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I fucking love that they are reminding everyone how weird the Republican Party is. Had to think about it a little to understand, and my take is that it is the uncanny valley of morality.

What I mean by that: Morality is basically defined by what is good for people. Moral things are good for people. Immoral things are bad for people. Some things have multiple good or bad effects and can be gray with mixed morality.

The uncanny valley is usually about our recognition of other human faces and bodies. When something appears only slightly, or completely human we accept it. But if something is close to human but perceivably off it disgusts us.

When the Republican Party—especially Trump, Vance, and the rest of the MAGAites—tell us that immoral things are actually moral it feels WIERD! We believe in democracy and the right to vote, hearing that people without children shouldn’t vote is weird and Vance’s explanation is weird!

Also with republicans’ constant need to create legitimacy pointing out weirdness cuts where it hurts. Things that are this kind of icky weird do not feel legitimate.

And if you’re just a regular conservative or Republican person reading this far I do not want to rub your face in this. Not all of their moral talk has been this weird. I recognize that the groups we associate with can be internalized into a piece of our identity, and when those internalized things are attacked it feels like an attack on you personally. That sucks, but we’ve still got to be honest about what’s going on here. I want you to be ok too.

That reminds me that my local library has WiFi hot spots you can check out for a week at a time. Sounds really helpful for someone who needs the internet for work, and can’t easily get to the library every day.

Use my pen knife my good man!

I was getting a really strong Tom of Finland feeling from it.

Fish and chips, but mostly fish.

…be sure to follow the rules of the community. Which are…

Linda Yaccarino: lifts bucket from Musk’s head Musk: Tell the world story.

There are many reasons to leave. Can I also just say the number of advertisements designed to imitate user submitted content really got under my skin. I’m not even talking about onlyfans accounts posting in various subs, but actual “promoted” advertisements that used common memes or are made to look like someone took a screenshot and reposted it. Not sure how many people noticed these. This kind of deceptive advertising angers me and I blame Reddit as much as the advertiser because they take the money and serve up this garbage.

Looks server side to me. Got a maintenance notice from lemmy.world a little bit ago (after some pages and comments not loading), and liftoff was working well on another instance.

May you live long and be a celebrated pooper.

I’ve adopted the same IPO theory. Huffman thought this would drive more people to the official app, and he expects that increase to help the IPO so he’d make more money from it. If it works he’ll make a lot more money a lot faster than the approach in the screenshot. Then he can just serve everyone ads anyway, sell data etc.

Also he probably thought we were all a bunch of spineless addicts who would cry really loud and eventually fall in line, and a lot of users have. Now let’s wait and see the quality of community and content he gets after pissing off the people doing the most to create it.