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Serinus ,

If there’s one issue, ever, that you should be at least a little “both sides” on, it’s this one.

There’s no way you can honestly argue only one side of this.

Serinus ,

If you do, do it for Jordan Klepper’s wit. It’s truly impressive how fast he comes up with these and how deft he is at it.

I could do it in writing over an hour. He does it on the fly in seconds and is able to manage the conversation at the same time. It’s incredible.

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Well, yes. Less working class people vote (as a percentage) than rich people.

Also the rich people help run ads telling the working class who to vote for. And that works often enough to be effective.

Serinus ,

I was in M2-XFE. That whole experience certainly taught a lot about the power of narrative and propaganda. And the later blockade showed what leadership failures look like.

We always had the advantage in that blockade, and could have stayed there for another year had the allies stuck together. Or we could have executed real plans to break them and end the war. Instead we did the worst of both.

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Haven’t they done it twice before? Something like 2006 and 2014?

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They refused to respond to an Australian government investigation. (Because Elon fired the two people who interfaced with Australia.)

The fine is not directly because they haven’t cracked down*, but because they couldn’t competently answer if they’re handling it at all.

(* and they’ve probably fired enough trust and safety people that they’re also having trouble there, but that’s not exactly what the fine is for.)

Serinus ,

Wanna bet? There are ways to frog in a boiling pot this. And chrome isn’t the only browser that will support blocking Firefox. (They’ll argue Chromium is not Google, only Chrome).

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This got more and more one sided as you went on. And it didn’t start out unbiased.

There are no good guys here. If one in a few hundred Palestinians want to strap on a dynamite vest and kill as many Jews as possible, how can Israel live peacefully with those people? Does Israel have absolutely no right to defend itself? Israel surrounds Palestine, yes, but Palestine also surrounds Israel.

Are you of the opinion that Israelites should abandon and move out of Israel?

Israel’s one day notice to evacuate Gaza is absolutely insane, and will likely end in genocide. But that doesn’t make Palestinians the good guys.

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the land they stole.

Do you consider that all of Israel?

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have been in a position to end the conflict for ages

There’s only one way Israel can end the conflict. I don’t think you’re in favor of it.

“Equally evil” is such a weird phrase. Who was more evil, Jeffrey Dahmer or Jim Jones? And I don’t think standing up for evil because the other side is more evil is any better of a stance than enlightened centrism.

As a devil’s advocate, Hamas uses 100% of their capability for evil, even sacrificing their own lives in the name of religion to inflict the maximum damage. Israel doesn’t use 10% of their capacity, and has more justifiable reasons for doing so.

This does not mean I endorse Israel. You’re right in that Israel causes more overall harm.

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It’s possible to support the Palestinians but not Hamas.

In sentiment, maybe. In reality? What concrete things can you do to benefit Palestinians that don’t also benefit Hamas? Hamas are Palestinians.

That’s like saying “I support Israel’s right to defend itself, but not to harm innocent Palestinians.” You don’t get to choose. It’s a package deal.

Serinus ,

takeout.google.com

Download your data while you still can.

Serinus ,

I’m not really in favor of a wealth tax. Maybe, if we really need to claw back our mistakes, but I think there are better approaches.

A tax on loans based on wealth seems great though. If you have the wealth, why are you borrowing? What are the legitimate uses of secured loans?

Capital gains taxes should be higher than payroll taxes. Always and forever.

Marginal tax rates exist for a reason, and it’s absurd that we stop progressive taxation after $700k. The difference between making $800k/year and making $15m/year is ridiculous. At $800k/year you at least want to make the business last for a decade. After you cash out for $15m in a year, are you really accountable to anyone?

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John Oliver just did a great episode on what a scam prison healthcare is.

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They named him “National”?

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Oh, the airport is just named “National”. I think the rest is a typo.

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Serinus ,

You can get an old version of the software without the features blocked.

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Yet.

Serinus ,

My 7.6.0.3 won’t auto update. Says there are no updates available. I’m trying a manual install.

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It’s something like

Help > About > Check for updates

Serinus ,

Advertise. And Geocaching is a great way to do it.

I’d recommend a post in the community encouraging people to put a url and/or QR code into some geocaches. Maybe with a sticky at the top of the community that explains what Lemmy is.

Consider the point of view of a person who finds the QR code in the geocache.

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Grand Jury issues indictments, can put you in jail until trial, and there’s generally no defense or judge present. They only need probable cause.

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They can sell colors and themes as DLC! Cosmetics for your home!

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After they make the change, someone with an old Hue bulb should go to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Making this decision retroactive is clearly false advertising and anti-consumer. I don’t really give a shit what their terms of use were.

They can do what they want with their future bulbs. The old ones need to be grandfathered in.

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I would make sure the firmware can’t be updated. Uninstall the Hue app for sure.

Serinus ,

I’m excited for the push this is gonna give Godot. Wouldn’t mind it becoming the mainstream engine.

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enshittification is an inevitable late stage consequence

Maybe, but I don’t think it is. Enshittification is a direct result of our tax policy that encourages cashing out, only looks at the short term, and requires constant growth.

There was a time when companies built a reputation and held onto it for a hundred years. We could go back to that.

Tax the rich.

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Which is kind of weird because most C# devs aren’t doing games.

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Yeah, this will insure I never use Unity. But at least they can collect from their existing games.

Serinus ,

Immich is working pretty well for me. Even the search does a decent job of recognizing the things in the pictures.

I’m not sure what Google photos has that Immich doesn’t, and I’ve been using Google photos for years.

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You do have to turn off battery saver for the background process. Phones tend to not like background processes. That would cause the behavior you’re seeing.

Settings > Apps > App battery usage > Immich > Set to “unrestricted”

Also I have mine set to a ten minute delay, maybe that’s why I haven’t noticed. Maybe try adding a small delay to the load?

(Primarily I wanted a chance to delete photos before they uploaded.)

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That’s what bitlocker is supposed to do. It’s kind of the whole point of bitlocker.

Serinus ,

This is me, laughing at your comment as a bald eagle clutching an assault rifle flies over and shits simultaneously on my head and the idea of public transit.

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I’m already telling people to get out of Florida*. I expect multiple Katrina-level events over the next 15 years. “Florida refugees” is going to become a common phrase.

Orlando might be more likely to survive than Miami or Tampa, but do you really want to be in the city surrounded by devastation?

We, as humans, seem to have lost the ability to plan more than 20 years into the future. Florida is still building in areas that are going to be crushed, and the only reaction is from insurance companies.

We’re not trying to prevent it. We’re not building any kind of defenses or contingency plans. We’re not encouraging people to move out. We’re not preventing people from moving in. In fact, we’re building new and encouraging people to move IN to Florida. It’s full on head in sand.

Serinus ,

Yeah, there’s really nothing wrong with a 50 year old dating a 19 year old. Age is just a number. There’s no power imbalance there or expectations. It’s perfectly healthy for the 19 year old to get into a long term relationship where their partner is going to be 70 before they’re 40.

Or, maybe, half your age + 7 is a good rule. It’s pretty lenient.

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Is she just starting college? A relationship with someone who’s not at her school might be rough for her. I’d be forever disappointed if I didn’t have those life experiences.

Serinus ,

It’s hard to take that seriously when you use “xeeted”.

Serinus ,

Not if you want to push the site hard to the right!

Serinus ,

The four day head start thing being bullshit was a good point. But yeah, I’m not likely to pirate an executable any time soon.

Serinus ,

Yeah, this is probably the way I’d go about it. Dedicated hard drive, separate/no network access, no access to other files. Who cares if it is malware if it can’t get to anything.

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But not in 100% of cases and therefore it’s not worth trying. /s

It is a difficult problem, because there really are some mentally disturbed people in that population too. You can absolutely tackle the problem slowly and one case at a time lift most people out of that situation. But any solution that treats them as a group will bring along the 10% of them that will literally shit all over everything you’ve tried to build.

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I want to argue that W’s damage was more immediate, but I keep finding arguments against that.

W might the the president most to blame for climate change. When Dems win it tends to be with a 50% + 1 majority, or close enough to it, while including senators from places like West fucking Virginia.

Republicans at any time can do bipartisan things about climate. Dems don’t have that power.

I’d say any time between 1990 and 2010 was the time where there should have absolutely been enough consensus, and close enough to last minute to actually do something. Shut down all the coal plants in the West. Embargo countries that don’t cooperate on climate. That could have been done. (And yeah, we could have absolutely shut down every coal plant in the West if we were willing.)

Then I was going to add another caveat about reading the 9/11 report. I don’t fully blame W for that. It’s a thing that would have been possible for any president to miss. But he’s the one who missed it. I don’t fully absolve him of it, either.

W’s intentions behind the Iraq war may have been for the good of us all, but the results absolutely weren’t.

The war in Afghanistan can be shared mostly between Obama and Trump. We were there for 20 years and couldn’t manage to make a safe haven. Could have built fucking walls around Kabul, built up the government only there, and let them work on expanding that control outward for the next 50 years.

I still believe Trump’s damage will be longer term. I don’t know if he’ll be able to outdo W, and he’ll never reach Reagan levels of damage. But I don’t think we’ve seen most of Trump’s damage yet.

Serinus ,

Anything labeled “money” or “finance” or “CNBC” is like this.

Serinus ,

One of my last comments on Reddit was about this.

The biggest difference I’ve noticed is that people have stopped reading sentences. They’ll read all the words and then upvote based on the feeling those individual words give them. They won’t consider the meaning of all those words put together.

And yeah, “upvote does not mean agree” is something Reddit has always struggled with, but it has definitely had exponential growth lately.

It has made me start writing more clearly. There are comments I’ve written that have been wildly misinterpreted from my actual meaning. Part of that is that I tend towards sarcasm, and it doesn’t translate well over the internet no matter how absurd I get with it. But I’ve also started aiming to use more simple sentence structure.

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Sure, there’s that. Also, sometimes I just write bad.

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You can get a cheap android (but don’t have to). You can’t get a cheap iPhone.

And are you really going to get your 12 year old the latest flagship android when there are cheaper options?

If every android kid got the latest Pixel, I bet they wouldn’t be seen as “the cheap phone”.

Plus Apple’s been pushing nearly every anticompeitive angle they can. The iMessage thing is 100% intentional. It’s not that the android phones aren’t capable of working with iMessage. It’s that Apple wants to make your experience worse when something happens that doesn’t involve giving them money. Because they want you to push your friends into an iPhone, and people are dumb enough to fall for it.

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I recently moved from Chrome to Firefox, so I get that. But Apple is a hell of a lot worse about it.

Using the iMessage thing to create social pressure in kids is pretty evil.

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