MrFagtron9000 @ MrFagtron9000 @lemmy.world

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If she wasn't in Congress I would agree.

From: Leia@royal.ald

Subject: Deathstar plans

So going back to ops comment - What has he done to improve your quality of life?

Normal people don't give a shit about appointing judges or making their electricity more expensive through EPA regulations. They want something that increases the money in their pocket or makes their lives easier.

The overwhelming majority of people aren't buying new EVs and getting a $7,500 credit.

Trump wanted to do the stimulus check too.

If we had Build Back Better (that is such a stupid fucking name) he would have actual tangible accomplishments. Like he could say do you remember when you were paying $300 a week for child care and now you're paying $100 a week? How about those $300 a month checks were sending because you have a kid? How about that parental and family leave?

Unfortunately, even with his extreme deal making acumen, he couldn't get his "friend" and member of his own party to vote for it so he has nothing to run on.

I think people are getting to the point where they want the president to just do whatever, the courts be damned.

Like maybe if the court says that you can't do your DACA or Clean Power Plan or student loan forgiveness you just tell the court to go fuck itself.

Or maybe if members of your own party sabotage your signature legislation you punish them.

Or maybe if you run as a guy that can get things done because you're a deal maker that's been in DC for a hundred years and everybody in the Senate is your friend... then actually get something done.

But he passed an infrastructure bill that will fix roads that should have been fixed already.

I thought many worlds meant every single possible divergent quantum thingy gets its own universe. There is a universe where a single potassium atom in a banana in my kitchen doesn't decay and there is another universe where that same potassium atom does decay. Multiply that for every single particle in the universe, right?

I guess even if that was true on a macroscopic level that's not going to guarantee that every possible thing happens?

The smartphone is the only science fiction thing we have.

We didn't get table top fusion reactors, food pills, Rosie the robot, casual commercial space travel, flying cars, hoverboards, etc...

But we did get a little computer we can carry around that has literally everything in it. It's a camera, it's camcorder, it's a microcassette voice recorder, computer, telephone, book, TV, video conference system, remote control for all my lights, remote control for the TV, a McDonald's ordering device, instant messenger, magazine, radio, GPS for my car, GPS tracker for my family, health monitoring device, flashlight, Sears catalog - It would probably be harder to come up with a list of things that it can't do.

You can take my smartphone from my cold dead hands.

The average Twitter user has no idea what Mastodon is.

Squabbles.io has some traffic

Max Headroom background videos.

Just sort of giving up on life in my late teens and doing nothing.

I just go to work and go home.

I don't have any friends, don't have sex, don't have any hobbies (besides video games), didn't go to college. I'm very very obese.

If it wasn't for my family acting as my social life and giving me stuff to do I probably would have killed myself by now. I have some friends online that I play videogames with.

(Yeah I've tried therapy and SSRIs/Wellbutrin and gotten my thyroid levels checked and testosterone.)

Mandrake like in 2003.

Google+ didn't work because they didn't push it hard enough and they made it an invite only beta instead of just allowing everyone to join.

Yes - I'm being serious they didn't push it hard enough. If you had a Gmail or YouTube account it should have just instantly become a Google+ account in some sort of private mode so it doesn't inadvertently leak your info.

If they would have just pushed it out to everyone, day one, mandatory, no opt out, then we'd still have Google+ today.

Like if they made Google Talk the default messaging client on Android we'd still have Google Talk. I don't recall Apple making iMessage an optional messaging app you don't have to use.

Facebook doesn't use e2e.

There is a private chat e2e feature, but then your chats don't show up on PC.

I had to log into my 84-year-old grandmother's YouTube account and unsubscribe from a bunch of stuff, "Not interested" on a bunch of stuff, subscribed to more mainstream news sources... But it only works for a couple months.

The problem is the algorithm that values viewing time over anything else.

Watch a news clip from a real news source and then it recommends Fox News. Watch Fox News and then it recommends PragerU. Watch PragerU and then it recommends The Daily Wire. Watch that and then it recommends Steven Crowder. A couple years ago it would go even stupider than Crowder, she'd start getting those videos where it's computer voice talking over stock footage about Hillary Clinton being arrested for being a demonic pedophile. Luckily most of those channels are banned at this point or at least the algorithm doesn't recommend them.

I've thought about putting her into restricted mode, but I think that would be too obvious that I'm manipulating the strings in the background.

Then I thought she's 84, she's going to be dead in a few years, she doesn't vote, does it really matter that she's concerned about trans people trying to cut off little boy's penises or thinks that Obama is wearing ankle monitor because he was arrested by the Trump administration or that aliens are visiting the Earth because she heard it on Joe Rogan?

You can buy edibles from special state stores only in Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, and Philly. The stores are open Wednesday to Friday from 6 AM to 3 PM.

Why do Linux nerds that care about this sort of stuff hate snaps so much?

Is it the concept of snaps / flatpaks that is the issue or snaps specifically because Canonical is behind them?

I know literally nothing about how they work except I installed the VLC snap and it's fine.

I couldn't install Parsec (a remote desktop game streaming app) because of a missing dependency (an old version of lib-something codec that wasn't in my newer version of Ubuntu). I spent like an hour trying to figure out how to take the 18.04 version and add it to 22.10. I don't know Linux at all so I wasn't making much progress. Someone, not the developers of Parsec, made a flatpak and it magically worked.

I was afraid that because the flatpak was made by some random guy I couldn't really trust it. I looked inside the flatpak and it's seems to be nothing except for the Parsec deb coming straight from the official Parsec URL and that libcodec thing that was causing a problem.

So from my perspective, not knowing the technical details or politics, what's the problem?

I'm sure tons of voters are going to be happy and will reelect the politicians that make air travel 2x to 5x more expensive.

This is such a fucking stupid argument to make.

The reason airlines make x% of CO2 emissions is because people want to fly, they're an airline, and there is no emissions free way to power a plane.

The reason the plastic company makes x billions of plastic sporks every year is because I want a spoon to eat my Taco Bell Nachos in my car. They're not making all the plastic pollution because they just hate the Earth.

They're not cartoon villains like in Captain Planet that pollute just to make pollution.