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  • For example to support your comment. There is nothing a democratic president could do, to just get rid of the Department of Homeland Security. It was installed by George W Bush. There would be backlash from the executive branch for even attempting, it’d be political suicide. Another thing is trying to end the War on Drugs, started by Reagan. That has been running for over 40+ years now, it’s not going away because that’s another political suicide scenario.

    To even get people removed from certain seats of power, is going to require their way of voting and good luck getting everyone on board to do that. Everyone will fight tooth and nail to retain seats.

    We’re just going to be stuck with whatever bullshit Asshat-In-Chief did, for a long time until his laws and his judicial appointees just rot off and die before their time.



  • Ryoae@piefed.socialOPtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldWhat was good while it lasted?
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    17 hours ago

    Well, yeah. There’s a meme I actually saw that demonstrates how developers were back then compared to now. Developers back then, really did care about how to make a game at its best with like…2MB of cache or very little video memory or what little of bits they had to work with.

    Today and for a while, with technology as to where it is at where sky is virtually the limit, we’ve got games that are so poorly optimized, it makes you wonder.


  • I think the covid thing happening was their excuse to seize doing that. They were 24/7 right around that period. But I could also see other reasons why they stopped. I mean, overnights were poorly staffed and it’s wal-mart, everyone is going to be getting away with tons of shit like stealing and customers getting rowdy.

    Personally, as an overnight worker, I’m glad it ended. I miss being able to shop peacefully but, better safe than convenient.



  • They’re not going to be able to. Not in a timely manner.

    This is why simply voting will just not work. It’s not going to work for one election. It has to work for every election afterwards, which people aren’t caring to understand. Right now, things are being damaged and we’re not exactly holding the people doing the damage as accountable as firm wording makes it sound like.

    It’ll take generations to even make America a trustworthy and livable country again. This is what happens, when you stupidly vote and senselessly damn millions of people to be subjected to years of a nightmare circus. All because you could not be bothered to take not even one minute to educate yourself, figure where everyone stands on the issues and weed out what’s truth and what’s false.

    There’s no excuse anymore and I will not hear of any. The Democrats aren’t even giving people a convincing argument as to why anyone should vote for them, when they’ve help fund the very people who’ve murdered Americans in broad daylight under the guise of being an immigration department.

    We need an Independent president, but people are too scared to even try because they’re eternally locked into the two-party system, even though, both parties have systematically let the people down over and over and over again. When was the last time we had an Independent president? Oh, some 170+ years ago.

    Enjoy the hell we’re living in, because millions of you cast us into this and we’re not going to learn a fucking thing from it because we believe in stupid karma systems and unproven entities to clean up our problems.









  • Spotify gives me 30 minutes of ad-free listening time. They even allow limitless skipping which used to be barred by subscribing. It’s absolutely absurd and asinine that you would limit all songs to 30 seconds unless you’ve paid. That’s how you not get people to pay your shitty service.

    If I’m preferring to deal with ads between a handful of songs at a time than having their songs cut down to 30 seconds, they can eat shit. Who the fuck does that?










  • My start was all the way back when WebTV was around in 1996. I was using IRC-like chat rooms provided by Talk City. There, we had fun trivia games, some friendly chatter and vice versa.

    Then, I moved on to MSN Chat sometime in the early 2000s. I would make my home there until the day MSN decided to make MSN Chats subscription based sometime around 2004 and I ended up leaving. These chat rooms were where I had some of my earliest periods roleplaying.

    From there I would go to MySpace and I stayed there for quite a bit of time, felt like maybe 5 or so years before I just gradually lost interest. By that point in the middle, when Facebook got out of its college-only phase, I joined about a couple years after that in what felt like 2008-ish.

    In 2007 also, I was in DeviantArt chat rooms and I was there up until 2014. I would join Gaia Online too in 2007 until 2016.

    I didn’t start using things like Reddit until mid-2010s. I got into Second Life by 2013. Didn’t use Twitter until much later and left long before Musk even got it.

    Oh and somewhere around my ventures of the 2010s, I did in fact hop into mIRC servers for a bit.

    And finally by about 2023, I jumped into the Fediverse for the first time via Lemmy, discarding Reddit for good (not that it mattered because I kept getting shadow-banned anyways). I do have a TikTok but it’s only for associating with a friend on there. I’ve never regularly used AOL or Yahoo!'s chat rooms. I never had ICQ but I did have AIM, MSN and Yahoo!'s respective messengers. I’ve gotten into Instagram for a cup of coffee before bowing out like a couple days.

    So, these days, all I use now is PieFed, Facebook, Second Life and Discord (if one can even call it social media).