UnderpantsWeevil @ UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world

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At what point does pride become delusion?

You are only bisexual if you are engaged in sex with two people of the opposite sex simultaneously.

Otherwise, you're just Schrodinger's Gay.

However you want to phrase it, they're very different problems with different solutions.

"Someone picked the lock on my door and got into my house" is meaningfully distinct from "Someone stole my keys".

Knee-capping the Postal Service is a feature, not a bug.

You can keep your nasty chips

You can argue it's a classic ID-10T error in your workflow.

But nobody has discovered a security vulnerability within the system architecture. This is the system operating as designed, abet with the wrong person standing in front of the terminal.

So just driving under a truck, or drifting is cool, but jumping a building to blow up a helicopter with your car is dumb?

That's correct.

Possibly the peak of the franchise, assuming you enjoy drag racing more than professional musicians launching cars into space.

Germany is tasked to lead the free world against Russia, America, China, and India

They Win, We Lose

There is no other way (well… besides revolution)

The backlash that you'll receive from the cronies of mega-capital will make revolution inevitable. That's assuming you can get so far as to democratically reform the tax code in an electoral system that cages voters, manufacturers consent, and manipulates the courts to guarantee only their people hold office.

Gave up on Reddit after the shit show of 2022. Never looked back.

William McClellan

Franco died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 83, a fabulously rich celebrity who was officially mourned by the state for a month.

"He's guilty of crimes. He should be prosecuted for those crimes."

"You stupid idiot leftists. Don't you realize opposing rich people never works? Just brown nose them so you can become one somebody. That's the real ticket."

And yes, there will be another vote.

6-3 SCOTUS says the election didn't mean what you thought it meant.

Bush v Gore was a lethal blow for American democracy.

I'm torn, because I've seen plenty to suggest the democratic process is still chugging along in the states. Let me know when the NJ/VA gubernatorial races are overturned.

At the same time, I've seen "Welcomefest" and the liberal doubling down on Palestinian genocide. I'm seeing liberals in Congress line up to support Trump in his Iran War. Liberals are bought into crypto. They're bought in on school privatization. They're bought in on defunding Medicaid and SS. They bought in on the deportations and the lawless arrests and the police violence

Too many liberals are supporting Trump in deed, while complaining in name only. How does an election fix that?

If the gas price skyrockets they will demand Donald’s head

Maybe. Or maybe they'll just keep blaming Palestine protesters and other Woke Leftists for doing a domestic terrorism by talking shit about the president.

It took a long long while for the median Americans to come around to Bush being a POS. Conservatives only really turned on him after he left office.

I can easily see our domestic media egging on our paramilitary DHS to do more fascism against the immigrants responsible for inflation. And I can easily imagine a lot of Americans convinced they're who are to blame.

$10 gasoline here we come.

You have a better, equally integrated solution?

I mean, we do. Linux OS, Libre Office, Apache servers, Linux Cloud Service of Choice, PostgreSQL.

But you need techs familiar with those systems and businesses eager to implement Linux at a foundational level early on in the company's development. Because a lot of businesses outsource their IT early on, and because a lot of end-user hardware has Microsoft pre-installed, and because the major IT outsourcers all get big kickbacks from Microsoft to be the default solutions, and because Microsoft has embedded itself at the university level at a global scale, and because Microsoft has successfully lobbied itself as the premier US contractor of choice for federal and state IT setups, it can be harder to find professionals willing and able to configure a Linux environment. This is assuming the company founders even think to ask for alternatives.

That's not to say it never happens. FFS, some of the biggest competitors to Microsoft - Amazon and Google most notably - have relied on Linux/PostgreSQL architecture to keep their overhead low and their integrations non-exclusive. But they're exceptional precisely because they laid the groundwork early.

The problem isn't that integrated solutions don't exist. The problem is that most CTOs don't embrace them early on in the company's development and find themselves trapped in the Microsoft ecosystem well after the point a transition would be easy.