Lemmy connect app lets you tag users. Super useful.

I usually tag belligerent people, and block them if I see them do it again

I’m pretty convinced that Lemmy’s politics board is thoroughly compromised. Constant deluge of posters intent on spreading a sense of doom and fear.

I tag them and never see them again.

Im taking your wife’s side.

Competition squeezes blood from a stone. There are very few world records that were set without intention.

To your side, you could argue that I am making your point. Perhaps some folks haven’t been thrust up to the plate to take a swing, and thus haven’t been tempered in competition. Also, it’s possible that knowing what the records are imposes psychological limitations. For example, Ewa Kawakami, at 9 years old, did three back to back 900s in xgames skateboarding vert recently. Tony hawk asked him how long after his first 720 did he land a 900. He said “the next day.”

I am still going with competition being requisite for peak form. There are exceptions, probably for stuff like Worlds Strongest Man, but something like sprinting, deadlifts, marathon, fastest playthrough of flight of the bumblebee, etc, all take dedication and competition to rise to the top

We’re giving the 9/11 guys $9B in missiles.

Trump wants housing prices to go up.

The world uses the USD as a global financial standard.

If it tanks or the world switches to the yuan as a global reserve…

Assets protect you from inflation, not from systemic risk.

I think you misunderstand how investments work.

So again, fun fact: you’re not in control.

Fun fact: you’re not in control.

You can do everything right and oopsie the USD tanks. Hyper inflation. Womp womp.

Just don’t put it on yourself with regard to it going tits up.

I would support Europe blocking the United States from competing in the Olympics at this point.

Let it persist beyond their assignment.

They should feel unwelcome everywhere. Forever.

Literally all of them.

He’s married to an Indian Hindu woman. MAGA isn’t okay with that.

They constantly call him a race mixer. And worse.

As far as I am concerned, every person or entity with a paid x account is actively participating in CSAM.

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Maga hates Vance.

Im surprised we haven’t been uninvited altogether. Russia got snubbed for about as much.

Hold them in contempt.

Reaganomics -> Contra -> Bush Sr -> Citizens United -> 9/11 -> Patriot Act -> Middle East wars -> bank bailouts -> Pause for pandemic -> insurrection -> old man Biden sleeps on imprisoning trump -> literal gestapo in the streets.

My first job was at a rather large shopping mall.

Closing up a big box store during a blizzard. Huuuuge parking lots. Plows.

Like 4-8" on the ground. Lamp surrounded by and unholy amount of plowed powder.

Just flooring it, cutting the wheel, spinning, spinning, and softly plonking into a big giant snowbank.

Being 17 wasn’t that bad.

Say what you will about AI, but right now anyone who has an on prem model has a sort of snapshot of human history/knowledge/discourse.

They’re like 3-6 months behind current news.

So, by like August everything we’ve been through this far will be basically immutable human history. Eradicating every download of every competent model would be even less realistic than taking away Americans guns. By a lot.

Just?

Is your your brain setting your body down to bed? Your bed setting your body down to sleep? Do you have free will, or are we little automatons in a closed, predictable system?

Why does resting my brain take my brain to another world without my body?

…just… 🙄

Resign. Nobody wants your fucking apology. Get out.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/

The doomer situation is out of control.

Resign, failure.