Appreciate ya, and agreed there too. Like UltraGiGaGigantic said, it's unfortunately not a party for the people. Neither are, really. Something American Democrats should consider is dropping the whole "vote Blue no matter who" kind of mentality. The huge base of people with that are part of the reason the DNC is able to maintain status quo and not have to actually do anything people want. If a large enough group of people were able to get together and agree on shit for once, a third-party or independent candidate might be possible. But the parties are basically treated like sports teams. Like, you're either team A or team B and theres no other option. except it's just a game at the end of the day. The system is set up to continue to enforce the two-party dichotomy, unfortunately.
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Election time was so irritating, Lemmy basically reigned in Harris as the next messiah; I had to end up blocking political keywords to make it usable. Kamala Harris is an absolute joke and the DNC is an even bigger joke. I remember seeing one post where someone basically claimed she has a spotless political career and I'm just thinking, 😮💨, really?
The problem with left leaning individuals on the internet is we have a lot of drive and conviction behind our ideas which is a good thing, but that should translate into real life activism or doing something that will combat the current political system and promote change. But we are beaten down since that's basically a total pipe dream, we realize what the problem is and feel powerless to fix it. What's
Now, whats a good way to regain some of the power over your "opponents"? Silence their opinion, whether that be outright censorship or in other ways that are antithetical to getting the point across.
The American political system has us fighting amongst one another to keep people distracted from who is really fucking everyone up the ass daily. And it continues to work. We need to stop this petty squabbling and use all this wasted energy on something useful that could actually bring us together, like maybe instead of just browsing social media all day, you could go out in to the real world.
I am left-leaning and live in a predominantly conservative area. Very red. When I go out, people usually don't just randomly talk about Trump all day, that's just not reality. Most people dont make their political views their entire personality. I hear way more about Trump from social media than I am ever do from people in real life. And I assure you, I don't seek it out.
You have way more in common with the other side than you realize. Social media allows the worst aspects of peoples personality to come out since you don't have to look at a human being in front of you that has feelings, goals, beliefs, dreams, et al. just like you do. Have some god damn compassion and maybe try to understand why people on the other side have come to the conclusions they have, instead of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
This. You have to accept your shortcomings and tell people the best way to interact with you. My boss at work is also very ADHD and about a decade older than me, but a very smart guy. So I was able to learn a lot from him. One of the first things I caught on to was when someone asked him to do something in-person he would flat out tell them that he would forget and to please send him an email so he could review later. Then he could see that in his inbox as a reminder and would keep that email maked unread until he could get to it, depending on priority level. That was when I realized that is a thing you can do and people appreciate it. It shows that you really do care and you're commited to doing whatever it is, you just need a little help. Thing is, when people are asking for help they're not necessarily asking for you to do everything on your own.
When my SO has tasks for me to do, they know not to interrupt me during other tasks and to make a list for me, usually through just a text message.
What I've noticed is with the ADHD brain, it is hard to strike a focus. But when you can it is a powerful thing and you can get a lot done in a short amount of time. When someone interrupts that, for me, it can be very frustrating. Who knows when I'll be able to strike gold again and get all this shit done?
Be honest with your partner and try to find the best way you can to explain your feelings. Ask for help, as people are more receptive to addressing interpersonal issues when you frame it as something you need as opposed to something that the other is doing wrong.
Make lists. Write everything down. If you are hiking the next morning, come up with a plan together to prep as much as you can the day before. Make a list of things you need to do in the morning before leaving, and mutually agree on a departure time in advance. That last part is hard for me, but I promise you it is better than the alternative (leaving it up to fate).
When you have ADHD, planning is both your greatest enemy and your best ally. Enemy because it is hard to make yourself do it, but your ally because if you do it, you can get some initial stress out of the way and when the time comes to do the thing you can spend more time thinking about the thing; or, living in the moment, as they say.
This just in: the taliban are afraid of women
Absolutely, we need to place blame where it belongs. Democrats fucked up bad, it is basically 2016 all over again
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Spotless record? Could you simp any harder?
For Surface hardware compatibility, check this out. I have a fully working touchscreen, pen and all, on my Surface Pro 4 running Mint thanks to this project. Essentially, it's just a different kernel you install through your package manager that replaces the default for your distro. Let me know if you have any questions. https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/
I would say kinda based if it wasn't my tax dollars going toward that crap. Starts to put the massively over-inflated military budget into perspective.
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Nah, people are way too lazy and complacent.
Have you seen the movies? I have to wonder when people say things like this. This argument is based purely upon my interpretation of the media, but so are those articles.
I have always seen Borat as an extreme parody of what westerners (more specifically Americans) think the outside world is like based on nothing but pure ignorance and maybe some propaganda mixed in too. I really don't see how they could be interpreted as racist, maybe xenophobic at worst. And I definitely don't see how they could be interpreted as islamophobic. That is just a massive stretch. These articles honestly just read as really tone-deaf if you ask me. People who think the movie was just making stereotypical jokes for the fun of it I feel like aren't seeing the full picture.
I see those jokes being used to directly make fun of the people that actually say racist / xenophobic things like that in real life, because when you see them coming out of the mouth of this ridiculously played up fictional character it makes it even more obvious how stupid the things being said are and how stupid the people saying them are. It is used as part of the setup because sometimes the people being filmed just flat out agree with the crazy shit he is saying and go along with it, you see a more authentic look at these types of people than you would otherwise because these people only talk about the craziest shit they believe when they feel like they're in an echo chamber. You don't get those kinds of genuine reactions from people normally and I think that is also part of the purpose, to shed a light on the side of society that is normally kept in the shadows.
For instance, The majority of Americans live in big cities and never see deep-south rednecks so can only picture them how they have seen them in movies and TV. These people are ignorant to how a huge part of the rural country thinks and acts, but we have seen how those people and their views can be powerful enough to get an orange dumbass elected in to office. Crazy views need to be put out in the sun to for everyone to see, no matter who is saying them. People need to be shown that their stereotypes are often mis-informed or wrong and I feel like these movies do that if you can watch with an open mind. They're just movies, the first time I watched Texas Chain Saw Massacre I didn't assume that all deep woods rednecks are crazy cult-like murdering cannibals. That's up to the viewer to interpret, if people are interpreting Borat as a character who is supposed to accurately depict a modern Kazakh citizen they're incredibly dense and probably have never left their house. Every character Sacha Baton Cohen plays is an incredibly over-the-top and often really stupid or ignorant person, so ridiculous that you can't even see that type of person actually existing in any real capacity. I don't personally see how anyone could interpret his characters as any kind of representation of reality, they're designed that way to highlight the absurdity of the given subject matter.
I think there is a lot of nuance to the Borat movies that is missed on people who wanna just scream about a movie they've never watched just so everyone can see how progressive they are. Borat movis arent documentaries, they are comedies.
Whatever Sacha's personal views are, I couldn't really care less because that's not what the movies are about, I can separate the art from the artist and see the movies for what they are.
Probably vim. It works fine out of the box but it took me way too long to figure out things like why my terminal colors were never quite right out of the box (had to set it to 256 color mode or what have you). And once I wanted to use some a few plugins the configuration started getting a bit convoluted/confusing. Hoping I have time some day/remember to figure out how to disable that annoying visual paste mode or whatever it is called that sometimes makes using it over SSH a nightmare.
As in a camera that catches people for speeding? Sounds like some bootlicker behavior if you ask me
I'd picture him as the kinda guy that would just make his wife do the shopping. Then if he had to he would make her set up a Walmart grocery pickup and berate the worker while the poor soul loads his groceries in the back of his pickup truck or whstever.
Putting the whole judging games based on graphics out there feels dishonest. I personally don't give a rip how games look on the switch or can at the very least get over it pretty quick as long as they aren't plgsued with performance issues . We shouldn't be in a spot where playing modern console games on emulator is often a better experience than the real thing.
The switch architecture is very dated and the only ones who really know their way around to hack things together and make it kinda work is Nintendo. Still amazed that TOTK is playable on Switch with everything going on, but for a third-party dev to do the same would probably take an insane amount of effort. Its not worth it. Just update the standard and everyone will benefit.
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Honestly, Google Keep notes. Trilium server runs as a UWA on Android but it's pretty ass. And things like Obsidian are way too much for something me and my (non-technical) SO use to share notes
Did not expect the ethoslab shout out, I fell off a while back but I followed his videos pretty religiously for many years back in the 2010s; even when I was going through times where I burned myself out on playing MC.
Dude is super wholesome and I loved how his videos kinda just felt like hanging out with a friend. Ive checked on him since and I respect that he has not changed at all, love him dearly. But it just doesnt hit the same for me as it did back then. I hope he keeps doing what he loves as long as that's still the case!
Steve is a great guy, super down-to-earth and just pleasant to follow in whatever he is doing.
Also community college libraries. Theyre usually open where you can kinda just show up