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Charlie Kirk, who leads the pro-Trump youth group Turning Point USA, called it “the embodiment of the downfall of the American family.”

Fox News host Jesse Waters told viewers that his wife secretly voting for Harris would be tantamount to her “having an affair.”

Yeah! A woman's place is in the kitchen, not the voting booth! How dare they suggest that my wife not vote as I tell her to. /s

I used to live in a rickety flat that had a single old creaky staircase to get up to the front door, and a little grassy terrace area. Only I really ever used the grassy bit. The stairs had a pohutakawa tree growing essentially right through them, making walking up or down them hazardous. Especially when drunk.

I would not classify that period of my life to be "happy" by any stretch, but that tree signified being "home." It was like the guardian to my space. A physical barrier between me and the shitshow that was the rest of the world at that time. An almost literal gatekeeper (many people were too scared to walk up the stairs lol)

Added bonus, year end holidays, and the height of summer were vividly and brightly different thanks to the red needles they drop everywhere around that time.

It wasn't until the landlord told me he was planning to have it cut down, and I had an almost physical reaction that I realized how much I loved that tree. I managed to convince him not to have it cut down until after I'd left.

Both the tree and the flat are now gone. A multi million dollar new build is there now.

Yes, because it's so difficult to get a gun in America any other way /s

~~Developer bailed on it, and it got dumped on someone without the resources to carry on with it, so they've put it into maintenance mode until February next year IIRC? Then it will be gone.~~

~~Honestly I'm just glad they're actually doing the maintenance thing instead of just vanishing overnight, or just leaving everything in limbo, which seems to be a problem in this space.~~

None of that is correct. I was thinking of Firefish

I think you have enough people saying that this isn't normal, but...

You're in your mid 20's and you cannot bend over to tie your shoes!? How old is your GP? Sounds like they need to think about retirement... or a career change.

Also just want to second what someone else in here said: Get tested for celiacs disease

Is it just me, or is that ermine RIPPED?

The fediverse is too new and niche to say that with certainty.

The legality is likely untested and certainly not enforced by pubspec yet.

I don't know enough to speak to the technicalities with certainty, but my surface level understanding is that that is exactly how it works, and it is one of the known flaws of the fediverse as it currently exists.

You might be making a statement, but server B is just a node and, frankly, doesn't care. If you federate with them, you federate with everyone they federate with as well.

It's uncomfortably like an STD in that regard.

No. Threads federation should be treated the same way as a wolf joining a "sheep's right to not be eaten" meeting. Deeply unsettling, highly suspicious, and troubling. Facebook does NOT want the fediverse to succeed, and any claim to the contrary is fucking sus.