Terrible idea. Every time I look at toggling it on just to test, it explicitly lists features that I use as ones which will be disabled by the switch.

And what about plastic bottles. Like, not the packaging type but just plastic reusable waterbottles?

Don’t come back. Not because you’re not swell or anything, but because we truly won’t be better just because Trump is gone. The disease runs deep here, he’s just a symptom - an entire party stands firm behind him.

They’re either beating it back or delaying it. I hope it’s the former, but I fear it’s the latter.

Yeah, they are lucky to have me. Instant access to me via phonecall is not one of the reasons, but that’s fine because they don’t need instant access via phonecall.

There is plenty of room for nuance, there’s just no nuance to be had.

Yup. One day of no shopping means the big corps just weather a day of lower purchases and the next day people will be buying the stuff they skipped out on friday. It’s hardly a noticeable blip to them.

Aw. I get why this happens to games, but it’s still sad to see.

It’s been fairly blatant for a while now. The seig heil is coming out now that they feel they’ve won. The goal is for the US to fall this time.

I’m guessing it’s a split between considering the govt an enemy but not the people, along with people who think it’s nearing-but-not-quite an enemy.

I’m interested in hearing more about this version.

Depends a bit, but yes? My weekly groceries is like $150+ (closer to $170 or so most weeks) for two of us, and that’s living in a pretty shit-ass cheap state.

Unfortunately, the military technically answers to the president.

Oh boy, I’m sure that’ll help with the extreme rise in right-wing ideology and leadership worldwide.

It’s honestly fairly level headed for anyone. Make sure your loved ones aren’t making dramatic and life-altering changes without being sure they want it? Seems reasonable to me. Especially for a topic that is largely a muddled mystery for the average person.

I don’t even mind the 1 ignored message. At least it gives me slight context that people are replying to something. I hate that it gives me the little “new messages” indicator on chats when it’s only users I have ignored.

Occasionally my partner will do that too. I’ve had it happen to me, like, twice. It’s so weird, but it straight up just sneaks up on you.

The idea of the final goal of UBI is that everyone gets the same basic income, whereas those other options cover specific issues folks might be in. Additionally, that UBI is intended to give you a good living. Like, eventually replace min wage/living wage with UBI.

While you’re not wrong, it’s not a terrible idea to work on morphing welfare into UBI over time, rather than a sudden UBI implementation. Of course, that comes with the risk of it never fully morphing to UBI, or people resisting it because they haven’t yet been included.

Hell, it can filter out tech people too. I’m a programmer by trade, but I almost dipped on lemmy because the onboarding is confusing enough. Like, I obviously (mostly) figured it out, but I did consider going “eh fuck it” and dipping. The site is ultimately a luxury and not a requirement, so effort or confusion required to get all started up is also something that’ll drive me to consider it not all worth it for some social media I’m not even sure I want to be a part of yet.