That’s nothing. I don’t know whether this link will function, but if not, image search for “Thompson’s pen is a sword Green Bay Press Gazette”. The article was far more infamous for the early edition of the paper that went out missing a space in the headline, but it describes the way that Gov. Tommy Thompson used to tear through budget bills with the line-item veto. He’d make hundreds and hundreds of changes, sometimes crafting entirely new law.

A broken system, indeed.

The Democrats had a majority in the Senate, a majority in the Assembly, and the governor’s office in 2009. Why did they not simply repeal the law?

(Republican) Gov. Tommy Thompson holds the record for 457 partial vetoes in 1991. He used to pin down budget bills and outright brutalize them with a pen. (Republican) Gov. Scott Walker used a partial veto to turn a one-year moratorium into a 1,000-year moratorium by changing Dec. 31, 2018 into Dec. 3018 in a budget bill. That is to say, this isn’t something that the GQP has never thought of (or done) before. They’re not ignorant, they’re just hypocrites.

Don’t they say that anyway, regardless of anything that Gov. Evers does or does not do? By that I mean that they used to say that all the time before this veto. The other side isn’t arguing in good faith, so why listen to them at all?

It will stand just fine, since this is not new or novel. There is a long, deep precedent behind it. For example, the previous governor used the line-item veto to extend program deadline from Dec. 31, 2018 to Dec. 3018. Back in the '80s and '90s, we used to talk about Gov. Thompson’s “Vanna White” veto, as he’d go through the budget bill striking individual letters and numbers. This is well-established under Wisconsin law as a power of the governor. The only reason there’s a kerfuffle about it this time is conservative media giving a platform to ghouls like Vos to whine about it in bad faith.

The Door Peninsula Astronomical Society shared this comment on their Facebook page:

There has been a lot of misleading and confusing articles floating around about the 13th I’ve seen. Sure, it could happen or it might not. Seems that they came up with that date since about a month ago there was an event, and with the sun rotating in about 27 day someone came up with July 13th as the date. This could happen, but only if there is a good CME (coronal mass ejection - or big solar “burp”) which also would have to be directed at the Earth. Sometime a glancing blow will give a show, but the good ones will be when we take a direct hit. A direct hit could possibly wreak havoc with satellites, electrical grids, and other things we depend on. But it would give a pretty cool show at least! When there is a CME, it’s detected in about 8 minutes (speed of light across ~93 million miles), but the charged particles that hit the Earth take 24 to 48-ish hours to reach us. So if the 13th is the date, we would need a good (and well directed) solar flare sometime around the 10th. We’ll just have to watch the sun and see if it comes true!

It doesn’t have to be a seismic shift. Geocities and Angelfire (still around. BTW) were corporate, they needed to make money, and when the free web hosting somehow failed to make money, the corporate owners shut them down.

The Fediverse is decentralized. It doesn’t have to get huge, or make a lot of money. It can carry on for as long as it has enough users to carry on. Heck, the biggest BBS that I used back in the day had 23 phone lines. Several hundred regular users, but only 23 could connect at a time. It even survived a few years into the Internet era.

That is to say that Lemmings don’t have to ‘win’ some sort of imaginary competition by taking all of the users from the other site. People used and enjoyed those bygone systems while they lasted, and we can do the same.

Lemmy feels so much like the early IRC or Fark days. In '93, if you were in a chat system, there was a damned good chance you were nerdy college student.

It’s possible that you were a horny college student, and then you’d be on ISCA BBS.

Have you ever heard of “two for flinching”? That was (I hope) a thing back in my school days, whereby another boy would mime a physical attack, like a punch to the face, or body slam. When you instinctually recoiled, the other boy would delightedly proclaim, “two for flinching,” and punch you hard in the arm, twice. The message was clear.

Men as a class certainly do get policed by boys, girls, and adults about affect, height, weight, voice change, et cetera. I say this not to dismiss or downplay what girls experience, but to say that certainly happens. In fact, I’m certain that it’s two sides of the same coin, and it all needs to go away.

Brandon Routh and Ryan Gosling are kinda regular guys? I took the OP’s meme as poking a little fun at the idea of unrealistic male body image in media, but now I’m thinking that there’s a real issue.

Seriously, a couple of square-jawed, six-foot-tall men with lustrous, full heads of hair, who have personal trainers and make working out a full-time job before a movie role? That’s realistic?