CosmicTurtle @ CosmicTurtle @lemmy.world

Due to lemmy.world blocking pirating communities, I will now be using !Cosm

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Not saying the liberal message doesn't need fine tuning. It absolutely does.

But let's not ignore the fact that for many conservatives, suffering is the goal.

Conservatives are fully okay with things like welfare and social programs.....so long as it's only for them.

It's all those other people who are too lazy to get a job and work for a living. They are the ones that don't deserve government hand outs.

Yeah...but even then they may not get to you.

Over the holidays, I had a good back and forth with the maintainer of a project that I started using. The documentation needed updating and created a PR.

Then I went almost 10 comment rounds on why it was necessary, why I wrote it the way I did, and all this bullshit.

I just left it saying "merge it or whatever. I'm moving on."

It's still open.

I'm actually not too worried about it. A lot of people were watching the whole "Steamboat Willie" copyright sunsetting with great interest since it was what drove Disney to lobby congress to push legislation to protect it.

So there would have been a pretty large outcry if Disney decided to sue people for it, especially after it had expired. Given the fact that they are already fighting PR battles with DeSantis and the "anti-woke" crowd, they are probably being pragmatic and not fighting a battle that they'd pretty much lose in court as well as in public opinion.

Fwiw I've made the switch to only use Velcro ties. Works better than zip ties especially in places that are hard to reach. If you get the super cheap zip ties, the plastic disintegrates causing it to break apart after a year or so. Or at least in my experience.

Since the Velcro ties are fabric, and they are wider, they are more resistant. I'm actually using them in my crawlspace to hold my Ethernet cable against the joists and works super well. A screw in the tie holds it in place and then I can open and close the tie as I add more cabling.

Velcro straps are a thing.

The law is only as powerful as people are willing to enforce it.

Just because it's a "goddamn motherfucking law" doesn't mean shit if powerful corporations are willing to spend unholy amounts of money to make you prove it in court.

The "Happy Birthday" song was believed to be in the public domain for centuries but Warner Brothers was able to convince people to just pay them a license fee in order to prevent going to court. It was only in 2016 that a court ruled that it was in the public domain.

So yeah....Disney could have been real douches about this. But they are, uncharacteristically, being nice about it.

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Prosecutors are measured by convictions, regardless of whether they get it right.

What a lot of liberals often forget is that our constitution is just a piece of paper. What makes it powerful is the honesty of people in power to execute it to the best of their abilities.

We may disagree with how we accomplish our goals, but so long as we agree that the constitutional is worth protecting, we can dialogue.

The Republicans have shit on the constitution, and have threatened to institute a government based on dogma, where everything is made up and justice is only for the chosen few.

Some have said, "Well, at least I can change it from the inside."

My response has been, "Well, why haven't you?"

The sad thing is that the GOP has become overrun by a small minority who have a dispositional amount of influence. We need good spirited debate in this country. But the GOP is more concerned with power than they are with governing.

I've been saying for almost 20 years that there will be a civil war in my lifetime. I fear that we're getting closer and closer.

Many of these politicians are hoping that it will be someone else's problem.

For them, the poisons are:

A) Backlash now and get possibly killed

B) Meh. Let someone else deal with it after I retire

Keep in mind that in 2020, many of the Republican Secretaries of State were threatened for not giving the election to Trump. They did the right thing and got death threats over it.

When people stand their ground, we have to remember that they are the last line of defense against democracy. I don't say that lightly. Many Republicans saw the resistance and either replaced these people or wrote laws to make overturning an election easier.

If the Republicans see that they have lost, it won't be another January 6th. It will be a bloodless coup because they've already done the work to bring themselves into power.

And that's why this election is not only important but potentially dangerous. I don't know many liberals who are willing to put their lives on the line to stand up to fascism. Myself included. I'd like to believe I would. But I don't know if I could if it came down to it.

Fwiw, pornhubs take on these laws is accurate. The only sites that I can't get to are pornhub proper, xhamster, and a few others. I can still get on straight up studio websites like naughtyamerica and reality kings, etc.

The yarr sites for porn are still very much available, all without a VPN.

Ngl, I absolutely love rigid. Most have lifetime guarantees, even on batteries.

Never had to exercise them fortunately.

Pretty sure that's desert terrain.

I don't think this is a statistical issue.

When you boil down the rhetoric, what it comes down to is cognitive dissonance.

Anti-vaxers, and conservatives generally, have a negative physical reaction when they encounter a fact that goes contrary to their already established beliefs. Now to be fair, liberals do this too but not to the same extent.

There is a nugget of truth in their rhetoric which is that the government shouldn't be trusted. On that basis, an entire lie and, quite frankly a political party, has established itself as "the government wants to track you with the vaccine!" while completely ignoring their cell phones.

Many of these people don't want to know the truth because when presented with it, the truth will force them to either accept it or go back to what they know and, more importantly, feel.

This isn't a battle over math.

It's a battle over emotion and that's why it's so hard to win.

I figured the "I" was referring to the author. Like "I Hiked Mt. Everest: An introduction on how to be a pretentious knob"

Wouldn't that be "I Did Do IT"?

A better title would be "I'm Not a Waiter: An Introduction to Servers and Networking"

The issue with the penny is that they have a powerful lobby. Not many people care enough about them to write their representatives about the issue. Let alone even email them.

Not sure what's keeping the $1 bill around though.

Ngl, love the misdirect of using lemmynsfw.com url.

This won't happen for one simple reason: gerrymandering.

A second close reason: election fraud

If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.

Texas and Georgia I believe have passed laws that give the secretary of state final certification powers for elections, meaning if they "believe" there was fraud, they can throw out the results and simply say who one. Not have a new election. Just...ignore the results.

Conservatives only care about democracy so long as it works for them and studies have shown it doesn't so they need to restrict voters and draw their lines so that they stay in power.

The moment that democracy fails them completely, they will no longer have elections.

Yeah I don't get that at all. I had several female co-workers who accepted relocation packages to Texas when my company offered them right when Texas started passing anti-abortion laws.

I figured it was none of my business to ask why they did but man...they are either really smart and wanting to flip the state blue or they aren't thinking it's going to affect them.

No amount of money would make me want to move to Texas or Florida, or anywhere the Alt-right has a strong political hold