@alice @schmalzkringel I don't think you should swap out cats, because cats are awesome.
But I would swap all dogs with foxes.

Well, OK, for a while lets have rats instead of cats. Or maybe ferrets. Oh yes, ferrets would be cool.

Or, for the lulz, let's go with Armadillos and Raccoons.

@dgar I started reading and was wondering half-way how you would get there.

@anderseknert that kinda is pretty funny, ngl.
But the way peeps treating it like a sentient being is kinda worrying. It’s not really the AI hallucinating here …

@gwynnion@mastodon.social I agree with you on this. Would this have prevented this situation right now? Yes. For a time. And then it would have hit anyway, just with much more force. The only way to prevent this would have been an actual left-wing candidate, presenting a strong and workable counter-point to the lies and violence of the right. Someone willing to fight on the field this battle is actually taking place, not trying to pose as a member of the attacking force. And Harris certainly wasn't this, just as Biden wasn't.

I am scared shitless watching our "moderate" conservatives stretching this rubber band to its limits as well. <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://labyrinth.zone/emoji/neofox/neofox_nervous_256.png" title=":neofox_nervous:" /> But in your case, the boiler was already running past capacity, needles punching against the limit and the thing giving off shrill whistles and death rattles. And the Dems were like "ehh, it's just being dramatic, it can take a few more hours running at full throttle."

@gwynnion Maybe "freaking out" is the thing to do right now. I don't see a "back to normal" even as an option here. It would be such an obvious lie. And that's another thing: This is what Democrats would probably try to go for should they re-take control. And it would be really bad too, because it would prevent all healing and just heat up the charge for the next attempt at open fascism.

They would need to openly go against their right-wing buddies, attack them even. And I really can't even imagine them doing that. They don't even use the limited power they have rn properly. There would have to be *a lot* of structural change within the party to make that happen.
It would also lull the conservative governments of other countries around the world into a false sense of security, just to have us fall on our collective asses again once the next madman takes the wheel, after the Dems don't manage to magically fix everything within 4 years. This cycle has to break first.

But on the other hand, more people getting killed and endangered really doesn't seem to be the answer here either. So ofc it would be good short-term if the regime lost power. It is a truly fucked-up situation, this whole thing, with only few (and unlikely) win states.

@gwynnion ngl, I don't even live in the US and I am scared about your next election cycle … and if it will even happen. Maybe Trump croaks before that – there is a realistic chance the rest is too chicken to attempt this without their demented supervillain in front of them as a shield (y'know, for "plausible denial" later, as if).

@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt the thing is, they still work. you don’t have to like them, heck, many are designed to be as obnoxious as possible, because it doesn’t matter if you hate them — you just need to connect the brand with a product once you think about it. If it did that, it worked. that’s all it’s supposed to do, that’s all the whole industry tries to achieve.

Hate works just as well as love, as long as it’s memorable. Even if you make an effort to avoid the product brand because of the ad, it still means you memorized it and someone else won’t have that fortitude or cares that much. If you think “tissues” and immediately think of Tempo (or whatever), it worked.
If you remember the ad but not what it advertised, it was accidental art but a failure, professionally speaking.

I’ve worked in this shit industry until it broke me. Never again.

And, yes, I refuse to browse the net without an adblocker. This whole system of monetization should be long dead.

@redsad @ShadowJonathan I stopped watching TV years ago because of ads (also because TV programs are shit). The TV in this house is for games and streaming and that’s pretty much it.