I had a roommate in college that had a fucking Ronald Reagan action figure/doll thing…

He was in his 30s when Bernie first ran, and it got him to do a full 180 and get onboard with progressive policy across the board.

I’m from a red state and it really isn’t uncommon for people to have made that switch in 2016.

They can be talked into supporting all types of progressive policy at all stages of life, but that’s not as easy as getting them to vote for a conservative Dem like Biden or Kamala. And it makes voter outreach on a personal level almost impossible. I hated Clinton, Biden, and Kamala. I still held my nose and voted for them, but they just have too many flaws that I can’t defend when talking about politics.

And “they’re not a Republican” isn’t a bonus to someone already ok with voting Republican.

We know what happens when a progressive runs because of 08 Obama, they flip red states all over and carry majorities in the House and Senate

They used it all…

To the point it went extinct.

It wasn’t something people grew it was a wild plant. Started out common and all over the place, but Everytime someone saw it, they picked it

contraceptive and abortifacient.

The main reason it went extinct…

And what it was actually effective at. But the best way to convince a male dominated society that was important to make accessible was to convince them it made women horny.

When it just freed them of potentially serious consequences, like, a shit ton of women died a n childbirth until very recently. A one night stand could leave a women dead or shunned from her family with no source of income and a baby.

Reliable birth control would have been an absolute game changer.

During the four decades that passed between implementation and abolition, almost 63,000 Swedes were rendered infertile, in many cases in response to pressure from the state and sometimes as a result of outright compulsion. Furthermore, it was chiefly those regarded as “unproductive” who were the targets of that social policy.

So it sounds like the vast majority wasn’t compulsory…

But in a few rare cases it was, which were likely when the patient couldn’t legally give consent considering the subject.

Quick edit:

Was also in the 1930s when there was less options for non permanent birth control.

Fucking everyone would…

Even if some of them are wrong about who they think is a hypocrite, the majority of people think >50% of everyone else is a hypocrite

And people ask why Big Bang Theory had a laugh track…

If you put milk in your cereal,

I’m a real adult so I pour black coffee over a mug full of cereal…

Lucky charms specifically…

And technically the bulk bag of just the marshmallow balloons…

And a little pumpkin spice when it’s fall.

But other than those, straight black coffee.

How is this an opinion?

Lots of places play loosely with the terminology, but in general:

Refurbished: they wipes the dust off

Recertified: had an issue, was sent back to manufacturer who fixed it and checked everything else.

Past advice was always buy new, but drives last much longer than they used to. And lots of business replace to be safe when a drive could last another decade just fine.

The vast amount of Americans aren’t in that boat…

Every crazy person around me is carrying, all it takes these days is not driving exactly like how someone wants or unintentionally minor inconveniencing them for them to pull out a gun.

It’s not even staying out of “bad areas” anymore. It can (and does) happen everywhere. It just usually doesn’t make the news unless someone is shot in a nice area. A crazy person pulling a gun out might get media attention if it’s on video if not, cops don’t even care.

And zero moderation!

It’s basically 4chan and OP keeps begging people to join it

Edited:

Completely misunderstood the post

Because once the new year starts people look forward to new things, the giday lull at the end of the year is when people are feeling nostalgic about the best year and want to relive it.

Plus it creeps up because people want to beat each other. You might read the first list, not the tenth, even if includes data from the last two weeks of the year.

They put it out when it’ll get the most clicks/views.

The entire point of it to show anything could be…

You could say back in the day when you had to drive to a store to pick up a NES cartridge means your mom’s minivan can carry Internet traffic.

It was just a way to move a physical item containing data.

This isn’t an unpopular opinion…

Self help books are a joke and have been for like, 30 years now?

Everyone knows they don’t work, but the dumbest 1% is still a lot of potential buyers on highly marked up products like books.

What I dont get is most of the people shitting on it pay for premium on Spotify…

Google play music was awesome, and rolled into YouTube Music, which is decent.

It comes with YouTube Premium and at least used to cost similar.

No ads on YouTube was just an extra.

Well it’s good you realized this, fucking wild it took till 2024…

I almost had never seen people mocking smokers for example or even people who are addicted to drugs,

Baby steps I guess tho, both those groups are mocked too.

It sounds like there’s a community making fun of bad AI images.

If I had to guess it’s fuckai, I blocked it a long time ago tho, but they’ve got like 50 mods and when I got to block someone I keep seeing they mod there.

If you also did the common sense thing and blocked the community a long time ago, you wouldn’t see it.

There’s also a chance you dont federate with the same instances as OP.

I don’t know why, but lots of people tend to think everyone sees the same stuff on Lemmy, there’s a lot of variation

I did 12 years of compulsory school at a remedial level

Then you need to catch up…

The moment I became a legal adult with agency

Nope, each state is different but most are to early 20s, you didn’t have to leave if you were remedial.

Just nothing you say lines up, so I don’t think I’m gonna be able to help