Lol, and what, give all powers to the House and the Executive? Cut off appeals at the circuit level?
This isn't policy it's fantasy. You'd never get half the Dems to agree to most of this, let alone a single non-dem. What leftists need in this country isn't a fantasy where if we all magically convince our landlords and bosses to vote for communism then we'd win in a landslide overnight revolution.
What we need is sound policy that stands a chance of passing and begins moving our country towards the left. Policies with popular support and real immediate benefits like:
Nationalized single-payer Healthcare for all
Making ISPs a regulated utility
Ranked-choice voting for future elections
Stronger government protection for worker unions
Doing fucking anything about climate change before we all go extinct
"Liberal" is opposed to "Authoritarian" and just means a person who favors democracy and personal freedom. Or it should, but in America our fascist conservative party has convinced people that "liberal" is a slur and also means "progressive," which is the actual opposite of conservative. But liberals aren't always progressive, which is why actual American leftists, who are progressives, use the term "liberal" to derisively refer to centrists. American centrists are politically conservative but hold some socially progressive values.
The wake-up occurs when you realize that politically/economically conservative policies lead to and support socially conservative ones. One can't actually be socially progressive but economically conservative, it's an incoherent ideology. Americans are raised to be good at double-think and distracting ourselves so we're able to cope with the contradiction.
I've been learning German for a few years (very slowly) now with Duolingo. I see a lot of Spanish posts too (especially on masto) and have been enjoying how the fediverse encourages me to work on my languages.
Ah, that sounded familiar as you described it! Thanks for the correction and context! I'd forgotten how early into multicore we still were. Well that also explains why it doesn't have specific fans then, it's "basically" "just" parallel programming (which people still don't understand!)
Yeah the university running a PS3 cluster was fun news! I recall there being a brief run on the devices as people thought there'd be sudden academic demand for them as supercomputers. I think you could run "folding at home" on them as a screensaver? Which (if I remember right) kind of would make ps3 the biggest research computing cluster around for a while!
I saw a statistics that 12% of Americans eat 50% of all beef produced in the USA and I cannot stop thinking about it. Everytime I eat a burger I wonder if I've passed into the 12%. When I look at a stack like this, I see a beef 1%er
Our administrator is understandably a little bitter about the whole experience as it has unfolded, saying, "We were forced to switch from the perfectly good ESET solution which we have used for years by our central IT team last year.
Sounds like a lot of architects and admins are going to get thrown under the bus for this one.
"Yes, we ordered you to cut costs in impossible ways, but we never told you specifically to centralize everything with a third party, that was just the only financially acceptable solution that we would approve. This is still your fault, so we're firing the entire IT department and replacing them with an AI managed by a company in Sri Lanka."
I always wondered about the legacy of the Cell architecture, which seems to have gone nowhere. I've never seen a developer praise it, and you can find devs who love just about every silly weird computer thing. Like, surely someone out there (emu devs?) have respect for what Cell was doing, right?
I've never understood it. Multicore processors already existed (the X360 had a triple-core processor, oddly) so I'm not clear what going back to multiple CPUs accomplished. Cell cores could act as FPUs also, right? PS3 didn't have dedicated GPU, right?
Such a strange little system, I'm still amazed it ever existed. Especially the OG ones that had PS2 chips in them for backwards compatability! Ah, I miss my old PS3.
This pretty common now. Streaming and internet in general have made music so accessible (and private) that music-as-lifestyle subcultures are dying off due to genre intermixing.
I had a DVD box set in my wishlist for a while. It was "50%" off during the sale, but I think the price actually went up by about $10. I did still snag a bunch of movies for under $20 each, which at least feels like a good price.
This just reminds me of how leftists started talking about Clownworld in 2016 and the magats latched onto it because its a self-censored insult they don't have to think about. Now anytime you see magats they're constantly throwing 🤡 emojis around and calling everyone clowns. They love it, along with NPC and woke and other things they've stolen from leftists, hollowed out of meaning, and now use constantly to prevent thinking. Empty shells of people filled with hate and facebook memes.
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I still really want AOC but with Whitmer bowing out I think Buttigiege is probably it.