I actually felt a little bit guilty after writing the comment. I don't think volunteering to run it is the answer, but I should at least be advocating directly instead of just complaining online.
Our town went from posting on twitter to mirroring every post to their website as well as twitter, Facebook, etc. There must be tools out there to facilitate this.
I heard a little of the debate on this and it seemed like there was no consideration of open platforms, or whatever happens after Bluesky inevitably enshittifies.
I have no problem with it them posting on Bluesky, but everything should also be on a site with RSS, or a mailing list, or something open.
Surely we can give them tools to do this without relying on big American tech firms.
Probably not what you're looking for, but it just occured to me that Ted Lasso might be the closest modern show to this sort of cosy/wholesome British sitcom.
Also if you want something really on the nose, I seem to remember enjoying Rev:
That's right. Where I am it's a tax scam to support dealerships.
If you trade in a $10k car on a $20k one, you pay sales tax on $10k. If you sell your car to someone else for $10k and then buy the $20k car, you pay sales tax on $20k and the new owner of your car pays sales tax on $10k.
A homeless person ending up in a hospital bed or dying costs us substantially more money than housing them
Same goes for things like allowing abortion, at its core abortion rights inherently save such enormous magnitudes of money long term,
Same goes for trans rights, the most cost effective and safest way to treat trans folks is just provide them with medical intervention to align their body with their gender.
To me Conservatism is literally lack of empathy. These are all arguments to convince someone without empathy to accidentally do the right thing.
Do you need a fiscal reason to support e.g. trans rights or housing as a human right? If not, then why even consider yourself a fiscal conservative?
In my experience, people with empathy who identify as 'Fiscally Conservative' just want the government to be efficient. That's great. Everyone wants the government to be efficient. Leftists want the government to be efficient too.
Edit: a sibling comment said it well I think:
Nobody doesn’t believe in spending money wisely and sustainably.
If you're truly conservative then you'd also support a deregulated free market that allows extreme wealth disparity.
Fair enough, most of that isn't something a user should have to worry about.
VT is just Virtual Terminals. You always have one of them active, and in most distros you can switch to others by Ctrl-Alt-F1 through F12. In some distos it's just Alt-F1.
So if you press Ctrl-Alt-F2 you should be brought to a text login. For crazy historical reasons you may have to either press Ctrl-Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to your usual graphical session.
We shouldn't normalise 'most seats = minority government'. They can do their fucking jobs and form a government that represents 60% of the people instead of letting one form that represents 40%.
I actually felt a little bit guilty after writing the comment. I don't think volunteering to run it is the answer, but I should at least be advocating directly instead of just complaining online.
Our town went from posting on twitter to mirroring every post to their website as well as twitter, Facebook, etc. There must be tools out there to facilitate this.