JoBo @ JoBo @feddit.uk

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The actual enemy being liberals who deliver us to fascism every fucking time. Don't ever lose sight of that.

You have absolutely no evidence that this is true, you're just parroting after-the-fact propaganda while entirely ignoring the good science on offer in this thread.

Those boots must be real tasty, huh?

Apparently they thought they could skimp on the capsule and just use a mask. Cheap and evil.

Kinda. I mean, it is important to make the danger crystal clear. Problem is, the people with a platform to be heard from are the people who will take the opportunity to sneer at the poor people they imagine put Trump in office (it wasn't). They do the job of the fascists for them and there's no point trying to tell them; they are entirely incapable of learning anything because they are so absolutely certain that they know everything already.

Yes they do. The fuck are you smoking?

That must help a lot. But often, when I am quietly cursing them, I just want to make them shadow me for a day to see, and feel, the impact of their ridiculous decisions. We have given them written explanations, had meetings, shown screenshots. But nothing gets through. If they had to spend a day a week using it, they might actually do something about it.

Yeah, sure. Wealthy people don't have any power, even with all those newspapers and TV channels they own, or the politicians relying on them for donations and cushy jobs once they're out of office.

I refer you back to the Schumer quote and beg you to wise the fuck up. You cannot understand anything about this world if you do not understand how power works.

I am quite old, so remember the transition from scientists writing their own software to systems analysts who specialised in writing software that was fit for purpose. And that was exactly the ideal: the systems analyst was supposed to be someone who could code as well as their programmers could and understand the job the software was designed for as well as the customer did.

None of that seems to have happened. Some of the kids who could code got lucky with billion dollar jackpots from very low hanging fruit. And ever since, we've just been hit by waves of kids who can code going straight into software development with absolutely no experience of how work works.

It's a difficult problem to solve. I have an aunt who developed software in the '60s and '70s who had to retire early because the languages she used became obsolete (apart from a brief bounce running up to Y2K). But it is a problem we absolutely have to solve. So much shitty software, wasting so much effort, for the developers and users alike.

Software developers who never have, and never will have to, use the software for real. I think every coder should be forced to use their own software for one month out of every year they work on it (and be able to do the job that goes with it because how the fuck else are they going to get a clue?).

And fucking stop making PC software that looks like it was designed to be used on a phone. I cannot do my job on a phone, no one would ever do my job on a phone, everyone who does my job has at least two large screens. We do not want to click a million times to do one simple task, and we do want to be able to see masses of information at the same time.

/rant

I didn't say GOP voters know how power works.

And there is barely any difference in the proportion of rich people voting GOP or Dem. 1-2% in the 2020 exit polls. In 2016, Clinton had swings in her favour amongst the very rich, and larger swings against amongst lower income and POC voters. Not because they switched to the GOP but because she gave them no reason to turn out.

You're projecting your ideal onto a party which relies on the very wealthy to fund their politics. And they can do that because it is how power works and why they do not want to challenge power.

Stop confusing the left with the centre. The necessity of the electoral coalition is precisely a result of power, and its ability to silence the left while pandering to the right.

“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” – Chuck Schumer, 2016

Not so much software as an element that needs to be part of so much software but, for some unfathomable reason, is not:

Picklists which work properly. If I type "U", do not give me a screen full of Ts with the first U at the bottom. And let me type more than one letter to get to exactly where I need to be in the list. It can be done but it rarely is done and it does my head in.

Also, if you must include a scroll wheel to enter numbers, make it possible to just fucking type the numbers instead.

This is probably not what you intended this thread for but I'll take any chance I get to ask UI designers to get a fucking grip...

Right-wingers who are critical of Trump get plenty of airtime. Left-wingers who are critical of Dems, not so much.

Dem voters are the Dem electorate. Did you mean Dem representatives?

And you're still eliding the difference between the left and centre-right. Left and centre-left voters are willing to criticise Dem politicians. The centre is not. And, while hypocrisy absolutely is a characteristic of the right because they know how power works, it's nonsense to suggest that the entirety of the Dem electoral coalition holds its representatives to account. It doesn't, not least because a large proportion are in on the grift. And that's why we're having another global fascist spasm. Liberals refuse to challenge power, not least because they like its perks and also believe that those perks should exist.

Dear Bot

There's a completely out of context quote at the end of your summary. It's very confusing,

Posting this to help you get better.

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JoBo

the left wants this corruption to stop, even when the corruption is from the same side

This is very confusing. The left absolutely does want it to stop but centrist Dems do not. The left is not on the same side as Pelosi.

Why do you think "there" is meaningfully different from "here"?

Every car I've hired in the last ten years has the current speed limit displayed on the dashboard. It does not require the car to communicate any information, only to receive it.

That is a different question from how car manufacturers could abuse the requirement to get more data to sell, of course. But there's nothing in this bill that would require the car to collect any data that isn't already publicly displayed by the roadside.

Physical and Mental Effects of Bathing: A Randomized Intervention Study

Suggests a hot bath is more effective than a hot shower.

But finishing up with a cold shower might boost your immune system (or make you less likely to pull sickie):

The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Both crappy trials but at least I looked for them. Instead of deciding that medical science is unlikely to have made any progress in a century. Wut?

Reminiscent of the Twitter joke trial. Except this obvious joke was made in private, so there's even less excuse for the over-reaction. Useless timewasters.

And almost all of that private pension wealth is held by the richest 10%, barely any by the poorest 50%.

Stop mugging yourself off.