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Sooo much extra effort lol. This is what I do when I’m on meetings and am not actively speaking/presenting.

Just ignore the left shoulder that’s just kind of out there; it’s just padding…like the pecs in the uniforms.

No, please keep the "we told you so"s coming. There are still people in the back defending their abstention / 3rd party vote / blaming the 'dems. They need to understand they are at least partially responsible for this.

There was little beyond an idea inside the president’s head.

Fixed that for them.

If you need a printer now, I’d just make the best of it while saving for a good laser printer. The vertical alignment may be able to be fixed with a calibration (check the manual to see if there’s a procedure). Not sure about the jams, but usually a good cleaning will fix that.

Ink-jet printers are money pits. Laser printers are superior in just about every way. They cost a little more upfront, but the long-term costs are much, much less than any inkjet. If you only need black and white, you can get a decent laser printer for $100-150. I bought mine in 2014, use it infrequently, and am still on the toner that came with it. Paid $100 for it, and it’s printed every time I’ve needed it for over a decade and going.

If you need to print color (or photos), color lasers are a bit more expensive but not by much (maybe double the cost of a B&W one). Honestly, though, unless you print pictures all the time, it’s cheaper and easier to just take them somewhere to be printed (or use an online service and have the prints mailed to you).

I’m not trying to change anyone’s mind. Gave up on that months ago when it actually mattered. Now I just want the people who refused to help stop this from happening know how much I blame and hate them. That is all.

Lol, your username’s initials spell ASS

First Bender, then Flexo, then Fry.

Uh, let’s go alphabetically.

Ok. First Bender, then Flexo, then Fry.

How about by rank?

Fine. First Bender, then Flexo, then Fry.

I know they got old for the audience, but at least holodeck episodes let the actors do something different once in a while.

That’s a lot of blame shifting there.

The facts are:

• Our elections are FPTP and no amount of wishing it was otherwise was going to change that
• Even if people thought Harris wouldn’t have been great, it took zero additional brain cells to realize Trump would have been will be is infinitely worse.
• Yes, I will “shove it down the leftists throats”, as you say, since they were big cheerleaders against voting for the only candidate that stood a chance of defeating Trump. Sowing doubt/division when we should have been unified against that threat (wasn’t that what you were originally chastising me for?)
• The people failed, not the government. We had a free and fair election, saw what was at stake, and still people decided to sit it out or throw their vote away.

I haven’t browsed your history, and at this point, I don’t care to, but if that’s the kind of messaging you were throwing out up to November, then YOU. ARE. AT. LEAST. PARTIALLY. RESPONSIBLE.

yeah, i hide that with UBO lol. that, or enable theater mode to get rid of it.

:sigh: Just turn off watch history and search history, clear both, and either search for what you want or subscribe and use the subscriptions page.

My YT homepage is blank and glorious.

Nothing good will ever come from suggestion algorithms.

we’re all on the same side against fascism

Then where were those people in November when it freaking mattered?

I’m absolutely entitled to hold a grudge against the single-issuers who helped get us here. Actions, or in this case, inactions have consequences, and I’m not going to coddle them when they come crawling back to reality after they were told over and over again what was at stake.

There is no information on sportbots about how many accounts they have listed, but I’m guess it’s in the “high hundreds - low thousands” range.

That’s way too many bots for people to block. Yes, I’m aware there’s a setting to block all bots, but that’s too all or nothing.

If you insist on going that route, maybe stand up a dedicated instance like one of the other repost instances (and only post to local communities there) so people can just block that instance.

I mean, it’s not unrelated. You can scream into a microphone all you want, but if it’s not plugged into anything (or no one’s listening)…

1. If someone’s posting things that are going to get me in legal hot water because they show up on my instance, they will be banned from my instance. As an example, I don’t platform people who incite violence or are here for bloodlust (see all the Luigi-based bans I had to issue).
2. If someone is posting things that are against TOS of other Lemmy servers, they will likely be banned from those
3. If the behavior is persistent and problematic for enough instances, the instance will likely be defederated.

In all of those cases, you’re still free to say whatever you want on your own instance, but that doesn’t guarantee anyone else will want to platform it on theirs. Owning your own home doesn’t mean you can just waltz into other peoples’ and say whatever you want.

Edited to fix a typo and change the tone so it didn’t sound accusational (which wasn’t my intent).

Yeah, I would have nipped that rhetoric right in the bud even here on Lemmy, though I certainly wouldn’t have nuked the whole community.

Were people saying Biden was too old also sowing division or were they just criticising?

Yes and no. The people who did nothing but repeat and amplify that? Sowing division (see GiveSomeFucks, Return2Ozma, etc)

The people who made valid points but weren’t beating that drum continuously? Legit criticism for the most part.

Either way, at the time, it was Biden or Trump, and the same two potential outcomes: Status quo (flawed but not fascism) or speedrun to fascism. There really shouldn’t have been a dilemma.

It doesn’t matter. We’re in this shit now. And have to somehow act together to get out of it again.

Good luck to them then. I’ll definitely be fighting the good fight, but I will absolutely not be working with the single-issue “oops, I accidentally helped bring fascism by completely failing to acknowledge the existence of a bigger picture” crowd - they’re on their own. We couldn’t count on them when it mattered, and I will not take that risk again.

Edit: Clarity

I’m not saying they voted for Trump, but they were certainly sowing division against the only candidate likely to defeat him at the polls.

“Not Trump” was NOT a choice on the ballot, and the single, actual candidate with the most votes wins. Any vote not FOR Harris was a tacit vote for Trump. No third party was going to win, and abstaining is effectively saying “BoTh SiDeZ aRE tHe SAmE!”.

They had a chance to help stop this and chose to do anything but. Again, fuck them.

Like someone else said: It’s like you’re hoping for things to get worse just to be able to say “I told you so” over and over again.

That person is an idiot (I say this not even reading their comment or knowing who you’re referring to).