’ll take a defensive posture and stop thinking critically. Critical thinking is what we need more than anything else in this world right now. That’s what’s in short supply. It’s why the news is constantly being flooded with new things, and why there are so few media outlets that don’t have a slant. If I can get you outraged at team blue, or team red, or team US, or team THEM, your anger overrides your reason and you stop thinking about who benefits from the distraction provided by us arguing over whatever this new bullshit thing is we’re arguing over. Hopefully that last statement makes sense.

Help me understand how I’m close in what I’m saying, my friend. It feels like we’re saying exactly the same thing.

Look… It’s all tribalism, in the end. We can argue semantics, but doing so it’s exactly their point. It keeps us busy with pedantry, while they continue to enjoy their wealth from on high. I am not educated enough to debate the pros and cons of each group, but I am intelligent enough to smell an attempt to distract me from the point. To know there’s some sleight of hand fuckery happening right in front of my face.

The 1% exist in every form of government, my friend. Billionaire capitalists == Russian Oligarchs. The name changes based on the audience, but the idea is money influences politics. The folk with the most money to do so are the 1% who actually rule, not the interchangeable talking heads who take their money to live a comfortable life acting as the mouthpiece (or scapegoat) for that group.