rekabis

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[–] rekabis@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Agreed. There are only three modern/common communications channels which are truly synchronous:

  1. In-person communication
  2. Phone calls
  3. Video calls

Everything else is asynchronous, and does not necessarily involve an interruption or a disruption of your time - you can get to it when you want to, within polite reason.

And with the fragmentation of our attention due to social media - to say nothing about the broader nature of our modern culture - being able to handle communication asynchronously is becoming very important to people.

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hence my second paragraph. Nothing wrong about a web page, just make it pinnable to the home screen. Doable with any website, but it helps a lot for usability if links to do so are explicitly available on the website.

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 0 points 6 months ago

most of them see the US as the Great Satan that is responsible for any and all evil in the world.

That’s throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

America is largely fine. The problem it has is a violently coercive economic model that forces people to be profitable to other people or risk destitution, homelessness, or even death by exposure, and a political system that is militaristic, imperialistic, and dysfunctional.

My favourite quote is this:

America has three political groups, but is serviced by only two political parties - the extreme ChristoFascist right has a party all to themselves, while the moderate right and centrists share a party such that it cannot effectively function.

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

Okay, that is legit hilarious and makes so much sense in retrospect.

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Let’s hope the mobile apps become real mobile apps instead of web page wrappers.

I can understand if you build a site that allows itself to be pinned to your device as if it were an app. That’s a great way to get a product onto devices before you have time+effort to build a native app.

It’s quite another thing to have an actual app with a highly visible GUI wrapper whose only purpose is to connect to and display a specific website.

Like, c’mon.

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A lot of people are asleep at this time. Great way to catch people groggy and unawares; less likely for them to defend themselves. Also less chance for witnesses.

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 34 points 7 months ago (5 children)

You only target journalists when your enemy is the truth.

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 194 points 7 months ago (17 children)

Why moderate?

The working class is under no obligation to mourn the deaths of those who are actively trying to kill them for profit.

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 14 points 7 months ago

And those fuckers will get away with it Scott-free, too. Maybe a slap on the wrist, at most. Legalized murder.

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

In Canada, the CBC has the least amount of bias of any domestic news source.

Going International, I would say AP, PBS, NPR, Reuters, BBC.

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 41 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Europe as a whole is swinging too far too the right. Y’all all are descending back into Fascism. The recent popularity of the AfD in Germany being a prime example. My own parents - who immigrated from Germany - are deeply disappointed in the direction the country is taking.

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

Where in the Democrat platform says all this?

It doesn’t. Hence,

it’s society in general.

That’s the source. Not politics, society. In fact, politics - aside from the laws implemented, which can be exceedingly bigoted and sexist while attempting to be about equality - doesn’t say much about this at all.

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