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rsuri ,

The illusion of electoral choice is choking the life out of any actual democracy in this country.

Ok so what’s your plan to fix it? Because I have one: vote for people that want to improve the electoral system and against those that want to prevent it from improving. As much as Democrats are “part of the problem”, they’ve also been open to runoff voting, switching to a national popular vote, easier voting mechanisms, and other changes that would allow for third parties and better representation. Republicans, meanwhile, have been trying to prevent those changes, as they’ve done in 5 states now where they banned ranked choice voting.

To be fair though, Trump is more open to changing the electoral process. The only problem is, he wants to get rid of voting entirely and remove any option we have to prevent rule by wealthy oligarchs like himself.

rsuri ,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnBdGTX3vZc

Who would win: every human in the world vs. every animal in the world?

I’m thinking the animals would easily defeat us, since trying to get all 8 billion+ humans to agree on a plan of attack would be a near-impossible task. By the time we’d be done trying to coordinate a plan, I figure the lions and cheetahs would have already devoured us, not to mention the larger animals like the elephants....

rsuri ,

Humans would not be able to annihilate all the animals, given how many live underground/in deep oceans etc., and how integrated they are into our own lives leading to an unacceptable risk of collateral damage. However, the animals would be completely ineffective due to a lack of cohesion and ability to coordinate attacks. So basically humans would kill some of the animals and then it would devolve into a stalemate.

rsuri ,

Wear and tear doesn’t kill a car; rust does.

Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity?

Despite not subscribing to political communities and having a large number of content filters based on keywords, my feed here is still for a large part all negative articles and ragebait. Elon Musk this and Israel that. Microsoft ruining windows, AI ruining internet, right wingers and capitalism ruining the world, police being...

rsuri ,

We talk about positive things.

Like Linux.

rsuri ,

If people think solar destroys the environment, wait till they find out about coal and natural gas

rsuri ,

A range from 9 years ago to today.

rsuri ,

The current war is in Gaza (controlled by Hamas), she’s talking about starting a new war with the West Bank (controlled by the Palestinian Authority).

rsuri ,

X has been toying with the idea of fully embracing adult content and has even planned a feature for adult creators that could position X as an OnlyFans rival. That plan was delayed, Platformer reported in 2022, after red-teaming flagged a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to the launch: “Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale.”

Non-consensual porn had also been a serious problem for PornHub, eventually they just nuked all unverified accounts.

Hmm, maybe that’s the plan for X too. It’s been going in that pay-to-play direction for a while now.

Trump Campaign Sent Cease-and-Desist Letter to ProPublica Attempting to Stop Their Latest Exposé. It Didn’t Work. (www.mediaite.com)

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign and businesses have provided “Significant financial benefits” to nine of the witnesses in his criminal cases, ProPublica reported Monday morning - shrugging off a threatening cease-and-desist letter sent by Trump’s attorney....

rsuri ,

Unfortunately these threats do work. Media matters just had to lay off a bunch of people to pay its legal expenses following Elon’s suit. Nonprofits don’t have a ton of money, and those that fight the powerful are…fighting those that do.

rsuri ,

The sheer fact that she was allowed to use a self hosted email server instead of a secure .mail.mil address means a whole bunch of people should have faced charges

I gotta disagree on the facts with this one, I don’t like Hillary either but the attempt to make the email thing criminal was in legal terms, bullshit. I agree that she broke the law, but there’s civil law (that a court can order government officials to stop breaking, but you can’t be thrown in jail for) and criminal law (that you can be thrown in jail for). The private email server was the former, not the latter.

This article around 8 paragraphs down goes through the specific criminal laws at issue, but the summary is these laws are clearly designed to punish actually stealing documents with the intent to conceal or distribute them (like say, if she took them to a private bathroom in Florida), not to dictate criminal penalties for an insecure email setup.

The reality of what happened is the FBI is a very Republican part of government, Comey is himself a lifelong Republican, and no one got more hate from Republicans than Hillary Clinton. They wanted to prosecute very badly, they just couldn’t.

rsuri ,

If he wants to destroy Hamas, what’s the plan for someone else to take over after Hamas? Oh right, there is no plan for that. Whenever this war ends, Hamas will still be there and more powerful than ever, because that’s exactly the strategy that is Israel is (wittingly or unwittingly) following.

rsuri ,

Biden’s proposal from yesterday was supposedly drafted at Netanyahu’s cabinet, according to the US government itself.

Source on that? It’s interesting that you say “supposedly…according to the US government itself.” If the government says something, usually it’s easily verifiable.

rsuri ,

I mean I wouldn’t mind if he bought a bunch of computer manufacturers and made them switch to Linux. Would be a better use of his money than whatever he’s doing with it now.

rsuri ,

Nothing’s gonna happen. He’s just gonna make up some new “ex president/presidential candidate immunity” that prevents some category of person that includes him from going to prison even for state crimes, and his various federal court nominees will see to it that it’s tied up indefinitely.

rsuri ,

This vehicle is a rolling Poe’s law.

Drive the new Tesla Knifemobile. Made of pure space-grade stainless steel pressed into sharp edges, it’s the deadliest truck on the road. Wimps need not apply.

rsuri ,

You misspelled Republicans. Most US-based Indians aren’t anti-Islamic because they often get lumped in with muslims when Republicans go on xenophobic crusades.

rsuri ,

I gotta wonder if there’s one of those internet laws like “The dumber the opinion, the more attention it gets”

rsuri ,

I’ve been using deepstatemap.live which has proven accurate and reasonably up to date in the past. When things are moving fast though it may fall behind.

There’s a bit of uncertainty principle at work. The more accurate the data, the less up to date it’s gonna be.

rsuri ,

Where’s Infinite Solutions when you need him

rsuri ,

How would it though? It probably didn’t have any images like this in the train-ing data.

rsuri ,

All speech is free, but some speech is more free than others

rsuri ,

This is the problem with social media. The dumbest opinions get spread not because they have a good point or even advance the discussion, but because they’re dumb and we like to look at dumb opinions for entertainment value.

rsuri ,

I can’t help but notice all the comedians who complain about society being took woke for comedy are has-beens. John Stewart’s back to crushing it at the Daily Show, is he complaining? No, it’s only the guys who’ve run out of material and have nothing left to do but shake their canes at gen Z kids.

I challenge anyone to go to the “good old days” and find me a comedian who was actually funny and not just being an edgelord. You know who the most popular comedian was in the 80s? Andrew Dice Clay. That’s right. That’s was peak comedy, dirty nursery rhymes. Sure, I get that some people are nostalgic. But let’s be serious for a minute - do we really wanna go back to that kind of comedic void?

Society hasn’t gotten too woke, rather comedic standards have evolved to the point where merely being offensive in itself no longer counts as comedy.

rsuri ,

Chappelle I’ll grant you, but I’d put Chappelle in the category with Seinfeld of a once super-popular comedian who has passed his prime, and now just shakes his cane at Gen Z in frustration instead of creating new material.

As for Bill Burr and John Stewart:
Bill Burr Stuns Bill Maher by Declaring Cancel Culture ‘Over’
Jon Stewart Is “So Fucking Sick” of “Anti-Woke” Culture: “I’ve Lost Two Words in 35 Years”

There’s a difference between thinking cancel culture has gone too far and complaining endlessly that it has “ruined comedy”. One is an opinion, the other is an excuse.

rsuri ,

Do you have multiple monitors?
Yes - Don’t buy a mac
No - Still don’t buy a mac

rsuri ,

For me it’s that compared to windows and linux, handling multiple windows between screens is always problematic, and is made worse by alt-tab bringing up all the windows for an application, which means they pop up in the other monitors too which isn’t usually what I want. Maximizing is usually not as straightforward as one would hope, and the dock moves to any window if you leave your pointer at the bottom which can get annoying fast. As some point out apparently there’s 3rd party software that allows you to fix these issues, but that’s not an option for me because I use a locked-down Mac for work and can’t install 3rd party software, so I’m stuck with the annoying base behavior.

rsuri ,

Bluesky saw this exodus of people from Twitter show up, and it was a very, very common crowd. … But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it. That was the second moment I thought, uh, nope. This is literally repeating all the mistakes we made as a company.”

This is the same problem that all these “free speech platforms” keep running into. Some people will abuse free speech - if nothing else, I think everyone can agree spam is a type of abusive speech. But the difference between abusive speech and ordinary speech isn’t a sharp line, and the definitions of “abuse” will vary. So there needs to be some mechanism or rules for deciding what that line is. But all the people that create these platforms instead wanna pretend that line doesn’t exist, so they don’t create a means of determining it. So then “abuse” becomes whatever the users demand and/or the decisionmakers decide it is. Which is exactly the same as having no free speech to begin with.

rsuri ,

He clearly has no personal convictions. He acts entirely like someone who is working a job, and that job is to help Trump get elected.

rsuri ,

The First Amendment means the government can’t punish you for speech. That’s a good rule, and yes it means that even deplorable speech shouldn’t be punished by the government. Because “deplorable” speech at various times in American history could have meant anti-slavery speech, pro-lgbt speech, anti-war speech, etc.

rsuri ,

If you assume:

  1. X is a bad thing (either because it promotes bad ideas, or because it crowds out better platforms, or some other reason)
  2. The more users and functionality X has, the more powerful it will be.

Then removing functionality from X is a good thing.

rsuri ,

As productivity increases, artificial scarcity becomes necessary to maintain pre-existing levels of inequality.

[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?

Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by...

rsuri ,

Do-gooder derogation

rsuri , (edited )

There’s 2 kinds of evidence.

  • Circumstantial evidence - relies on an inference to connect it to the conclusion (e.g. guy saying before hand he won’t kill himself).
  • Direct evidence - no additional inference/evidence is needed (e.g. video of a guy going up to the car and shooting him).

The guy saying he won’t kill himself requires inferring that he’s being truthful when he said it and that he didn’t change his mind. It’s not non-evidence, it does point to suicide being less likely. But it’s far from conclusive. If there’s no sign of entering the vehicle or that a struggle occurred, then I’d argue that far outweighs his prior statement.

They just happened to work at the same company and die right before they could testify on the same thing.

That’s also a common misunderstanding, at least regarding the first (I’m not as familiar with the second). I’m a bit unclear on the details of the deposition - which side wanted it and was asking the questions, etc. (detailed here) but whatever the case, it was Boeing that demanded he come back for one more day. So if Boeing wanted him to not testify that day, they’d just send him home as originally planned. The only reason they’d do it then was to silence him generally…but doing it in a way that draws so much suspicion to them seems like an implausibly bad decision. Then again, it is Boeing. (Note that this is also circumstantial evidence, and requires assuming that Boeing isn’t so dumb as to kill a witness in the middle of their own deposition, which may not be warranted).

Edit: corrected my own misunderstanding of deposition

rsuri ,

According to the report, the sales decline came from all across Asia. Net sales were down in Greater China (PRC, Taiwan & Hong Kong), Japan, and the Rest of Asia Pacific, while the Americas and Europe saw an insignificant change that can be rounded up to 0%.

This makes sense. Apple has its status as “the one and only smartphone” in the US, but in other countries buying a phone that costs a tiny fraction as much is probably a bigger draw and has less social stigma.

rsuri ,

The for-profit media has no incentive to calm you down.

rsuri ,

Washington Post maybe. Thanks to their coverage of Trump most think of them as left-leaning, but I’ve also seen them run a number of false and misleading editorials taking the GOP point of view. Of course it’s owned by Bezos who also plays both sides in his personal politics.

Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites (www.theverge.com)

In February, HouseFresh managing editor Gisele Navarro called out publishers like BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone as some of the culprits that publish content about air purifiers despite a lack of expertise — but Google rewards these sites with high rankings all the same. The result is a search results page filled with SEO-first...

rsuri ,

We need Yahoo back. Just a bunch of categories, where anyone can put their site under the right category.

rsuri ,

Bumble is pretty much the only one they don’t own. The only other one I can think of is coffee meets bagel, does anyone still use that?

'Horrific' violence at UCLA after counter-protesters attack pro-Palestinian camp (www.bbc.com)

Violence erupted at the University of California, Los Angeles after pro-Israeli counter-demonstrators attacked a pro-Palestinian campus encampment. Bubbling tensions on the campus boiled over following the alleged breach of a “buffer zone” between the rival groups.

rsuri ,

How is it that on this one topic, all rational discourse is completely absent? I mean there’s some topics where one side is completely irrational, sure. But when it comes to Israel-Palestine, everyone on all sides is just completely and often violently nonsensical.

rsuri ,

See that in itself is a perfect example because it’s both a hasty generalization, and an ad hominem.

rsuri ,

Find me one rational argument about Israel and/or Palestine. Any one, from anywhere, at any time in history.

rsuri ,

Genocide is wrong and Hamas is wrong.

Ok fine, this is a rational argument, although present company excepted I don’t really find other people arguing both at the same time.

A two-state solution is the only way the situation should end

But this is where the mainstream views lose me and seem to grasp at something that everyone should be able to see is just not gonna work. You have the gaza strip on one side, the west bank on the other, and Israel in between. How can this be two countries? Is there any other country that’s in 2 separate land masses with its adversary in the middle?

rsuri ,

Which thing that someone says is a genocide are you referring to? Because last I checked, “both sides” claim that the other is trying to genocide them.

And frankly, both are again engaging in hasty generalizations. There are people in Palestine who want a genocide in Israel, and people in Israel who want a genocide in Palestine. And many more in both that don’t. But that latter bit is really inconvenient for everyone, isn’t it?

rsuri ,
  • Trump’s lawyers would argue that Biden can order Trump’s execution without any punishment, but that it would not cause him to win the next election because the military and other federal officials are not immune and are “obligated” not to follow illegal orders. So basically the argument is that illegal orders are unlikely to be followed.
  • Problem with this argument is that the president has the pardon power, which means he could promise to pardon people for following his illegal orders.
  • But the problem with that argument is that some believe the president could pardon himself, so maybe that situation is already a reality even if the president is not immune
  • What would actually happen? It seems like in both Watergate and Jan 6, some people did refuse to follow corrupt orders. But in the case of Watergate where there was more time and a more intelligent corrupt president, that wasn’t itself a major problem. In Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre, he forced his AGs to resign until he landed on future Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, who carried out Nixon’s illegal order to fire a special prosecutor. The bad news for Nixon is that the move was so unpopular it eventually led to his resignation as he probably would’ve been impeached otherwise.
rsuri ,

I just created !justtext in case you wanna just post the text instead of picture, because I’m perhaps irrationally annoyed by pictures of text.

rsuri ,

Autopilot “is not a self-driving technology and does not replace the driver,” Tesla said in response to a 2020 case filed in Florida. “The driver can and must still brake, accelerate and steer just as if the system is not engaged.”

Tesla’s terminology is so confusing. If “Autopilot” isn’t self-driving technology, does that mean it’s different from “Full Self Driving”? And if so, is “Full Self Driving” also not a self-driving technology?

rsuri ,

Texas never attracted techies, it attracted a few Republican tech CEOs with disproportionate shares of power. I’ve always turned down recruiters trying to get me to move there regardless of how good the job is on paper. If I’ve got options, I’m choosing to live on one of the coasts. There’s nothing for me in Texas. I mean I’ve been to Bucees once, it’s worth visiting. But I’m gonna guess the novelty is probably over by the second visit.

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