Still hoping for that trickle down 40 years later.

If you converted that to eMPG it would actually contribute to the conversation, particularly with the increasing costs of electricity.

primarily

Ostensibly.

Nominally.

I have a few things.

This place has groups that are singlemindedly bloodthirsty and happy to see people hurt, particularly in the US, and don’t have a problem stating so.

Tangentially - the far left extolling the virtues of governing systems that have never really worked due to weak protections against takeover by bad actors and ignoring that those systems are just as corruptible as any other. Humans are f’d up and someone always games the system for personal or tribal advantage.

Linux. Yeah, it’s great. No, it cannot do everything Windows does, and we’re going to ignore that and deride you for playing AAA studio games that have anticheat that linux breaks or other software that doesn’t work on the OS. That’s your fault, we’ll be smug about it, and still recommend ditching Windows.

Conspiracies. This place acts like it has some superior thought or logic but as soon as something happens the conspiratards immediately make it a conspiracy and can’t be told otherwise regardless of logic - or accept a far more real but less exciting conspiracy. Everyone jumps on the bandwagon.

Lastly it’s missing the hobby and interest groups. It’s mostly memes and politics. I’d like to see more actual communities of interests and support for hobbies on the Fediverse rather than the constant grind of how f’d up the world is.

Fair, yet you do point out that it was only a suspicion and we had no real info.

Nonetheless, I’m glad the ‘verse and mods put a stop to the images. If it wasn’t a just a nuisance it was potentially bad.

Yeah, we’re gonna be throwing sticks at the “bad guys” pretty soon when we run out of half-million dollar bombs because we’re bombing the shit out of everyone that looks at us sideways.

Says “coffee is good but Starbucks is trash” while showing sugar-laden concoctions that can be served at most any chain coffee shop and plenty of indy shops will sell you whipped-cream-topped drinks aside from Starbucks, and not showing that you can indeed buy just a plain cup of coffee from Starbucks.

I’m not saying anyone should support union-busting Starbucks, but this is a crap post to single out Starbucks.

This site translates the cause of death into more modern terms.

If I’ve heard correctly tens of millions of barrels of oil have been burned along with damage to the refineries. Several refineries in the Gulf countries have been hit by Iran in retaliation.

Even if Hormuz opens up the damage to refineries will be reflected in oil shortages and prices.

IIRC this was only a guess. I don’t recall any definitive information on her or her appearance here, but Lemmy banned her images based on that suspicion.

A price he and his sycophants won’t pay. Trump yet again running up a bill he’s going to make someone else eat.

“Restore calm”

Funny way of saying “silence dissidence and create an atmosphere of oppressive fear.”

Small price to pay… besides the US bases being targeted by missiles, the billions in defense hardware being used, refineries in neighboring countries being targeted and hit, the economy under further seige, and we haven’t yet been hit by the price increases due to transportation costs of goods.

Yeah. He left all of that out.

Following Israeli war tactics. Just destroy it all.

Don’t get too excited about the pot-out-of-draft card. If this regime doesn’t hand you a shitty rifle with a coffee can for a helmet to get rid of their lib opponents by throwing them at the meatgrinder they’ll just send you to a work camp and starve you to death.

“It has been, and it will continue to be, and President Trump wisely does not remove options off of the table,” Leavitt said.

Newspeak for “We don’t have a clue what the moron will do next, so ‘The lord moves in mysterious ways…’”

Your electricity costs are awful.

Ain’t over yet. I wouldn’t be surprised if we had double in less than a month. Oh…and wait until we get fuel “taxed” when corporations add the rising fuel costs to the purchase price of goods.

Gotta go your own way. Trump is trying to take the world down with him. We only have a few weeks before the oil restriction will cause international concern and militaries will start moving to open up Hormuz. Shit can go bad there.

I disagree. They do have beliefs. Those beliefs are their manufactured moral superiority, their honor culture, and the belief in hierarchy. Anything that aligns with placing themselves first at the head of the line and keeping anyone who doesn’t conform beneath them. Anything can be excused as long as keeps them in control, any rationalization made, anyone outside of those beliefs can be sacrificed as incidental damage.