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  • Once Again, the Democratic Leadership Has Failed Us All

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  • after she refused to pledge that she wouldn't break a national railway strike

    JUST LIE my god youll already be in office and can make up some nonsense why you had to break the strike (Im not antiunion, Im just saying)

    JUST FUCKING LIE or were all the existential threats you wouldnt shut the fuck up about (instead of actually having a platform) not worth doing whatever you needed to get into power!?

    ... sigh

  • e-waste go brrrrrrr

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  • I played around with old iPads for a bit and then gave up. successful vendor lock for sure. I just wanted a home assistant front end without having to sign in to apple or use safari

  • A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms

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  • you didnt read my comment in the way it was intended:

    everyone involved here- the doctors, the patients, the state medical board- everyone wants doctors acting in accordance with the oath they took. these doctors, while legitimately afraid of running afoul of the law, may have intentionally failed to help this woman out of that fear, and if they could have helped her, should have. the fact that "this law" exists is a question for another time and place, after she has received appropriate care.

    if this law then causes a disciplinary hearing, thats how uts supposed to happen. the law can be brought into question. human beings with the requisite skills and experience to pass judgement on proper medical procedures can be consulted.

    sorry, but people dont get to pass laws that cause doctors to withhold care out of fear, laws they only passed out of their beliefs surrounding conception and birth. if those doctors werent going to save that woman, who was? wasnt that literally what they swore to do? what they got that license from texas for?

    you break the unjust laws. thats how it works.

    im tired of oh standing up is hard

    tell it to that womans family

    ed to add: theres enough ire to go around. many people fucked up and they all share the blame

  • YSK that there's a bot that's tracking trending communities across Lemmy

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  • with matter devices, you can possibly do some fun networking, and block them from reaching the outside world completely. then you just need to trust your firewall

  • A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms

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  • consequences for breaking an oath

    arbitrary punishment

    not the same thing

    or would you rather to continue to let policy dictate standard of care? the law is wrong, and if a doctor isnt going to break it to do the right thing, they shouldnt be a doctor anymore

  • Donald Trump 'Groped' A Minor At Donor Event? Claims Of Bombshell Video Surface

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  • "bombshell"

    shut the fuck up already.

  • What is your linux backup strategy?

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  • etckeeper, and borg/vorta for /home

    I try to be good about everything being installed in packages, even if Im the one that made the package. that means I only have to worry about backing up my local package archive. but Ive never actualy recreated a personal system from a backup, and usually end up starting from a fresh install, slowly adding back things from the backup if I missed them. this tends to cut down on cruft and no longer needed hacks and fixes. also makes for a good way to be exposed to new paradigms (desktop environments, shells, etc)

    something that helps is daily notes. one file for any day Im working on my system and want to remember what a custom file, confg edit, or downloaded/created package does and why. these get saved separately and I try to remember to grep them before asking the internet

    i see the benefit to snapshots, but disk space is expensive, and Im (usually) careful (enough) not to lock myself out or prevent boots. anything catastophic I have to fix is usually seen as a fun, stressful learning experience! that rarely happens anymore, for better or for worse

  • If we switched to renewable energy

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  • Im gonna need some concept art first. for research puposes

  • Trump suggests heckler should ‘get the hell knocked out of her’ after rally

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  • I like to think collectively, as a whole, we want to?

    Im guilty of giving up sometimes.

    I could do more.

    ...thank whatever Im not an alcoholic, because I figure this is how you start

    lets just sa theyve done a good job of creating an atmosphere where a lot of us who really, really want to do more feel slapped down before we even get started

    :shrug:

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  • Israeli forces shoot at UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, wounding two

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  • oh how nice it would be to see the world unite as one just to take us (the USA) down a peg. I feel like russia and china are really dropping the ball lately

    oh, wait lol theyre also run by egomaniacal baffoons :shrug:

  • People Ask Why Some Root Their Device and For Me This is Why

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  • shoutout to USAA banking app that detected my root, but just showed a warning and allowed me to continue. that's how it ahould be imho

  • This place is nice. What does it mean?

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  • an extra updoot for the unix surrealism shout out. ngl I look forward to a new one every time I check lemmy

  • 6 In 10 Americans Are 'Surprised' Marijuana Hasn't Been Legalized Across The U.S. Yet, Poll Finds

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  • The DEA's administrative law judge already said it shouldn't be Schedule I, after a lengthy review, and (surprise!) the DEA administrator ignored them. What a genius system; leave it up to the person wielding power to be the one making the final decision to wield less power 🤦

  • Texas woman's lawsuit after being jailed on murder charge over abortion can proceed, judge rules

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  • D.A. and sheriff have argued their positions provide them immumity from civil lawsuits.

    No! No, no, nonono, NO! FUCK YOU. "I'm just doing my job" is not a "get out of jail free" card, and certainly doesn't excuse you from defending your actions. You use the courts to ruin other people's lives when you deem it appropriate? You'd better damn well believe your conduct while doing so is subject to the same processes- criminal and civil. Forget the sheer arrogance of thinking differently -

    if you'd think about it for half a second, you supposed justice system experts -

    the whole damn thing doesn't work otherwise! Who is going to bother listening to you, holier than thou police officers, when you say the rules don't apply to you!? Are you somehow fucking stumped why people just mysteriously don't like cops? THIS KIND OF BULLSHIT IS A BIG REASON WHY. When you plainly act like the expectactions we hold for each other don't apply to you, you sound like you think you're above the law. You're not royalty, you're not nobility; you are citizens, just like us.

    these were choices y'all made. choices have consequences. own your shit. we DO NOT pay you to be mindless law enforcing robots- exercise better judgement next time. you want respect for the difficult job you do? rationally defend your actions OR as you've somewhat tried to do, apologize, and then show you've learned from your mistakes. this "I can't deal with/the system can't deal with the idea that people make bad choices so lets just act like everyone is infallable" is ruining, just RUINING any hope we have of continuing to be a functioning society pulls hair out in frustration

  • Refuses to network anything

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  • one of my absolute favs. it's a co-op where one player is randomly, secretly a cylon, sabotaging the groups efforts.

    you can toss people in the brig. theyll protest "Im not the cylon!!!" and if youre wrong (youre often wrong), the group suffers by losing the jailed character's special ability, while trying to fight off an attack until managing to jump.

    best part? half way through, you draw new loyalty cards. sleeper cylon activated!!!

    its genuinely hard not to run out of food, or water, or just get overrun by a boarding party. some of the best fun losing Ive ever had

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  • remember, it's not just about making up the difference per user in advertising, it's about getting and keeping as many people into their ecosystem as possible.

    then they make some cash from selling data, and having more data to scrape to train their models and such. proton isnt making any off your data

    it'd be great to be able to easily compare cost and expense, but companies obscure so much in the backend. rental car companies buy discounted in bulk, then sell the cars tens of thousands of miles later at a profit, and that's before any income from rental

  • Nationalist parties, far-left on the rise ahead of Sunday’s federal elections in Belgium

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  • This is similar to to how the two major US political parties fail at effectively creating constant, essential evolution of laws in the name of representing ideals.

    Candidates that can not, by the very foundational nature of their stated goals and beliefs, form coalitions with other candidates in order to ensure constant progress, create disfunctional governments that fail their citizens. Systems of choice should tend towards the choices that best represent the most widely agreed upon ideas. If those systems are in place, citizens who willingly choose extreme idelogical candidates that denounce compromise and coalitions are getting exactly what they voted for- a government that is doomed to fail.

    We need moderate candidates focused on representing the majority of their constituents, and we need voting systems in place that favor moderate candidates. Any system that favors moderate candidates - say candidates that, while maybe not any majority's first choice, but the second choice of a majority of the same people - is favorable to first-past-the-post, which has allowed exteremism and obstructionism to thrive in our legislative bodies.

    The question becomes, do the citizens have that system in place, a system where moderate voices can thrive? If they do, are there those in positions of extreme wealth and power who would benefit from convincing the rest of us that voting for extreme, obstructionist candidates is best? Are those people possibly exploiting the system to create disfuntional governments that protect their wealth and power?

    That's whats happening in the US. Regulatory capture and mass media control, for example, are tools used to convince citizens the war is between us, distracting us from their benefitting from our disfunctional government. These few push the idea that obstructionism and extremism is our only choice, lest you be seen as the enemy. The true enemy is clearly those that care more about themselves and/or their espoused ideals than society at large, a society doomed without a constantly evolving goverment keeping corruption and consolodation of wealth and power in check.

  • caverns of obsolete

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  • many times I've seen a new post and said "I'd buy a pile of that as stickers and put them up all over 'amazonville' (nobody calls it that- the chunk of Seattle where scamazon raized the old, gloriously grungy bars, affordable apartments and light industrial buildings, replacing it all with techbro filled, sterile glass towers and impossibly priced luxury condos)

    if there weren't constant corposecurity wandering about, posters would be perfect. but there are plenty of light poles adorned with bright, colorful show posters in the surrounding neighborhoods, just begging to have some FOSS war posters tacked up on them

  • lesson #314

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  • Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold

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  • whoops. maybe I should read the entire thing next time