Uh… yeah?

ALL those stories are based on previous stories.

I’m really not sure what your point is.

Almost. Trump is the franchise. There’s another layer beneath him.

I really feel this is the key point that’s getting lost in this.

There is, thanks!

Here’s the link to the standard edition: www.amazon.com/dp/1698842120

There’s a lot of good info on Shavian at www.shavian.info, too.

This doesn’t tell you anything if they were all derived from earlier stories – which, it turns out, is actually the case. We have the earlier stories as proof, in many cases.

It’s a good thing trump isn’t dumb enough to think US debt is easily solved by printing more money, right?

Wouldn’t that be crazy?

(I really hope this isn’t something he can actually do. It shouldn’t be possible, but neither should a lot of things he’s done.)

No, because the existence of some uncontrollable elements doesn’t erase all the controllable elements.

This woman did something very wrong and controllable, which is why she’s in prison.

There’s no way these people are being treated humanely. It takes time to establish the infrastructure, train new staff, and do all the other things necessary to expand this much and still treat people humanely.

The conditions must be breaking so many laws, and most of these people haven’t been charged with a crime, right?

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You sound like a fungi. How are you at subspace travel?

Oh shit, it’s the guy!

Depends.

Are we talking TOS? That was the aspic era. in TNG, though, I can see a capri sun style meat bag with a straw…

lol, it can’t have helped Cuomo that trump endorsed him at the 11th hour.

This is hilarious. I hope trump keeps endorsing corpo libs. Like oh no, please stop. Don’t.

This should be actionable.

Seems like it’s not, though. Seems like fascism is just routine now in the US.

Even worse, many of them do this with illness, too. Because if you’re devout enough, god will heal you. If you’re not getting better, there’s obviously something wrong with your faith.

Jesus Christ.

Thank you.

Quick tip: going old-school by calling and faxing are more disruptive to their business than emailing. There are free, anonymous, online faxing services, you don’t need to have a machine.

This gave me Forwards from Grandma vibes, too, but it appears to be basically true – except that it means ‘I cry’ or ‘I shout’, not ‘I alarm’. And as a fun note, it’s been shortened over time from ‘to say boo to a goose’, which is fun.

From etymonline.com:

boo (interj.)

early 15c., boh, “A combination of consonant and vowel especially fitted to produce a loud and startling sound” [OED, which compares Latin boare, Greek boaein"to cry aloud, roar, shout"]; as an expression of disapproval, 1884 (n.); hence, the verb meaning “shower (someone) with boos” (1885).

Lemmy does have value, because the demographics are a bit more focussed here compared to much larger but more mainstream platforms, not to mention that larger platforms like reddit are already so bot-infested, they start to interfere with each other. It’s so trivial to make and deploy bots now with LLMs, I’d be very surprised if there weren’t bots here.

I think the reason we don’t notice them as much here is the quality of moderation tends to be higher (on average, so far).

I’m an ugly bag of mostly water.