paultimate14 @ paultimate14 @lemmy.world

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"Abandon the two party systen" isn't a solution.

Supporting a 3rd party would be a solution. A terrible solution that has historically proven to only hurt the cause you are trying to support. But bad solutions are at least still solutions.

Changing the election system is another solution. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is one of the many issues I consider when weighing who I vote for. But the reality is that law has not passed and may never pass, so we are stuck with the electoral college and first-past-the-post voting system in the US for the 2024 election.

Then there's coups. If you're advocating for political violence I suggest you visit a nation experiencing it. There's a reason so much of the country was terrified watching the news on January 6th 2021.

Then there's leaving the country, which is basically just an option for the wealthy or otherwise lucky exceptions. Not really fixing the system as much as abandoning it.

Typographical errors aside, are you proposing any actual solutions or just trying to discourage people from voting?

I would totally be open to someone other than Biden running... If the DNC (or any party) had actually started promoting and positioning anyone good 2-3 years ago.

It's too late now. Biden is the guy.

And all the people on the Internet I see whining about how they don't like the choices available: if you actually want to do anything productive instead of just bitching you need to do the work in advance. Get involved with political organizations, campaigns, etc.

Even looking further ahead to he 2028 elections (assuming the US is still having elections)... Who is the DNC planning on running? Harris is cop who doesn't excite anyone. AOC is probably too polarizing to get moderate support, and is probably move valuable in Congress right now. Newsome maybe? I hate to throw out celebrities, but it's happened enough that it's possible and John Stewart seems like he might just go for it. Heck, even he is 62 right now, so he'd be 66 if he ran in 2028, and 67 by inauguration day.

Should we stop putting everything else that isn't Italian on Pizza too?

Like tomatoes?

Out of the box it works, including cloud saves.

The only thing I needed my PC for was to upgrade the SSD: I used my desktop to prepare a flash drive with the SteamOS image. Honestly you could probably do that using a USB adapter on the Steam Deck, booting with the original SSD.

It really comes down to convenience. It takes a minute or so to switch between desktop and gaming modes on the Deck. A lot of stuff is easier if you have a larger screen or two, plus a mouse and keyboard. And file transfers are faster over Ethernet. All of those things you can either work around with the Deck as it is, or you can use a dock or hub to plug in those extra peripherals, but it's still an inconvenience unless you're planning on using it docked often.

Good points: I forgot that most people (at least in the US) are probably thinking of charcoal brickets, using some sort of chemical fire starting product or accelerant.

Those brickets are wood (and hopefully just wood?) that has been burned in a low-oxygen environment, ground down, combined with a bunch of chemicals and fillers and binder, then pressed into bricks.

I use natural chunk charcoal. Just pieces of wood burned in a low-oxygen environment with none of the extra junk, although I get the occasional rock or piece of masonry.

Also the chimney is great. Since I have a gas stovetop, I usually take my chimney inside and put it directly over the biggest burner on high for maybe 30-60 seconds, and that's all it takes to get it going. There's of course the risks of fire, carbon monoxide, or getting soot inside which is why you don't want to use charcoal indoors, so I try to be quick about it.

Alton Brown is a great resource for anyone looking for more about any sort of cooking. Both the clips from Good Eats and the various YouTube videos and other stuff he's done since.

If you're using gas (or electric) you might as well stay inside with a regular kitchen range.

Lol the Microsoft response is just trying to distract the court by saying "hey look at this other stuff we are doing that isn't anticompetitive"

Crazy how just a few decades ago, announcing a plan to lower prices and sell to more customers would have been seen as desirable.

Shows his the relationship has been changed. It's no longer corporation vs corporation competing in a market for consumers.

Perhaps one day humanity will look back and ask whether the lack of Internet in the thousands of years prior damaged the development of everyone who grew up without it

Seperate Activision from Blizzard while you're at it.

Peel Zenimax off and break it further apart.

All these mergers... I've yet to see a single one end up with positive outcomes for the consumer, the employee, or really anyone other than the shareholders.

Cars are also just a horrifically inefficient mode of transportation.

Takes up tons of space on their own. Add in the tons of surface area that mostly sits empty, paved, and impermeable waiting in case someone wants to park there. Add in the maintenance of roads, intersections, bridges, tunnels, and other infrastructure. The energy involved in moving thousands of pounds of metal in order to move, most of the time, just 1 individual with very little cargo.

Really doesn't matter if it's gasoline, electric, hydrogen, ammonia, solar, diesel, bio-diesel, nuclear, whatever. Personally motor vehicles have a ton of issues beyond the energy source.

Reactionary car guys are the people "ice"-ing charging stations and talking about how they're just going to consume more oil in response.

Starfield memes aside this is pretty cool to see.

I'm generally against exclusivity. I'm enjoying this trend towards timed rather than permanent exclusivity. I love to see PlayStation games coming to steam, and wouldn't hate seeing them go to Xbox or Nintendo platforms if possible.

The only real benefit to the consumer is when games are designed around some hardware gimmick. But even 1st party titles tend to drop gimmicks over time. Astro's Playroom showed off everything the Dualsense can do and no other game seems to care about it. Did you remember that the official right JoyCon has an infrared camera in the bottom?

As an accountant I've listened to several colleagues talk for hours about dialing in their W-2's, some even under withholding and making quarterly payments to make up the difference. Calculating exactly what they are saving and investing that into a seperate account.

Probably spending more in fees than they're saving. Let alone the time invested. I'm perfectly fine with the government slowly accumulating 1% of my income extra over the course of a year and sending it back later personally.

Reminds me of the old days of wired controllers

I do both. Jellyfin is way better if you put in the work of having a good folder structure and file names for metadata to scrape.

VLC is good for weird file types or non-video media. If you want to have a stash of reaction gifs in a playlist, I don't know if JellyFin has any way to do that. Or if you want the tablet to display a random slideshow of pictures, like a diy digital picture frame. Also it's easier to use if you don't have good file names and metadata scraping.

This is an article discussing things Biden's administration have accomplished during his term.

The GOP equivalent is shit like "the Democrats will take your guns" or "millions of brown people are threatening to invade the southern border".

Ideally, the constituency would pay attention to the things the government does all the time and remember that when it comes to elections. But no one fucking does, so the public needs articles to remind them. Even if only like 30% of eligible voters end up voting.

This is exactly the kind of article that I would expect in the election year of a functioning democracy. The Republicans should be touting their own accomplishments too. Like Republican Chip Roy has been doing.

Maybe I'll buy it if they drop the DRM some day.

Every time I try to look this up a get a variety of different answers. It seems like a lot of different protests using similar means.

The two most common that seem to pop up are:

1. Environmental protection laws. Farmers want to continue to burn fossil fuels, using pesticides, and dumping artificial fertilizers into the ground.
2. Economic protection from foreigners. I found at least one case where a McDonald's was the target because they allegedly were serving foreign-sourced beef