...you mean a missile?

Friend is running an SE server that we are slowly whittling away at

There was a brief period after the us got it's independence where taxes were basically voluntary. As you can imagine, it was not a sustainable government

The dream scenario is the gop fracture kills off the republican party and the Democratic party splits in classic conservative democratic part and 'radical' left democratic party to fill the void.

It won't happen. But I can dream

Weve been generating more electricity from wind and solar power than from coal power through the heatwave

The Jank things I would expect to improve with time and popularity. A lot of things in lemmy have a 'slapped together prototype' feel to them, but with the lack of user base before all the reddit non-sense I can guess there wasnt much motivation to polish out the jank.