In every election I've been capable of voting in my candidate didn't win the primary, and its always come down to two other clear options that could take it. One of those bags of shit has always been obviously and obscenely worse than the other. In local elections? Hell yeah. In primaries? Hell yeah. Senate races? Hell yeah. But at the finish line of the last few elections its moronic to not vote for whoever has the best shot of beating trump. I agree with you about most everything you've said and the rigged money infested political system here does need to go, I just think that in practice saying "both sides bad" on any presidential election lately is pretty foolish because the obvious worst case scenario is happening as we speak. What's your proposition for fixing it? what is your actionable response? How're you changing it? Did you cast a ballot?
I'd agree that the dnc and rnc are two wings of the same bird. Hoooweeeever there absolutely is a less than, now instead of being in a situation where political pressure could have swayed foreign policy positions, we have a Cheeto fascist who gives not a single shit unless a situation enriches himself and is in addition to enabling Israel has begun committing his own human rights violations, attacks on the press, flagrantly pissing on the constitution etc.
Would you say that trumps policy on Gaza has made it better than if Harris had taken it? "Let it rip" seems to be his policy on the ethnic cleansing we're watching go down. Not to mention the wholesale abuse of civil liberties and dissent crackdown vastly more prevalent than it was under biden. I get it man, he let us all down, but i think the alternative is sooo much worse by comparison.
It seems like you missed the part where he ran for president and couldn't get there. Pragmatically it was either sleepy Joe or T-bag, so him endorsing Biden was less about him agreeing with DNC policy and more to prevent the return of trump. I can't understand how you don't understand that. Voting is damage control, and the U.S. population not voting for the lesser of two evils in this last cycle has now allowed a swollen, poorly painted, anthropomorphic, pus-filled wart to extort the entire nation and level its financial and military strength against the entire rest of the world. All that said, the biden/Harris admin was complicit in the worst humanitarian disaster that I've been alive for and none of that is okay.
Duly noted.
--The edit being that I said dually noted, which had previously meant to me "I'll remember that twice as hard"
Obviously i shit the bed on that one.
I am not sure proton was a thing yet and if it was I was certainly not aware haha nowadays I'm all tapped into that. also, even beyond steam, lutris and bottles have made it kind of a walk in the park. my goodness.
I wickedly appreciate that offer and If I'm ever so stumped that i need a lifeline I may take you up on it. Lately my whole goal is to git gud and make it work myself. It's a journey and I'm getting way more confident in my ability to admin my own systems (and potentially anyone I can get to convert lol)
preach it, the capture of people into software ecosystems is getting so out of hand. I was thinking about microsoft vs apple, and while they do the same shit at least it seems to work well lol
I hadn't either until last night. From what I gathered it disables the installation of any softwares that don't come from the microsoft store i.e. .EXE files for programs that were downloaded from the browser. Getting out of S mode is as easy as creating a microsoft account. I had no interest in that for a variety of reasons.
The aforementioned snubbing was such a weirdly pivotal moment. I hadn't been excited before that cycle and I've been so cynical ever since. The berndog is somehow still such a main character in my political life. It's always been bernievibes vs trumpism to me. Biden was a nice break from needing to constantly monitor the situation (comfort in immobility and the milquetoast status quo). Now I'm watching a fat billionaire doing a limp dictatorship, and as always he's opposed by oberni wan Kenobi. An increasingly icky and ever escalatory pantomime of the dumbest parts of human history. I'm tired.
I model all of my UI choices off of old(er) school windows. I have a bar, the menu is left. I was a pirate before anything and I learned on windows. There was a point where it made sense that the world used it, I think that time has passed. I really am such a pleb that hardware issues only effect me if it doesn't work. In this I guess I am saying that the freedom to abuse and break my hardware is important. I don't want to sell my soul or be told "no". install the program, I know it was written for windows. I don't want a microsoft account.
I'd look into graphene or calyx, they're privacy oriented android roms. the websites have lists of supported devices. I usually get a refurbished pixel a few generations old and use it until it literally falls apart
I'll also add for shits and giggles that he and his two older (neurotypical) siblings are fully vaccinated and currently not rotting away with measels.
RFK Jr and the twit that plopped him behind the wheel of our national health apparatus are in my opinion enormous shit sandwiches.
My son is severely autistic, and at almost 9 years old is functionally nonverbal. He may never go on a date, or pay taxes. That said, trashing the solid science of vaccines and wasting time dicking about and cutting grants for research does absolutely nothing to help us help him or help society better understand his condition.
Such a bunch of cunts.
In every election I've been capable of voting in my candidate didn't win the primary, and its always come down to two other clear options that could take it. One of those bags of shit has always been obviously and obscenely worse than the other. In local elections? Hell yeah. In primaries? Hell yeah. Senate races? Hell yeah. But at the finish line of the last few elections its moronic to not vote for whoever has the best shot of beating trump. I agree with you about most everything you've said and the rigged money infested political system here does need to go, I just think that in practice saying "both sides bad" on any presidential election lately is pretty foolish because the obvious worst case scenario is happening as we speak. What's your proposition for fixing it? what is your actionable response? How're you changing it? Did you cast a ballot?