Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ties to white nationalist Nick Fuentes revealed
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    Both of these people suck. But downvoting because the article doesn’t really feel like political news? Seems very sensationalized.

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  • Fisher-Price unveils first-ever sensory line of toys for preschoolers
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    So happy to see some more toys in this space, it’s really pretty limited and there are some cool toys that can appeal to all kinds of kids.

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  • Road Design That Sends Cars Into Bike Lanes Demonstrated For The First Time In Michigan
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    Oh wow, that’s scary. I’m semi-rural too, thankfully I don’t hear much about accidents or incidents in roundabouts at least locally. I’m curious about areas where there are pedestrians and bikes that cross roundabouts too… where I’m at they are farther away from walkable/bikeable territory so it’s really just cars using them.

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    I’m going to assume positive intent and not the hostile tone “knock it off” reads like to me.

    True… roundabouts took some time but are pretty prevalent now in my region and people have gotten used to them. I don’t think the US shouldn’t try things, just pointing out a difference in culture and attitude towards cars & bikes in the US compared to Dutch. I also don’t think a college town is the right place to test something like this, maybe I’m wrong and discounting younger drivers too heavily.

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    I trust the Dutch with this design, bikes are treated as priority with a lot of respect. Not the same in the US… and in this test, I especially wouldn’t trust college town kids and local drivers who asked for (and got) additional parking on the same street.

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  • Help me Kbin-wan-kenobi. You're my only hope. Or...how can we end the enshittification of the World?
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    But it's just not the same. There are no apps. The format is not reader-friendly. Usability is way low.

    Hang in there, there’s an app Artemis coming in the next couple of weeks. I believe it’ll be a public beta so prob lots of QOL thinks to work out, but it’s coming.

    Separately, I am personally perfectly OK if kbin is not like the Reddit experience in terms of community and content. I prefer it that way.

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  • So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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    I can’t wait for Artemis!

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  • So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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    Preference: Kbin, because of the UI / UX

    But also: I have accounts on kbin, Lemmy and mastadon, my favorite part is switching when I need a different flavor of hot/active, or something’s going on with another server.

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  • So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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    Which UI?

    ETA: asking since people will see this across the fediverse, and may not realize where you posted this

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  • lemmy.world and .ml down
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    Love that I can hop over to kbin (or vice versa) when this stuff happens.

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  • Hundreds of thousands of vote-by-mail requests erased from Florida's system
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    Yeah I did some searching instead of hanging out on that one, super sketch

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  • Hundreds of thousands of vote-by-mail requests erased from Florida's system
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    TIL that NBC has a sequel.

    Also this bit helps understand a bit more why these requests are missing. Counties are simply following a very shitty new Desantis law.

    However, a new law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis requires counties to purge requests before every general election.

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  • Tl;dr has evolved to mean I just don’t want to bother please recap it for me
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    Yeah I could have worked on my own tl;dr phrasing a bit. Thanks for the comment!

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  • A gay couple ran a rural restaurant in peace. Then new neighbors arrived.
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    What we all know is these types of bigots are on the outs. Shame the fuck out of them, they don’t do anything positive for your communities. They are wildly thrashing (with seemingly powerful national voices). They will never completely go away but they are reacting to a change in the norms that’s been coming for decades.

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  • Tesla’s Texas factory has produced its first Cybertruck | Engadget
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    It’s hard to read anything about this guy and not think immediately… Fuck this dude. I know there are tens of thousands of employees behind him but still I just can’t help it.

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  • Vanilla BARELY in the lead at half time
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    Strawberry and Mint need to set aside their differences and take our ‘Nilla. Is prob what is going on in Reddit.

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  • Vanilla: 33.94% Strawberry: 32.66% Mint: 33.4%

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    Vanilla: 33.94% Strawberry: 32.66% Mint: 33.4%

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    Yeah I didn’t get my point across very well. I was thinking about folks that ignore the tl;dr

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  • Tl;dr has evolved to mean I just don’t want to bother please recap it for me
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    I’m probably being over idealistic. I like summaries and I look for those myself! It’s frustrating when there’s a post but the OP doesn’t provide any point of view. But I also see a lot of comments on kbin/lemmy/fedi that either ignore the summary or don’t bother to check out the context. I’m really interested in what people think I guess.

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  • GOP Congressman says trans people in the military could launch ICBM missiles on everyone
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    Right and I’m sure this asshat congressman does not.

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  • I need a quippy response to say it’s not that bad, I promise, google or click the link and scan it. Then let’s chat about what you think

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    I love the world vibe and tricolor, although the turf war grind is pretty boring and I miss ranked modes. Probably not a hot take.

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    https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/07/11/traverse-city-salon-refuses-transgender-queer-lgbtq/70402644007/

    A Traverse City hair salon is receiving backlash after announcing that their business will no longer serve transgender and queer people.

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    Seemed like emojis in posts / comments would get downvoted to oblivion on Reddit. I don’t see the same thing on Kbin (or other instances / services).

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    So I’m still getting the hang of the fediverse, and really enjoying my time here. This may be helpful for new people trying to figure out their setup. \-Pixelfed is your instagram: I joined Pixelfed.social since in general I am trying to see how the largest communities play out \-Kbin or lemmy is your Reddit. Again I joined kbin.social, but these communities all talk (or “federate”) to each other so it’s a matter of personal preference if you want to join the main .social or find an alt instance that feels more like you’re kinda stuff \-Mastadon is your twitter (I’m sure there are others, I’m just not a big twitter style person). Honestly I wasn’t a big twitter person anyway, but a cool thing about ActivityPub is you can see things from kbin, pixelfed, etc from any one of them. It’s not always clean but it’s pretty dam cool I wish all well in their journey across the threadiverse. It really does seem awesome even if it’s taking some time to build up with users and content. [\#fediverse](https://kbin.social/tag/fediverse)

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