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Probably going to get in big trouble for this, but here goes:

at the end of the day you don’t have to be a pessimist to realize the odds of something here changing the world are so minute that it’s fine to put a moratorium on certain kinds of posts. you’re not going to convince me otherwise. and even in the optimistic scenario: virtually all of what’s discussed here, while interesting, is designed to be fleeting and buried. conversations on link aggregators tend to have a shelf-life of no more than a week, and that’s not really where you’re going to find ideas that make change. here the conversations usually die down after an even shorter period (about two days).

Sorry @alyaza@beehaw.org, but that really makes it sound to me like you don't value what's on BH. If one takes that attitude, you're right, you won't change the world.

@alyaza@beehaw.org & @t3rmit3@beehaw.org, I posted a lot of the post-election stuff, and if that was too overwhelming for a lot of people then I apologize. I tried to sprinkle in some humor to lighten the mood a bit for what it was worth. I don't think anything I posted or commented on was too mean-spirited, but that's not up to me to decide.

A lot of people are understandably upset right now, and yes, all the facts of the election are not in yet. But do you really want to have a moratorium on election posts for a whole month? If that's how it has to be I'll abide by it, but for some folks, like myself, this is really their only outlet for how they're feeling right now, and I respectfully disagree with this decision, although again I will abide by it. If people don't want to read about this stuff they can temporarily (or permanently) unsubscribe from Politics and other related communities if it seems like it's all getting to be too much (I myself have done this the past). Just my 2¢.

When Bernie the Cactus died—alas—the movement died with him (well, at least on that particular windowsill). His human counterpart is still hanging in there, though probably nearing retirement.

Sorry, been freebasing again; it's been a tough week.

🙂👍

Mine was from "Nancy Pelosi." I wonder if we're being messed with by MAGA types who want to make us madder than we already are, or just get us to waste our money. I wrote a whole long screed for Beehaw last night about this (about an actual text I received, not an Onion joke) then deciding it was too angry and rantish and deleting it.

Just being my usual overly cautious self; I'll put the U back in if you like 🙂

Seriously. Reregistering Independent ASAP which is what I should've done right after their complicity in genocide became clear.

Feel exactly the same 🙁

Bill Clinton also killed the Glass-Steagall Act.

This is probably my usual naivete about how these things work, but why can't Mozilla just ask for donations in the way that Wikipedia does (I think I brought this up in another comment a while back and someone explained that Mozilla is not allowed to take donations the way they're currently set up, but maybe they could change this?)? Also now that K9 Mail has become Thunderbird mail, why don't they set up a thunderbird.net email domain and charge for it like Tuta or Proton Mail does in exchange for not being spied on?

What would you suggest instead (serious question, not meant as snark)? Librewolf? Ungoogled Chromium? Firefox with arkenfox.js blocks the telemetry and many other semi-bad things that FF has baked in.