Lexi Sneptaur @ Sneptaur @pawb.social

28F, she/her - Seattle - Drive stick, use Linux, do praxis. Don't call me u

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I think for most privacy nuts it comes down to “I don’t trust them and it’s closed source. They could be hiding anything in that code.”

And then there’s the people who can’t afford or won’t spend the money it takes to have an enjoyable Apple experience. It genuinely costs multiple thousands of dollars to get into the Apple ecosystem and then it’s massively painful to get out. It’s basically just “corporation bad” because corporations are bad. The only way to be truly private is to not carry a phone at all and use only FOSS solutions.

BlueSky bans Nazis and transphobes. Twitter encourages them. It’s that simple.

Oh good. 6.1 seems to fix the only bugs that have personally bothered me. I’m stoked!

Well of course you did. They’re Hoosiers.

Got into an argument about this once. The other person insisted that if I wipe my hard drive and reinstall, that I’m a pathetic moron who doesn’t deserve to use a computer.

In fairness, it’s usually better to fix things so you can learn, but dang they were toxic.

I have a very simple rule.

If I am seated, I will tip. Bartender, barista, restaurant, doesn’t matter. If I’m walking up and standing around and serving myself, you can shove that iPad up your ass.

Biden and the DNC have made concessions for progressives too. I celebrate those victories because if I don’t I start to lose hope.

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-08-28-bidens-nlrb-brings-workers-rights-back/

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/apr/02/joe-biden/biden-is-right-about-35-insulin-cap-but-exaggerate/

https://media.amtrak.com/2023/12/amtrak-and-partners-receive-federal-grants-to-improve-and-expand-passenger-rail-across-america/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/

The last link contains the White House’s own stance on the issues. It’s good to see their takes and then fact check them.

I know he’s not nearly good enough. I hate that we had to compromise. But we have to keep our eyes on the prize and take our wins where we can.

Solidarity forever.

I don’t think he’s trying to “cuddle up with fascists”. The fascists don’t represent the entire party just as progressives don’t represent the entire democrat party. He’s trying to get the uneducated “always vote for the guy with the R next to his name” type dudes. They exist, plenty of ignorant people out there.

Have fun fleeing the country I guess!

The left wing is gonna vote for him anyway, if they vote at all. Half of the leftists I talk to don’t even vote because they say democracy is a failure and nothing matters. To a liberal, a leftist is an extremist.

I’m a progressive. Why would I do that? Most progressives live in states where voting for President has no effect anyway. The blue wall, + New York, + Illinois…

Because they know both of those options are terrible

Conservatives are just liberals but more racist. Change my mind.

If you lump together all the liberals you get enough to win an election. And that includes so-called “moderate republicans”

Right now the goal of electoral politics is to move back toward like… classic liberalism. As opposed to neoliberalism or worse, fascism

It’s because progressives always vote blue anyway, when they do, and represent a small portion of the voter base. Most Americans are liberals

In fairness they usually do take them to a hospital but then the hospital is abusive

US power came from having more guns than the other guy.

So history goes.

Oh to be a fly on the wall in her office as she’s getting briefings on this