Straps it in, gives it a good tug. “Yep that’s not going anywhere”

LDS has a ton of money. They already have some kind of deal with ancestry.com and own familysearch.com.

Church of Latter Day Saints will probably buy it. They believe they can convert the dead.

No I was talking about the literal definition. I just read The Republic by Plato. He uses the word a lot to describe democracy. I didn’t realize the word has become a political buzz word in modern usage.

I agree Orange man bad. I voted against him three times.

Same thing really. Demagogues are just the populists you don’t like.

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Ultimately I think words do matter. You need to get the base fired up if you want to win elections. Demagoguery is a necessary part of democracy.

I got into running when I was younger and messed up my foot lol. It’s hard. I do yoga now.

I’ve been using Bluesky. It has gotten a lot busier since Musk did the Nazi Salute

I think there is a difference between uprooting your entire life to move to a foreign country, and deleting an app

Wastewater Operator. We have an older gentleman at my job who refuses to use computers at all. We still do everything with paper and pen. Nothing is digitized.

It would be far easier to start a populist movement that reigned in corporations. The problem with revolutions is you never know who’s going to to end up on top at the end. Most likely the new regime will be just as bad as the old. I think what we actually need is more democracy. I like the idea of a democratic referendum that allows the people to force the government into action.

Can I get YouTube AdBlock and can I add custom filter lists?

I had a Nexus 10 they abandoned after two years. Made me never want to spend money on an android tablet again. Honestly I would probably switch to iOS if I could have ad blockers.

Yeah I think iPad’s are clearly better than any android tablet.

Pixels give you 5 years now same as iphone.

Isn’t threads a Twitter clone? Will it even effect Lemmy? For me personally I don’t use Mastodon, but I might if threads is successful. I use Twitter to follow famous people I like. If famous people move to the fediverse because of threads that will only make sites like Mastodon better in my opinion.

Yeah I think In a year or two this will be just as good as Reddit, maybe better. Personally I prefer Lemmy, it reminds me of Reddit before it gained mass appeal. The important thing is now there is a viable alternative to Reddit. Everytime Reddit does something controversial, this site will gain a wave of new users.

I embrace the downvotes. Sometimes the unpopular opinion happens to be right.

I work a union job, most people never leave. Usually the old guys retire in waves though. They’ve all known each other for decades and don’t want to have to have to train the next generation.