drthunder

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[–] drthunder@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

And their website won't let you order anything on the Sabbath, which drives me insane. I'm not expecting anyone to be working on the weekend, but computers don't need to take breaks!!

[–] drthunder@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Midwest US reporting in!

[–] drthunder@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I also use it on an LG TV and sometimes it can't run at its normal framerate with subtitles on. I haven't figured out why yet, but it might be embedded files like someone else says in this thread. Other than that it works like a charm.

[–] drthunder@midwest.social 4 points 5 days ago

Claiming that Israel and Netanyahu's government speaks for all Jewish people is exactly what Zionists do, too. Jewish people have been co-leaders of every action for Palestine and against genocide that I've been part of.

[–] drthunder@midwest.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I agree, there are tons of bad actors out there. I can't believe how much time and money is invested into brainwashing children into thinking that men and women marrying is normal. I still don't understand straight relationships, which one is the woman and which one is the other woman?

[–] drthunder@midwest.social 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US has enough money for both universal healthcare and our obscene military budget, we just choose to only have one.

[–] drthunder@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago

More than that, the numbers I keep seeing thrown around are that Harris got 75m votes, Trump got 77m, and 90m didn't bother voting.

[–] drthunder@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's not the early internet, but a lot of websites in the 00s (when I started using it) let you customize your profile. We all had horrible CSS and an autoplay song that only we liked on our Myspace profiles and it was great. Flash was both a buggy mess that could introduce viruses to your computer and an amazing outlet for creativity that I don't think has been replaced. It was a lot less centralized and you were only being tracked across the whole internet by the NSA and not every internet company too.

Edit: I should say that I lose a bit of nostalgia every time I see forum posts from that era though, the casual bigotry was everywhere and so obnoxious

[–] drthunder@midwest.social -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Exactly. Voting has never been enough, but it's also the absolute bare minimum. How am I supposed to trust people to have my back who couldn't take an hour out of their day to check some boxes?

[–] drthunder@midwest.social -4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Harm reduction would have saved trans people like me from being erased by the government.

[–] drthunder@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

You don't think the peaceful protests were backed by the threat of union violence that had been regular up until the New Deal?

The media tried so hard to make people hate Luigi in December and it didn't work because everyone knows insurance companies murder for profit. Voting hasn't helped, the media is owned by oligarchs, most social media is too, and if you protest you either get ignored or beaten up by the cops.

It's not my first choice of action even now, but probably-Luigi killed a guy who was otherwise untouchable and the oligarchs flipped their shit. Abraham Lincoln's death gimped Reconstruction, MLK's death hurt the civil rights movement (and spurred nationwide riots causing passage of another civil rights act), Panthers leadership hurt their organization too.

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