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To Vance’s credit, he’s doing a monumental amount of damage control and sanewashing for Donald Trump and is doing a decent job at it. Yes Vance is lying through his teeth with each answer but he is markedly better at keeping his cool compared to the former Narcissist-in-Chief against VP Harris. It’s a position Walz wouldn’t envy. So overall I think this is within the best range of events Vance could expect.

They both did well at acknowledging each other and keeping this like a somewhat normal debate, can you imagine. That said, if any viewer can hold a thought without focusing solely on whatever deflection each candidate is doing, Walz is giving better answers, and Vance is putting way more false equivalencies in.

Walz is doing very well with his answers, he’s not as calculated and rehearsed as Harris, and you know having a heart makes you mess up more than the recently changed telephone options menu, but he is doing a fantastically better job at connecting with voters than Vance did. Walz’s jabs are quick and easily missed (“Wharton”) but even with apolitical people, if they understand Walz’s language then they’ll get when he is jabbing at Vance.

Obviously I was hoping Vance would fold up into a chair and was disappointed for that to not happen. More than that though is that I’m crossing my fingers the news cycle doesn’t begin pretending it’s a normal election cycle just because the VP candidates could actually look each other in the eye for a night. Idk, give it 48hours and Trump will be starved enough of attention to break the spell and make people glare at him again in disgust.

The “safe, professional and non-dangering” pilots were all sent to the west frontline already.

Please, let us Canadians take back Ted Cruz! Once he’s out you can drop him by the ranch near Grande Prairie, Alberta.

Some nasty jerks they are. Well now internationally famous nasty jerks.

I remember using Reddit years ago on Links. New Reddit was borderline unusable, old Reddit worked… okayish. How is Default web UI Lemmy on Links? Is there a nice TUI client that I guess you would use more regularly?

If heart disease and cancer are god’s will, it counts. /s

Some Texas two-step-like shenanigans going on. Like yeah, for reasons totally unrelated to the court case all our money left the company and somehow appeared in Company 2, totally separate, we have no control. Oh, we settled? Okay we’re one company again.

I mean it’s safe to say it was probably the last opportunity to do a protest on that scale even before these changes. Maybe they can still do “remove any post on wellthatsucks that isn’t a vacuum” type of change.

Probably old Reddit imploding will bring a few more this way, but safe to say that most people who left Reddit because it’s changed for the worse since 5-15 years ago have already left. Still, I have seen a few new users join Lemmy after TechLinked mentioned the site and a continuous trickle would be welcome.

On another note, hearing the “council of Reddit moderators” makes me imagine a cringeworthy meetup in someone’s basement.

In 2016: Maybe it was a funny protest vote “against the system”, for memes or whatever.

In 2020: Maybe voters were tricked into believing what he was doing was good or something. Jan 6 should have been a wakeup call.

In 2024: Just take a look at ANYTHING Trump has said, and what he has actually done about it and you should know that he is the least trustworthy guy you’ll ever meet. At this point it’s delusional. I could have excused it for the past 5 to 8 years but now I can’t.

Not even enticing people with “free premium currency” just for logging in could entice me to play an Ubisoft shooter.

I can already tell Walz is prepping for it like a football playbook. Thing is he knows most of Vance’s moves and his history, if Walz wanted to appeal to Trumpers he can always just put out the fact he was against Trump but just became a silicon valley billionaire-funded sock puppet to get the position within the MAGA party.

Yeah seems legit, “party of family values” - let’s rent some women for your photoshoot. I wonder if they consulted Mike Pence’s binders to find them.

We need stickers that say “ad paid for by Uber/Lyft instead of paying drivers and tax” to slap on these signs.

Your use of Liberation Serif will not go unnoticed.

President Biden deserves way more credit for getting what he’s done this term despite the GOP’s best efforts to hamstring it in every possible way.

That’s amazing, I’m so happy for her. Hot pot is delicious.

I think this idea is good. I remember seeing those domain names last year. At the time it seemed muddy and uncomfortable to me, since there was a whole scheme of Reddit ghost accounts posting, while I understood there were good intentions behind it, mirrored posts were flooding users’ All feed to the point I started blocking a bunch of subs, and many admins defederated.

If we can promote the community first approach where the domain is the space for discussion to be held and stored, with users connecting from across the Fediverse, this would be excellent, a good alternative to massive centralized Lemmy servers. Collective ownership would ensure preservation of content if one or more go offline.

This is an important first step in the right direction. Given the state of consumer law saying “anything goes if you agree to it” this may be the best initial way to start discouraging the practice of always online everything, helping preservation and being honest with consumers.

Ok thank you CBC for not bending over backwards for the Conservatives. This is a proper title.

I’m expecting PostMedia oligarchs to publish “Trudeau just barely squeaks by relentless motions of non-confidence”