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  • Each summer evening, from dusk till about an hour after sunset, my yard is full of them. By late afternoon, if you look along and underside of folliage adjacent to open areas you can find them ready for the evening. They have a little dance, the steps of which aren't followed too closely. Let's see if I can remember it. They stay about 40 cm of the ground and fly up to about 2 meters up. After reaching the apex of their flight they flash their butts, and then proceed downward and slightly forward in a jerking stair-step pattern. The entire time flashing a repeated sequence of flashes the same color as a yellow glow stick. They so this from late spring through summer.

  • I have, I received texts from friends and family about this protest that don't even know what the fediverse is.

  • Doing boycotts like this one is putting in time and having targets. No one thinks a single day of boycotting will change the world, it's part of the process.

    One thing that definitely won't get results is listening to people like you who shit on every effort to get a movement going, which is happening. There will be a next step, and another, and maybe one of those steps could be boycotting a single company or product like the Montgomery bus boycott or Pepsi during apartheid.

    Be constructive and not negative.

  • WARP SPEED DONT RAINBOW READ ME!

  • It scares me how many people here don't know the absolute basics of how the government works.

  • I'm pretty sure I remember them doing just that more than once. I agree it should be done but we shouldn't pretend it's just a box to check to keep the base awake. It's quickly forgotten.

  • It was proposed almost immediately after CU but then, just as now, they never had the support to get it done.

  • A bill can't overturn a SCOTUS ruling on the constitutionality of something. That's why they are proposing an ammendment.

  • A constitutional ammendment takes 2/3s of both chambers and 3/4 of the states. It also takes years. How' the hell were they going to do that in those brief windows with slim majorities?

  • There was less than a 0٪ chance that they could have passed a constitutional ammendment in 2021.

  • Even then they never had the support to pass this or any constitutional ammendment.

  • Agreed, to a certain extent. The internet was a much better place when it took at least a little effort and knowledge to join in and participate. Barriers can be a good thing.

  • Loops definitely needs more features but it's early. I've enjoyed it.

  • Just getting audio period was a pain in the ass for me in the early to mid 2000's

  • Y'all really don't like to have fun huh?

    My favorite is the one where the budweiser clydesdales play football and a play is under review. The refs are zebras. A dude says to another dude "that refs is a jack ass", and the other dude says "I believe that's a zebra."

    Edit: this one https://youtu.be/NsWKvtButwo

  • Oh thank god, gmtfo of the Cenozoic.

  • Less than a week in and I want to scream. Not sure how I'll make it.

  • Yes I know Trump will get rid of disloyal public servants. He'll do thst because he is a tyrant. Public servants do not have to do shit if it's against the constitution. In fact, it's their duty to refuse unlawful orders even if it means termination.

    The Republican party is at war with the American people and the Constitution. They and Trump legally have positions of power but they have proven by past actions and statements about their future actions that they have no intention of following the constitution, or even basic law. Anyone who supports them supports their illegal and un-American agenda. They are not different than collaborators with any other fascist party in history.

  • No, that's not how my logic works. Bureaucrats, technocrats, and representatives are serving the Constitution and the American people. They are not serving Trump. Snoop doesn't have to perform at the inauguration. He chose to work for Trump.

    Trump is a traitor, rapist, authoritarian, un-American, anti-democratic, an oligarch, a wannabe gangster, conman, antichrist, and an all around piece of shit.

    Anyone who tolerates him is also a piece of shit and an enemy of all free people.