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  • Honestly an interesting take. The executive has steadily ballooned in its power over the years. Personally I'm glad Biden has the power to at least do this, but would I be happy with Trump or another bad actor having similar latitude in other areas? Tough questions. Of course, these are the same tough questions of checks and balances and federalism that we have been debating since the founding.

  • Read about what he has done. You don't need to make any assumptions.

    What should he do? Decree that college is free now and insurance is banned and so is homelessness etc? Realistically, he's done a lot and is far more progressive than leftists tend to credit him for.

    At this point it feels like we are just finding ways to be dissatisfied tbh.

    Here is an opinion piece with more deets on stuff Biden has done:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/13/why-progressives-winning-inside-democratic-party/

  • The main obstruction to min wage increases and public healthcare is certainly not Dems, right? Who fucked up Obamacare? Who's repealing child labor laws? What party controls states with min wages at the federal minimum? I agree we shouldn't count our chickens before they hatch, but one party is supplying the eggs here and the other is stomping on them gleefully...

  • I share your frustration with the two party system for sure. However, let's deal in realities. Biden signed more executive orders in his first 100 days than any president since Harry Truman. Here's some more info:

    https://www.politico.com/joe-biden-first-100-days-presidency

    Let's criticize Biden for his actual fuckups (Israel anyone?)

  • Just because you only pay attention around election time does not mean Biden has been doing nothing this entire time... that doesn't make any sense. Like he hibernated through the term and only just now regained consciousness to campaign again?

    This reeks of both-sideism. Please compare the platforms and policies of the two sides you seem equally disillusioned with.

  • Actual poor people can't get credit cards, then a few dollars of overdraft puts them deep in the negative. Guess how many hours a minimum wage earning american has to work to overcome a SINGLE overdraft fee...

  • Wait so Biden introduces a plan to at LEAST halve overdraft fees and we're whining before anything even happens? Is it not reasonable to at least take input from the industry you're regulating? Don't you want to know how they will respond and what impact they foresee, biased or not?

  • except the current user base, that doesn't care about FOSS as you or I do, will continue using the original app which will net them a non-insignificant amount of ad revenue, which is their entire purpose for existing. Makes sense to me

  • If you actually compared the policy positions of both parties around foreign policy, taxation, healthcare, education, gun control.... the list goes on -- you would know that this argument is disingenuous at best.

  • Totally agree.

    Relatedly, I think people would be surprised how little the Apple Tax really is when accounting for specs and performance. That said I'm sure the margin is quite a bit higher on this device than an mbp. It's very clearly not positioned for consumers but for businesses and bleeding edge enthusiasts

  • I got one of these after my Samsung literally caught fire and it is... fine. Kinda small, loud, and beeps incessantly sometimes when nothing is running to the point I have to unplug it at night lest it go off at 4am again. Has yet to explode so soft recommend from me

  • "Reasonably" is doing a lot of work here. The same exact reasons for masking and distancing apply now just as before. Infections and hospitalizations and deaths are still commonplace. Each variant makes the vaccines less and less effective, and each shared breath you draw in public could spell the end for some idiot fox-news-watching boomer who somehow still hasn't bit it from covid.

    If there was any point to masking before, then there's still one now. Over 1 million people are dead and they're still dying while we give up on masks for convenience.

  • It depends! Obviously the US isn't entirely at fault. After our shenanigans there was like permanent war in the region (also mostly the US) which never helps. The destabilizing effects are still present and can be traced back to the US in no small part.

    Slavery was outlawed over 100 years ago in the US yet we are still dealing with the ramifications. Stuff doesn't just happen in a vacuum

    edit: I should also note the US propped up a dictator who was corrupt and overthrown by religious zealots. They have been ruled by extremists ever since. It seems like a direct connection to me ¯(ツ)_/¯

  • Interesting! I have built several projects entirely in TS or with react/next frontends and I enjoy the DX a lot now that I have the experience with the overwhelming breadth of options out there. It was very frustrating and overwhelming for me at first though. I found Dockerizing to help with consistency and finickiness.

    Just curious, what are you missing most from asp.net core?