LesserAbe @ LesserAbe @lemmy.world

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If you read the article I think the point they were making is that today's Republican party has no interest in connection to it's past or principles, or even to any kind of consistency or coherence.

What specific steps would you like to see Biden take right now?

Yeah, would have loved to see action before now. Still, what specific steps would you rather see this moment?

At least he's talking about it and maybe giving people hope that things could settle the fuck down. Lot of people probably voting against Trump, but would help to have more reasons to vote for Biden

Imagine shit hitting the fan if Congress passed a law limiting a clearly corrupt court and then the court "ruled it unconstitutional".

That isn't going to fly.

It's not even in the constitution that the supreme court can rule something unconstitutional, they just did it once early on and everyone went with it.

Veep ass story

Specifically about calling communities subs: I think it's a weakness of the wording. "Community" is a more descriptive name, if a little generic, but for me the shortened "sub" from subreddit is much more natural, faster to type/say. Shortening community to "comm" isn't distinctive enough for people to know what you're talking about.

As I understand it, because we're using a federated system the only way to keep track of votes at all is if one instance tells another "such and such a user up voted this post". Whether or not a user interface surfaces that information so mods or admins see it is a separate question, but the data is there, so a safe assumption that whatever you vote on will be accessible to others.

You're right, we shouldn't regulate this type of speech. I'm not proposing we outlaw calling someone "a Karen." I'm arguing that people who care about how others feel should reconsider this type of joke.

You mentioned that this sort of thing is only a problem if you're surrounded by morons. Let's be generous and call them people who don't see things your way. Isn't that all of life? I gave the example of a child named Alexa because it's a literal real life example. It is a thing that happens, not a hypothetical. I have a kind and quiet family member named Karen, and it's a nuisance in her life.

You mentioned egocentrism. Isn't it egocentric to think "I will say whatever I want and if that makes someone else feel bad who cares?" I try to live my life in a way where I'm not knowingly causing other people discomfort. Sometimes that's not possible for good reason. We can still try.

That's a real boring thing to say.

I encourage you to put yourself in someone else's shoes. The "joke" is there's this archetypal character who is often named Karen who is entitled and makes unreasonable demands. If your name is Karen, that sucks. It's not about egocentrism, the villain in this joke is literally named Karen. Imagine you couldn't go through life and raise a concern about any issue because someone would be like "har har, you're being a real Karen". Even if it's a joke, when you hear it a thousand times that gets old and it sucks.

I have some friends who named their daughter Alexa before Amazon released the virtual assistant with the same name. Kids at school tease her. She can't go by Alexa, she has to go by Lex. Again, I encourage you to imagine yourself in someone else's place.

Easy for you to say if that's not your name. I don't have any hope of dissuading people from using the name that way, but imagine your name was "motherfucker" and it was a completely new combination of letters, no one had any negative connotation associated with it, then all of the sudden everyone is calling each other motherfucker and it means "fucking someone's mom." You probably would be pretty bummed out. Doesn't matter if you know someone calling someone else a motherfucker isn't referring to your birth name.

Pretty interesting.

Alt + tab is the best

I wrote software scripts that help me at my job and save time. I had taken the course CS50 which is free from Harvard/edx, and that was enough for my purposes. But I've also seen people recommend the book "automate the boring stuff"

Ah ok, it's a 2016 clip so this article is a hit from someone else who wants the VP slot

Well that's how I got thinking about this - they're not fine to eat some foods which seem innocuous to a human, it could kill them, like grapes. Some commenters here have talked about sort of the condition of food - if it's old, spoiled, has bacteria or maybe parasites. But I'm curious specifically about food that's inherently toxic to humans, even in pristine condition, which isn't to dogs.

When I just visited that link it didn't say anything about the dog holding him down, but it did say the dog was injured :(

Even if it doesn't change locations for you, it does more or less guarantee money is no object (since you could time travel, invest, then go to the future and collect the interest) so you could afford to travel wherever. If you go back far enough I suppose you'd start to run into issues where it takes weeks to cross the ocean or whatever. But that would probably be a less desirable time to vacation. I get future resorts are even better.

If you have a time machine can't you essentially take a vacation at any resort in any time period? Why limit yourself

Good for you to help someone, genuinely. It's a little weird you asked a question and then once people answer you try to debate them.

Some homeless people steal. Not saying as a group they all do, but I don't know which category this stranger falls in. Once inside my house they know the layout and perhaps see things that would be of interest to come back later to steal. Of more concern is I don't know the mental health of this individual, and I'm less concerned about theft than my family's safety.