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@rnd Now I want to for a musical group called The Internet Jazz Orchestra, in which each player is their own director and produces their own mixes and musical selections from performances by a large number of players.
Or something.
(...and I'd be surprised if someone hasn't already used that name.)
Fellow U.S. folks, if you haven’t voted, please do so today. Fingers crossed.
@smp I see what you mean -- I've looked through all the settings-pages I could find and don't see anything which seems to affect the background color. I suspect the only option is to install one of those CSS-tweaking tools.
I can ask around for recommendations / suggestions if that would be helpful.
Our ballot is, like, a page and a quarter -- but about 2/3 of page one is Democrats running unopposed (mostly judges).
@cwebber Also there's no point in locking your house because someone will always be able to pick the lock or just break a window or something. And people will always drive badly no matter how carefully you test them, so there's no point in requiring driver's licenses.
(...and so on.)
The pattern I'm seeing with this kind of thing is that a conversation starts off with a specific context within which everything should be understood, but then someone comes along who missed the context (very easy to do) and assumes a different context based primarily off a single comment, and responds within that imagined context.
...like...
My take on this actual situation: It sucks that people like Talarico, whose worldview allows them to take counterfactual stances, are still often the best choice. We vote within the options we have, and work towards the options we want.
...but there's absolutely nothing wrong with being "rude" or even (gasp) "uncivil"* about those dogshit counterfactual stances when they come up -- because that is, in fact, what they are.
@toolbear @unsafelyhotboots @alisynthesis
* ...and under extreme circumstances, one may be left with no other recourse but to be... [pauses dramatically] ...divisive. 🙀 🤯
Just saw it again in another place:
We have to make "ai;dr" a thing in a similar way to "tl;dr".
RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/117547320489931264
as i have said numerous times:
when faced against fascists, you are either for or against fascism. there is no middle ground.
right now the Democratic Party has a fascist middle ground problem. and these wannabe fascists-lite get away with it, thanks to racism.
remember what Toni Morrison said about the twin hydra of #fascism and #racism?
30 years ago fascist democrats hid behind Mass Incarceration & The War On Drugs. today it’s #zionism and genocidal, ethnonationalist racism.
@androcat ...but they were still ok with it, because they knew he was really pretty ancient (I mean, the TV series started in the 1970s, 'nuff said) -- so any parts that weren't replaced with bionics would be increasingly fossil-powered.
@riley Only if you want advanced Opposable Thumb technology which enables opening your own food-cans (warning: may lead to socialism),
I hope when you vote this year that you vote for reason & compassion, science & literacy, a new age of luxury blimp travel, tea drinking badgers in tweed suits, and the deep magic of the old forest gods.
@JennyFluff NaNeverMindMo
(the month when amateur writers everywhere compete to see who can discard the most ideas)
@riley I wonder if he was friends with Silhouette Man (famous for his many appearances on pedestrian crosswalks, warning signs, etc.)...
@amcooper Sadly, that is probably the way they think. Here's hoping that "leadership" all gets voted out ASAP.
@hellomiakoda Your scowly cantankerousness is my favorite part, though! What's wrong with people. Tsk.