Instead of blocking them I wonder if archiving their posts and reposting their questions with the archived comment section would be better. I’m personally less interested in punishing an individual user who’s using this space selfishly (as much as they might deserve it) than I am in making this space more useful for everyone, and I don’t know how either of these proposals would do that in the short term (arguably they might in the long term by changing user behavior, but that seems like it really would take a long while).

Also, conservative media sales numbers are misleading because rich assholes will buy 100 copies of whatever and leave it in their lobbies and other public spaces they own to normalize their right wing trash

Basically any track from the new Vince Staples album, but if I had to pick one - https://vincestaples.bandcamp.com/track/the-running-man

Wouldn’t have happened if he was on Pixelfed instead

I would vote for someone who promised to legalize duels again. Having roughly half as many bloated egos to deal with seems way more manageable.

Only if there are no paywalls or surveillance crap on the articles posted there

In this economy?

Doing nothing to stop it, cheering on Universities and police that beat and punished protesters, refusing to let Ruwa Romman or anyone else anti-genocide speak at their convention, etc.

Their policy was bad and they were assholes about it at every opportunity. It’s honestly amazing she got as many votes as she did.

Me neither, I feel like all the publications talking about how it’s so popular are gaslighting me or being taken by some bullshit bottled streaming numbers

Did it? I mean, it may have bought President Pedo the couple of months he needed to win an election against a historically awful opponent, but given his 32% approval rating and being stuck in a war that was supposed to distract from the detention camps that were supposed to be a distraction from the tariffs that were supposed to be a distraction from DOGE which was supposed to be a distraction from the pedophilia, I think it’s fair to say that buying a mouthpiece isn’t a durable solution to the problem of being objectively stupid

Doesn’t seem to be what this article says

To some readers, even choosing Outlook as a part of a spacecraft’s communications portfolio would seem to be an anomaly. However, it is a standard part of the “Commercial Off-The-Shelf” (COTS) software astronauts use for their day-to-day operations.

To be clear, the spacecraft and primary flight systems will run on specialized radiation-hardened hardware and rigorously maintained software. COTS just complements this with a friendly layer, like Windows and Outlook, so astronauts can check schedules, indulge in personal communications, and so on, in a familiar way.

Sounds like Microsoft products are running on the same hardware as critical systems are

Yeah, I’m not totally sure I would go as far as requiring criminal charges to kick things off, but their ought to be some restraints on recalls. Besides stability in government being at least somewhat important, it’s unfair to the past electorate who voted whichever candidate in for a given term to have a different electorate (because new people are always becoming eligible and other people are passing away or otherwise becoming inelligble) come along and mess with that.

Fair point in practice, but in theory that’s a campaign finance regulation problem not a recall election problem

Eh, that’s what they’re trying to do, but that’s always what groups like them have tried to do throughout history and it never really works for very long. We aren’t reaching the end of anything, it’s just the next stage of the game.

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Song for Alicia by Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover

Pride Anthem (Molotov Cocktails & Bricks) by Garlic Bread & Roses

Heavy Foot by Mon Rovia

Push by Terrace Martin

Violet by Jeremy Messersmith

The Day by The Roots

Very Much Money by Open Mike Eagle

Broken Ladder by Lil Ugly Mane

Drive by El-P

Freebird II by Parquet Courts

History Lesson Pt. II by Minutemen

Megapunk by Ela Minus

Pack My Box by Patricia Taxxon

Wedding in a Wasteland by Parts and Labor

My Body Fell by Kasko Lunsford

Hold Each Other Up by Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian

And this isn’t even the first clown shitshow of a government we’ve voted in this century