vonbaronhans @ vonbaronhans @midwest.social

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That's what I was thinking. Wasn't that the point?

The good news is, this sort of thing doesn't reach the vast majority of Americans, since most of us aren't hyper online, and definitely not on Twitter.

The bad news is, this rhetoric seems popular (from what I hear) on Tiktok, where the youths are. And if the youths don't vote for Biden as much as we need, then yeah we're boned.

I see a little blue trashcan next to their comment... but I can still see the comment. I do not know what to make of that.

And that, everybody, is literally not the correct usage of "enshittification".

Jk, but for real though, it's not a direct synonym for "degraded" or "gets worse". It's more specific than that.

Plus, "literally" now literally has an alternative definition in the dictionary meaning "figuratively". So y'know, maybe get over the needless linguistic prescriptivism.

No worries. Stay safe and sleep well.

For weed I think we'd be fine.

It's vector art. You can design all sorts of things. App layouts, website design, logo design, basically anything that is visual and will need to scale up and down without loss of detail.

Bling Bang Bang Born by Creepy Nuts Spain by Chick Corea

Because honestly, Office is pretty great for what it does.

I know a lot of folks here can't get over it being proprietary or all the other anticompetitive stuff Microsoft has done with Office, but once we got M365 at work, a lot of my work life got a lot easier.

Any time I have tried to use LibreOffice or other alternatives, I feel like I'm giving up ten years' worth of quality of life improvements. That's generally my experience with 99% of FOSS stuff - fully functional but dogshit to navigate and use.

Or you could own a regular single family home, have no management, AND have nobody to split the responsibilities with! It's great! I'm not bitter at all!

You and me both.

DEI as a term is probably at least that old. It started taking off as a "progressive" corporate training term after being watered down a bit about 4 or 5 years ago. And about a year ago, conservatives got their mitts on the term as another hot-swappable slur against anything that has even a LaCroix level hint of progressivism/leftism.

Including your Lemmy account?

jk, you do you boo.

I feel the same about Krita. I used it for about a year of hobbyist drawing, and I just never could get comfortable using it.

Clip Studio Paint came out with 3.0, and after some deliberation I decided to pay for the update. Felt like coming home. I've done more art in two weeks than I've done in nearly a year of using Krita.

I tried to read Foucault in grad school. His writing is just the worst, like it's intentionally trying to be difficult to read and understand. When other people describe Foucault's ideas to me, they seem cool. Wish I could actually understand the original stuff though.

Maybe I'm just an idiot, I dunno.

But not Changing: The Lost 2nd Edition, fuck that game. We played one campaign, and the rulebook was an absolute pain in the ass to read and reference from the beginning to the end of the whole campaign. We had to make rules up to fill in the gaps. The index was a joke.

Sorry. Changeling: the Dreaming is fine. I played it briefly, and it was fine. C:tL2e is just such a trainwreck, I feel like I'm trauma dumping.

I recently asked a "I'll never vote for Biden" person here on Lemmy why, what goal does that accomplish? And boy oh boy, their answers were flacid, goal-post-shifting non-sequiturs. I never replied but someone else took up the torch, and I've never seen a conversation more like 2015 gamergate anti-feminists. Just garbage after distraction after red herring.

Nice it is!

I did not know this was a trans space, tbh. Thank you for entertaining us cishets!

What does a protest non-vote accomplish? There's moral satisfaction, of course, but that doesn't stop the genocide. If the goal of the protest non-vote is to ensure Biden loses to teach the Dems a lesson, and it works, Trump becomes president. That's almost certainly just a continuation of the genocide PLUS all the harm Project 2025 promises to deliver. MAYBE the Dems put up a more progressive candidate next time, but surely we could try to get that power between election cycles?

I guess I just don't think protest non-votes will accomplish any of the goals of that protest, but they will allow Trump to live his best fascist dictator life.

I dunno, is there something I'm missing from your strategic calculus here?