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But he had a journalist’s number in his phone, so he was talking to him before this. What’s more likely: he accidentally saved it under someone else’s name and then never called them to find out it was the wrong person, or he put it under another name to hide the fact that he was talking to a journalist? I’m putting my money on door #2.

They sorta did… they called it ProPublica. Although they focus on investigative journalism and publish their work through other outlets rather than publishing the news themselves.

This is what happens when insecure oligarchs own all of the things. Soon there will be no dissenting opinions at all.

Like everything on the right, decentralization is a means to an end, not a value in itself. They only care about it when it’s useful for helping them get ahead. Just like they only care about free speech when it’s them speaking to people who don’t want to hear their bullshit.

I am extremely left-wing, so probably skew the average all by myself. :P

Major airlines don’t generally do flights to regional airports (which I expect is because of runway size), those are mostly for private/chartered flights or smaller local airlines. This is an article on how to find those flights, by a website that purports to let you search for them.

This… is sadly not a surprise. That dude has given me the creeps for a long time.

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No doubt.

I have 2 significant scars I’m not happy about, but only one is my fault. The first is a big ugly scar from when I had appendicitis as a kid. They told me it would be small and go away, but 40-odd years later it’s still there.

The one that’s my fault is on my right kneecap. I was jumping on my parents’ bed and they had this big sturdy cedar chest at the foot. I lost my balance and came down real hard on my right kneecap. It hurt so bad I passed out briefly from the pain. I couldn’t put any weight on it for an hour and couldn’t walk on it the rest of the day. The scar is small, but it is a reminder of my own stupidity cause it wasn’t like I hadn’t been warned that jumping on the bed was dangerous.

That… really depends on your politics. It could range from ‘There are bad people who want to hurt us’ to ‘we are bad people who hurt people and sometimes they decide to try to hurt us back.’

I was briefly perma banned but it was bullshit so it was lifted on appeal, but it was wake up call. Reddit admins are getting kinda fashy so I decided after 14 years it was time to leave.

Denver has quite a nice one. Or did last time I was through there, which to be fair was like 2002.

Yeah, fair enough, I definitely get that frustration. A friend of mine is a former Trump voter who was in a similar situation. During Trump’s first term he was all like ‘You don’t actually dislike him you’re just jumping on the ‘orange man bad’ bandwagon’, and I’m like… yeeeeeah, when you start telling me what I think there’s not a lot of conversation left to be had there. :P

Iono, from the somewhat-outside (I’m a bit more lefty than the Democratic party) perspective, I disagree, because it kind of seems like what happened is AOC talked a big game, got some press on some more progressive ideas, and then got ‘deradicalized’ I guess is the word? back to the centrist norm of the party. Now I barely hear about her because she’s (to my understanding, but I haven’t been following her very closely) just like all the other democrats in office instead of being the idealist firebrand she once was. That feels like a solid loss for her constituents in my book, but… shrug that’s just, like, my opinion, man.

I’m definitely with you that the party needs some fresh blood though, the vampires in charge have long overstayed their tenure.

Because even if I had the time or inclination to find out how to do it, I have no desire to do so, much less the interest in paying server hosts and whatever else. Why do I need my own instance? The one I use now is fine.

Por que no los dos? This isn’t a pick-one situation, it’s a both situation.

Mostly seems like ‘whine a lot about how little power we have to stop the fascism that we have appeased for years’ these days…

Fair enough. I try to have more nuanced opinions than ‘both sides bad’, but… :P

You’re right though, I’m sweating a lot more in this administration with their attacks on social security (I’m on disability), shitting on our allies, going after our neighbors, etc etc. I had no illusions, I knew another Trump term would be worse by far than another Biden term. Mostly my argument about Biden’s mental decline isn’t that I don’t want a dementia patient running the country because apparently that’s not a choice we get to make, but rather that a lot of people weren’t going to vote for him based on those issues and especially after the debate.

You do make a fair point though about trashing Biden (which really wasn’t my intent anyway) while Trump and his pals are doing their best Sieg Heil impression, I need to be more aware of that perception and make sure I’m more clear about it when I do cause I don’t want anyone to get the impression that I think Trump is better in literally any way whatsoever.

Yeah, that sounds good to me. Although honestly I think more term limits can only improve things. Maybe just 1 term for everything max.