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[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Joe Pera

Todd Barry

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Good idea, link the community and post here, too, thanks.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

I think you may have to start a new community for this, I'm genuinely not sure where a story like this might go. Excellent, though. Very interested to find out more.

The "Casual conservation" community is probably too casual for this. Maybe creating something like /c/WildPersonalStories ?

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Agreed, of course. Was just pointing out that such a thing did exist. Charities are not the most effective way to handle such issues, absolutely.

Charities absolutely rely on things like public relations and advertising campaigns to raise awareness that they exist and/or need funding. It leaves everyone at the mercy of which charity is "most popular" and if yours isn't very popular, you could see it disappear. It also means a significant portion of the budget is spent on things that don't actually address the real problem, which is hunger.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Wake me when a third party is viable in the US. Unfortunately, as it stands, with First Past the Post voting, third parties currently do nothing but split the vote. That's purposeful, too.

There's unfortunately just so much that has to change for this country to move forward. There isn't going to be a revolution, I agree with that, but it's also not going to get better by trying to work within the status quo.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I didn't say I wasn't going to vote. I was simply pointing out that telling people to "vote harder" isn't working, and for very real and visceral reasons such as risking employment and ability to care for oneself. You can't act like real reasons that prevent people from being able to participate aren't part of the conversation.

Democrats are still the better choice, but I really don't like people who could do more choosing not to because it's easier to rake in money and sit on their hands while the Republicans act the fool, and then acting like it's the voting public's fault. That's some kind of abuse. "I know we don't treat you very well, but the other guys will actually really hurt you." It feels like a threat. "We'll let them hurt you if you don't do enough for us."

We need a real leftist party in the US. Yet the top Democrats think we need a Republican party. They think we need a lunatic far right fringe always pushing us to the brink of authoritarianism. Why the fuck would they think we need that instead of a true leftist party? Because they like how much money they can make off how the game currently works. It is a game to them.

"I will say this—you'll be shocked, probably—I think the country needs a strong Republican Party [like] we need a strong Democratic Party...but this is not it," Pelosi said. "It isn't our judgment about what it should be. It's their judgment, but it's a missed opportunity for America."

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 60 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

I dunno, I always thought it was meant to mimic organics.

"Cable management" inside the human body is horrendous. So it felt like in the mixing of machine and biology, the machines had to become more biological in the way they worked to function properly in tandem with the Borg biology.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I'm sure everybody working three jobs gets a day off on election day and enough spare time to go to all local political functions. /s

Dude over 60% of the US lives paycheck to paycheck. Maybe stop blaming them for lack of participation when most states make it outright difficult to participate. Missing work means risking losing their job (At-Will Employment ensures this, just like it makes discrimination legal. "We didn't fire you cuz you're gay, it's because you missed a spot/were three minutes late one time."), and if they're working paycheck to paycheck, it also means being unable to pay rent or bills. Risking homelessness just to fucking vote. That's what you're asking of over 60% of US citizens.

Young people make the least money and have to work the most to get ahead, but we are always blaming them for not showing up on election day. Sorry they were at fucking work instead of risking homelessness. Because ending up homeless will really help them if the Democrats win, you know how good Dems are at solving homelessness! /s

They kick homeless people out of city centers in Democrat cities, too. Because businesses making money matters more than a humanitarian crisis I guess.

Most people don't have the time nor the money to be involved and that is on purpose.

Get outta here with this "you just gotta vote harder" BS. Political participation is stacked against regular citizens purposefully.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Souls-like, but not as difficult.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gonna be real difficult to recover from if you lose the device with your passkeys on it or that device is broken.

Couple that with eSIMs and you are looking at a lot of headaches for the non-tech savvy.

Supposedly you can use a security key but they are pushing biometrics, yikes!

Wait until passkeys and all their issues have been solved by the major players.

Don't lock yourself out of your digital life chasing something flashy and new.

 

EDIT: Downvotes with no comments. Shocker. Guess it's hard to back up your opinions, huh? I guess some people are totes fine with war criminals walking free?


What it says on the tin:

Obama told the nation that we "needed to look forward, not backward" when it came to prosecuting war criminals George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

He would end up legalizing and codifying a lot of the worst excesses of the Bush administration.

His actions of letting war criminals walk without any consideration of what they had done literally set the stage for Donald Trump being treated with kid gloves. I don't see how the two aren't connected.

Both of them dealt with the question of "Can we successfully prosecute a former President?" Obama kicked the can down the road to ignore the question entirely, because it might appear "partisan" or something.

As evidenced by Trump's national security documents case, they really wanted to kick the can down the road again. They gave Trump every opportunity to just return the documents with nothing but a slap on the wrist. They only started bringing criminal charges when it became clear that he never had any intent of returning anything.

Obama is viewed so favorably by so many, but it's hard for me to do so when I think about this. Obama's unwillingness to address this question in his administration is outright why we are facing the governments inability to reign in Trump at all. He's done so many things that would have shown regular people the endless inside of a jail cell, but they just let him keep running around free.

When you allow criminals to walk free, other criminals see it as way to get away with whatever they want. That's pretty much how Trump treated the Presidency, a "get out of jail for fucking everything for free" card. He still views it as such. It's hard to imagine he didn't get this idea by watching previous Presidents get away with tons of shit that would see the rest of us behind bars.

Anyway, long story short: Thanks, Obama.

 

I'm so sorry for this. I'm not creative.

Forgive me Q, for I have sinned.

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The website isn't worthless so much as the watermark on memes.

 

Would an advertising executive

Understand where the homeless live?

Would he know about the bubbles in his glass?

Would the bubbles in his glass

Understand what the man's golf cart is?

Do they know you can die frozen underneath an overpass?

 
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YTMND is dead. Long live YTMND.

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This is how it felt.

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