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[–] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago

It depends. Of course it's fine to have no opinion about, say, which sports team should win the big game, because that doesn't matter. And even on bigger issues like fiscal policy, it's okay to just admit you don't know enough about a complicated subject to have an informed opinion. While I do think it's important to educate yourself as much as you can, no one can reasonably learn everything about everything in order to have all of the right opinions all of the time.

But some issues are both important and clear cut. Like, if someone says they have "no opinion" on whether LGBTQ people deserve equal rights... no, no I will not accept "no opinion" as an answer here. You don't need to read mountains of theory to disavow bigotry, and if anyone tries to give an excuse for why they won't, I'll consider that complicit.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What's a foot long and slippery? A slipper.

What's red and smells like blue paint? Red paint.

Why did the blind man fall in the well? He couldn’t see that well.

A man goes to the doctor and says "I think I have hearing problems." "Can you describe the symptoms?" "Sure! Homer's fat and Marge has blue hair."

Did you hear about the huge sale at the Lego store? People were lined up for blocks.

I sat down for dinner at a restaurant, and the waiter asked me, "Do you want to hear today’s special?" I said, "Yes please." "No problem sir. Today is special."

I'd tell you a time travel joke, but you didn't get it.

I used to work at a toy factory making plastic Draculas. There were only two of us, so I had to make every second Count.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

Lie down, try not to cry, cry a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Fighting games and Riichi Mahjong.

There's usually a local event for at least one of the games I play every month or so. I travel out to Combo Breaker every year for the big major as well.

For Riichi Mahjong, the local club here meets every week. Haven't had the chance to attend a big tournament yet, but I'm hoping I can fit one into my travel budget at some point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Currently a Galaxy S9+. Battery life isn't the best anymore, and I'm running low on internal storage, but it's still serving me well. I'm not even sure what I'd upgrade to, I really need the SD slot that almost nothing new has anymore.

Best was my old Motorola Droid 2, I miss slide-out keyboards so damn badly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

PSN Plus is $80/year, XBox Live is $60/year. And both of those are for the lowest tier.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

$20/year for Nintendo Switch Online. That's $20 more than it should be, but at least it's not nearly as expensive as the other consoles.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago

No. I don't trust another corporate-owned platform, and I don't trust the way they pay lip service to federation while still making everything dependent on one central server they control.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

BlueSky has money. We don't.

People are going from one corporate-controlled social media platform to another corporate-controlled social media platform. You and I both know that's the problem, but to the average user, they're going to go to whatever has a large corporation spending a lot of money to tell them that their platform is the next big thing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

BlueSky has the one thing Fedi doesn't: a large advertising budget. Hate to say it, but we have lost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sure, but I think these are terms that are much simpler to explain to someone who isn't yet on our side.

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