How do you plan on destroying religion?

What’s the solution to the problem?

Abuse, yes… sexual abuse, no. Psychological abuse is a better fit for this.

You have evidence that I’m wrong, correct?

LMAO… “bribes”… no, I have no evidence of “bribes.” I don’t have any evidence of a financial incentive either, as very clearly evident by my phrasing starting with “I bet…” I’m simply relying on 40 years of not having my head completely up my own ass to make some inferences about things, and if I’m wrong, then I’m wrong. I think you’re being intentionally obtuse. None of this really is impactful, but you sure seem to have an agenda.

I wouldn’t call that a good reason to team up with Meta, but I would call it a plausible. Everyone does not want to federate with the largest social media company in the world, I can promise you that. If you like federation, you’d probably like it to not be engulfed by megacorps (unless you stand to profit from it).

I think I’ve logged in for a collective 15 minutes. I deleted it about 45 minutes ago.

Are you truly incapable of acknowledging that large bags of money motivate people to do unpopular things sometimes?

I really don’t care about Mastadon as I haven’t used it much, but I couldn’t really think of a good reason for federating with Meta.

Yea I was really confused to read that. I’m on Kbin / Lemmy significantly more than I log in to Mastadon (I think I’ve opened that app 5 times in the past year), so now I guess I’ll just delete Mastadon.

I bet he’s getting a big bag of money.

I was playing it last night on steam. I needed a new GPU recently and it came with a code to download it. 🤷‍♂️

I’m a native and happy to provide any information that might help in deciding where to land in the state.

That’s awesome! Thanks for the offer!

I think I’ve mostly ruled out the east half of the state. Olympia was what I had in mind after doing about 3 minutes worth of research. My approach to moving across the country is rather clueless.

I think the primary consideration for me is going to be cost of living, so that’s likely going to rule out Seattle and the surrounding area (based on my assumptions). Maybe not though… 🤷‍♂️For context, the median household income where I currently live is ~ $60k. When I looked up Seattle, it’s just shy of double that.

Politically - I find the Democratic party to be a bit too conservative for my personal preferences.

I think I’ll likely be able to retain my current job (which I like) when I move, but if for some reason that goes south, I also don’t want to necessarily be a small fish in the huge pond. I work in IT, and I suspect that I’d be in the older half of the “people working in IT” population.

I’m a native and happy to provide any information that might help in deciding where to land in the state.

Oooo that’s awesome! Thank you very much! I will send you a message.

One cool thing for me (as a current FL resident) is that my cost of living has gone up so much that it’s motivated me to move to WA. I’ve been kinda lingering around Central FL for several years, not really sure where to go because everywhere else would be more expensive by comparison. Now I’ve finally found that motivation! Thanks Meatball! My homeowners insurance has gone from $900 a year to $4200, and I needed to buy a new roof to get that insurance to the tune of $10k. The old roof was only 12 years old. Insurance companies won’t cover a damn thing if your roof is > 10 years old in FL now.

If I’m going to spend all this money on living expenses I may as well do that somewhere better.

Because the folks doing the work aren’t the folks paying the bills. You’ve gotta invade some country and exploit the shit out of them for several years if you expect to have enough money to have a voice!

Only if people continue to give money to Adobe.

That’s the reason I want a mega thread. I want to be able to scroll past anything Elon. Putting it in one spot is ideal.

Hah… yep, ASUS and Gigabyte (also shit).

I remember having an ASUS board for about 6 months back in the mid 2000’s before it blew up. Talked to some people back then and it was a relatively common experience. I’m not sure how ASUS has been doing well as a company for the past 20 years, when it seems like all their stuff blows up.

I’ve been MSI all the way since then and it’s worked out swimmingly.

I’d have to get a new email account for junk.

It means we’re about to see a lot more people asking for help with Linux.

It sounds like your dating the wrong women. Why do you need to add someone that’s going to make judgements of you based on a hobby? Date people that improve your life; not make you question it.

Is this a Deadpool 3 leak?