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limer

@ limer @lemmy.ml

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Long term computer programmer, making my own library. American based. Far left politically. Promotes use of paper ballots. Follows news about environmental collapse, political corruption in my country, human rights, science and tech.

  • The extremely mature and rational reason that I decided to try Debian

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  • StarCraft

  • Fathers’ microplastic exposure tied to their children’s metabolic problems

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  • This study validates what I suspected

  • U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

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  • There is great profit by savaging the government, and this will happen again and again the next decades.

  • Bruce Springsteen Releases Anti-ICE Protest Song 'Streets of Minneapolis'

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  • I listened and we were dancing with it playing. We liked it and thought it was good quality

  • More 'No Kings' protests planned for March 28 as outrage spreads over Minneapolis deaths

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  • I agree with all that.

    I believe communism is the only way to achieve those goals, and I believe that, at this time, there is no way to control or manage the decline of the country at the federal level but there will be progress seen in some states and communities

    In my mind this decline will take over a generation before it bottoms out. We will be years older when we see what finally occurs

  • More 'No Kings' protests planned for March 28 as outrage spreads over Minneapolis deaths

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  • I think the networking like you described will keep on increasing. And that is good.

    I view the protests now as not very leftist but more centrist. There are a lot of protests and so this is more a general trend.

    I think some later protests will be less liberal, and more leftist, or communist, without the assumption that things merely need to be restored.

    However it’s a very big country and there may not be coordinated movements in different regions ; and there may be movements that are in opposition to each other with radically different ideas.

    It’s a long future of this later, and many things could happen including outcomes that are not good for most people living here.

    It is not guaranteed the good guys will win , or there will be stability

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  • I see the current protests as being the most that can be done now: perhaps there are not any mechanisms to do more at this time.

    I think there will be many years of gradual decline of law and order in the federal government, and these are still early days for the decline.

    I see movements evolving later that are run by different philosophies and peoples. With some overlap between the participants. But the current protests are not necessary for the later movements.

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  • There is a lot going on in this country, many other things cause restraints too. Also I have a different view of elections and I don’t think the next year is relevant ( I do expect democrats to win congress).

    Trying to isolate the effect of one movement is hard. I were a bad guy, I would actually approve of these monthly marches because they let off steam in a non threatening way

  • More 'No Kings' protests planned for March 28 as outrage spreads over Minneapolis deaths

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  • I have not really seen any proof those day long protests do that

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  • I participate but strongly feel it is ineffective. And i believe it will not change anything.

    I enjoy it. But all it does is getting outside, meeting people, exercising and a picnic. These are all important

  • More 'No Kings' protests planned for March 28 as outrage spreads over Minneapolis deaths

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  • I do all the listed above. I think you took my enthusiasm for sarcasm!

  • More 'No Kings' protests planned for March 28 as outrage spreads over Minneapolis deaths

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  • Actually… it will work as long as we vote blue every time, while posting and attending picnics.

    The combined moral superiority will inevitably restore justice.

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  • Yay! Picnic. I will bring sandwiches and it will be nice for the kids to be outdoors and have fun.

    Looking forward to a repeat every month or so

  • Ugh... I forgot to pack a towel

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  • Just because:

    A towel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

    Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

    Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1))

  • How Peaceful Protest by Just 3.5 Percent of Americans Could Force Major Policy Changes From the Trump Administration

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  • I think there is a reason that the current political scene is so static. I see nothing has been done for over a generation. It takes no special abilities or skill to be old and see generational shifts in neighborhood politics and how leftist groups have floundered.

    Simply put, there can be no change because not enough people go to church, or engage in other community activities. And there will be no change until something gets people out to socialize more with their neighbors

  • How Peaceful Protest by Just 3.5 Percent of Americans Could Force Major Policy Changes From the Trump Administration

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  • I’m going to poke a few holes into this. I have no references, so take this as personal opinions that may or may not be accurate.

    That 3.5 percent needs the support of a far greater number of the population; passive , active and logistical support is needed from about 1/3 the population.

    We are nowhere near 1/3 of the people wishing such stuff.

    Most politically active people in the USA who think this is a good idea have absolutely no idea how to implement the above.

    And those that do have an idea struggle against the second issue: that these things are not organized from the internet, or have a command structure, but are made up of thousands of like minded groups who self organize.

    Spontaneous organizing where people meet each other face to face is currently rare. Most USA neighborhoods do not have much that help with that. What was done in the civil rights era could not be done today

  • US tariffs are paid almost entirely by Americans, a German study finds

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  • Similarly, I am startled, wondering, awed, bewildered, astounded, amazed, bemused, astonished, flabbergasted, dumbfounded, awestruck, puzzled, marveling, overwhelmed, open-mouthed, stunned.

    I would never have expected this would agree with 99% of rational predictions.

  • Japanese mayor apologises after calling staff 'human scum'

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  • Picture meets expectations

  • For me, Hacker News is probably the best community on the internet

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  • From comments and I agree

    Hacker news is good for one particular use case: reasonably informed discussion of technology industry news.