whatalute

joined 1 year ago
[–] whatalute@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump's relationship with Project 2025 is giving Austin Power's "that's not my penis pump" scene vibes, but much less amusing.

The unfortunate thing is that I can attest to this whole charade is at least working on some conservatives (ie my dad) who has earnestly told me that Trump said he's not involved in 2025 and that he won't implement abortion restrictions at the federal level. So it's all okay!!!! And how that means that I should vote for Trump now....as if that was the one singular problem I have with the perpetual lying cheeto.

[–] whatalute@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I feel like Harry Potter became mainstream/popular in my area roughly around the release of the third book. Or at least that's when I remember becoming aware of the series. I was in elementary school and attended a small non-denominational christian school. It kind of just depended on the families, some were fine with it, like mine was. My mom read the first book to my younger brother and I as part of our nightly reading together. It was just emphasized that this was a fun fictional story and not real. There were other families who didn't like the concept of magic but were otherwise ambivalent, and of course some were convinced it was all a ploy by satan trying to convert children to witchcraft. The details are all pretty fuzzy, but I think the stances generally tended to follow the denomination of the family, but not always.

[–] whatalute@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Oh dang announcers said Scoot will not return because of an ankle sprain. :/

[–] whatalute@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It's a small sample size, but from what I saw in pre-season, the Henderson/Ayton connection excites me. Looking forward to seeing how that develops in the regular season.

[–] whatalute@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Alright LETS GO! The Blazer's youth movement starts here!

[–] whatalute@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

YES! I found this community because I was looking for where discussions about it on Lemmy might be. (Other Lemmy community suggestions are very welcome). The time zone difference does complicate things, so I probably won't catch many of the games in the time slot that is latest for me. There's still plenty of great matches to watch beside those though.

[–] whatalute@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

In terms of sheer hours of use, buying the ad-free version of the app 10 or 11 years ago now was probably the best value purchase I've ever made. RIP BaconReader, it's been a wonderful journey. :(

[–] whatalute@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As it stands now, Beehaw has defederated from LemmyWorld, so interacting with their news community through this instance means we don't actually see the majority of the comments and posts. LemmyWorld users can still post and comment, but that content doesn't get federated to other, non-blocked instances because its only a copy of the "real" community. Fully admit though that I'm still learning Lemmy, so if my understanding of this is incorrect please correct me!

Personally, I would like like to see this news community grow. News is a general and broad enough topic that I think as Lemmy continues to grow, it can support multiple news focused communities. Even if the Beehaw news community continues to be considered "the" news community, there's room for additional options.

[–] whatalute@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's true, but I'll gladly take this impediment as a victory. My level of trust in this current Supreme Court, means that I'm pleasantly surprised with the outcome. Had the ruling gone the other way, it would have made the 2024 election such a absolute clown show. Although it probably still will be, only just less so.