I did, but I don’t care anymore.

…I’ll see myself out. :P

In all seriousness I just don’t know if I have it in me to keep paying attention to a trainwreck that I have no control over. I can only help my local community in some limited manner, anything outside of that all I can do is vote and yell at a “representative” that is bribed to not listen.

I appreciate the kind words! Empathy is proving to be increasingly more rare in society so I appreciate you wanting to express that.

That in pretty much every single sense of the word I’m an absolutely pathetic loser.

I didn’t think I’d ever be anything special, but I also didn’t think I’d be 38 and single for going on a decade, living in someone else’s garage, working in a factory in a dead end position with no degree and not an ounce of self worth to even presume to choose a direction.

10 year old me couldn’t wait to be an adult, but after seeing me I think 10 year old me would never want to grow up knowing what I’d eventually become lol

Man it’s weird how things happen. I was literally just listening to Bo Burnhams “funny feeling” this morning and he has a line about “Robert (Bob) Igers face” and I thought hmm I actually don’t get that, I don’t know who he is. Then I open Lemmy and see this lol

It was just meant to be a joke not some serious documentation of information meant to be spread as absolute fact. We’re in a comics group at the moment lol

“He’s got that totally awesome plan called Tarrifs™ that is supposed to make rainbows and sunshine come pouring out of my ass and we’ll all be happy again!”

…oh… Wait…

Tariffs are taxes, but they’re taxes for companies not individuals, and they’re only applied to importing, so they won’t affect me.

Typical Magoo (literally my dad in 2016): “you can’t tax business owners, they’re going to just make everything more expensive for us! They pass on the burden to us!”

Also Magoo: “Yay tarrifs! They are a tax on business but that won’t get passed on to me!”

The Magoo motto: Whatever words I need to use to suit my purpose I will use, to hell with reality.

First, in many states the electors are bound by law to support the candidate that wins the popular vote in their state. The penalties may vary, but the intent is clear: to make sure people realize it is against the law in that state

Honestly this is so stupid if I understand their reasoning for existing in the first place. Unless I’m misunderstanding they were supposed to exist literally for this exact election, where the people elected an absolute atrocity of a person and “our betters” would recognize that and vote against him.

We should just do away with it if we have no interest in utilizing them for their actual purposes.

It’s wild how some people’s fear is another person’s desire! All I want is to be completely forgotten and to disappear lol

Thanks for the advice, I’ll have to look into that! I know I’ll be somewhat limited with the seestar so it would be nice to have a good camera too.

Thanks! That image isn’t stacked, but I am just getting into learning about all of that. I think I’m having an issue with clarity (I’m just using my pixel 8 pro and a cheapo phone adapter hooked up to my telescope) so the stacking software I’ve tried isn’t picking up on most frames.

If I have to begrudgingly thank Trump for anything, it’s pushing me to buy a seestar s50 now before prices go up with the tarrifs so I’ll be getting much better images soon! Not for planets though lol It’s mostly for deep space objects.

I literally just got into astrophotography and found this out pretty recently. Still nice to see, but it does suck that I’ll have to wait a few years to get cooler pictures!

This is just with my phone and an 8" reflector telescope on a manual dobsonian base (touched up in gimp):

Lol lunch breaks. I wonder how soon it takes for that to be on the chopping block too. :(

I’m more of a bone apple tea myself, but I hear liber tea keeps the bugs away!

Never forget that these people all genuinely believe that what they are doing is right.

I do have to admit some hypocrisy in my statement. I’m just too angry to be completely fair lately I guess, but I too have said in the past that I strongly agree with the sentiment that “no one is the villain of their own story.” I do believe that to be true.

Except some people like Musk, I’m pretty sure he knows he’s the villain.

This has had me deeply concerned. Nazi Germany was stopped. Who says what would have happened if there was no one to stop them?

At the moment I don’t believe there is anyone capable of stopping us… :(

I appreciate the correction!

And-Shove-A-Lightbulb-Up-Your-Ass.

At least then they could say they had a bright idea!

…I’ll see myself out.

even his own voters.

SIGH …I hate having a sense of morality sometimes. It would be so much more satisfying to laugh at them… But… They’re people too. Shitty, hateful people, but still people…