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tormeh

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  • Trying Out Pop OS on my laptop

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  • Second this. It was really rough for a while, but now it's mostly (mostly!) smooth. Still waiting for a mesa version with the Doom fixes, though, so don't expect frequent driver updates. I think maybe the stable Pop release is better with this?

  • One in four Dutch voters has lost faith in all political parties, survey finds

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  • Is it democracy that has a problem, or is it humans? Take the housing crisis, for example. We want low rents without lotteries, except we also want beautiful cities without commieblocks or even high-rises, and the significant proportion of voters who own their own homes want home values to always increase. And god forbid property taxes forces a retired old person out of a home that's far larger than what they need. There is just no solution that satisfies all constraints. So we muddle through, mumbling something about "damn foreigners" and "eat the rich". If we all actually agreed the housing crisis is a problem we're willing to make sacrifices to solve, then we'd solve it in an instant. But no. Only mimimi.

  • One in four Dutch voters has lost faith in all political parties, survey finds

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  • The left runs on vibes and the right doesn't want to fix anything. That's not the fault of political parties, but just how different kinds of people think and operate. I don't have a solution, really. The best I can come up with is: If you don't like the laws where you live, see if anywhere else has a system you like. If you find something, consider moving there. If you don't find what you're dreaming of anywhere in the world then it is probably not (politically?) possible and you'll just have to cope.

  • One in four Dutch voters has lost faith in all political parties, survey finds

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  • The most extremist-proof voting system I know of is approval voting. Proportional representation is unfortunately not really great at preventing extremism.

  • One in four Dutch voters has lost faith in all political parties, survey finds

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  • The word "idiot" was originally conceived to mean someone apolitical. Its meaning drifted for a reason.

  • NATO countries agree to allocate 5% of GDP to defence

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  • I don't like this analogy. It's more like insurance premiums. We're doing risk pooling, in a way.

  • NATO countries agree to allocate 5% of GDP to defence

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  • I think it's fine that the crackpots have their own instance. And anyway it's possibly good that there's a counterbalance to the right wing MAGA/Orban shitheads, although a stronger center would ofc be best. I just wish there was a way to block the ibstance so I wouldn't have to listen to their inane opinions.

  • NATO countries agree to allocate 5% of GDP to defence

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  • Until the USA goes full dictatorship (admittedly less hypothetical than I'd like) that's not going to happen. Democracies don't fight like this.

    Also the US is who is pushing hardest for higher NATO defence spending. So that makes no sense.

  • NATO countries agree to allocate 5% of GDP to defence

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  • Isn't 5% a lot? IIRC even the US aren't that high. And what are we supposed to use all those soldiers and weapons for? Surely that's overkill, even for Russia? Is this actually about China?

    Edit: It's 3.5% on the military and 1.5% on dual use infrastructure like roads, for a total of 5%. That's high but quite a bit more sane.

  • Lollipop man told to stop high-fiving kids as it slows down traffic

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  • Did a driver just say it's political correctness that this guy can't high five? What does the driver think PC means?? You just know that's an annoying as hell person

  • They used to keep that thing ice cold straight through the 90s.

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  • The tusks know where they are because they know where they are not

  • ‘Drop Israel’: How military escalation with Iran divides Trump’s base

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  • Also the reason they don't want to anger Russia. Just a voter base defined by selfishness and - even worse - short-sightedness. Anything that's not of immediate and personal benefit to them personally they are against. Fuck others and fuck the long run.

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  • It's not an emergency if it can wait 15 minutes. So the line just doesn't work for its intended purpose. That's extraordinary failure.

  • America in a nutshell

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  • Conservatism does sort of exist, but it's all about conserving the social, economic, and power structures of the present. Honestly most so-called conservatives are actually reactionaries - they want to bring back the social, economic, and power structures of the recent past, i.e. reverse the past couple of decades of development. Mostly, of course, because they believe they were better off back then.

  • Trump Regime Wants to Make Approvals Easier for Tesla's Mythical Cybercab

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  • What if I want to take the cab but I'm not a cutie?

  • 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft

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  • The worst chat app I've ever used. Impressively bad

  • BNSF freight train operations in Chicago were disrupted because a semi truck didn't move through a level crossing in time and got barreled straight through

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  • Grade level crossings mi amor

  • Capitalism in theory vs capitalism in practice

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  • Fox News and some other outlets like it are pure propaganda. I don't have an answer to it, but it's very frustrating that we're apparently so defenseless and helpless against something that's intent on destroying democracy. We have no active defenses.

  • Capitalism in theory vs capitalism in practice

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  • That's not unique to capitalism. That's just what living in a society made up of humans is like. Incompetence and malice (whichever applies) will exist for as long as there are people.