Just a heads up: you put the closing parenthesis and period inside the hyperlink you posted.

Nbd, and good comment, just letting you know.

I legit can’t imagine hurting a bee. Wasps I’m less sympathetic to. But I love bees.

Technically ticks are arachnids, not insects.

And also yeah. Fuck ticks altogether.

It is an unfortunate thing, because tankies are actually a problem. And I do mean the real term, as in the folks who identify with dictatorships that are so-called communist.

The reason it’s a problem is that the folks who are left-leaning but uneducated sometimes get swept up in pro-authoritarian rhetoric that happens to oppose the west. I’m anticapitalist, leftist, etc. I see tankies and fascists having a lot in common. That seems dangerous in the sense that fascism is a real threat. Also, then, our ranks are being thinned out and co-opted by specific bad-faith actors. At the same time, when people buy into tankie (pro-Russia, pro-China, pro-North Korea) propaganda, this more or less consolidates some of the power that opposes actual leftists (as in, people who support human rights, equitable societies, environmental protection, etc).

Not really any argument against what you’re saying. Just kind of adding that the term tankie is actually useful to describe a specific viewpoint, but obviously not in the way that the previous commenter used it.

Yes. This on repeat.

I don’t know if they’re aware of this, but they’re also urging users to ditch Microsoft as a matter of course.

I rented a place that had one of these. It’s just another thing to forget about maintaining.

A huge percentage of my life I’ve spent working outdoors in remote settings, drinking water from plastic jugs or bags. Maybe that means I’m just wired differently but I don’t really understand the desire to have chilled water in the first place.

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution that works

I think it’s primarily targeting the handheld gaming market

You can also sideload epubs, borrow books from libraries on Overdrive and read articles online, etc. It’s way easier on the eyes than screens that rely on refresh rates (which also make them better to use before sleep), they have long battery life. And it’s a lot lighter than carrying books around.

They have a lot of advantages over other platforms for reading.

Also… even barring hanging out with literal nazis, if your whole fucking thing is trying to deny human rights to vulnerable segments of the population, you’re a piece of shit, even if you are actually “pretty liberal” otherwise.

I’m so sick of hearing about this irrelevant piece of shit and everyone who makes excuses for her.