Fuck’s sake, who gave her a mic?!

Worth a try, I guess. But I know a lot of Mormons, and all of them are already firmly decided for Trump. So I don’t know how much if an impact this will make.

“B-but Putin publicly endorsed Harris! So these reports must be lies, because he clearly hates Trump and wants him to lose!” -Clueless MAGA cult members everywhere

What a weird thing to say.

Good luck with your new Lemmy community.

You’re clearly riled up about the feedback you’re getting from some people on Lemmy. And that’s understandable, given that I don’t think you are a Russian operative or anything like that. I think you are on this platform with the best of intentions.

But from the outside looking in, it seems like you are doubling down because of this reaction. You are seeing the community’s backlash against your contributions (be they right or wrong) and you seem to be thinking “well screw you guys, I’m going to just post even more of this content!” That’s your choice, of course.

But regardless of the sentiment, you are posting about Stein and other third party candidates a lot. In my opinion (and that of a fair few other people, it seems), some of the links you are sharing are decent but unpopular; and some of them are dubious.

I know you and I have had one or two recent back-and-forths on this topic. For what it’s worth, I haven’t downvoted your replies to me. You are entitled to your opinion, and to share it on this platform.

But I suggest taking a breath and relaxing a bit. I’m not saying that to be a dick or to be patronizing or to put you off from sharing links. And before you say something like “oh I’m already super relaxed!”, I’m not implying you are raging or wound-up behind a device. I just know from my own experience online that it can be easy to get lost in a kind of crusade to share your opinions and passions.

Unfortunately for the AI models, about 95% of LinkedIn posts are total shite with no value whatsoever.

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined Faceless Employee-Hating Corporation as a Senior wage Slave! I’m really looking forward to pouring my heart and soul into their profiteering endeavors over the next few years until their board lays me off so they can all afford another luxury yacht!

Yup. Bought some of their containers about 10 years ago and they were okay quality. Bought some more of supposedly the same product a few years ago and the materials had totally changed and they were far inferior to the older ones.

Ended up replacing most of them with snapware ones (which have Pyrex containers). Very happy.

The whole thing with Tupperware is interesting. Weren’t they basically using mostly an MLM approach to sell their products for years? Seems like their marketing and entire business model hasn’t progressed since around the year 2000.

Then Boss Ross and Fred Rogers rise from the grave briefly just to say that they both think Harris and Walz are really nice people and would do a good job.

I expect at least half the reason she publicly endorsed Harris was to seriously piss Trump and his followers off. That seems like something she’d really enjoy.

The Prestige. There are so many layers to that movie. I’ve watched it 4 or 5 times, and each time I notice new details.

Classic manipulative bully behavior. Antagonize and abuse a victim until they react with hostility. And then play the victim and implore for peace so the victim looks like the aggressor. Though Vance is such an incompetent sack of shit that it’s following nobody who’s not in that death cult.

Did I say you couldn’t? No.

My point (which I’m pretty sure you understood) is that you post incessantly about Jill Stein. So it’s painfully obvious that you like her.

Yeah, we can all tell.

That’s a damn good cast. Looks like a funny movie.

Great point about the battery size.

The Kremlin must have stopped sending out payments to them. The dirty money dries up (presumably due to sanctions?) so Meta finally gets a conscience.

That had one job to do, and they totally screwed it up!

Me too. My initial guess is it’s something along the lines of a Stuxnet infection of the targeted pagers, which had the operating systems do something that caused the batteries to overheat and explode.

But the fact that they all exploded at the same time is very interesting. You’d think that do ing that by overheating the batteries would see them explode at slightly different times due to local environmental variables.

ETA: As others have pointed out, this must be more than just a lithium ion battery overheating/exploding. I read somewhere that Hezbollah inserts a self-destruct explosive into their pagers in case of emergency. And it sounds like the Israeli intelligence forces probably hacked into their network and triggered the detonations. So it’s probably a combination of Hezbollah’s paranoia combined with old school hacking from Israel.

It’s interesting to me how Ackman was portrayed in the 2016 Betting On Zero documentary as some kind of social champion for the poor who wanted to end the exploitation of regular working/middle class Americans by Herbalife.

When watching that that depiction of Ackman rang hollow, no matter how hard they tried to push that narrative. It just seemed like a financial battle royale where both sides were scumbags. And now, of course, that’s been confirmed (yet again). He’s just another entitled ultra-rich asshole peddling bullshit for his own selfish, exploitative intentions.