I’m just hoping we actually get the Flint 4 in the US with all the weird router regulation bullshit now. The Flint 3 wasn’t really an upgrade from the Flint 2.

I’ve always said that the Democratic Party is like the movie The Producers - they’re trying to lose on purpose.

That explains a lot. The last package of Duracell batteries I bought all died before their expiration date. Store-brand is better than that.

It was astroturf from the very beginning. Is this actually a surprise to anyone?

I chose .ml specifically because I wanted to be on a Marxist-Leninist instance, because .ml is maintained by Lemmy’s developers, and because most instances aren’t defederated from it so I have access to whatever content I wish to see. I actually just browse local 99% of the time since I find the content here plenty engaging on its own. It reminds me of the old forum days, before modern social media watered everything down. I particularly value being more exposed here to the perspectives of the global south, and non-USians generally. USians aren’t a majority of the world, so we shouldn’t expect our views to be normative.

The correlation is certainly worth researching further, but I don’t think this is sufficient to prove causality.