Gregory Wild-Smith

Minor quibble: democratic republic.

Plenty of democratic monarchies (ie, a constitutional monarchy) in the world (see: UK, Denmark, Spain, Japan… etc)

It’s solid slogan for the US tho, agreed. I like how they characterize it as the principles of the three core wars too.

Yeah, the actually awesome & useful parts of crypto do not require buy in AT ALL, lets along ponzi-style trading.

They are, unsurprisingly, the least used & seen parts (like how UPS, or shipping companies, use blockchain tech)

Yeah, exactly. I can disagree with Hamas and still find Israel’s actions abhorrent & criminal.

These are not mutually exclusive positions, but you’d never guess from The Discourse.

You were mistaken.

And yet, for all their similarities, both are incredibly different & great in their own way.

It’s really never about the idea. It’s about the execution.

In the sense that doing absolutely nothing is practice for doing *more* nothing, yes.

Slacktivism doesn’t work, we have decades of evidence of that. It also tricks people into thinking they’ve done something when they haven’t & disillusioning them when it does absolutely zero.

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Yeah, but with old cruddy iron, sometimes it’s the only way. If you scrub it directly after any flashed surface rust will come off instantly.

Just oil it up & season it in the oven for 90 mins at 400F and it’ll be fine. (tho I’d personally do that 2-3 times more before *cooking* on it)

Can’t establish secure connection error

Hmm this is what I get

Random note: do you know your website isn’t working? Says it can’t make a secure connection

My god I love your work

Eh, it would be fine as long as it’s not on the high heat setting.

Of course you’d have to re-season it a bunch to get it back to working order tho.

Not a good idea, but it’s not as disastrous as many make out.

Ah ok, got it

If you’re equating being a dick with being a Nazi you’re just not a serious person with a working logic center.

Elon being a dumb asshole != Elon being a government overthrowing Nazi.

Conflating the two is just silly & unserious.

Plus, ironically, the whole thing makes their resale value plummet (even more than Elon’s own behavior has) so that *makes them harder to sell*.

Do I wish I could swap it for a Rivian or similar? Yes. But those are twice as expensive as the resale of a Model Y

Same situation. The idea that people can just sell their cars & buy a whole new one as a protest is some of the most privileged bullshit I’ve seen from too-online faux-leftists (and I’ve seen a lot of that before).

Like, sure, I’d love to get rid of it. But kid needs to get to school, what now?

Honestly? BlueSky has gone VERY downhill.

They catered to the worst kind of shit posters & “content creators” (read: outrage baiters) for features & now we have just a less right wing version of shitty Twitter.

Really sad. What it could have been—and was—has been destroyed chasing growth.

It’s partly because membership rotates

Start your own freshman football league… with blackjack! And hook… wait…

… ok so maybe I got ahead of myself there.

39, still pretty young tbh

I’m so sorry. I literally yelled “NO” involuntarily when I heard.

Gone far too soon.

It’s also factual. It was white supremacists.

Stop making excuses for fascists.

Sadly makes sense. Once you allow at-will firing all bets are off.

Unfortunately Boox devices have a habit of self destructing (likely heat damaging the screen) & the company then pretends it’s not their fault & the user must have pressed hard on it.

So… caveat emptor & all that

Sounds like a monkeys paw: good knees but the eyes & memory giving up the ghost

Anyone paying attention didn’t laugh.

This has been known for many years.

I just assume anyone with a substance is ok with Nazi’s at this point.

It’s been a tell for a LONG time.

Which organizations are in the WH press pool that you consider legitimate?

Not that it matters much: any organization picked by his admin now can be crossed off that list

No! Oh that poor woman, that’s so sad. She was, by all accounts, a light in everyone’s life who knew her. 😢

Whole Foods has really gone to shit since they took over anyhow so it really shouldn’t be any hardship to cut them out.