Ugh, and 10A somehow also hasn't been banned yet (and a quick check to his profile shows that he isn't just still making bad-faith arguments about "free speech" but is also still spreading xenophobia, fake news about the last election, and so on).

I'm out. Anyone know of a kbin (not lemmy) instance with reasonably good moderation?

Republicans have traditionally been the party of "regulation doesn't work, elect me and I can prove it to you".

Maybe Musk is just taking the logical counter-part to this "regulation doesn't work, put me in charge of a heavily regulated company and I can prove it to you".

The funny thing about religious fundamentalists is their beliefs frequently outright contradict the written word of their religion...

Trying to grant fetuses isn't rights isn't "supporting pregnancies", it's trying to restrict what pregnant people can do. The line to restricting abortion is direct and obvious. The fact that the sponsors of the bills have previously passed bills attempting to restrict abortion is a fact.

Supporting pregnancies would be doing things like passing more healthcare funding, better parental leave, literally just giving money to people with kids. That's not what this bill was about.

Olive oil?

You wouldn't live long, but compared to the other options you're listing...

This is just completely untrue. Musk founded SpaceX from nothing, there was no entity he acquired or invested in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_SpaceX

There are lots of legitimate reasons to dislike Musk, there's really no need to make up lies about him to justify having an extremely low opinion of him.

Not who you asked, but:

The reasonable countries in NATO have been burnt before by letting in countries with a long record of having reasonable governments, and Ukraine has had one for only a decade. They probably aren't that keen to be burnt again.

The unreasonable countries are... unreasonable... interested in sucking up to the dictators of the world. They don't do that by making NATO larger.

Meanwhile why NATO has a lot to offer Ukraine, Ukraine doesn't have a whole lot to offer NATO (that isn't already on offer by things like asking to join the EU). It's not like Turkey where they control a critical piece of territory.

Just wanted to chime in that I had the same experience. I was rather unsatisfied with the fact that a user I blocked could apparently see (while logged in) and reply to my comment at all.

If blocking someone is just license for them to make terrible replies to my comments without giving me the chance to answer them... that's unsatisfying.