They’re definitely bigger!

Shame I’m a fat old guy now. A few decades back I looked great in a Laura Ashley summer dress.

And what you absolutely must do is not say a fuckin word to trump. Unless maybe you want him to pass disinformation to Putin.

You light the ethanol and it burns off all the shit.

Yeah, I was on Reddit way back, like many who have left I was very active, like half a mil karma, bla bla. Didn’t get banned, the API thing was the final straw for me. I’ve been on Lemmy since then and prefer it. Also, whilst I contribute here I spend less of my time on Lemmy, which means I’m reading more books and stuff. Leaving Reddit was absolutely the right decision. I think sunk cost keeps a lot of people there, even though karma isn’t a real thing and the site is turning to shit.

Even a stopped clock etc

Not here in the UK. I think there are exceptions - bonuses at work are taxed, if a professional artist wins money in an art competition that’s regarded as work money and taxed. But if you win the lottery or a bet on the horses, no tax to pay.

So trump would have to pay taxes on the plane eh?

Bollocks, men like that should absolutely be vilified.

Just wanted some attention, eh?

Yeah, I think you’re exactly right. Now he’s seeing consequences - particularly the affect on the Tesla brand - and realised he’s shat the bed. So he’s thinking ‘If I can make those photos go away, people will forget it happened.’

Yeah, lotsa luck with that.

Yeah, you’re probably right. But a lot of trust will still be gone, it’s hard to make serious commitments with a country that has a history of ripping them up.

I kinda like that it’s smaller here in terms of content and users. I left reddit back at the API thing, I’d been on there over ten years and was spending easily an hour or two a day on there. Here, I pop in, check it out, get a similar experience - but I don’t get stuck in endless scrolling or stupid arguments. Instead I’m reading more books.

Yeah, I think it’s best to treat the US these days like a dangerous dog you meet in an alley - don’t make eye contact and back slowly away.

Ah, didn’t realise it had been abandoned. Shame, I’ve been using it a while, and I used the reddit version up until the API thing. I guess I can understand the dev becoming frustrated with a lot of work for a small audience.

If it’s any help, I use the sync app on android. I also used sync for reddit prior to the API thing which finally made me leave, so my experience is pretty much the same in terms of format. I agree it can feel weird in a browser but there’s a bunch of good mobile apps that might feel more familiar.

I’ve met people like that here in the UK too. Trump has this incomprehensible charisma for arseholes the world over.

I hope so. A good step would be for the UK to rejoin the EU but that seems unlikely to happen in the next decade. But we need to build solidarity and resilience, and like you say, increase our independence as much as feasible

I’m curious, what good do you see trump doing for the country? It seems to me that he’s doing a lot of harm but we probably have differing views

I certainly wouldn’t be crying myself to sleep that night.

I kinda feel like the ‘never genocide’ people were always secretly embarrassed trumpsuckers.

But I don’t have a problem with mods giving them the same protections as the rest of us. I think those people are a bunch of wankers but I don’t want Lemmy turning into more of an echo chamber than it already is.