So is lemmy just dead?

This post is the number 1 post when sorting by hot in the category ALL. It’s been here an hour with ZERO comments?

Every other post in my feed is similar. What is happening?

Interstellar Spaceship Owls are still waiting for their moment.

I just use TurboTax, which asks you questions in order to generate your return, and automatically integrates with most online accounts. There are free alternatives, too.

We know.

Boomers vote because they are already registered, know where to go, have transportation, have time to do it. They can go out the door on election day and just get it done.

Younger people, especially college age, aren’t registered in the states they live in, have no idea how to get registered, have to go through a much more complicated process of absentee voting, and have to do much of these things well in advance. They are less likely to have transportation, or a schedule that allows them to do it.

Oh, and most importantly, we haven’t given young people a candidate to get excited about in a general election in at least 40 years

If Democrats wanted to harness the power of young voters, they needed to give them Bernie.

Instead we got aptly-named Sleepy Joe.

Now we got what Boomers wanted: Bidenomics. Everyone claims Bidenomics is going well, but young people can’t afford their loans, healthcare, childcare, or rent. So what’s with all the cork-popping.

The fact is, were a nation in absolute crisis, and Democrat Boomers absolutely will not acknowledge it. They got their SUVs, stock portfolios, social security, houses, pensions, and medicare. So fuck everyone else.

Can. Should.

Strong agree.

Trump dying now would be terrible for the country. If we’re ever going to heal as a nation, the MAGA cult has to see this guy behind bars, and see the rest of the Republican leadership at long last disown him.

Remember when they owned us by refusing to vaccinate, and mask, and eventually breathe?

Not necessarily. You can put safeguards in place. For example our appeals courts don’t ever decide fact. They make rulings about the law.

You can also have bipartisan panels that oversee this, with extremely limited power unless they rule unanimously.

You also have congressional oversight adding another check.

If the original inception and scope of all these things is cleverly drafted, we could see a lot of new media pop up that is vastly superior to the crap we have now.

Absolutely. And a new version of the Fairness Doctrine, and guidelines that take into account everything we’ve learned since then about media malfeasance.

I think it would be great to publicly fund journalism. And make public funding contingent on whether news sources accurately represent the full substance of their source material, practiced evidence-based fact-checking, and had rules to prevent the selective application of either of those first two conditions, and by omission bias their audience.

Journalism is a public good and should be publicly funded.

1980s-90s RadioShack, yes.

They really went off the rails during their decline. They became a cellphone store, and not at all a good one… Their pricing on EVERYTHING was not only non-competitive, it was ludicrously expensive.

I think people are forgetting that Blockbuster video was the shitty megacorp that killed all the charming local, independent video stores.

Those stores had personality. I miss that experience.

Blockbuster felt corporate and bad.

Maybe your battery is a dud. I get through a day of very heavy use with 50% battery remaining.

Interesting.

I jumped into smartwatches back with the Asus Zenwatch. It was fun but terrible UI, terrible battery life, terrible processing speed. It spent must of its life in my dresser drawer.

A couple years ago, I got the Samsung watch 4, and it was a whole different story. Snappy. Great UI. Great battery life.

I haven’t seen any killer features that would make me upgrade or change brands to a new watch yet. UWB Is definitely cool, and I love to see competition, and I’m definitely open to upgrading, but even 2 generations on, in not seeing any new must-have killer features.

No need to get defensive just because of your buyer’s remorse.

Great. By all means, give him $17/yr. I will continue to laugh at you about it in here for FREE.

As I said, if you want to give your money away for no reason, more power to you. No judgement.