“Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure — is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution,” the venue’s president, Richard Grenell, wrote in a letter to musician Chuck Redd that was shared with The Associated Press.

In the letter, Grenell said he would seek $1 million in damages “for this political stunt.”

Well done to the Kennedy Center for self-fucking themselves on future bookings with this stunt. Nothing says “come play at our venue!” like suing the talent.

It’s going to be Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, and some shitty country artists for them moving forward. Fun!

The Lemmy platform is just a tool to manage and delivery content. And I think it’s important to differentiate the software from those who manages the software. I can see there’s is a tacit connection and influence there. But unless they start baking inherently bias features into the software and skewing it, I don’t think it’s a big problem.

Also, because it’s an inherently federated platform, if people don’t like the opinions of those who run a specific instance, they can (with the inclination and determination) spin up their own instance and manage that the way they see fit. And that has happened quite a few times over the last couple of years.

So no, I don’t think it requires a fork really. Not unless the people managing the main branch lose interest and the software starts to wither on the vine, or they start corrupting it somehow. But that’s just my opinion.

In many ways a comparison between Potter and Trump’s father are even more accurate, given his birth were immoral slum lords.

I don’t think you need to use fancy art supplies necessarily. Some plain paper and a black biro world probably be fine if you put time and effort into coming up with something nice and heartfelt for them. It sounds like they care about you deeply, in which case something as unique as custom art would mean a bit. Maybe a little flip animation book or something.

My wife and I usually send a little gift card to each of our numerous nieces and nephews when they graduate highschool. One of our nieces is a talented artist, and she sent back a nice little picture she made using my colored chalks on a scrap of paper as a way of saying thanks. It really made our week.

I am 100% with you on both of those!

Like others here have said, they are a combination of get rich quick schemes and money laundering. They take the legalized gambling that is the stock markets to a whole new level. I also agree that the underlying concept of them is okay, but they’ve been exploited and hyped up to crazy levels.

If you want to play with crypto ‘investments’ and you have a bit of discretionary spending, you could try it. But just know it’s super-risky and built on a lot of bullshit. Personally I wouldn’t. I’ll stick to passively-managed index funds. They aren’t air-tight safe either, of course. But at least they are less prone to scams and risk.

“It’s not a bug, it’s an undocumented feature!” -GOP staffers who spent the last few weeks scrubbing conservative names from the files.

Good question. Maybe they are required to by the Americans with Disabilities Act?

What?! The administration run by a man who is famous for not paying people didn’t pay some people?!

Haha, of course not! That would be too logical and require extra work.

Is Reddit in the room with us right now?

Are we winning yet?! /s

I don’t really understand my parents and they don’t understand me. And I don’t really understand my kids and they don’t really understand me.

I feel like the only person who really understands me is my wife.

Mustard yellow?

Not a bad place to end up! Hopefully he can get there.

“that was a different London than you have today. Today you have people being stabbed in the ass or worse… it’s crazy,” he said.

Donald needs to stop believing all the bullshit Fox News and their ilk are spewing out. Because the only thing involving asses in this situation is Trump talking out of his (yet again).

So FIFA got rid of the bribery charge from this administration by bribing this administration with a pointless award. Cool, cool.

Hopefully he can get amnesty in another country, like Canada or New Zealand. Because this administration will continue to relentlessly go after the poor guy.

Ah okay. Thanks for the heads-up.

During the election campaign many Trump campaign rallies had sign-up tables for people to apply for a government job. Many younger gun-nut guys and proud boy types there were encouraged to sign up. And now there’s a bunch of them in ICE driving around terrorizing latinos and people of color. Hmm, write the coincidence, right?