Sir Ryan Bemrose @[email protected]

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Joe Biden is already far more successful at uniting America. Trump was polarizing. Half the country loved him, and half hated him. There was no common ground. Biden provides that common ground. While he is unsurprisingly hated by the other side, unlike Trump, he's also pissing off his own base.

Listening to @Johncdvorak going on about "new brons-feld" even after being corrected by Adam, shortly after making a big deal about pronunciation on #GrumpyOldBens

The autocrats in charge will never let you go "back to normal" as long as they're in power. Promises of "15 days", "three weeks", "100 days", etc, are bullshit to keep you focused on a future date, and prevent any resistance.

The ruling class intend keep up the temporary restrictions on your freedom until they can convince you to accept that they're permanent.

Wealth tax sounds great on paper, but it's unworkable when you get to the details, and I have no confidence that bureaucrats would get the rules right

First, there's too many ways to count wealth... and to hide it. "No, that $billion isn't mine. It belongs to this shell company"

Second, most "wealth" isn't liquid. Do you force someone to sell off 2% of their stock options each year? Two percent of their house?

Dusted off my old copy of Fallout 3 today. Don't know why, but I just had the urge to shoot the hell out of alien mutants in the wasted ruins of the seat of what used to be a great country.

Playing with a brand new pleroma instance. The UI is just different enough from Mastodon to throw me off.

Current question: How do I follow someone? I see mute, block, and report, but where is follow?

"George Clooney had nipples"
-- @CarBlanez33 , Hog Story ep150

Dude Named Ben's standard troubleshooting steps:
1) Turn it off and back on again
2) Reboot it again. Maybe it'll work this time.
3) Allocate more resources
4) File a bug to dev. Wait and pray. Hope they're in a good mood. Sacrifices help. (I hear he likes Red Bull)

We are seeing a live exploit of the vulnerability in Democracy that even the ancient Greeks warned us about: If you can get 51% of the population on board through propaganda, brute force, or old-fashioned indoctrination, you can push any agenda you want, no matter how unfair, destructive, or horrific.