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I most certainly did not... but what do I know?! 🤔

It'll probably be the last one... but then again, I said that the last several times too. I'll try to enjoy it enough for both of us! 😄

Don't put "it" there...

One of those upvotes is likely mine:-).

Actually...

What if all I have is a stationary phone? Oh, forgot to say, it's in a box... and there's no actual phone.

Oh that's good to know, thanks. I wonder if it was something special for my instance, or perhaps using Blokada (I thought there were no ads in it, but I can't imagine running a phone without that:-), or something else entirely. If I hadn't moved to PieFed already I would have submitted a bug report. Perhaps I still should if it would help others.

But your scenario at least lessens the projected scenarios of who may be affected, which is good for the sake of making the Fediverse easier to use by more people:-).

Where I am at, it will be 80 °F (27 °C) in a couple days so... not quite here for me, not yet. But presumably one day! Maybe. Probably. Hopefully!? 😂

Eventually... maybe... we'll see I guess!? 😉

The video topic overall is thus, but within that is mention of how the "massively fatal pandemic in recent memory" has affected change, in the sense of doing some harm to people on disability, and thereby pointing to how some very foundational issues need to be worked out in order to even begin to make "real change in public health funding/policy/etc". In particular, there would need to be some stability in terms of governance. Which the end of that video actually points to quite a success story in terms of reaching that, especially illuminating how stagnation != stability, yet that can be accounted for and dealt with by lawmakers if they so choose.

The graphic was to forestall an objection as to why "bUt MuH gOvErNmEnT" is non-functional: it is non-functional b/c it was literally designed to be that way. Two examples that readily spring to mind are how the post office used to deliver mail in 3 days time, while now it can be weeks if your letter ever arrives at the destination at all, and how horrific taxes are to have to be filled out and filed - despite how the government mostly seems to know how much you owe regardless - due to heavy lobbying by the tax preparation software industry.

Those who know...