I just hope this decisive result is in part because the republicans and Trump are SO bad that they have driven people to wake the fuck up and choose a more noble worldview.
I just hope it’s something other than fuel prices. I really hope that this result would be vaguely similar if the Iran war never happened. Having hope in people again would feel neat.
I can already hear my internalized Lemmy voice pointing out that we don’t win anything by choosing the friendly capitalists over the asshole capitalists, and that all the theater over corruption and bigotry are to distract from the only real war: the class war.
But I think you countered that best by saying it’s only a start.
Even if we assume that the US government will look like the best Europe has to offer within a few decades, it will take multiple steps to get there.
And you know what is definitely NOT a step in that direction? Giving the entire government to the fascist racist pedo bigot robber-baron party. We did that TWO years ago.
Your accurate yet unavoidably incomplete list made me reflect on how much the term “pro-life” is inaccurate while also being propaganda spin bullshit. It is literally the term for a policy of the death cult wing of american politics. I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but god damn.
I am a nature lover and animal lover. I come from a conservative redneck-ish family and one very strong correlation throughout my life has been that the more conservative somebody is, the more likely they are to openly brag about how much they would NOT spend money to help their own pets. Or even about how they would shoot them (usually a dog) if they ever did X.
But that is part of a much larger package deal where those people define themselves by the things they hate and activities they avoid.
I read that with a positive connotation, at least towards her.
That is, the virtue candidate is the most virtuous one. The best person. The one the world needs. The one you choose when you don’t want to game theory your way into your vote.
But they are not the person the world WANTS, presumably.
The negativity is cast more on the person choosing AOC, the way I initially read it. By choosing the virtue candidate, they are virtue signaling their purity of leftness or whatever. They refuse to compromise and join a coalition behind somebody electable. (again, I’m just discussing the term reflecting more positively on her in my interpretation – I am NOT arguing that she is in fact a virtue cabdidate or unelectable. )
Yeah, you can philosophically argue that we don’t “really” know anything you choose, since there is no way to prove with 100% certainty that the reader isn’t a brain in a jar or in the matrix or an actual simulation.
But for practical conversations about the real world, fuckin c’mon. The actual president of the actual country I live in is one of the most “accomplished” famous rapists on the planet. And if he isn’t, then he is the subject matter of the greatest psyop in human history.
I also like to use an alias to update like the previous comment described. I did it on Mint, and I still do it now on Debian even though it has a graphical update manager too.
I like it better this way, probably for readability when there are multiple updates, and definitely for the verbose progress indications. I do already use the terminal all the time too.
My alias does something like apt update, apt upgrade, flatpak update, and then a commented-out firmware manager update.
This seems like a good idea even from within the US, AND even if we imagine that this country was not giving the rest of the world reasons to keep their distance.
It seems to me it would make for a higher capacity, more resilient internet.
This is the most accurate thing I have read in a long time.
I’m convinced that there is a flaw deep down in the basics of our culture that essentially says that success and prosperity and a good modern life all mean that you don’t need to actually do shit for yourself. All you need to do is make enough money at the job where you presumably actually do productive work, then you can pay some person or some company to take care of all the other shit in life.
No doubt it’s a side effect of, if not a primary design feature of, our hyper-capitalist mindset. The ideal citizen is either working or consuming during all waking hours.
Sometimes accomplishing a goal in the way that’s the most expensive and takes the most personal effort is actually the best way to go about it, assuming you count “improves my life” in your ROI calculation and not just the dollars in and out.
At past employers it has seemed to me that most of what the internal recruiters do is look back and forth between resumes and job descriptions and throw away the resumes that don’t have enough bullet points matching.
And now we have AI that can do it even worse and even faster!
Senior engineer of embedded c/c++ here. I have referred to myself a few times on here as trying to live the superposition of the engineer and the goose farmer. Now that I’ve built a palace of a chicken coop and there are grown chickens running around with the dogs betweenn the play house and koi pond, my back yard is turning into a village from a Zelda game or something.
My power tools are newer and more numerous than my computing devices by far, lol. And it’s all higher end DeWalt stuff because using a good tool can be satisfying as hell. Plus I’ve already spent more money on wood, and the tools will last a long time.
The kernel (heh) of truth underpinning this meme is real and profound. If you spend all your time on screens and in cyberspace, if you go beyond touching grass and get your fingers in the dirt or build something physical, it could be extremely good for you. It works great for me!
I can see there being a large number of seemingly intelligent people with enough self-awareness to know that Trump gives no shits about them, but they are still totally fine with him because they are a bad person in some other way. I could see it being because they are both “alphas” and “game respect game,” and/or because (they think) he will produce some result they want.
Conservatives can be very “ends justify the means” which is why fascism is such a natural evolution. Hell even forgetting what I said about alpha douches… There are tired old ladies all over this country who would agree that Trump world not piss on them if they were on fire, but it is still an overwhelmingly good thing that he is president because Roe got overturned. I was born into a white catholic family, so I’m pretty sure I’m related to some.
This subthread feels like home.
The thing is, the US is so big that even once you account for the few biggest ones, all the rest of the states in the top 10 each have a population as big as something like Belgium, Portugal, Sweden, or Greece.
Those aren’t additional Frances, granted, but still pretty significant.
You’d need about 5 Frances just to cover the population, ignoring the area.
Even 5% per year sounds pretty reasonable, honestly.
If you are a billionaire within a lifetime, then the yearly growth of your assets has been so insane that a 5% headwind should not scare you, you big crybaby.
Or if you inherited it and don’t have a rapidly growth net worth… cry me a river.
I say we go with fake unintelligence, so that we can shorten it FU.
This situation reminds me of the realization at the end of Terminator 3. Only instead of “Skynet wasn’t hardware; it was software” the real-world version is going to be “it wasn’t intelligence; it was access. Access willfully given, in a thousand pieces, because it was convenient.”
At least with the internal thermometer you could plausibly use some kind of control loop. But all the recipes you get are going to assume a normal fixed-temperature oven anyway.
I think all the “AI” magic beyond that is a con, in the purest sense of the word. They are trying to get people’s money by building unearned confidence with bullshit.
I don’t think that is a gotcha once you consider the full context.
Voting blue is not an assertion that the Democrats are good.
The problem is that our culture is so rotten and voting system so broken that the other viable choice is nazi dictatorship on top of being even MORE capitalist and corrupt and destructive.