Couple dead pixels from a particularly bright light might well make them unable to do their plate reading job efficiently. Might make for an interesting study.

Seems like it’d be easier to use wood, which I suppose they well might have and they just didn’t stay around to be found.

Define funny. Statistically people fart several times a day and some people find that hilarious.

Every time certain segments of society speak it causes small potions of the audience’s brains to drip out of their ears. These bits are scraped up off the floor and, after mixing well with some tapioca, come to plausibly resemble the mental functions of the person last heard speaking.

If one wants to be an ‘aktually’ arse then take note that ‘declawing’ is actually a much more precise term than ‘mutilation of extremities’ which could perfectly well mean putting their tail in a wood chipper and be technically correct

Using it by choice when you specifically ask to is one thing.

When every action you take on a system is visibly being fed to the bots by default it gets intrusive and creepy.

On a whole I don’t support any sort of unnecessary bodily modification, declawing, tail bobbing, circumcisions, or whatever.

What bothers me is when people find it necessary to interject some unneeded drivel because of some passing word that’s a perfectly well accepted term.

Do you just go around looking to be offended?

While I’ll agree with the not broke/don’t fix it when it comes to ‘we made the buttons sparkly’ type updates, there have been trends in UI design over the years that make it easier to get places without the old mile long branch menus that people should make use of where possible.

relative restraint

You get 50%, you get 75%, you get 225%…

Guy pulls numbers out of his ass for whatever dramatic effect he thinks he can make and then blames others as why the economy is in turmoil.

Nah, I would see it like another commented, plan A is taking over as a full dictator, but failing that he would likely try and run to avoid any punishment.

Preparing to flee to another country.

no rush for bush now shush your tush and pass the kush

Says the dude keeping a case of it in the bathroom of his house.

Beauty of the fedi, you can post from one instance to another without needing a separate account. For example mine is a single person instance with no local comms, yet here I am.

Edit: I think I missed the intent of the question. What you would look for is just the same of the comm@instance.tld on your own local base and assuming that federation functional between the instances it’ll show up to subscribe to. There’s no translation needed, but if you’re the first to subscribe from your home instance it might not show up right away.

Spin your own instance. Fully unmoderated as you wish. Enjoy your defederations and lack of users other than trolls and bots, oh and the visit from the gov when someone starts spewing csam onto it.

No, I’m using ‘she’ in the context of the medicine woman in your story, or more simply, those continually suggesting non-support for the Democrat party because of their failings. The math of our system allows for two parties at most in the sense of presidential elections.

Rather than seeking to push people away from the D’s it would be a far more beneficial thing to work to implement local and state level rank choice or similar system votes. Until that happens it’s a choice of 2 options, and one, while dull and stagnant, is leagues ahead of the other in terms of treating the population with some level of civility and dignity.

I would be more inclined to view it as she’s actively trying to dissuade people from helping the patient that everyone knows is sick.

Proposing running better candidates isn’t the same as ‘genocide joe’ was objectively worse and did x/y/z things that means the D’s are bad compared even to the current situation. It’d be lovely to get some younger, more progressive sorts out there, but when the alternative is what we have now and people stay home because someone doesn’t pass their ideals test that’s a bad trade for all of us.

And yet you have people on here bitching about how Obama/Biden Clinton where so much worse because Dems bad.