Any God that could prevent the suffering of millions and still allow it is not a God worthy of your worship.

After 3rd Gen I definitely won’t be going back to nest. Mine is completely incapable of connecting to Wi-Fi which means I can no longer schedule it or operate remotely.

Freebirds is better anyway, fucking fight me let’s GOOOOOO!

I know I’m reaching but it would be wonderful if they took this as an opportunity to turn the event into a town hall for Harris. Don’t participate, lose your stage.

Lmao I’m leaving it.

Non-essential and predatory are not mutually exclusive, especially given Blizzard’s history of player manipulation. They have perfected the science of making you want someone that you don’t need.

This is patently untrue. I want Lemmy to be successful as much as any other user on here but reddit had 150-200 million MAU in 2016. Lemmy is being recorded as a generous 2 million.

Oddly, not 10 mins before seeing this post I was having to convince someone that anyone espousing Jordan B Peterson probably isn’t reading the political climate from a reasonable vantage point.

Cool, so you don’t have any.

Perhaps you would like to share some of these goals?

Technically yes, but it’s really just semantics and treason sounds sexier.

Thanks for that. It’s difficult to concretely conclude he was being bullied from that clip but it certainly adds a small piece of insight.

There must be a mistake. That link is sending me directly to an ad for TikTok

Oh, weird. They don’t require prints for a DL in TX, but we’re already closing in on an authoritarian state anyways. I didn’t know this was a thing.

That’s the fun part about the war for privacy. We have already lost and if you make a big deal about it they’re just going to make your life hell!

Ok? It’s worth applauding them for choosing that stance. I’m still not going to judge Cena too harshly for opting out of a conflict that he can’t really impact anyway, when by all other accounts he seems to be a pretty admirable person.

It’s not like he said “Taiwan must immediately surrender to the Chinese government”. He just chose not to get stuck in the middle of it. You may see that as cowardly but it’s easy to hold that position behind a shroud of anonymity.

Edit: It’s all lip-service anyhow. I’m not going to bother going down the list but I would imagine most of it’s members don’t exactly have a huge following in China, where Cena does. I’m sure Ted Cruz is super upset about not being able to enter the country.

I probably worded that poorly. I’m really mean in terms of scale. Spacey is for whatever reason coming to mind. Not to excuse his absolutely abhorrent behavior, but really old allegations of arguable “consensual” sex (with a minor) is just not comparable to sticking your finger in the eye of the CCP. Will Smith might be a better example.

I’m sounding a lot like an apologist when really I’m just trying to say it’s difficult for me to judge Cena for saying “I didn’t mean to offend anyone and love the Chinese people” when it isn’t my career on the line.

TBF celebrities bigger than him have been cancelled for lesser offenses than taking on the CCP.

This was the most memorable thing about covid for me besides the fatigue. I rarely get headaches but it gave me the worst headache of my life for a solid week.

“If we don’t use all this killy stuff that we paid for that’s just wasteful.”