If I don't want to have a life, can someone explain this to me? What is hexbear, and what happened?

What's a tankie, and what's wrong with the .ml instance? I just joined it because I read that it was hosted by the people who created Lemmy, so I figured it'd be the best and/or least likely to go down

They owned all the branches during trump's first term too. Republican voters won't learn, they're too stupid to understand

How does one come to work at both a cancer research institute and a game development company? That's quite a diverse set of skills

As a political science pedant, can you explain to me the difference between a democracy and a constitutional republic? I tried to Google "constitutional republic" but I just got a Wikipedia page that said they were the same thing.

Which I guess would fit, since republicans are absolute dumbfucks, but if there's actually some nuance there, I'm curious to know.

Thanks!

They're insanely tasty. Cook carefully on a nonstick pan and caramelize with a little bit of sugar and it's unreal. I've put it on French Vanilla ice cream with the chocolate sauce that turns into a shell, and I would literally punch babies if I could eat that every day without getting mega fat and having a heart attack

Yep. Brackets by me:

[Him and his wife] have been thinking a lot about [his] vote for Trump.

"I knew they were cracking down," he said. "I guess I didn’t know how it was going down."

He imagined the administration would target people who snuck over the border and weren't vetted

But his wife, "they know who she is and where she came from," he said. "They need to get the vetting done and not keep these people locked up. It doesn’t make any sense."

The dumbfuck doesn't show any contrition at all, he just says oops I didn't know. When this topic came up in the interview, he didn't admit any regret or that he put himself (and his wife) in this position - he just says that the government is wrong to do this to him/his wife, and that they should go after other illegals instead. What a piece of shit.

Other countries should trade for our national parks - like a month's worth of eggs for Yellowstone - and then they can protect them from trump selling parks off to oligarchs and corporations. It would be a win/win situation: Americans (and the entire world) retain access to the parks, and foreign nations can collect the money those parks bring.

On the contrary, I bet they feel eggcellent

Which parts do you disagree with? I'm not talking about websites selling your data after you access them through Firefox, I'm saying that now - with new definitions of "sale"/"sell" - that Firefox giving anybody any data for almost any reason can be legally construed as "selling". This isn't just the case for Firefox, it's the case for literally any web browser, and anything that can access the internet for any reason.

Yes, I thought about including the fact that Firefox does engage in ad-based revenue, and I suppose I should've, but Firefox is pretty upfront about this and allows users to opt out of targeted advertising - and this has been the case since long before this past week or two. These ads only appear on the "new tab" page, and only if you consent to seeing them. Anybody who's dropping Firefox for this recent controversy seens to be missing that. It's very possible (and personally I think it's likely) that nothing at all has changed from within Firefox.

NEVER

Any good recommendations?