BeautifulMind ♾️ @ BeautifulMind @lemmy.world

Late-diagnosed autistic, special interest-haver, dad, cyclist, software pro

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What about the Monitor improvements?

Support for more than 3 monitors, for one. Also, support for multi-mon over remote

It’s about control and power. Not about values.

True. But it's also about the social/class/wealth/gender hierarchies that they defend and believe deeply in. When you're higher on the hierarchy than someone, that makes them your inferior and it subjects them to scrutiny and authority to which you are (insofar as the hierarchy is real) immune.

So, when they howl for the little people to abide by rules that don't apply to them they're not overlooking that part, they're flexing about ranking higher and being immune to that rule themselves. For people that believe in that, being flexed on in this way is a 'put you in your place' experience, it's an exercise in dominating or shaming someone that has failed to know his place.

It might be better to stop calling it hypocrisy, and to start calling it entitlement and arrogance.

Yes. It's "not hypocrisy" when you're consistent about believing rules are for your inferiors but not you, it's a flex when you rub it in their faces that you are their superior.

That's the hidden context behind the left-right divide; the right think it's obvious that there's a social/class/wealth/race hierarchy while the left seem to expect equal treatment like we all learned about in civics. When they go after Fetterman for failing to 'respect the decorum of the institution', they're not arguing based on rules that apply equally to everybody, they're flexing when they invoke rules that don't apply to them.

The reason they love doing it so much is that 'owning the libs' reminds them that they're superior while shaming or confounding them - even if it's only so in their heads

I am ever amazed that these people believe they can gut education (or even just the parts of it they want to keep people ignorant about) and still live in a first-world country

allow the market to decide

Yeah. After all, when "the market" decides something, that usually means the public interest wasn't profitable enough to the people making decisions in it

It'll be an interesting thing to see how this affects politics. Swift's core demographic- young, relatively affluent white women- don't have the best record when it comes to turning out to vote, so if she mobilizes significant change there that could make a difference. On the other hand, affluent white women that do vote have tended in recent years to vote for the patriarchy. Will an influx of younger women voters, especially those with Roe on their mind, shift that trend?

If you find yourself confused at how the right is all about those troops on one day and then when Trump shits on those troops they're perfectly okay with that- it's okay, that shit is confusing until you understand they only value the troops as props when it suits them.

It's also probably worth noting that Trump sees soldiers as chumps that weren't special enough to get deferrals like him.

most of the active military personnel we have are heavily right leaning

It's a bit more complicated than that.

The enlisted/younger/minority troops tend to skew politically in a way consistent with their age and demographics- that is, liberal/left. Commissioned/older/whiter troops also tend to skew politically consistently with their own demographics.

There's definitely a demographic in the military that are drawn to enlist out of right-wing sentiment, especially family-tradition/legacy soldiers, doubly so if they're from the sort of family that can get them a commission. It happens, but it's hardly the rule- after all, a solid contingent of the enlisted folks are there because it promises to help them pay for college

This is slave-owner mentality

It's also religious-war/race war mentality.

The 'covid is fake/masks don't work' talking points were cast early on, when the data were mostly being reported in high-population-density areas. I suspect they decided the pandemic was a political opportunity, to let the virus kill off minorities and democrats in the cities for them.

Of course, they're stupid as hell in that they killed far more of their own voters than they did anyone else.

I predicted he would die in prison when he clinched the GOP nomination in 2016- there was no way, I decided, he wouldn't abuse his office and break a shitload of laws. The last 6 years has been a rude reminder that I seem to have wildly overestimated the capacity and will of America's political and law enforcement establishments to hold anyone like him accountable for even the kinds of crimes he's confessed to on the record.

Marketing is a hell of a drug I guess

It's wild to me that public resources like water are given, not sold, to corporations like Nestle- who then go on to lobby for less public spending on water systems, and who mass-produce those shitty bottles that end up everywhere.

Charge them royalties for taking water from springs, make it cheaper for nestle to buy water from a utility.

Whatever it is she's going through, I hope it sucks

It's nice to see the CCC brought back, but frankly the Roosevelt-era CCC was as much about feeding (unemployed) malnourished men in the Depression era as it was about making any difference with their labor.

Today, there's a lot of need for the kind of labor-intensive land management they can do; there's so much woodland out there that could benefit from cutting firebreaks into it or from planting millions of trees, etc.

I kind of suspect that the Roosevelt-era CCC paid dividends by the time WWII rolled around (just a decade later)- here the USA was, with a pretty large population of people with lots of experience working in groups, building camps, more-or-less soldiering- alongside having all of the logistics train around keeping large groups of working men in camps or on the move worked out.

Well, yeah.

It's not the powerless that made things how they are, it's the powerful that shape the world.

It's also worth noting that when you're powerful but don't have the votes it takes to do a thing you want, the shortest path to getting those votes is unifying people around being mad at some sort of scapegoat.

This is why fascism looks the way it does

• it emerges from a democracy in some sort of crisis
• it's always that elites (a voting minority of powerful interests) need political support
• the way they always get it is by focusing anger on a scapegoat, with promises to punish them

It's about time we stopped protecting Nazi politics under the rubric of 'free speech'.

The countries that don't do that still have freedom of expression (and they tend to have human rights protections even more expansive than ours), it's just that it makes no logical sense to hide nazis (whose politics amount to advocating against human rights for particular people) under the skirts of human rights protections.

Well, I've traded burning fuel for burning internet and electricity at my home. My electricity at home is mostly solar (from my roof) and hydro from the grid (I live in Washington State).

Working from home spares me ~20 uncompensated transit hours a week, so the emissions difference (whether I use transit or drive) is substantial and so is the cost savings (in fuel and parking). FWIW, my employer will pay for my transit fares (but not fuel or parking) and that's nice and all, but I'm squeamish about transit during flu/covid season because of all those coughing people going in to jobs that don't encourage them to stay home while sick.

I'm able to work more hours when I do it from home because I'm not constrained by transit schedules/catching the last train out of town, and that way I still come out ahead in terms of having time with my kids, and I have time to take grocery shopping and meal planning and prep off of my wife's plate.

It's better this way, not just in terms of cost and environmental impact and quality of life, but productivity-wise.

Plus there's almost certain to be a factor in a brand's V-score that relates to whether or not they paid the app maker.

So basically the plan is to restore the late 1800s and be ruled by corporate barons

I question the 'less productive' part of his claim here

If I commute (2 hours, one way) the time I can spend in the office is bounded by how early I have to leave in order to catch the last train home. Not only does that mean a 5-day week involves 20 uncompensated hours, it literally limits my time in the office to about 45 hours.

Today, working remotely, I can bill 50 hours in the week and still see my kids. I get more done this way and they know it. If they want me in the office every day, they can pay me my hourly rate to commute