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roofuskit ,

Jokes on you, I only wear zoot suits.

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Yeah, I enjoyed learning German… Java on the other hand…

roofuskit ,

There is such thing as an Authoritarian Left.

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Is literally every business closed all weekend where you live? Or is this just another case of people not realizing that lots of people work holidays and weekends?

Businesses are already legally required to let people leave to vote.

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Be scared! Read this article! Ooga booga!

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Florida is in a downward spiral. It’s going to be a real shit show. Before you know it the state will be the only entity willing to insure property there.

roofuskit ,

Most Americans won’t have that much wealth even in retirement.

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Equal protection clause. Any law that imposes itself on women and not men should be unconstitutional.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

roofuskit ,

I chose my words.

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It’s the 14th amendment. Kind of an important one.

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All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

There’s a lot going on there.

And you’re thinking of the 13th amendment.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

You might want to spend more time studying our constitution if you’re going to participate in discussions about it.

What are good harddrives to use with servers

I have quite an extensive collection of media that my server makes available through different means (Jellyfin, NFS, mostly). One of my harddrives has some concerning smart values so I want to replace it. What are good harddrives to buy today? Are there any important tech specs to look out for? In the past I didn’t give this...

roofuskit ,

backblaze.com/…/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2024…

roofuskit ,

Those 14TB WD drives are workhorses. I run refurbished ones in my home server and have never had any issues. And they are significantly faster than the rest of my spinning rust drives.

roofuskit ,

Convict leasing was the souths replacement for slavery. You could arrest a black person for anything after the civil war (that’s changed right?), including for not having a job or a home. So instead of buying slaves the state created them from freed people by throwing them into prison and then leasing them back to the former slaveholders. It didn’t fall out of fashion until the civil rights era. Guess the anti-civil rights era is bringing it back.

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Privately owned prisons are a small fraction of prisons. This is just a broken system.

TIL of the Great Auk, a northern hemisphere species similar to penguins that was hunt to extinction. Penguins are named after them. (en.m.wikipedia.org)

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis), also known as the Penguin or gare-fowl, is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus. It is unrelated to the Penguins of the southern hemisphere, which were named so after their resemblance to the northern...

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smithsonianmag.com/…/the-big-creek-missile-agency…

The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. (www.bunniestudios.com)

edit: after 20 comments, i’m adding a post description here, since most of the commenters so far appear not to be reading the article:...

roofuskit ,

Exterminating the next generation of people who would live on the land they want to steal is the goal.

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I just wrote programs that would solve the complicated multi step problems and show me the work.

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As someone who was a kid who would do things like this to avoid putting in the work, no this kid will probably not be fine.

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Sell the sickness then sell them the cure.

roofuskit ,

Part of parenting is censoring the world for your child’s developing brain.

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The only way this gets past the first amendment is if it can be specifically tied to elections. It’s already being challenged in court. The GOP is funding it.

roofuskit ,

That would hurt the bottom line of the investors, so I doubt the Supreme Board Room goes that way.

roofuskit ,

Lye crystals will also dissolve that hair in seconds. The plumbing in our place was poorly designed, too many tight bends. We have to use it every so often. It actually works better than the snake and takes a tiny fraction of the effort.

roofuskit ,

If you have PVC it can be. No problems with cast iron. It’s an old house.

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The devil’s creation.

roofuskit ,

I see gizmodo I downvote. It’s a simple life.

roofuskit ,

Take solace in the fact that it’s unlikely the idea of you taking a shit could make you less attractive to them.

roofuskit ,

Let me be clear. I’m talking about you as a person.

roofuskit ,

If they are actually exploiting people… I know this sounds like exploitation but this issue is pretty complex and there may actually be no “jobs” for a lot of differently abled people if there isn’t a carve out for certain scenarios. I say jobs in quotes because there are some places that are more or less daycares where adults of certain ability levels can go to work and do end up making less than minimum wage. But they are doing so because they are receiving a level of care and supervision at the same time. These are people who you could not just teach a job and leave to their own devices for any amount of time without endangering them. But they are capable enough to complete certain tasks. I have known adult aged people who’s elderly parents would not know what to do if they had to care for them every day all day.

That said, why in our society are some people put in this situation where the only thing they can do with their adult child is send them off to a menial job for daycare? It’s great that some people get the option to work, but they should also be able to receive care and not have to work menial jobs for sub minimum wages.

Like I said, the whole thing is way more complex than the no nonsense sound bite. If she were to just waive a regulatory hand and eliminate this exemption, without making more comprehensive changes, it might put some families in a very tough position. Having to suddenly pay for daycare for adults who previously were earning some amount of money.

But the places I’m talking about are usually non-profits employing these people to do work for other for profit businesses. It’s not the person at your local movie theater or grocery store working mostly independently and getting paid less than everyone else.

roofuskit ,

No excuse was given. I don’t think you comprehended my comment. I literally said I was not talking about the very people you mentioned. I also said their care should not be contingent on the work and that my concern was making sure of that when changes are made.

roofuskit ,

Trying to avoid regulations of course.

roofuskit ,

This has all happened before and it will all happen again. This is what it looks like when a social media company tries to head off an incoming regulatory push.

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Only effective if this doesn’t placate the regulators and Congress and something is actually done.

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$$$$

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Amazon had never given a shit about their corporate workers. They barely treat them better than the warehouse side. Don’t get cancer or they’ll put you in performance review. They have a planned turnover rate as well.

This is just them doing layoffs without regulatory oversight or severance.

roofuskit ,

Yes, there is. Even Xitter quickly changed their LLM to point to a government website whenever voting questions were asked so they have no liability.

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But but, building a real third party from the ground up in local elections and/or changing our voting system from first past the post takes a lot of time and real effort. That’s a lot of hard work. It’s a lot harder than just showing up to one election every 4 years and casting a vote that makes you feel like you’re special and smarter than everyone else.

roofuskit ,

Those same morons didn’t vote in the primary to oust him.

roofuskit ,

What about their arguing?

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Go ahead and feel morally superior as your protest vote enables someone way worse to hurt way more people. All the women dying of ectopic pregnancies or sepsis from stillbirths they cannot abort are on you. The GOP will let Russia have Ukraine where they will rape and murder anyone who resists, and they will unconditionally increase funding for Israel’s genocidal land grab.

And you will think, “that’s not my fault, I voted for the not evil one.”

But that’s not true, because you could have voted for the person who is willing to negotiate on those things, but you chose to feel better about yourself instead of actually help anyone.

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That’s not how it works. You want to force the party left then build movement from the ground up. Go out on the corner and collect signatures to change your voting system to ranked choice instead first past the post. Run for local office as a socialist or green.

The fact that all you have to do is once every 4 years push a button should tell you that it’s not the right thing to do to effect change.

Presidential elections are not about voting for a perfect candidate, very few elections are ever about that. They are about putting someone in power you are most capable of negotiating with. The person that is both capable of winning and closest to your ideals.

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Tell that to all the people who will be hurt if that protest vote enables someone worse.

roofuskit ,

It doesn’t work if that’s the last time you get a vote.

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And if Trump wins because of your “morally superior” choice you’ll have only succeeded in helping Israel exterminate them faster. There will not be any discussions about whether to pause or halt shipments of arms.

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I don’t have “a guy” I’m just not a naive child.

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That is the most selfish possible way to approach life. You’re not the main character, other people’s lives are at stake. Voting a specific way just to make yourself feel better knowing you are endangering others by doing so is not some morally superior choice.

Risking letting someone win who conspired to overthrow an election and who has promised his supporters that if they elect him this time they won’t have to vote ever again. Selfish naive children. Fuck Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the rest of the Democratic machine, at least you’ll be able to vote again and you might actually get to negotiate for things that make people’s lives better.

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No, but it takes a child to feel morally superior when they enabled people to hurt others because the other option was imperfect.

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