Makeitstop @ Makeitstop @lemmy.world

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People have different tolerances for these kinds of things. Some people never bother to even get an ad blocker. Some won't touch settings no matter how simple. And some want to tweak and modify endlessly.

Everyone else vote too.

High enough voter turnout on one side can turn any state into a swing state. The bigger the victory nationwide, the bigger the message it sends. And of course, all those state and local elections matter too.

Not to mention that a bigger victory makes the inevitable fraud claims even less credible.

It's definitely more of a hassle than most people will want to deal with. But I still prefer to have it and selectively enable things as needed, because quite frankly I'd rather deal with predictable hassles of my own making than be bombarded with new bullshit every day due to ever worsening trends in enshittification.

That is all true, but when it comes to how most people vote, it isn't about sound economic theory, it's about perceptions, expectations and emotions. Prices aren't likely to drop back down to where they were 4-5 years ago. But even if they remain relatively stable, it will probably take some time for people to think of the current prices as normal and not inflated.

Why not both?

I would assume he is referring to the issues people rank as most important in polls. The economy is pretty much permanently at the top of that list, and a lot of polls put immigration at number 2, presumably because right wing media has been working overtime to make it an issue.

Now, for smart, well informed voters who are thinking things through logically, these aren't big advantages for Trump. But that's not most voters (as evidenced by the fact that Trump's in even in this race).

The harsh reality is, when people feel like the economy is going well, they tend to support the incumbent, and when they feel it's bad, they tend to blame the incumbent. Inflation may be slowing, but prices haven't gone back down to where they were, so things don't feel better than when inflation was high.

If the GOP candidate was someone younger who was charismatic and didn't have a massive amount of baggage, someone who was smart enough to run on a focused economic message instead of rambling about electric cars, crowd sizes and not understanding race, I would bet that the polls would look very different right now.

That said, I think he's being too dismissive of other issues like abortion, NATO, and democracy. But in all fairness, this is from a soundbite, not a thesis statement, he's almost certainly not arguing that there are literally no issues which favor Harris. And he might be lumping some things like project 2025 and Trump's threat to democracy in with "attributes" such as Trump's age and criminal behavior.

The difference between cynical grimdark misery porn and an inspiring epic can come down to a single character with a conscience.

I would be curious to know how these views change when we break things down further to differentiate between government action vs private action, actively banning things vs passively choosing not to support things, and categorical exceptions to free speech like slander or incitement.

I suspect that some of the people responding would change their answers depending on exactly who is restricting speech, how they are doing it and what their justification is.

And Be Kind, Rewind.

I want to do more than win a match, I want to beat the game. You can't beat multiplayer.

Also, singleplayer exists to entertain me personally. I can pause, quit, restart, mod, cheat, and engage in completely counterproductive nonsense whenever I like. I don't have to worry about game balance, fairness and making sure the computer has fun.

Also, while I'm sure a majority of people in multiplayer aren't assholes, it can seem that way when the assholes are the only ones who do anything but silently play the game.

Well, Biden said publicly that he didn't expect a peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses. One would hope that means that contingency plans are being drawn up for every possible legal challenge or disruption, all the way up to putting down a violent coup attempt and apprehending conspirators at the highest levels of government. Given the insanity we've already seen, and the unmistakable warning signs that keep popping upl around us today, to do anything less would be pure negligence.

Unfortunately, plans like that aren't something that can really be talked about publicly. We just have to wait and see and hope that Biden isn't going to fiddle while Rome burns.

I would hope that a blatantly corrupt ruling by the Supreme Court that hands power to Trump would be enough to get Biden to just disregard their ruling as illegal, put down the coup attempt and arrest anyone found to have been conspiring to overthrow the government. It would be horrible for it to get to that point, but in that nightmare scenario it would be the least bad option.

If the Court blatantly rejects a valid election and throws their support behind a coup attempt, they will have already abandoned the institutional norms that the system relies on in order to function. Going along with it would only do more damage. The only way to repair the damage at that point is by stopping the plot, preserving the proper outcome of the election and removing insurrectionists from positions of power.

I would like to have an option that works like the instance block feature on connect. It blocks the instance and then puts a "comment hidden due to blocked instance: exampleinstance.net" which lets you know that its there and gives you the option to unhide that comment if you want to know what it says.

Historically, positive polling trends tend to increase support. It's the bandwagon effect, and it's the reason why there have always been bullshit polls that are designed to skew results in favor of a particular candidate or position.

2016 was a weird exception, and a large part of that can be attributed to the fact that a lot of people didn't want to vote for Hillary. Being in the lead didn't mean they had a good candidate, it meant that she had enough support already and it wasn't necessary to force yourself to vote for her.

With Biden out and Harris in, I think polls with her beating Trump are likely to have a net positive effect. There has been a lingering sense of inevitable doom hanging over the Democrats in this election, and I'm much more concerned about people getting discouraged and not bothering to vote than I am about people getting overconfident.

The electoral college is what makes national polls meaningless, not FPTP. If we picked presidents via national popular vote, national polls would be relevant, even if we still had FPTP.

The article makes it sound like they are doing this to speed up check out, and also to stop people from abusing the cheap hot dogs.

The only other thing I can think of is the possibility that people are getting in with expired cards to bypass the single guest per member limit, and then pooling their purchases once they're inside at the self checkout. Seems like a bit of a stretch, but it could happen.

Kind of how it feels stocking up on assorted beverages as a non-drinker. The booze section is full of cool bottles, crazy labels and just fun and interesting presentation. The pop section is mostly just plastic that was designed to be as cheap as humanly possible.

It will block youtube ads if the video is embedded in another website. When I want to find a youtube video on my tv I just search it on DuckDucGo, since watching it there blocks ads and seems to bypass any restrictions they've placed on watching videos outside of youtube.

I need to set up a cheap computer and just run the TV as a monitor so I can have all the features I want, including a real browser with ublock. But in the meantime, this fixes the one issue I have with DNS level blocking.

Nothing I suggested should be a problem for the left. I specifically said that she wouldn't win by moving to the right, but rather by running on things that shouldn't be partisan, core principles which appeal across the political divide, but which aren't shared by Trump or those around him.

There are no EV mandates. The article presents Trump's statements about repealing an EV mandate that doesn't exist without ever noting that no such mandate exists.

Without seeing video of the statements it's hard to say how much that was Trump selling policy for donations and saying the quiet part out loud vs just making a joke. But either way, I'm pretty sure it's based on a flawed premise because at this point I don't think Elon gives a shit about electric cars either.

And finally, the talk about the cost of charging infrastructure is framing the issue in the stupidest way possible. How much did it cost to build infrastructure for ICE vehicles, to have gas stations all over the place and a supply chain to keep them running? A hell of lot more than it will take to add charging infrastructure, that's for sure. But we don't talk about that cost because no single entity paid for it all, and those that did mostly did so as an investment, which generally paid off. People will pay for public chargers. We don't need public funds to cover everything, they just help get the investments rolling in faster.

What we do need is a rule forcing apartments to add charging of some kind to all residential parking. Even a standard wall outlet for each space would be enough to solve the majority of the charging problem.