It's both. Even terrible people with something to lose are less likely to throw it all away.

If this guy makes $35k a year at dollar general, he probably doesn't go on a murder spree.

But you could also just not be an asshole. Why go after random people instead of someone who actually helps cause the bullshit?

On the Fediverse, you can go to a different instance.

They can sell colors and themes as DLC! Cosmetics for your home!

Anti-corruption should be bipartisan.

Fucking dump him as fast as we're allowed to. We don't circle the wagons the way the GOP does.

You don't have to officially change parties to change votes.

https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy/commits/main

https://github.com/eoddc5?tab=overview&from=2023-08-01&to=2023-08-31

Burnout usually takes more than a few weeks to recover from, just fyi. Can't say what's up other than the public information.

I'm already telling people to get out of Florida*. I expect multiple Katrina-level events over the next 15 years. "Florida refugees" is going to become a common phrase.

Orlando might be more likely to survive than Miami or Tampa, but do you really want to be in the city surrounded by devastation?

We, as humans, seem to have lost the ability to plan more than 20 years into the future. Florida is still building in areas that are going to be crushed, and the only reaction is from insurance companies.

We're not trying to prevent it. We're not building any kind of defenses or contingency plans. We're not encouraging people to move out. We're not preventing people from moving in. In fact, we're building new and encouraging people to move IN to Florida. It's full on head in sand.

It's worth thinking about what you're putting out there, but you're right. This isn't a Threads specific thing.

You're putting these posts on the internet. You should expect everyone to read them, including Threads and Google and Putin and Kim Jong Un. That's kind of the idea of public posting. They don't even need an API to do that.

Everyone loved the OnlyFans account. Forcing someone to manage it who said they weren't comfortable is kind of insane.

It's not primarily about abortion rights. This vote was about preventing people from voting.

Each bullet point of the amendment was more fuckery than the last, and it starts with the 60% threshold.

More egregious than that was that it was going to move the signature requirement to get something onto the ballot from 5% of half the counties, to 5% of all the counties, significantly raising the cost to get anything accomplished (other than through the gerrymandered legislature).

Even more egregious, they wanted to eliminate the ten day period to fix any issues with the signatures. So you'd submit the signatures, and some rural county commissioner would say "this street belongs to the next county over". Now your signatures are invalid and you throw the entire effort into the trash.

If this passes, it would have pulled up the ladder. It would have prevented any other amendment supported by the people of Ohio.

You can have pride in your country without being stupid about it.

I'm proud to be an American. I'm not proud of everything America does.

I'm proud that we were the first to land on the moon. I'm proud that we (eventually) helped win WWII over the Nazis. I'm proud of parts of our art and culture, Asimov, (early) Game of Thrones, most of the best games in the world.

I also protested the Iraq war. I think our ultra-capitalist, corporate worshipping ways have been a negative influence on the world.

I'm proud of Al Gore's call to action on climate change. I'm not proud we haven't done much about it.

I'm proud we have the potential to get off planet, self-sustaining colonies going. I wish we'd push harder for it.

You can find reasons to be proud of your country without endorsing everything they do.