I don’t care about changing hearts and minds. That time is long past. I want them afraid to express fascism in public. Is that too much to ask? Yes, for losers and pansies it is.

target every car with a Trump sticker

Yes. Make them afraid to voice their political opinion.

“What are we gonna do? Spray paint every car with a Confederate flag?”

Yes. 00-buck if you got it.

a jump from an estimated average of 2,179 to 3,246 posts containing hate speech per week

Either way, that’s a drop in the bucket of total weekly posts for a global, popular, social media platform. I must be missing something dumb, help?

“Preaching to the choir” means to try to convince people of something they already believe, essentially wasting time by expressing an opinion to those who already agree with you; it implies talking to a group who is already persuaded and doesn’t need further convincing.

We have this in Florida. Haven’t signed on as I’m continually trying to slash my bill, get more eco friendly.

LOL, no. Are you just making up hypothetical scenarios? FFS, even our crappy, private power company doesn’t pull that shit, even in Florida.

Now that is the first real bullshit I’ve seen on this thread.

Taking online payments costs the receiver money. You OK with making everyone pay more to level it out? Or, you can use you bank to send an electronic check for free. You do you.

Well, yeah? It costs the landlord to take online payments. Should they spread that cost to other people who choose to pay differently?

Use your bank, or hopefully your credit union, to send a check. There. Neither of you are out a single dime, no hassle for either party.

Oh shush. We don’t want to learn how the world works or how to effectively navigate it. We just want everyone to give us free shit while not having jobs.

Seriously, I can go on for ages about how to manipulate capitalistic systems for our own benefit. Nope. “Kill the capitalists!” OK. Then a system by another name will abuse you instead.

While we’re at it, if you’re not a business with special banking needs, why is anyone using a filthy bank?! Credit unions are the dictionary definition of socialism.

Reddit’s stock price temporarily blips.

Lemmy: Fuck spez!

If Musk hasn’t utterly tanked X by now, spez sure won’t tank reddit.

Only way I know they would truly take a beating is a high-profile study, that gets repeated everywhere, about the true extent of AI/bot posting. Until advertisers realize they’re paying to catch AI eyeballs, they’ll continue to pour in the money.

Reddit’s sales jumped 71% in the quarter from $250 million a year earlier, the fastest growth rate for any quarter since 2022.

The company said first-quarter sales will be between $360 million and $370 million, ahead of the average analyst estimate of $358 million.

Net income almost quadrupled to $71 million, or 36 cents a share, from $18.5 million, or breakeven on a per-share basis, a year earlier. Reddit reported adjusted earnings of $154 million in the fourth quarter, topping analysts’ expectations of $128 million.

Reddit went public in march at $34 a share and has since seen its stock jump more than sixfold to $216.47 as of Wednesday’s close. The shares were up 32% this year prior to the after-hours selloff.

Sounds like I should have gone all-in on reddit stock. (If I had had money.)

Lemmy: HA! Reddit’s DYING!

Fuck me, the site is poisonous with bots and manipulation, but I’m not going to act like it’s failing. Same exact deal with Facebook. If I find a promising link to those sites, I’ll have a look. Otherwise, don’t participate.

How does being married or not change that? Say I beat my wife and she runs away. She can get a police escort to get some of her things. I’ve been on the escorted end of that scenario. (Obviously they won’t wait for a moving service.)

no legal claim to your belongings

So you’re saying the law considers everything in a home the property of the person remaining, if they’re married? You should meet some people going through a divorce. It ain’t like that.

Of course it should be easy to divorce. My first two words: “It’s wrong…”

All that and you can’t provide a single example of consequences? That’s literally all I asked for.

The point of my anecdote was that nothing changed in our lives despite remaining married.

Wasn’t home, my young friend across the street was house sitting.

Had just seen mom for the last time, dying of COVID in assisted living. Had just seen my nephew who had clearly become paranoid schizo/delusional.

Dude calls, totally deadpan:

“There’s a bear in the house.”

“A black bear?! (LMAO) This is the best news I’ve had all day. Where are you?”

“In the camping room.”

“OK, your favorite gun is in there. Put a 410 shell in it and wait; he’ll go away.”

Kid called his mom, who freaked and called 911. 7 cops cars come rolling up, sirens and lights blasting, bear was chilling on the porch. LOL, he knocked my fence flat running away, never seen again.

Had to talk to a cop supervisor couple of years later. I was going to confront a neighbor about stealing my pet pig.

“Just go up there and politely ask for him back, call if you get any hassle. And BTW, aren’t you the guy who had a bear in his house a couple of years back? I was on that call!”

Cheaper than using bullets and bombs to influence. But no, some dumbasses see it as money thrown away on foreigners.

Black bear came in my giant dog door a couple of years back.

My kids were playing with a tail last summer. Kept twitching for almost 20 minutes. Freaky.

They only make money because of us.

Lemmy told me the other day that isn’t true. Apparently they’re so rich that their money keeps coming in without us because… Know what, the argument was so dumb I can’t articulate it.

We’ll never strike. Best these people can do is quiet quitting and mumbling about capitalism.

But yeah, a general strike is the most powerful tool I know of.

LOL, my rep was Matt Gaetz, don’t know the new guy.