The thread was originally https://lemmy.world/comment/1305111, though I’m viewing it from lemm.ee

A mixture of social conservatives voting against “wokeness,” unrestricted guns rights and anti-abortion one-issue voters, and people that misguidedly believe the Republicans are better for the economy keep the party chugging along in elections.

I’m looking forward to seeing the final result, seeing so many of the third party apps moving to Lemmy has been really inspiring.

Yeah, that tip is applicable for a lot of people who understand what sex is, this isn’t something that really goes away with age in a lot of cases.

Recycling is good for the environment ceiling cat, don’t judge.

I get the nostalgia factor, but bird dinos are cool as hell. They look more like things that would actually be alive, which helps make them feel more awesome to me.

Microorganisms disintegrate the corpse into foul-smelling goop that is highly infectious and stains anything it touches. I’ll take the vulture over that.

This dude has his priorities straight.

They may be gross, but so is having rotten corpses sitting in the open. By getting rid of those corpses they are doing us a solid, so turkey vultures are cool in my book. The only animal that’s profoundly not cool is mosquitos, they’re a worthless species.

They let me use a Hotmail address for my first account, but I made it when I was a kid and when I tried to change my birthday they banned it. My second account was made using that sign in with Google feature.

It’s extremely common, but there are still a few sites left that won’t force you to log in. YouTube is one such example, though of course it has its own problems too.

Oh yeah, I haven’t visited Twitter since they added this. I have an account, I just can’t be bothered to log in.

Thanks God, very cool!

Damn, why’d you go and cause all of climate change? Not cool.

I’m not surprised at all, income data is really useful when doing targeted advertising. This kind of sale should be illegal of course, because our tax data should be sensitive in the same legal or medical data is, but I don’t think Meta’s going to see any consequences for this.

It’s because they claim that they don’t actually do any deliveries, they just maintain the tech platform that connects independent contractors to delivery jobs. They do this for legal reasons, because if you think about it all jobs technically just connect people to tasks that they complete.

I mean, you’re technically right but that also isn’t a helpful mentality. No one individual can single-handedly stop climate change by living in a more environmentally conscious way, we have to come together and implement systemic solutions in order for things to change.

Thanks humanity, I’m sure that this will cause no long term issues and we can just keep using the same economic and political systems while not worrying about it at all.

I live in a Capitalist nation. The ultra-wealthy have held disproportionate control over mass media here for as long as it has existed, and ultimately whether Zuckerberg or Musk win their stupid competition over microblogging honestly won’t impact me one way or another. Obviously their right-wing beliefs impact me, and their messaging will generally make politics in the U.S. worse, but this is a genuinely a case where they’re both bad and I’m not sure who’s worse, so why take a side in the Threads vs. Twitter discourse when I use neither? I like Mastadon as an idea and I think it has good features, but microblogging generally does better with more centralization because it puts all of the influencers, celebrities, and politicians in one place, and normies seem to find Mastadon’s federation confusing, so it hasn’t taken off.

Mmm, I’m sure a pizza party will make up for them not being able to pay rent