niucllos

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[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No, the Republicans also don't have the power to fix the system. That's not their goal. Both parties have the power to completely gum up the works of the government, which is antithetical to fixing the system, but is perfectly acceptable if your goal is to weaken protections to allow a privileged few to gain more power through extragovernmental levers. If we entered a mirror world where the Democratic party were gunning to be a fascist dictatorship and the Republicans were gunning to stop them, but all voters retained their current alliances, not much would change long-term because there are enough people in both parties to obstruct and roadblock, unless the now-pro-civil-rights supreme court kept being radical but in a positive direction

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago
[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Still a conspiracy if it aims to conspire, if there are receipts it ceases to be a theory and becomes just a true conspiracy

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago

We can trust him to look out for himself as he sees it, not necessarily rationally. And also not to plan long-term if he needs a cash infusion now. Will be interesting (I guess) to see which pressure wins out

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 10 points 3 weeks ago

Additionally, the raised and blunt hood height makes a full-body impact with no force dissipation much more likely, particularly for shorter people, where a more traditional hood shape allows a struck pedestrian to roll over the top and avert some of the force of the strike

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

It works great for notes, it's not great for recording data because if it mishears me/I mumble once an entire set of 500+ observations can be frame shifted away from their identifiers and I have to redo it

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Gesture typing is definitely faster, but I find it much less accurate and requires vision. My old sliding phone I could write whole essays in my hoodie pocket while walking home with few to no typos, which was a niche use-case for sure but an existing one. I work outside a fair amount and would love having that back for notetaking in the field

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 7 points 4 weeks ago

It sounds like British Irish

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

On Linux at least low enough power chargers will get rejected and won't do anything. Idk what the cutoff is but USB a phone chargers won't work.

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

This premise gets thrown around a lot but I actually disagree. "Every time people turn out" is always also thrown in there like some arbitrary thing--when I think the past several election cycles have shown that when there are younger, more progress candidates who make it past the primaries turnout shoots up. Courting the 3% uninformed flip-floppers by moving right is a losing strategy when you could be motivating your own party to turn out by moving left and driving turnout up. There's no money in that though, so dumb centrists get wooed

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if her resume is anything like any of the well-made mid-career resumes I've seen then she's probably left off a lot of experiences, and she can simply handwaved it with a line like "I didn't list X law clerk internship or y legal work at a corporation either because they aren't as relevant as the jobs I chose to list" and move on

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

Look, I'm with you most of the way in theory, but a lot of rural areas don't have plumbing and drinking water from public utilities, they have their own septic and water wells. I know it's pedantic but a lot of parts of the world are so rural that it probably doesn't make sense to have fully public transport, like it doesn't make sense to have centralized water. The scope needs to be great systems within towns and cities and lots of park and ride hubs around the perimeter

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