I'm feeling more optimistic lately though because while it seems like the bigger media companies are being made to turn hard to the right, it also seems like their brand of propaganda isn't working as effectively as it once did. Seems like they might have even lost the younger generations entirely.

My perspective has been that if things really do go to shit to the level of what peppers believe, financial stuff won't really matter unless you've invested in setting up a self-sufficient compound. And even then, owning such a compound would likely be as much of a liability than an asset because unless there's many such compounds, you're going to get swarmed by anyone who hears about it, so you'll also need security forces and equipment to defend it.

And if you have a small army on the compound, good luck not getting couped by them.

A business venture like a magazine would be completely irrelevant if society ends. But it might make a decent income in the time between now and the end. And it'll be kinda like religion: once anyone is in a position to find out how good any of your advice really was, they won't likely be in a position to get upset with you if it was all just made up.

Yeah, and it wouldn't be a pistol if it was here. Shotgun or rifle maybe, but not a pistol.

Also as a Canadian, I started the day with shorts but switched to pants before I left the house this evening and am wondering if I'll need to switch the thermostat to heat instead of cool (because for some reason it can't handle just having a range and heating or cooling as necessary to keep it within that range).

Yeah, I'm wondering how many people failed that kid for him to end up in a place where he decided to throw away his life to lash out in a way that couldn't be ignored or swept under a rug.

Ultimately, this is probably the root of the problem more than the access to guns are because a kid that wants to shoot up his school but can't get a gun to do so is still a tragedy and could still turn deadly.

Edit: not that guns aren't too easy to access in the US

2 counts of murder 2

4 counts of involuntary manslaughter

8 counts of cruelty to children

I wonder how they settled on 2 counts of murder. Maybe that implies they think 2 victims were targetted and 2 were in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Could be similar energy to women who proudly want to be trad wives. And those who think that because they had it shitty, others should also have to go through that.

On another note, I wonder what the divide looks like for women who start with that mindset naively and then end up a) getting lucky and not getting burnt by that mindset (and stay naive about it), b) consider it a rite of passage or the way things should be (and continue supporting it despite no longer being naive about it), or c) change their mindset after enough wake-up calls. There's probably also some that start out as b) but then changes to a c) when they see the same shit happening to their daughters or nieces or other loved ones and decide that's too much. At least I'd hope so.

Sounds like accessory to murder to me.

If you want more vegetarian dishes that aren't just soy pretending to be a meat dish (and usually disappointing), try out some Indian dishes. A decent portion of their population is vegetarian for religious reasons and they've made the best of it. I went to a vegetarian Indian wedding once and didn't miss having meat at all.

I make dol as part of my normal rotation and even my daughter loves it when I was expecting her to be disappointed with what was mainly lentils and spinach served with flatbread. But the little bit that isn't lentils and spinach is just as important.

Goes to HR:

"My boss grabbed my dick and shook the piss out of it in the bathroom! Then he made me go into a stall and wiped my ass to check if that risky fart he had noticed earlier was indeed just a fart!"

"No shit?"

"None!"

Then he sits down and makes himself an award certificate for best personal hygiene and another for most caring boss and wonders if talking to himself really means he's crazy.

Yeah, that was my thought when many people were talking about how to make Lemmy more popular after the initial exodus. My thought was that Lemmy felt a lot more like the Reddit that first attracted me to the platform over a decade ago than Reddit itself had for years. I thought society had moved beyond being capable of what Reddit and older forums used to be.

I don't know if it's because of a subset of people that are awful but only follow crowds, if corporations do things that ruin things once they think they can make money from them, if it's trolls (for their own entertainment or for sowing division with some kind of a sponsor), or some combination of all of those and others. But whatever it is, Lemmy doesn't seem to have that yet. Even the instances that largely got defederated by most of the others were better than the Reddit experience while they were still here, and they didn't stay here for long (plus they still exist, so those who are drawn to that kinda scene can still go there instead of needing to find somewhere else).

Not to mention the bigger the fediverse gets, the more expensive it will be to run servers, which increases the chance that they end up going for sale not because their admins don't want them anymore but because they can't afford them.

So he expected something like: "Those bronze medals look awful! Time to rip out all that copper piping and wiring from my home and dump it on the market!"