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That's not the face I make. Usually there's more eyebrow commotion going on as I try to figure out why it's taking so long to load the video or why I'm getting some random error message that means nothing to a rando trying to watch a video on their phone.

It's quick and easy to blame a specific party or whatever boogeyman du jour you want. It's much harder to do the work and takes a lot longer to actually actively participate in supporting stronger leaders and building a better future. I can't and won't comment on OP's specific motivations, but the thing I consistently see with messages like this -- no viable solutions and no practical alternatives. Just fluff and fantasy, misinformation, and over simplification, amongst other problematic issues. Voting is basically the lowest hurdle to participate and influence political outcomes (in the USA) and yet voter turnout is shockingly low. Of course that's going to be a big message from any party that wants to be part of the process. What this graphic specifically is doing is making it seems like that's the ONLY messaging coming from the Democratic party. It's the same ole song and dance as the fascists, misinformation. Then, seeing how abyssal voter turn out is in the country, participation rates in all the other political activities is only a tiny little fraction of that. You want change? You want power? You'll have to participate and you'll have to persuade others, many others, to participate. You need to organize, and you need to have a plan. Let's say you believe the shtick that Dems "do nothing to fight back", what things did you do to counter that? I'm sure here in the anonymity of the Lemmy, we all donated lots of money to other parties and candidates, knocked on doors and made calls on their behalf, helped support new and upcoming leaders (or stepped up ourselves) and convinced them to run for local offices so that they were in a great position to move up the chain to ever more important and influential positions, and we called our leaders from locals all the way up to federal level and let them know what issues we find important. But outside of the minuscule population on Lemmy, the US population as a whole did not. And memes laser focused on further disenfranchising people from the process definitely won't change a thing there. In fact, that's part of why we're here to begin with. Oh, but InvalidName2, YoU DiDn't oFfEr aNy pRaCtIcAl sOlUtIoNs eItHeR, yOu'rE JuSt aS BaD. I did, but if you didn't pay attention, you're not a serious person. I'd rather spend my effort donating lots of money the best candidates I can find, knocking on doors and making calls on their behalf, helping support campaigns of new and upcoming leaders, and talking to my elected officials from locals all the way up to federal level and let them know what issues I find important, and numerous other activities that align with my political goals. AND I'm also helping other people get involved where they can, supporting local organizations to amplify that support, and so on.

These waves usually turn out better quality users than the lulls when we're otherwise mostly getting the people who've been permabanned from Reddit. So, hopefully we get some good ones!

From a strictly superficial, aesthetic context and judging solely by modern standards, I agree. However, if we’re talking aesthetics and viewing it from a contemporary standard for the time of the system’s release, the PS1 is the clear winner, in my opinion.

I have (RCWA) family members who, in their words, “don’t believe in Halloween”. Halloween being a holiday celebrated in many countries and one that happens every year, which is all over the media, with products in nearly every store, and even shows up on most typical calendars in this country.

Be a queen. Don’t be a drag. Founding fathers wore wigs.

Humans are already imposing upon our pets and depriving them of their autonomy, simply by keeping them in captivity. Any argument against merciful euthanasia grounded in concerns about how it is imposing are moot. As for pulling human euthanasia into this context, do yourself a favor and don’t. You might be surprised at how common euthanasia is in humans. At least in my part of the world, it’s largely a wink-wink nudge-nudge situation, but it does happen with some regularity. Also for people who are actually suffering in decline, there are all kinds of supportive care options being provided that simply aren’t feasible or economical for pets. There’s also not really the potential for the same kinds of perverse intentions with pets as there might be for people. Like, the list goes on. So, basically from either of those two perspectives, let alone the fact that both apply, the argument against euthanizing pets that you’ve presented fall apart. Having said that, this is often not a simple and straightforward decision. But since we’ve already established that we’re imposing upon them one way or the other, it really comes down to what kind of imposition do you want? The animal is going to die soon one way or the other. You can impose upon it and force it to experience the pain and fear and discomfort of its body naturally shutting down over the course of days, weeks, or months. You could impose upon it and decide to euthanize. What can you live with? On a more personal note, I’ve had to have 2 pets euthanized. One was a cat who managed to escape outside, it got hit by a car and then a neighbor’s dog mauled it. Literally pieces of broken rib and punctured lung exposed as well as untold other injuries. No hope of recovery. The idea of letting it suffer another moment was not something I could live with and it was going to die anyway. The other was a dog with congestive heart failure. There comes a point where there are no more medications and no higher doses that are effective. The animal literally is experiencing the sensation of drowning. They’re terrified and in pain, exhausted, and suffering. The vet might be able to alleviate it a few hours or even a couple of days with a procedure to manually remove the fluid, but then you’re just going to put the animal through this again and soon. I could not live with myself forcing the dog to endure that knowing there was another option. Plus, I have seen the pet owner that refused euthanasia and wanted their pet to die a natural death. The dog had cancer. I’m honestly broken up enough just thinking about what I witnessed that I can’t even bring myself to type it out. So I’ll stop there other than to say I’ve seen people dying of cancer in their final hours – there is a world of difference in those things, at least in modern times. The pet was clearly distressed, in pain, and suffering. The people are being made comfortable with drugs and medical care.

No, they sound like “Electrocution”

I don’t even care what’s wrong or right. I’m blinded by the flashing lights. A moth to flame I screamed electrocution. Electrocution. Electrocuuuuu-yuuuuuuuuuu-shun.

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I’m getting flashbacks of the management team at the Home Depot I worked at briefly in my college years. Worst job I’ve ever had. Management treated us in with absolute disdain, honestly shameful to talk to other people in that manner regardless of the situation. For someone in a supervisory / managerial role to post a notice like this, it’s a sure sign things are completely rotten all the way to the top. I feel sorry for the folks that truly feel like they need that job.

Of the most obvious times I’m aware of, they’re mostly boring. But, I’d love to know if there were any near death situations worthy of inclusion in a Final Destination movie. Like I’m at the zoo, leaning on the rails in front of the lions and the joints of the protective bars are corroded but a split second before the bar holding my weight broke loose and I plunged 25 feet into the lion pit, another little kid blurted out “Mommy why is that lion trying to climb on top of the other lion are they wrestling?” which broke my focus causing me to shift my weight off the bar, thus saving my life.

Is this like the same deal as that year all my coworkers with young kids posted their preferred music service’s annual music analysis report and a whole bunch of them had Baby Shark and similar songs in the top 10?

And then there are actual good developers who could or would tell you that LLMs can be useful for coding, in the right context and if used intelligently. No harm, for example, in having LLMs build out some of your more mundane code like unit/integration tests, have it help you update your deployment pipeline, generate boilerplate code that’s not already covered by your framework, etc. That it’s not able to completely write 100% of your codebase perfectly from the get-go does not mean it’s entirely useless.

Welcome to what it’s like being a practicing member of the LGBTQ+ community in the USA. Although usually in my neck of the woods they phrase it as “I don’t believe in…” For example, I don’t believe in gay marriage, I don’t believe a man should lie with another man man, I don’t believe in Halloween. I mean seriously, you don’t believe in Halloween or gay people? It does explain a lot, but I can’t even take people seriously when they say shit like that.

Type 2 runs rampant on both sides of my family. I’ve had symptoms since I was a kid, and have been tested almost every year as an adult. However, my test results have always been in the healthy range, so I guess I’m not diabetic, at least not yet. It’s strange to read through the comments and see all the symptoms and recognize them in myself. Granted, I think the only diagnostic tool most care providers in the USA look at is the A1C number. I’ve asked many questions over the years: could my symptoms be caused by something else, is it possible that A1C numbers might not be a reliable indicator for some people, and things like that. Basically get told not to worry about it. Either way, I still get tested each year.

My nose is more sensitive than average to certain types of foul smells mostly in the poop and rotting organic material categories but also things like mouse / rodent urine, skunks, and cigarette smoke. Oh joy. Mostly it makes me feel like I’m going crazy because I smell these things when nobody else seems to notice leading me to wonder if I’m just hallucinating the smell. But sometimes I put it to good use by being the early warning system of skunks in the area and sometimes I’m the first to notice when the milk is starting to go bad.