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These look great! Did you follow a particular recipe?

I have one of these, and I really love it honestly. I mostly love that it folds so it actually fits in my pocket. I have tiny hands, and tiny emo girl skinny jean pockets, so the super long flat phone is terrible for me and it fits nicely. The folding screen itself is cool too, since I can prop it up or scroll with it at an angle if I want to. I can set it like a little old school makeup compact and have the top part of the screen be YouTube or something. My model has a screen on the cover as well, and that I can use Spotify directly on and skip songs in a Playlist, pause music etc. Which is nice when I'm on my walk outside, as I don't even need to unlock my phone or open it to navigate.

I put a screen protector on it, the screen protector does wear out eventually but I'm going on two years of use with no issues on the underlying screen, just replaced the peel and stick screen protector once.

That said, I am rethinking my device use and consumption in general. I'll get another screen protector when I need it, would love to get several more years of use out of it if I can.

This drastically depends on what part of Oregon you're moving to (and FYI outside of the city areas is likely very similar to your red state in many ways) but around PDX there are a lot of small hobby stores. Also not my area of expertise but looks like there is URS Electronics and Surplus Gizmos that might fit what you're looking for.

I'm sure I've read this before but I cannot remember the source - would you mind sharing where it's from?

Honestly, even if they've been personally harmed... They just move the goalposts. "He's kidding! Oh he isn't kidding? Well, it won't hurt/affect me! Oh it did? Well it won't be for long. Oh it's permanent? We'll this is necessary for it to get better. It didn't get better? Democrat lies, I feel fine. I no longer feel fine? It's the democrats fault!"

Truest thing trump ever said was that he could shoot someone on fifth Avenue and not lose any votes. This guy could march into their home, murder their family and burn down the house right in front of their eyes and they'd still be saying "if only the Fuhrer knew".

Mysteriously, Twitter also was miraculously "valued" at what he bought it for this week... All the same tricks everywhere.

I actually just finished reading this last night. Very captivating read, you do really get a feel for the sheer entitlement to wealth and power some of these assholes have. Not surprised they tried to stop her from publishing this, it's pretty damning to Facebooks PR lines over the years and pretty much confirms what (most folks I know) all thought - that they lied, on purpose, quite often, including to congress, about what they were doing. Not to mention the utterly horrendous personal behavior, including sexual harassment allegations (again, sadly not that shocking to me, but shudder inducing to read about nonetheless).

That said, I highly doubt anyone will see consequences from this.

I'll have to see if I can find the video again, but I saw someone do a really interesting analysis on why this happens. The central idea was that it's due to a whole ideology based on conformity. Everyone converges on the same "look" not necessarily because they even like it (though many of the choices do clearly represent a white cishet ideal) but because they hate the "alternatives". For example, "creative" hair colors and makeup are things people do to try to be more individual, which is why these women paint those choices as "tacky" or marks of being an "evil lib" etc. Their fashion choices are self-limiting by design.

Okay, obvious queerphobia/freedom of expression issues and "how are these malignant societal tumors still on the debunked litter box thing" aside... Do none of these idiots remember that children often role play as animals because they have imagination and they are children? Have they even met children?!? Pretty sure "horse firefighters" or "we're all evil cats today" etc. are a common type of game played at recess or whatever. They have nothing to do with being a furry and everything to do with just regular human development? Are these people really paranoid and threatened by childhood make-believe games?

Vaguely, yes, in terms of general inspiration, since I think this study was very popular in the cultural zeitgeist and also inspired terminology in other areas (like the whole "alpha males" thing) but in terms of "fandom history" the source of the omegaverse and it's subsequent meteoric rise as a fanfic trope is generally considered to be the Supernatural fandom.

I found a witchy memes community, which does have a similar feel, but would love to see WVP come to Lemmy. After the last reddit fiasco a few years ago they spun up a discord very quickly (honestly terrible format, but it did gain a lot of traction). A fair amount of users would probably join to give Lemmy a go if they opened up a community here.

Immediately went to bookshop.org and they were promoting this book with an ad and a coupon. Hope to see the Streisand effect in action here.

Seems like it prevents the author from promoting the work but doesn't do anything to the publishing company?