Not revenge as much as financial motives. He wants less oversight on his business activities so he can make more money and be involved in fewer lawsuits and regulatory actions. There seems to be a broader motive to degrade the US and cause chaos and hardship, which I assume is other Republicans and influences like Putin. Some are probably favors to other interests - for instance, my guess about decreasing park rangers is probably to degrade parks and decrease attendance so they can justify drilling for oil or mining in national parks. The amount of money saved by slashing federal employment is trivial in terms of the budget, so it certainly isn’t that. One thing is that before the election they said they were going to specifically make sure that agencies were staffed with Trump loyalists at every level, so I’d bet when you hear there were cuts at the FDA and the staff said they seemed random, everyone who was fired voted for Democrats, had Democrat supporting social media activity, and so forth.

It registers disapproval. Maybe the designers of Lemmy wanted to avoid the censorship aspect voting has on reddit? I suppose it depends on what type of sorting viewers are using, as downvotes mean it won’t appear on Hot or whatever. I do agree it works that way to some extent on Reddit. Real censorship is mods or admins deleting your content, though.

On reddit it will make comments automatically folded and at the bottom, but not hidden. Or for posts, prevent them from showing on algorithmically sorted pages. On Lemmy it doesn’t really do anything afaik. So how so?

Yeah, they didn’t totally ditch him. But they didn’t seem to want to allow him to be democratically […] elected as a candidate.

After watching what happened with Bernie and so on more recently, my belief is it was not an organic thing, but rather the DNC intentionally iced Dean with the complicity and assistance of the media.

Lemmy went well for a couple months and then started posting low effort shit. Now Lemmy tops twinks.

Unfortunately I didn’t have a desktop/notebook for about 5 years, so I couldn’t do that by my normal means. I guess I could have done screen recording while watching it.

I wish it would at least leave the name of the song so I could remember it and find it elsewhere. Reminds me of why I started doing bookmarks on sites like Etsy vs “favoriting”.

The web ui has no option to even view the feed, as far as I can tell. Only individual videos and the settings.

I mean, this is posted on 4chan, so I’m skeptical. It could work, I guess.

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It’s a reference to a more obscure Marx Brother, as in the 30s-40s comedy group. Does not have any special significance to me personally.

Sure, probably. Still qualifies though, right?

Current circumstances do seem worrisome. But, we’ve been threatened with that for all my life, and even decades before I was born. So who knows. MAD is a certain thing and I don’t think entire countries are unstable enough to let that happen. I’m not really sure what Putin is getting at threatening all of Europe. The situation with China and Taiwan doesn’t look good, with the US pledge of taking Taiwan’s side for independence.

This awful video I saw where someone put pizza in a blender and turned it into a casserole

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This is my first time hearing about that. Many people are extremely stupid, so it makes sense some notion like that would be idiotic racist bullshit that various losers would believe.