Oh that’s a sick vi. I don’t see many attempt the gauntlets.

Why this is not brought up every other day whenever Schumer or Pelosi think they are out of touch, I will never know.

I’m not,

I’m genuinely skeptical that most polls are an accurate sampling of the population. Most people I know would never sit through a phone poll. Most polls reek of phishing. One of the very first phone polls said that Dewy would beat Truman in a landslide. It was completely wrong because it was predominantly rich people who had the phones to even answer the polls.

Who has the time for polls? Who drops by the candidate booths at the state fair? It’s a type for sure.

The only poll I have been a part of all last year was a phone poll entirely about optometrists and eye appointments and how they should be handled in the healthcare system. I couldn’t even finish it because the entire things was just… painful to go through.

It totally is in my experience. I have literally sat in meetings pushing AI… but absolutely NO steering or discussion on what we ought to do with it. They will relabel related things that have existed for years as AI.

It’s like instead of having a bunch of nails and needing a way to pound them in, we’ve been given a nail gun and a requirement to use it.

“But we sell balloons”

“Dont worry, the nail gun will make everything better”

Admittedly, charging ports are the first to break on any electronic unless it has a joystick. Wireless charging is a lot more robust, more water resistant, and allows you to do sleek shit without a weird hole in it

“well, Trump said he’d fix the economy and I don’t like woke.”

I mean, I feel like you’re being a bit derivative. I would put it more towards desperation than stupidity. Why does someone stay with an abusive partner? Biden was of the stance that “things are getting better” and… they’re not.

I always considered trump’s victory as sign that the democrats were just… that flaccid and unpalatable. It’s like you have a partner who sucks. They pay their share of rent, they expect you to do all the cooking and cleaning, they don’t even bother to understand you and get pissy that a random bouquet of whatever flowers on sale doesn’t magically fix an argument and make your loins quiver.

You fall instead to this gorgeous individual who knows how to flirt and makes you feel like the world can be easily fixed and now you’re locked in their basement about to lose an arm.

It’s desperation that makes people take risks, listen to people they shouldn’t listen to.

Currently using ubuntu, switched in January because my computer can’t swap to 11. I can still dual boot to windows if necessary, but so far it hasn’t been necessary.

So far, haven’t run into issues. Gaming through steam has been minimal effort. Gaming outside of steam a bit more so. VR has been somewhat persnickety, discord needs to be uninstalled and reinstalled to update.

I am in a very weird position because I use my PC on the couch with a 4k projector. Oddly enough linux has nailed the proper text sizing across applications better than windows ever did. Which is weird because my requirements for this kind of setup is kinda niche.

Mostly I swapped because I cannot upgrade to 11 without a hardware update, and new electronics are gonna be painful over the next 4 years.

If you aren’t getting a free update to windows 11, then it’s definitely worth as a protest. Even if you get it for free, it’s less of a stranglehold that windows has over the computer space, and it’s less data they farm off you.

In their defense, there are no stupid questions in this community.

…Although yeah that is hella repetitive. If I’m looking at their history right they haven’t talked about a single other thing for the last 3 months. Not even comments or a random

You uh, you doing a study or something Hickak? There an answer you’re looking for specifically?

This is why I’m of the opinion that we should refer to everyone in the legislative branch by state. Names should only be necessary for campaigning for the primary and the general. Sure, put their name in the title bar at the bottom of the screen as they speak, but the media should just refer to all politicians by their state of origin.

hear me out

We have almost 600 people in power in the legislative branch. 100 in the senate and 435 in the house. My home state has 10 Politicians in this branch, Georgia has 16, California has 54 . Most people struggle with 10 names at a party lasting 4 hours. Good luck trying to keep track of all of them on, unless you are a political science major, a purely casual basis. We will only be able to keep track of 3 to 5 politicians that just… truly suck. A few that we really like, and the rest… let’s just be real here, do god knows what.

You can do a lot of damage being hidden and convoluted, and I don’t think it’s unfair to simplify it by grouping politicians by state. If a Georgia politician does not want to be grouped with Marjorie Taylor Greene then they need to provide ammunition to get them ousted in the next election cycle. If they don’t then they’re part of the problem. This also drags all of the state into things. If I don’t like Tom Emmer, I sigh and move on about my day. If I find Minnesota did something dumb, then I get cranky. Oh wow, this is the guy in my district, or my neighbor’s district? I had no idea. I want this guy out!

What’s more, it incentivizes cooperation and competition at a state level, and begins to break up the more monolithic federal level of the parties. Federally, it’s easier to pace the unpopular positions to be pushed by people with 4 years left in office, and hope the heat cools down three years later. If the entire state gets dragged into unpopular positions, it makes them much harder to push.

It’s constantly evolving. New communities are getting constantly added, and new servers spun up for different reasons and ethos’ are being spun up every day.

I for one cheer and root for my flip phone friends.

I’d never do it, but we have one at work and he’s singlehandedly causing so much grief at work. Because none of the engineers wanna use a security app for login. They want a fob.

IT refuses to pay for fobs and wants us to use an app, but they also don’t want to pay for a phone for anyone in engineering just to use the security app because it opens a floodgate of people with company phones.

It’s just wonderful to watch this fight from the sidelines sipping tea.

I mean, they had 14 years didn’t they?

Have they ever tried to pass an ammendment for this?

Is there even a point to which one you pick? I just picked .kbin because I liked the UI, and when that fell apart I moved to .world mostly at random.

Is there really a large difference between them?

I really struggle to see a unilateral mobilization and that the US military truly goes through with it.

Especially when foreign assets are getting absolutely left stranded by Trump, programs are getting gutted (he hasn’t touched the VA, yet) and everyone who helped after 9/11 were getting shafted by their government in terms of Healthcare.

If you take away the rather potent motivators of “national security and safety or preventing terrorism” I think you’re gonna get a lot more of a strike from soldiers. Unless you can somehow believably apply that to canada.

If it’s twice, it’s not a random twitch or awkward wave. He sieg heiled the front and the back

Oh god don’t tell me it’s another case of Elon getting carried by a hire to level him up.

Biden was the first president since LBJ who actually gave some of a shit about the working class

… like, even in your defense of Biden, he only gave some of a shit. Not even a full one.

Joking aside, I think you need to think long and hard as to why you can’t just say “He was great president.” You’re not comparing him to LBJ. Not comparing his actions to Biden’s or his cabinet to Biden, or his bills to Biden. You’re literally one step above saying “Well Biden has at least done something since the time of LBJ” That’s a VERY low bar, may as well just be the floor.

Basically I think he failed to realize that nobody gives a shit if the people at the very bottom end of the scale are making way more money

Where is that in your link? Is that your jobs an unemployment sections? That’s not the poorest of the poor. The unemployment numbers often don’t reflect people who are homeless. They’re woefully inept in a lot of ways. It also clashes with the “Record high after record high on Wall Street” section.

corruption and inaction is going to hamper whoever the president is, whether it be Biden or Bernie Sanders or Che Guevara. How you solve that problem, I don’t know. But certainly, throwing one of them who did seem to moderately care about the working class unapologetically to the wolves, denying he did anything at all, and bashing him at every opportunity, isn’t exactly going to help.

Verdant Banana’s not throwing Biden under the bus though. The only people in this article are Abby Vesoulis and Faiz Shakir. If anybody is being thrown it’s them.

If anything, you and Banana seem to agree that corruption and inaction is going to hamper the DNC and don’t know how to solve it. Banana just has given up hope it ever will.

thank you kindly, that was satisfying.

where’s the gif/video?

You mean to tell me you’re only gonna tell us you found an oddly satisfying thing and NOT gonna show it??

what a tease.

I’m not really ON facebook. But way too many of my friends use it as a way to send invites to events. I literally just pop in every other week to check notifications and see if anybody invited me to anything. It’s kind of infuriating how no other method makes it so easy to just invite 20 people somewhere.

The fediverse doesn’t have a decent calendar/invite solution does it?