[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago

It might though - don't underestimate how much some sheeple prefer to simply be taken care of, rather than e.g. make a simple change to a config file. They will allow companies to sell all of their data, and not blink an eye. X is enshittifying for entirely different reasons (political ones), and Reddit for sheer stupidity, and Google as well, and... well but anyway, look at how many people are still on them, as opposed to here.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

I most certainly did not... but what do I know?! πŸ€”

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

One of those upvotes is likely mine:-).

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

Eventually... maybe... we'll see I guess!? πŸ˜‰

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago

I had loads of communication problems trying to use Voyager on Android - I wonder if it was b/c it may not work as well for non-Lemmy.World accounts? (the one I tried to have it work with was on Discuss.Online) Like I would reply to someone but not be able to see my reply, or receive a notification and not be able to see their message to me, and refreshing did not work, nor did simply waiting minutes of time, though force-quitting the app and reloading always did.

Now I switched to PieFed so it doesn't matter, but basically I think you have to just download apps and try them until you find one you like b/c there's always going to be something.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago

I thought that was Mikey-D's?

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Phew, thank goodness I was wrong:-).

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[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I mean... yeah, ofc, but that ship has sailed, and I for one hope that this message gets spread far and wide, to help counteract the message being preached from the literal and actual pulpit in America that a vote for Trump = a vote for God.

Also, as we could have guessed, this is an enormously clickbaity "news" title, as this excerpt explains:

β€œIn a moment like this, I am compelled to be clear that every voter must make a choice, and my choice is to oppose the dangerous politics that (Donald) Trump and the MAGA movement have unleashed by supporting the ticket that can defeat this potential for American fascism,” Barber said in a statement to CNN, while stressing that he was backing Harris in his personal capacity.

In their personal capacity they are endorsing Harris, but in their professional (or whatever that word should be to mean non-personal) capacity they are only endorsing "not-Trump". As it should be.

Edit: which reminds me that I wanted to block this community - that issue of EXTREMELY misleading headlines (especially those that mean the precise polar opposite of what a natural interpretation of the sentence would seem to indicate) comes up FAR too often here for my tastes. !globalnews@lemmy.zip significantly cleans up such trash by limiting what is allowed to be shared.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago

Tbf, the Democratic party nomination process is not a 2-party system. They did say that back then, and they were wrong to do so - hoping that people wouldn't notice that difference.

But now we are talking about the real deal, the thing that they were trying to falsely tie an equivalence to, the actual vote for the actual presidency. Democracy in the USA may not last the decade regardless, but voting one way is for ditching it in favor of Project 2025 and among other things, ironically enough even moar-er support for genocide, while the other is a vote for hopefully a little better than the current status quo.

Both offer short term pain and long term destruction... but not equally so.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago

Omg that sounds hilarious πŸ˜‚

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago

Thank you for confirming my bias that both sides are indeed the same - I will now proceed accordingly. 😜

/s btw, and damn I wish this was funny. As it is, it feels all too real...πŸ˜”

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