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I feel like this is shooting themselves in the foot a bit. During covid, maybe you could argue Dems were more likely to mail in vote due to there being a pandemic, but now? It's old people doing most of the mail-in votes. Old people are more likely to be Republicans.

They aren't saying anything, but here's the context. The UK criminalized pro-Palestinian slogans in public a pro-Palestinian rights group called Palestine Action. They use several slogans, most notably the "Support Palestine Action" slogan. They recently arrested a bunch of people for peacefully protesting with this group.

This guy has a shirt that says "Support Plasticene Action" which, notably, does not reference Palestine at all though the words have an aesthetic similarity to the Palestine slogan. So the pigs are trying to see if they can arrest him for hate speech fucking terrorism (wow) or not.

Edit: got some important facts wrong, so corrected

5 point scales are dumb because there's too much ambiguity with 2s and 4s. Since everyone has an inconsistent definition of what those mean, they don't really mean anything. Knowing that intuitively, people spam 5s and 1s because those are unambiguous.

3 or even 2 point scales are better. Dislike, Neutral, Like / would not recommend, would maybe recommend, would always recommend or just removing the middle option to push people off the fence.

What I like most about Lemmy is not feeling like I'm being exploited. It's pretty refreshing being a part of what is essentially a voluntary organization without any corporate interests trying to milk users for profit.

That's...uhhh...why I'm here

Me, a socialist: nationalize critical industries

Also me: wait not like that

If only one side fights dirty, then only one side will ever want to pass laws to prevent fighting dirty.

If one side fights dirty and the other side does too, now both sides have an interest in leveling the playing field.

Assuming they're approximately of equal power and fight equally dirty.

Death's Door on switch. It's a cute little soulslike where you play a crow who reaps souls. It has good gameplay and a nice style.

Scar Jo. She's just not a good actor. Same with Gal Gadot. Also Jack Black and Seth Rogen and the Rock, they don't act - they're just themselves in every movie.

Ich spreche kein Deutch, aber ich lerne durch deiner Memes. Danke schön.

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The owners of that instance are communists, the reputation is that it's a "tankie instance". All in all, people like to make drama about nothing - what instance you are on doesn't really matter as long as it's federated with instances you want to see content from. I have a couple of different accounts, across instances and since I don't only browse ml communities, the experience is essentially the same as my dbzero account or some others.

Short answer: Many people support those governments critically or uncritically for various reasons.

Long answer:

Russia: Some people who oppose US hegemony support Russia as probably the most effective anti-US actor globally - I mean look at what they've managed (in part) to do to the US government over the last 10 years or so. They may also be sympathetic to Russian anti-NATO sentiment. People who support China may also critically support Russia since they are a strategic ally of China. Some people just full-throatedly support Russia uncritically - I don't know why they're quite so enthusiastic, but most others who have pro-Russian sentiment are still critical of Russia, but support them as a major power capable of attacking US hegemony.

China: China is the most successful communist country to have ever existed. Many left-leaning people may support China to varying degrees because they are an Actually Existing Socialist country and because their model of Communism with Chinese Characteristics seems to work quite well for them. Due to the West (broadly) attacking Socialist governments in the name of Liberalism & becoming increasingly more fascistic, China could be an important bulwark against fascism. Many people support China uncritically - they genuinely like the Chinese system of government and want their governments to be more like China's. Other people critically support China - they believe China's government is problematic in some way(s), but support it anyway as a bastion of socialism and a significant challenger to US economic & political hegemony.

As for support for the governments as opposed to the people: We kind of have to talk about these things at the country level, since governments are the (imperfect) embodiments of political ideologies and collectively act on behalf of the people within their borders, and "the people" aren't monolithic. We often treat countries as avatars of political ideologies which is inaccurate but is an abstraction that unfortunately often leads to an oversimplification of the ideologies behind & effects of those governments' actions while allowing us to create a comprehensible narrative.

That looks like a Golden Silk Orb Weaver to me. Harmless afaik and they just hang out in their webs.

I had one that lived on my house for almost a year by my garden. She laid a clutch of eggs, but I don't think they ever hatched.

I have 2 monitors at different resolutions, works fine and my desktop/icon theme/etc is very pretty imo. I do agree that mint out of the box is maybe equally/sliiiightly less pretty than windows - but as soon as you change the shitty default wallpaper it is prettier imo.

That is true about Adobe products. But fuck adobe. And if you need Adobe, then just dual boot.

Congrats! That's fantastic. That many flushes is a real testament to your attentiveness to them/technique - clearly some happy mushies

+1 to Mint. It is a very easy transition & you will not have ragerts.

Pros:

1. prettier than windows while having a similar interface
2. more responsive than windows
3. more stable than windows
4. zero spyware/bloatware
5. basically the same level of software compatibility as windows

Only things that take some research ahead of time or getting used to imo:

1. deciding how you want to partition your drives during installation (you can let it automatically do this, but there are reasons to create a different partition structure across drives/have different sized partitions),
2. mounting drives. There are GUI tools for this (file explorer for mounting, gparted for formatting), so it really isn't a big deal, but it is a little more difficult than with Windows and you may need to reformat your drives depending what file format they're currently in.
3. make sure your motherboard/video card/cpu all work well with linux. They should, but just check first.
4. note that games requiring kernel level anticheat (aka spyware) won't work. So if that's a deal breaker, then dual boot or don't switch.

Dubya had serious rizz. Stupid rizz, but that was like his whole thing. There was a whole discourse around "he's the sort of guy you'd want to grab a beer with". People found Bush much more charismatic than Kerry on the whole.

Also, say what you want about trump, but charisma is like the one thing he has. It's super grating to me, but a lot of people find his whole schtick very magnetic.

Can you imagine a Nazi sausage restaurant in 1930s Germany called "Hitler Würst"? These people are such goddamn clowns.

Are they making fun of how she looks? Yeah, sure. But they're really making fun of the fact that she chose to look like that. It's about the freakish nature of all the people in Trump's orbit. They're like the fucking godhand from Berserk - evil, inhuman, freaky looking, etc.

Its a whole spectacle that I think media is afraid to talk about (sure Trump = orange, but... why?) - it's worth interrogating why all these people get super obvious plastic surgery/fake appearance related things. Trump's crazy bad spray on tan and shitty toupee, giuliani's classic bleeding hair dye, all the various women in the Trump admin with their fake everything, gaetz with his crazy botox and facelift... the list just goes on.

"What's with that?" Is a super valid question