At least the ones who voted Trump cared. They may have been bamboozled, but they did show up.

Too many others just didn’t give a fuck about the direction of our country to take 15 minutes out of their day for an average of once a year.

I’m also on BlueSky as well as Mastodon, because BlueSky has the momentum right now, and critical mass is important.

In that same vein, I wish you’d treat LW as you do any other instance. We’re not hostile to other instances, and I think there’s a healthy balance right now. It doesn’t hurt Lemmy to have a bigger, more mainstream instance. I think defederation solely for the sake of defederation does hurt Lemmy.

Being a nuisance to users.

Many hands make light work. And a little bit of work to spend some time with the animals can be good (if you’re into that sort of thing).

Lemmy came through (below). Things are getting better here. I feel like we’re reaching critical mass, if only we could stop the infighting.

Would you consider it overmoderation to ban that guy?

if you’re too explicitly willing to fight back in the ongoing class war you will be de-platformed and treated as if you are an actual terrorist.

Yes. First, Luigi was attempting to affect political change through fear and violence. That’s the definition of terrorist.

Second, what do you think allowing that does to the platform?

This act of sexual abuse is going to change how 60 girls and soon to be woman respond to sex, likely for the rest of their lives. These images may follow them forever

No, it’s not. No, it shouldn’t.

First, it’s so, so much easier to deal with when you have the response of “that’s not me”. Second, it’s current AI. How real do these things even look?

These girls were not sexually abused. Sexual harassment is more a appropriate crime. Maybe libel. Maybe a new crime that we can call “sexual libel” or something.

If it’s confirmed, I don’t see why not. Depends on the community, of course. I’m sure !lemmybewholesome would remove it.

Restored the comment, thanks. And yeah, the whole mod/admin team is more than familiar with Drag. It’s part of the reason I was trying to go against my bias and make sure they were treated fairly if/when appropriate.

Sorry about that.

Huh, I hadn’t thought of that as a Crying Indian.

Pretty sure that wasn’t their name when the comment was made. I could be wrong.

“dragonrider” got called “dragonfucker” and then changed their display name to match.

They changed it to match.

The $1300-1800 numbers are the total. The employer pays most of that, and you’re left to pay something around $600.

That fully covers preventative care like regular checkups, standard vaccines, and regular screenings.

If you’re in your regular checkup and there’s an issue, it’s no longer free. Any actual issues usually require you to pay around 20% of the inflated cost. However, you get to use a special, untaxed account to pay it. So you end up paying roughly 15%, and the government chips in 5% (through not charging you income taxes on that portion.)

If you spend somewhere around $10k out of pocket (in addition to your $600/month fees, and your employer’s $900/month fees and the government’s ~$700/month they lose by not taxing any of this), THEN everything is free, as long as it’s approved.

So the real benefit of health insurance is that if you get cancer you only have to pay $~20k a year for as long as you keep your job. Try not to get fired for taking to much time for chemotherapy.

And after you go through all this, there are still complications such as which doctors and pharmacies you’re allowed to go to, but most importantly, the health insurance company has a large say in what medications you’re allowed to take.

If you don’t have health insurance and you get sick you probably just go bankrupt.

Netflix serves more.

Could just be that they’ve fixed their interface since then.

YouTube doesn’t even produce their own content. I’d rather get it somewhere else, if creators offer that option.

I’d pay YouTube if it were $5/month instead of $15.

In fact, a couple of my favorite YouTube creators are on nebula.tv and I pay them $30/year.