[-] ech@lemm.ee 7 points 11 hours ago

resulted in thousands of preventable deaths

Millions, and it's still climbing thanks in large part to his decision to politicize public health.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

I read it as " Trump, Chicken Fucker".

[-] ech@lemm.ee 2 points 16 hours ago

But America is so beholden to these idiots that it doesn't even matter to anyone.

That's not calling out hypocrisy. That's saying people should care.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 27 points 21 hours ago

There are lots of things they do that're scandalous. That's not one of them. There's already enough puritanical bullshit fucking up the US. It's about time some of it were left in the past.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Ah, ok. I see that now. That sucks.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Doesn’t this change the meaning of the statement so much that it’s no longer true that every citizen of age who is a resident is eligible to vote?

I don't see how it would, but maybe I'm not seeing what you're seeing. The eligibility of the people in the article did not change. "Only" vs "Every" still includes the same group of people.

What did change was the explicit exclusion of people outside of those qualifiers. This could potentially make challenging votes of "questionable" voters that much more impactful or difficult to defend against, and maybe make adjusting the existing qualifiers harder (the only one I can really think of is age), but that depends on WI's amendment process, which I don't know.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Goal-post yeeting aside (first "off the couch", now "no time to sleep"?), barring actual factual voter suppression, there's little-to-no valid excuse in the US to not vote at all. Only 3 states have zero early-voting or vote-by-mail options (for now). The thing with democracy is that everyone shares responsibility to take part. Shirking that responsibility doesn't absolve anyone of guilt, more so the opposite. Now democracy very well may not be an option again, so no, I'm not going to spend much time empathizing with the people that enabled that.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

I didn't say Gaza, and it doesnt matter why they couldn't be bothered. Their share remains the same.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Interesting. Thanks!

[-] ech@lemm.ee 47 points 1 day ago

Hard to see people as allies who are willing to let the world burn because the only other option wasn't perfect. The campaign fucked up, for sure, but every voter that stayed home shares blame in this.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Depends on who's in charge. 50%+ of the internet seems to be hosted by amazon and musk rules his little fiefdom. The call to be proactive isn't unreasonable.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This shit is why I resist proprietary apps like this as much as I can. Removing functionality from the website and hiding it behind an app is so shitty and I'm not playing along just so they can sell off the info they get from it.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ech@lemm.ee to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee

Planning to watch through Jordan Peele's movies for the spooky season and thought it'd be nice to expand that out to other movies from POC creatives. My current list includes Sorry to Bother You (another favorite of mine I've been meaning to rewatch), Bad Hair, Horror Noire, and Ganja & Hess. Any other movies that fit the theme that you would suggest? They certainly don't have to stick to African American/Black creatives, and English isn't a must, but would be preferred.

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submitted 2 months ago by ech@lemm.ee to c/support@lemmy.world

Not my home instance, but I hope the question is pretty universal. Was hoping to check through some of my hidden posts that I hid for spoiler reasons now that it's not a concern.

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submitted 3 months ago by ech@lemm.ee to c/mtg@mtgzone.com

I've been taking a break from Magic since the beginning of Caves of Ixalan for a number of reasons, but am wanting to check out Bloomburrow. Since part of the reason I stepped away was the Play Booster changeup for drafting, I was wondering how people are feeling about it. I'd be particularly interested in reading your thoughts on it if you were a hater that has ultimately come around to the change.

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submitted 6 months ago by ech@lemm.ee to c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca

When I used Reddit is Fun, it really hogged up data unless thumbnails we're disabled. I've noticed that Connect is also using quite a lot of data, but there is no similar setting that I can find (there's an option to disable preloading images, but I'm not seeing what that changes).

Even if there was just an option to toggle thumbnails manually, it'd be much appreciated.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by ech@lemm.ee to c/support@lemm.ee

I noticed a distinct lack of response to comments and looking at the threads from other instances shows that my comments aren't appearing outside of lemm.ee, and going to the link I shared shows there are 0 up-to-date instances with lemm.ee.

This happened around the big update in December, too. Not sure what the cause is, but here's hoping it can be resolved soon!

*Dunno if this info would be helpful, but the last comment of mine that seems to have federated properly was from 07:15UTC, and the first comment that seems to be missing was from 14:15UTC. So something happened between then.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by ech@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

One of mine is Commit This to Memory by Motion City Soundtrack. I basically took the title verbatim and know the album word for word. And while I would love if it did, the rest of MCS's stuff just doesn't hit the same way.

And if you're not an album person, maybe a period of time in the artist's work? Whatever works for you.

*Lots of mentions of hit debut albums that subsequently petered out, which follows with the dreaded sophomore slump that hits many artists. Anyone with mid or even later career albums that stand alone? Those always intrigue me.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by ech@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Just had this thought and I'm caught between the two. Assuming anything being considered were all "good" photos, what would you prefer if it were you?

*Lots of great responses! I do want to clarify that I am not currently dealing with this scenario myself, but I appreciate the thoughtful comments. Hopefully they can help people that are struggling. I know I'll keep them in mind for the future.

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submitted 7 months ago by ech@lemm.ee to c/television@lemmy.world

I absolutely adored the first 2 seasons as they came out and wasn't confident in how the third season would follow up. And tbh, the first half was somewhat underwhelming. The Zava stuff seemed pointless and it kinda felt like it was running on auto-pilot. But man, starting with the Amsterdam episode it was just banger after banger (with special nods to 'The Strings That Bind Us' with Sam's emotional arc and the finale 'So Long Farwell' with, well...everything). The last show that made me laugh-cry that much was The Good Place.

I know there's lots of folks sad about it being done so quickly, but I don't think I'd want it any other way. Bill Lawrence, Jason Sudeikis, and everyone else on that show made something truly wonderful, not just for tv, but as a heartfelt examination and embrace of the flaws and strengths in all of us. This story about football that's not really about football (but still really is) will always hold a place in my heart.

slaps 'Believe!' poster

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submitted 7 months ago by ech@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

For the unaware - Slug Bug

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by ech@lemm.ee to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

For one, even if I wanted to use it, piped never works for me.

Second, on mobile, my alternative of choice doesn't recognize everyone's non-yt links, so it removes my choice in the matter.

Third, I have no reason to trust the weird-ass domains I see, and to un-fuck the url takes much more time then just handing out the original YT links and letting people choose for themselves how they view the video.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by ech@lemm.ee to c/gifs@lemmy.world
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