Do they self-identity as Jews?

Their actual name is “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints” and they self-identity as Christian.

They don’t call themselves “the Church of Joseph Smith of Latter-Day Saints”.

Jehova’s Witneses and Mormons are both Christian. Each would argue they are the TRUE Christians and all the others are misguided. They worship Christ. Jehova’s Witnesses actually started as a Bible study group.

Yeah my problem is not that they offer smaller sizes, but when they try to deceive consumers about how much they are getting in order to increase the unit price. Calling attention to it the way that this pizza box does almost feels honest in comparison to what most companies do.

Once again, a bunch of bots, trolls, astroturfers anonymously posting and maybe claiming to be progressive on the internet. If you fell for it that’s on you.

I suspect these people are astroturfers purposefully trying to stay in the way.

You think some British radio host who isn’t big enough to have his own Wikipedia page was a significant influence on US elections? I can’t even find enough info on this dude to determine what his political views are and whether he self-identities as “progressive” or not.

Every progressive politician in the US was trying to get as many anti-Trump votes as possible.

Are these progressives who told people not to vote for Biden or Harris in the room with us right now?

A lot of Trump’s moves away from green energy and back to fossil fuels arguably hurt Musk. He specifically mentioned in his inauguration that he will ensure anyone can buy whatever kind of car they want: meaning he wants to continue to support ICE vehicles.

Yeah I kind of expect that. I had messed around with Lemmy before, but I fully moved here when the RedditAPI drama happened and ended 3rd party apps. Lemmy has improved over time, but it’s still nowhere near the amount of content Reddit used to provide.

Same thing with Pixelfed vs Instagram/TikTok.

The only solution is to keep using it. Maybe try my own hand at making content on occasion.

I really want to try Loops but I’ve never been able to successfully create an account.

Enter the username, email, password, validate your humanity, and then get a message to check my email for new instructions. The email never comes so I’m stuck. Can’t log in, can’t use the “forgot my password” function.

I can’t find that Sonos has ever made hearing aides. They make wifi-based “smart” speaker and, more recently, headphones that are part of that ecosystem.

1. They’re way overpriced for what they are, similar to the Apple model. Just charging really high prices and trying to create an aura of “premiumness” to justify it. Not the most egregious offense, but annoying

2. The app launch. The app now takes forever to open and I often have to retry opening it around 4-6 times anytime I want to do anything. Considering these are speakers, and that often means that I want to pause, play, change the track, or change the volume. Those are all usually functions where having to wait 60-300 seconds is an unbearably long time, especially when you need to lower the volume. Worst of all, I have my living room TV going into the Line In on one of the speakers, and the entire section of the app called “Sources” where I can select that just disappears entirely ~80% of the time. So if I go to watch TV or play videogames or whatever and my wife was listening to music earlier now I’ve got to wait several minutes of reloading the app to be able to just use the direct line-in.

They also removed the feature to play audio files that were on the controlling device. Other users have complained of other features like alarms that got removed or broken, though I didn’t use those.

The old version of the app was not particularly great, but the replacement was a clear downgrade and made previously purchased hardware worse.

3. A bit ago they had another controversy where you could “retire” of devices you didn’t want anymore. What did this feature do? Why, it just bricked the device and turned it into e-waste no one can ever use again! What could go wrong?

4. More of my complaint for my specific speakers because I don’t know if they’re whole lineup is like this, but really annoying that only 1 of my 2 speakers even has a line-in, and neither of them have Bluetooth options. I’ve got to just hope everything i want to listen to is on a specific supported service, or find a way to get the audio to play on the TV if that isn’t in use.

They were gifts from my in-laws. I was kind of skeptical about it but they weren’t too bad until the app change. I was even considering maybe getting another speaker to fill out the house before all this. But now I’m looking to get out of the ecosystem- maybe just build my own home theater speaker system for the living room and get a plain old Bluetooth speaker for the bedroom.

I rewatched the first one a couple years ago and thought it had aged pretty well. I don’t remember any of the jokes being mean or really punching down on anyone.

I could be forgetting something and I haven’t watched the sequels since they first came out though. My guess would be that Fat Bastard is probably the part of the franchise that aged the worst. Even when he was introduced the whole joke was “hey it’s a fat guy!”, which was one of the weaker jokes.

I also watched The Pentaverate when it came out and thought that was great. It’s a Netflix miniseries sith very similar humor where Mike Meyers plays like half the characters. It’s a parody of conspiracy theories like the Da Vinci Code, not spy movies, but still pretty good.

In my experience the people who describe themselves as “sex addicts” are people who were caught hurting their loved ones and trying to excuse their behavior, either socially (cheaters) or legally (rapists).

Somewhat adjacent, I have heard of people claiming “sex addiction” to pressure their partners into more sex than they would otherwise want. Apparently there’s a whole section of feminists who believe that “blue balls” is completely made up by men, because it’s really common for men to claim blue balls is a more serious issue than it is. I’ve had to explain to multiple women in my life that it is both real and just a minor inconvenience.

You’re not wrong about the religious zealots, I just wanted to bring up that there’s a TON of sex disinformation being spread by different people for different goals. And “sex addiction” is particularly ripe for such disinformation.

I agree. Throughout the whole years if I want something, I buy it. If I don’t want something, I don’t.

But all of a sudden around November or December I need to hold off for a bit because someone else wants to buy it for me instead. And it’s usually not quite the same thing that I wanted- I don’t want to be rude, but I would have rather just done the research on my own and made my own purchase.

Or worse, I get gifted stuff I have absolutely no interest in. So I need to make space in my house for it and remember to pretend like I use it on occasions when I see that person for a couple of years until we are past the statue of limitations on getting rid of it.

Just more plastic and emissions. More money going to big corporations. It’s an inefficient purchasing process propped up for the sake of the emotions of irrational people. And corporations like Hallmark seem to exist specifically to amplify these traditions for the benefit of modern shareholders.

Trick question: none of the stations are worth listening to.

This happens again and again and again. At every level, public and private.

The answer is not “filter these people out of these jobs” because very often they have no prior records. Or sometimes someone gets phished. The answer is to stop enabling this in the first place.

I was having a hard time imagining which company this could be. Not that I’m a fan of Verizon or Comcast, but I think they know what side their bread is buttered on. Which one wouldn’t?

Then I remembered Starlink exists.

I said “distanced”. I never said he’s never used that word ever.

Looking back at the original link I posted, you can see the reality of the situation. His main sponsored bills are primarily focused on Agriculture. This publication grants his voting record an “ideology” score right in the middle of the Democratic party. He’s not the face of Medicare for All or UBI or the Green New Deal. He’s an ally to “progressives” and shares a lot of stances with them, but deviates in some areas like supporting fracking. So depending on the context he might pccasionally get called one or refer to himself as one because that’s the easier sound bite than digging into the details.

If saying that he doesn’t consider himself a “progressive” is going to help middle aged working class men vote in their own best interests for a change, i don’t really care. The words we use to describe politicians change almost every election cycle.

Pointing out whether he calls himself a progressive or not is just as meaningless as pointing out that Lincoln was a Republican and the Democrats were pro-slavery in the 1800’s. Or like saying the Nazi’s were socialists because of their name.