NutWrench

In the US, it was probably called “Preview.” It was an over-the-air movie channel that needed a decoder box to view it.

They usually broadcast from a UHF TV station that had made a deal with HBO or CineMax (often nicknamed “Skin-a-Max” because they tended to show pron after 11pm or so). It was basically cable TV without the cable.

Yeah, it was either Stardew Valley or Witcher 3 for me. (I wouldn’t last 5 minutes in Velen).

I’m also sick of hearing people say, “God never gives you more than you can handle.”

I know people who have been driven batshit insane by what God has given them.

Company-wide email: “We’ve had our best year ever and it’s all thanks to YOU!”

Me: “Great. Can I have a raise?”

Company: “Oh, we can’t afford THAT.”

Yup. If your company is too cheap to do pizza parties anymore then either the pizza is too expensive for them to provide (bad sign) or management can’t spare you being off the clock for an hour (another bad sign).

I still have an old, Viewsonic media player. I wish I could find a modern one that didn’t need an always-on Internet connection.

A . . . “final solution” you might say.

What’s a horchata?

“The good of the people” is a noble goal. The problem is that for the most part, people who deliberately seek power to lead these groups are vain, greedy, selfish, brutal assholes.

Collectivism, as Karl Marx wrote it, has never been practiced in any so-called “communist” country on Earth. It’s always been an oligarchy.

CNN is already sane-washing this, referring to Musk’s “odd gesture.”

Yup. CNN deserves a gold medal for mental gymnastics.

THIS is why people have a problem with “tankies.”

Budapest, 1956.

This. Also, whatever is going on in China and Russia is NOT “communism.” Those are oligarchies, where a small number of billionaires use the news media to keep the lower and middle classes fighting with each other, while the rich keep running off with all the f*cking money.

The rumors that Zuckerberg smuggled several tons of heroin out of Afghanistan are completely untrue.

It was actually meth.

Yes.

https://federation-checker.vercel.app/

This link lets you type in an Instance name and it will tell you what other Instances allow it and which ones block it.

TikTok is owned by ByteDance, which is a front for the Chinese Communist Party. It’s being used by the CCP to spread agit-prop and self-destructive crap.

Other countries use their “social media platforms” the same way, but that’s no reason to make it easy for other governments to destabilize your society.

There’s currently about 600 lemmy instances, in many different countries, and those countries each have different laws regarding the protection of speech. Some of it is also just power-tripping mods or left-wing / right-wing censorship.

If this is happening to a community you like, you can always switch to the same community in a different instance. Eventually, the “official” community will have the most subscribers and the community with the censorship problems will wither and die.

Dear FBI,

1. Welcome to Lemmy.
2. If you’re looking for a list of suspects, you can start by investigating all of UHC’s denied claims that resulted in a death. Shouldn’t take you more than a decade or so.

Yeah, subby. We get it. “Both sides are bad.” But one side is boring corporatists who don’t give a crap and the other side is 100% concentrated evil fascists, authoritarians and religious nutjobs. And while that’s a choice between the lesser of two evils, it’s not a difficult one.