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TimeSquirrel

@ TimeSquirrel @kbin.melroy.org

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I don't know, I'm just a sqwrl.She/They 🏳️‍⚧️

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    Just like that

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  • Sounds like my hometown in Northern Virginia next to DC. There is quite a contrast between where I'm from and the rest of Virginia. I won't be surprised if NoVa becomes its own mini-state soon once they get tired of red Virginia's shit.

    On the main traffic artery running North to South, interstate 95, there used to be a giant-ass Confederate flag a couple years ago next to the highway being flown by some dude who had property there. Stood for years, sorta marking the point where you were entering no man's land just south of the town of Stafford.

  • Elwood Edwards, the man behind the voice of AOL's 'You've got mail' greeting, dies at 74

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  • Broadband had pretty much had taken over most places by the mid-2000s. That was 20 years ago. There are people who can drink now who were born after 9/11.

    What I'm trying to say is, yes, we're old. Dialup to younger folks is like what rotary phones were to us.

  • America will regret its decision to reelect Donald Trump

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  • almost looks like we could be entering the modern dark ages

    It was never guaranteed that society post-industrial revolution will eventually progress into a utopia. The past 150-200 years of relative decency and attempts at a democratic and fair civilization may have been an anomaly in human development. It may have been as short and fleeting as democratic Athens...followed by a couple thousand years of tyranny.

  • Democrats Will Win Again Once the Economy Tanks

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  • Suspending or terminating the Constitution by the federal government is definitely a good reason for secession if I've ever seen one. I hope California and other such states are thinking hard about their future here. That would be the last act of the United states.

  • Nintendo and The Pokémon Company seek injunction against Palworld plus fine and damages, developer says

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  • Software patents are fucked, ain't they? You can implement a thing using completely different code, algorithms, hell even programming languages/CPU architectures, and you'd still be infringing. There was some stupid fight over a simple slider UI element to unlock a phone a few years back.

  • Arab American Voters in Dearborn, Michigan, Heard Trump’s Case

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  • His son, Khaled, interrupted him with a smiling comment: “Trump will end the war!”

    No. No dude. You all have made a terrible mistake.

  • Newsom Moves Quickly to Counter Trump in California

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  • Please no, he's just another limousine liberal, up there with Hillary and the gang. I think people are done with that. Let's get some real revolutionaries in there.

  • RFK Jr. Says He Plans On Getting Rid Of 'Entire Departments' At FDA And CDC In Alarming Interview

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  • Snake oil is back on the menu, boys.

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  • That's great. That's a personal antecdote though. I was online, unsupervised at 14 years old back in the late 90s, and being into anime and furry shit, I definitely had more than a couple people online trying to roleplay sexual shit with me...a fourteen year old kid. Even though my account profiles stated so. Unfettered, unsupervised access is also not the solution. I'm basing my opinion on this on my own experience as well. There are a shitload of predators out there.

    I am not saying a blanket, hamfisted ban is the solution either. This is more complex than being a black and white problem. Where the fuck is everybody's parents? They should be the ones actively guiding their kid through online spaces, not the government. It was literally a slogan in the 90s to "ask your parents before accessing such and such website" on every ad having to do with the Internet. WTF happened.

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  • I don't care about the laws, I don't think parents should be allowing access to social media to their five year olds. Preteens maybe, with heavy supervision, yeah that's reasonable, but not toddlers for fuck's sake.

    The law can go fuck itself, sure, but parents need to step the fuck up in this day and age. There is no reason for a 1st grader to be posting to X/FB/whatever. They should be playing Legos, riding bikes, and digging holes in the playground dirt.

  • Donald Trump's election win could lead to porn being banned

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    To all american "leftists" who didn't vote for Kamala, FUCK YOU!

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  • We're not doing that.

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  • You wanna get a kiddy diddler messing with your kid? Because that's how you get a kiddy diddler messing with your kid.

    The same parent that handed the kid a device to be on social media can also take the kid out somewhere to socialize with other kids.

  • Democrats' Gen Z dream just died

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  • Half a century of sabre-rattling and proxy wars with another superpower with an opposing ideology will do that to a country. It's going to take a long time before "socialism" isn't a dirty word here, if ever. The Cold War fucked us, ideologically. We still cling to raw capitalism like the Bolsheviks are hiding around every corner. This stuff is still huge in living memory, my own included. As a kid spending my childhood under Ronald Reagan, I'd often hear about the Berlin wall and how it was being used to keep people from escaping to the West. Which is true, yes, but it was definitely also used as a propaganda tool here, a showcase of what "socialist thinking" can bring.

  • 'Did Joe Biden Drop Out' Google Searches Spike on Election Night, Suggesting Many Americans Had No Idea He Wasn't Running

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  • This is the country with the nukes, subs, carriers, and troops in everybody else's backyard.

    Europe and the rest of NATO, I think y'all need to figure your shit out without us. Make plans now.

  • American voters were asked about the economy. The overwhelming answer shows why they picked Trump over Harris

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  • I don't get it though. "My wages are shit, so I'll vote for the hyper capitalist oligarchs who will make sure my wages stay shit".

    Punching oneself in the face is not the cure for a bloody nose.

  • Opinion: Trump wins 2024 election. America needs to admit it's not 'better than this.'

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  • Trump wins Dearborn amid anger over Gaza and Lebanon; Jill Stein receives 18% of vote

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  • They took the pistol out of the person's hand that was pointed at them and replaced it with a bazooka. Good job. Very well thought out /s.

    How do you not get this?

  • Opinion: Trump wins 2024 election. America needs to admit it's not 'better than this.'

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  • Every cycle there is a fresh new batch of voters. I'm sure most of the people who voted for Obama the first two times didn't throw their vote in for Trump.

    I hate to say this, but from what my kid tells me, Trump is more popular at his middle school than Kamala, just because he's the goofy meme president and they aren't aware of much else. This is in the middle of Baltimore. So I imagine a lot of voters choose based on that alone. We never got any Biden or Kamala centipede memes. Just that lame, forced, "dark Brandon" shit. The Democrats have become the stuffy old boomer party in the eyes of the youth, even though that's almost the exact opposite. Their Internet game is weak as hell, and that's what matters these days.