Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)W

Wrench

@ Wrench @lemmy.world

Posts
0
Comments
523
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Some Trump Electors In Swing States Are Primed To ‘Stop The Steal’ Again In 2024 | Several GOP electors leave the door open to doing the fake elector scheme, again.

    Jump

  • Yeah, I guess that's what I don't get. How can stealing/destroying ballots not be considered "political", but figuratively throwing out all of the ballots and unilaterally picking the winner be protected as "political".

    It seems both are major crimes to democracy, whatever political party happened to commit said crimes.

    Unless there's some grey area not explicitly addressed in law wrt electors.

  • Some Trump Electors In Swing States Are Primed To ‘Stop The Steal’ Again In 2024 | Several GOP electors leave the door open to doing the fake elector scheme, again.

    Jump

  • Can someone explain why this is different from election interference?

    You have people going away for years for stealing/destroying ballots, as they should.

    But to throw away the result of millions of counted ballots seems like these low level interference x1000. How have they not faced dire consequences?

    And yeah, I know, if its considered state level crimes (because states define tgeir own election rules), then it's local law enforcement, prosecutors, judges who look the other way because it's for their team.

    But these seem to be major crimes with a clear record. How are they not locked away despite political alignment?

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Kamala Harris: ‘I will always be an American before I am a Republican’

    Jump

  • Meh. I'd happily return to the ideological difference of the 90s / 2000s where maybe some facts don't support beliefs. But we're in a very different ballgame now.

    And the fact that he's endorsing Harris instead of just saying don't vote for Trump is commendable. Many of my Republican friends that reject Trump can't stomach voting for Harris. It's apparently a very big bridge to cross for them.

  • The Poison in my Life

    Jump

  • Don't feed the walrus

  • How can I vote for Kamala Harris if she supports Israel’s war? Here is my answer | Bernie Sanders

    Jump

  • Eh. It started respectful, but dealing with the same tired "never genocide" canvassing of every single election thread gets old. And the people making those arguments know exactly what they're doing.

    Do you expect the opposition to fall over themselves to be respectful and accommodating while the other is not playing by the same rules?

    Does that remind you of something the Dems were very heavily criticized for doing in the recent past?

  • Mel Gibson Blasted After Backing Trump With Offensive Insult About Harris In Bonkers Rant

    Jump

  • TBF, Australia has a really big problem with racism. Against immigrants in particular.

    As an American that traveled there 2 years ago on vacation, it was typical for them to ice break with "so how about them immigrants" after they found out we were American (and assumed all Americans are Texans I guess, by the stereotype they were expecting)

  • Bernie Sanders to voters skipping presidential election over Israel: ‘Trump is even worse’

    Jump

  • Keep on attacking that imaginary strawman. Lemmy .world connected communities as a whole accept the very obvious reality of what the stakes are. In every political thread, this is spelled out over and over because of you "leftists" trying to disenfranchise Dem voters exclusively.

    There are plenty of memes caricaturizing you clowns.

    https://lemmy.world/post/21329323

  • Bernie Sanders to voters skipping presidential election over Israel: ‘Trump is even worse’

    Jump

  • Jfc.

    It’s the bold text that we accept that a vote for Dems is a vote for genocide. But given no other plausible alternative, and the enormous risk to a plethora of other issues that Trump represents, voting for less genocide is the best option on the table.

    I literally bolded it for you this time.

    Or if you want me to put in in terms of self:

    I support a candidate that supports genocide because they support less genocide than the only other plausible option. Both in Gaza and in Ukraine. And less blatant corruption. And less erosion of rights. And less lynching of minorities. And less open encouragement of domestic terrorism.

    There, you got your soundbite. Take the bolded portion and pass it around to your comrads out of context for all I care.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Republicans already destroyed the USPS, so home mailboxes are no better. High likelihood of ballots getting "lost in the mail" until after counting has stopped.

    I have had so many problems with our automated rent checks showing up on time in the last few years. I can clearly see our credit union sending them on time, and they're eventually received with the appropriate timestamps, but we're weeks late in arrival.

  • Bernie Sanders to voters skipping presidential election over Israel: ‘Trump is even worse’

    Jump

  • Your reading comprehension is fucking atrocious, then. Even when Biden was the candidate, the vast majority has been saying "ok, continuing to support Isreal as they commit war atrocities is bad, but Trump would be much worse" for Gaza, and a ton of other things. Like democracy in America, for starters"

    There are no lines to read between. It's the bold text that we accept that a vote for Dems is a vote for genocide. But given no other plausible alternative, and the enormous risk to a plethora of other issues that Trump represents, voting for less genocide is the best option on the table.

    But you are well aware this. You're just arguing under false pretext to strawman your way to voter disenfranchisement.

    See, we can actually read between lines here.

  • Removed

    More than a little frustrating

    Jump

  • Except catering to these clowns doesn't get you anywhere. They're the same people that said they'd vote for any dem that's not Biden. They got him to drop out, and have just moved the goalpost.

    It's the 11th hour. People are voting now. If you're still armchair activist-ing to "hold Harris' feet to the flame" to get results, you're fooling yourself. All you're achieving at this point is disenfranchising people into not voting or wasting their vote, which only serves to give Trump another term.

    And I think you all know that. And is your goal.

  • Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’

    Jump

  • Rofl. As a developer of nearly 20 years, lol.

    I used copilot until finally getting fed up last week and turning it off. It was a net negative to my productivity.

    Sure, when you're doing repetitive operations that are mostly copy paste and changing names, it's pretty decent. It can save dozens of seconds, maybe even a minute or two. That's great and a welcome assist, even if I have to correct minor things around 50% of the time.

    But when an error slips through and I end up spending 20 minutes tracking down the problem later, all that saved time vanishes.

    And then the other times where my IDE is frozen because the plugin is stuck in some loop and eating every last resource and I spend the next 20 minutes cursing and killing processes, manually looking for recent updates that hadn't yet triggered update notifications, etc... well, now we're in the red, AND I'm pissed off.

    So no, AI is not some huge boon to developer productivity. Maybe it's more useful to junior developers in the short term, but I have definitely dealt with more than a few problems that seem to derive from juniors taking AI answers and not understanding the details enough to catch the problems it introduced. And if juniors frequently rely on AI without gaining deep understanding, we're going to have worse and worse engineers as a result.

  • I'd like to think they're all just Russian trolls but increasingly, I think some people are just selfish or dumb.

    Jump

  • Even if you're in a solidly blue state, don't fuck around with your vote.

    You fuck around, and we all find out.

  • I'd like to think they're all just Russian trolls but increasingly, I think some people are just selfish or dumb.

    Jump

  • If you're that dialed in to the railroad strike this long after the fact, you are absolutely aware that Biden helped get the unions their biggest demands shortly after ending the strike.

    Get your bad faith soundbite bullshit out of here.

  • I'd like to think they're all just Russian trolls but increasingly, I think some people are just selfish or dumb.

    Jump

  • People are already early voting. If you're goal is to ratchet up the protests to get a change from the Dems, it's too late.

    Now all your doing is encouraging people to waste their vote in protest.

    Or in other words, you're campaigning for Trump.

  • I'd like to think they're all just Russian trolls but increasingly, I think some people are just selfish or dumb.

    Jump

  • It's almost like the frequent commenters in lemmy advocating against either real candidate, or more specifically, against Dems, have ulterior motive besides helping as many Gazians as they can.

    Almost like their arguments are in bad faith to achieve a particular political result.

    Go figure.

  • The double standard for Harris and Trump has reached a breaking point | One candidate can rant about gibberish while the other has to be perfect.

    Jump

  • Except half the jury would be comprised of people who either support those lies, even knowing they're lies, or don't care enough to form an opinion.

    You would need a population that is both concerned with the rule of law and break from political teams enough to fairly examine arguments for bad faith.

    We do not have that population. Any jury would be split or worse.

  • Trump hurls a string of insults at Harris including 'lazy,' a racist trope against Black people

    Jump

  • Well? She IS lazy.

    She hasn't grifted anything for her own personal financial gain! No shoes, no watches, not even an NFT of herself in stupid poses!

    What else would you call someone like that, besides lazy?

  • Intuit possibly succumbs to the Streisand effect

    Jump

  • Eh. Honestly, the line of "questions" was rather stupid.

    "Why aren't you lobbying to make your business irrelevant" is essentially what the interviewer pushed aggressively.

    Sure, I get calling out a CEO for deflecting tough questions with corporate BS. But it was a pretty dumb line of questioning in the first place.

    Why isn't Google lobbying for privacy protections?

    Why isn't Comcast lobbying for net neutrality?

    Just make your statement and ask for comment. "Our listeners consider Intuits lobbying against tax reform that would benefit tax payers to be adversarial to their customers. What would you say to them?"