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Ashelyn

@ Ashelyn @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • We humans have no natural predator you might say but that is not true: there is one.

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  • The cars themselves are but a symptom of the issue. The real predators are those who push street design that prioritizes vehicle throughput over safety. The real predators are those who push vehicle designs more deadly for pedestrians but "safer" for passengers who feel like they're in a tank. The real predators are those who believe there is a non-zero number of avoidable innocent deaths that's an acceptable trade-off for the bottom line.

    Kevin McMansion in his suburban house with a lifted F-250 is victim to a parasitic infection. It's the car lobby primarily responsible for those memetic brainworms, but their playbook is endemic to our way of life. When Kevin kills a toddler backing out of his driveway because the backup camera is 3ft off the ground, that child, Kevin, and their community pay the price (death, trauma, pain, guilt), but the industry has successfully turned this scenario into nothing more than one of many externalized costs of doing business.

  • Corn dog rule

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  • That's why you push the stick further in until you get to the spot you hollowed before pulling it out

  • Soup rule

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  • if my pizza looks like this the grease is getting blotted off with a napkin

  • Nintendo Switch ending online support exposes fragility of gaming partnerships in China

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  • ...Nintendo has removed online support for pretty much every other platform other than the switch. I get that this comes sooner for China than expected, but it was an inevitable outcome either way.

  • Get help from rule professionals

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  • 3.5 Their lawyer successfully argues that, while the AI is the product, the company shouldn't be held accountable for their product lying hallucinating because it would set a bad precedent for the industry

  • Exclusive: Trump plans no exemption for oil imports under new tariff plan, sources say

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  • Get your Trump "I did that" stickers ready

  • Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry

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  • Then they'll get to 1) be paid nothing instead of a few dollars an hour, 2) be a drain on the taxpayer from funding+running the new immigrant labor camps, 3) get abused by camp staffers, and 4) still pick your crops

  • Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry

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  • We should be punishing companies for paying illegal wages under the table no matter who's the recipient (documented or not), but instead the undocumented status of the workers is used as pretext to deny them any negotiating power for a raise or better conditions. Until we hold the companies accountable in these situations, they'll continue to do whatever they can to keep their labor costs down. Unfortunately, farm owners have the money in this situation, so their wishes for cheap labor trump any need for unemployed citizens to have a job :)

    These farm jobs aren't going to be opened up to Americans for minimum wage. They're going to be done by the same undocumented people, but as part of immigrant detention labor camps as an extension of the prison industrial complex.

    The reality is that we should be paying a lot more for groceries than we currently are, given that the current system depends on horrendously underpaid and exploitative labor. Good luck making that case to people struggling to pay for groceries.

    edit: slight wording because I suck at proofreading before hitting submit

  • Trump Is Pissed at True Reports His Victory Wasn’t Exactly a Landslide

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  • So, not to say I necessarily believe in this, but the case laid out has a lot to do with Elon's PAC, which was collecting only names and addresses with the promise that voters would be paid x amount after taking some sort of pledge. The argument then follows, that if electronic tabulation systems were hacked and continuously connected to the Internet, the people who signed up to his list could have their vote automatically cast as a bullet ballot for Donald Trump. Supposedly, there's a way they could do this digital ballot stuffing specifically for voters whose ballot had not shown up as cast within the voter registry past a certain point in time, so all the fraudulent ballots look like legitimate ones tied to actual people.

    It's pretty far-fetched, but just plausible enough that it's appealing to a lot of people who were blindsided by election day's results

  • "I love the poorly educated"

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  • "EV company owners" aside, most voters in this country just want something to change, and they'll vote for whoever promises the most of it. Harris' campaign didn't do anything nor promise anything that resonated, and practically everything she said ended up morphing into her highly-rehearsed stump speech. No talks about Medicare for All, no talks about the minimum wage, no talks about legalizing weed, and kowtowing to the right on border policy by accepting the 'crisis' framing. Harris also failed to address the situation in Gaza in a way that mattered, even though it was a major issue for undecided voters in key states like Michigan. Over 100,000 Democratic primary voters there cast an uncommitted vote over Biden's handling of Israel and Gaza, which is more than the margin by which she lost the state.

    The right took advantage of this. An EV company owner paid a PAC to distribute ostensibly pro-Harris pamphlets in predominantly Arab neighborhoods in Michigan saying she was the most pro-Israel candidate on the ballot. The right helped put abortion rights directly on the state ballots as propositions, letting people believe the choice could be separated from who they voted for (see Florida, where the proposition lost at 57% support when the state voted roughly the same percentage for ol Don).

    Harris had a potential base on the progressive left, but the DNC insisted on tweaking her campaign to try to win over right-moderates. That doesn't work anymore, precisely for the "sticking fingers in ears" attitude you mentioned from right-wing voters. It's asinine for the DNC to continue to try and appeal to them, when the median Republican voter thinks Democrats are agents of a satanic agenda. Regardless, the message the DNC seems to have gotten from Nov 5 was that they lost this election because they failed to move to the right hard enough. The ratchet effect continues.

    As a side note, I know several trumpets who would've voted for Sanders in 2016 were he the Democratic nominee, and would've voted for Walz even this election were he the main guy on the 2024 presidential ticket. Such people are not very coherent ideologically, they just want someone in who has big ideas.

    Unfortunately, it's just not enough to be "not the other guy", even if the other guy is a convicted felon, rapist, and just all-around a downright awful human being.

    edit: grammar and wording in a couple spots

  • Ukraine's Zelenskyy says he wants to end war with Russia through diplomacy next year

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  • Ok but that doesn't change that they're being actively invaded by Russia right now. That does tend to put a pretty big damper on a country's ability to conduct secure elections.

    Do you believe the elections in Russia are held fairly? I was under the impression that there are a lot of issues with political repression and electrical fraud, but admit that some of those notions could be more propaganda than reality. I'll be reading more into Russian electoral politics and history in the meanwhile.

    From what I read so far, it looks like Russia actually did hold elections for their own government within occupied Ukrainian territory. I'm not sure what to make of that.

  • "I love the poorly educated"

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  • Who do you think the people putting their fingers in their ears are, in this case?

  • UN votes 170-6 on Palestinian Right to Self-determination

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  • Why is "vote in favor" colored red?

  • Ukraine's Zelenskyy says he wants to end war with Russia through diplomacy next year

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  • Logistically, how should Ukraine have held an election earlier this year, on account of dealing with an active invasion and contested territory?

  • "I love the poorly educated"

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  • It doesn't matter what your platform is if it's not communicated effectively to the median voter

  • I love Rust

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  • So it's actually a secret third option! That's pretty rad.

  • I love Rust

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  • Is that because it's that simple, or just that the boilerplate is pre-written in the standard library (or whatever it's called in rust)?

  • Do Something

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  • If you're following someone but not the person they're replying to, this is how it shows up because the design assumes you're more interested in what the person you're following has to say, and just includes the original for context

    disclaimer: I don't really use the website so I could be slightly off. It probably doesn't require you only be following one of the two users, moreso that reply tweets (sorry, reply Xs on X) from people you follow show like "normal" top level posts in your feed

  • Portland’s ranked-choice debut causes voter engagement to crater; 1 in 5 who cast ballots chose no one for City Council

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  • That's because I didn't explain ranked choice voting, I explained approval voting... They're two different things