This kind of post isn’t helpful. It’s useless finger wagging at this point that isn’t actually going to substantively change things and it does nothing to challenge Democratic ineffectiveness.

Is the Democratic party better than the Republicans? Sure. But during the whole time Biden was in office that didn’t stop my rights from eroding in the state I live in and the current Democratic status quo is to claim that standing for some civil rights is a problem. I won’t say some things didn’t get better but an improving economy didn’t help with the cost of living for those of us who actually have to live in THIS economy.

The general argument though, is that if you vote for the lesser of two evils, therefore you’re picking the opponent that you feel you are most likely going to nudge on the issues. The DNC ran a postmortem, claimed that they were going to be open and honest about the results, then hid the results when it contradicted their pro-Israel stance.

Nevermind that our leaders are fighting corruption and fascism with strongly worded letters, while the establishment is engaged in actively trying to destroy any momentum from their left while they seek out this mythical centrist Republican that’ll vote for them. Am I supposed to feel okay with a party who’s establishment thinks my rights are optional? Are brown people supposed to feel safe when out government is engaged in active ethnic cleansing and the opposition is dog whistling about how much they love strong borders? Are people of middle eastern descent supposed to feel okay when the opposition party supports a genocide?

Are we supposed to be convinced that a political party is willing to pay attention to protests and act on them, when they can’t even be bothered to be transparent about and learn from a postmortem that told them actual fucking genocide is a line in the sand that enough people are unwilling to cross that it’d cost them one of the most consequential fucking elections of century?!

Voting blue is a tool, but how is doing it no matter who going to be meaningful when the Democrats won’t learn from their mistakes, will double down on their harms, will throw their own candidates under the bus for being too far left, and will continuously shift rightward?

I’m all for not letting the perfect get in the way of the good, and I have absolutely followed through on the “picking your opponent” mindset, but you actually have to have good on the board.

Actually that just made Florida MORE red.

Are you trying to use that as a dunk because when you actually live under oppression from fascists you REALLY need your opposition party to be effective. Harris winning in 2024 was never going to solve a problem that she was part of, it was only going to delay the inevitable and I can promise you that all of the anti-trans legislation and the pro-genocide action still would have actually happened. Or are you as unwilling to listen to a person that belongs to a scapegoated community as your ancestors were?

I think if you put the responsibility on the voters and not the coalition of politicians that claim to represent them, after a while that starts to seem less like advocacy and more like victim blaming.

As a trans person, the past decade has progressively gotten more terrifying. For me, a politician that is actively trying to harm me is not going to be meaningfully distinct from a politician that is not trying to shield me from the repressive harm that is already built into the system.

Furthermore, I do not think shaming people for taking a stance on genocide is going to win anyone over aside from people who support genocide. The Democrats may have handled things differently but that doesn’t mean it’d be better for the Palestinians or the Middle East.

When a party won’t stand up for marginalized people and victims of genocide how can they be trusted to defend anyone when in power? At a certain point you have to recognize the problem, even if you still vote for them. Voter shaming people who reject the harm won’t fix it.

Arguing over who would have genocided people the nicest is fucked up on soooooooo many levels.

Kinda hard for me to answer that ATM. When I got mine, it was gifted to me by someone who upgraded to an OLED model. I was originally going to buy one but Valve wasn’t going to hold onto a Steam Deck long enough for me to transfer money from my bank to PayPal so I let someone else buy it. (Which was the exact one that was later gifted to me so it’s like fate!) And also I was going through some intense burnout when it was gifted to me and I’m still kinda recovering. Like, intense enough that it impacted my ability to do recreational activities too. It sucked.

All that said, I don’t really use it much yet so it’s hard to justify it’s worth and my own use case. I had considered using it as a back up PC for when I don’t want to be bound to my bedroom but I already have an option for that. But I would argue it makes a pretty decent desktop. I have used it in that capacity quite a bit. Other than that sometimes I use it when I want to play a game in my bed or while standing/pacing.

I’ve never really been one for portable gaming so I’m not prone to taking it to town with me and I only recently acquired non-roommate local friends so I haven’t had much chance to take it with me while visiting them either. So yeah I dunno if I can justify it’s worth. If the shortages weren’t what they are and if they had a $400 or less model I’d suggest it. Especially for the age. But IDK. If you can find one on eBay or something for a decent price point I don’t think it’d be a bad purchase.

I haven’t really considered the idea of using Plasma on a mobile device yet. I’m only starting to dabble in this now with an old Surface tablet. I’m using Gnome on that since quick research turned me onto using either that or Phosh. I prefer Gnome to Phosh in the end but Plasma’s my favorite DE soooo I’d be happy if it were good as a tablet DE.

I do have a second Surface with 4GB I could play with in the future I guess 👀

I recently put CachyOS on my Steam Deck because I wanted more control than what Steam OS was offering me. Also I prefer to install native apps most the time. ^^;;;

I also bought a second hand Surface Pro 7 and installed Cachy on that as well and now it’s my primary tablet device. (Have an iPad but I don’t want to be in Apple’s ecosystem.) So far I’ve been really happy with it.

I’ve been daily driving Endeavour OS for the past … 3 years? So this is not really a big switch for me. I might consider installing that if/when I decide to reinstall my primary Desktop OS ^^;;;

Obesity wouldn’t be the problem it is if it were just a personal choice. Plenty of people hardly have time for a healthy diet and lots of the quick, cheap, and easy options are calorie dense and addictive. It is very easy to unknowingly eat way too many calories without realizing it.

I won’t say I didn’t laugh at the joke. I did. But having been fat myself I can say that having people give me shit for my weight would never be helpful. Normalizing body shaming is more likely to create eating disorders and depression than it is to help fat people lose weight.

You don’t need to shame fat people to shame Nazis.

Complaining about purity tests is often a dog whistle to say that the rights of minorities and women are expendable.

1. I am vegan. I know what I’m talking about.
2. All kinds of people call themselves a vegan without without actually being one.
3. It’s not a no true Scotsman because I’m using the actual definition for what veganism is, the one given by the vegan society. You’re making a category error here.
4. I will absolutely fight language when language is wrong. I have had several times in my life where I gave up the colloquial definitions that I’ve lived with in order to have my views more accurately reflect the words that members of specific communities use to define themselves. Otherwise I’d think that bisexuals only dated men and women, ace people are incapable of romantic attraction, all feminists hate men, and that trans people can’t be trans without clinically diagnoseable dysphoria.
5. Thanks for the luck, but I’m blocking you. Have a lovely day.

I’m sure you can get away with telling trans people what they are without trans people or defining atheism without atheists. But sure. Sound off like the ignorant ass you are.

The fact that most people don’t think about it critically doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be explained and telling people who belong to a group that they can’t tell you what their group specifically is about is entitled and absurd.

Veganism is not a diet and there are a number of diets you may adopt while being vegan.

I can accept that the harm reductionism that Danielle is advocating for is good compared to the lack of restraint we have as a culture, but this does not make it vegan.

The issue here is that veganism is regarded as a diet by the popular culture and fad dieters, not vegans. Your insistance that we not try to correct the record is like asking middle easterners not to set things straight when people assume all of them are Arabians or Muslim.

Okay so I filled a purse with bees like this sign said and now I can’t get back into my car. They’ve been swarming this whole time and I’m too scared to open the door.

^_ Thanks. I’ll try to remember to take a look at it later.

Hi! Sorry for the late reply I uh… kinda forgot Lemmy existed for a bit, not gonna lie.

As for methodology, right now I’m going to say recon for now but I’m not sure if it’ll stay that way in the future. Either way I see this as building a foundation if that makes sense ^^;;

Assuming that he was doing this in order to boost his popularity due to war, how does he fuck this up and get bullied over the Epstein files for another year? Because he’s GOING to fuck this up.

Eh, Europe is an important enough market that they could use legislation to get the desired result out of hardware vendors, or something close enough to it. If the EU or a majority of European nations stipulated that everything had to be compatible with open source operating systems I’m pretty confident that it would happen. There would be pushback. Likely they’d claim that it’d impede their ability to turn a profit, create development cost issues, and be extremely insecure, but once things were set into motion they would find a way to make it work.