This is why my dad hated Trump before he was in politics

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Ay, shut it. Jersey remains solid blue. Everyone thought Jersey was going to be a close race and then it wasn’t.

There’s fairly specific reasons we were watching NYC’s mayoral election though, that being their use as a barometer for progressive ideals’ ability to win.

60% of Lemmy users are that teenager but they’re 35 and still haven’t grown out of it.

So many people here don’t even accept historian consensus that Jesus was a real person

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They use the “Russia deserves to rule the world” part of the Soviet Union’s ideology, not the “communism” part.

Monolingual, and yes I envy multilingual people. It’s simply better.

I flunked Spanish and French so I think I just have poor language learning aptitude.

Basically the results I expected. Nobody who lost to Trump should run again.

I’ll never vote for Newsom in a primary but he’s a guy visibly against Trump, and progressives need to put in work to beat him, because we deserve better than him.

Yes. I very much remember it being uncontroversial to call the N64 retro in 2010.

I actually just tested Linux Mint again recently.

Music production holds me back. Didn’t test gaming, but I have faith that it’s more or less the same experience as the Steam Deck, and that would tie into a general sentiment I’ve seen around that gaming is no longer the biggest barrier to Linux adoption.

A. FL Studio runs like shit on WINE for me. Maybe it’s usable on a CPU under ten years old (I’m currently on an FX-8320) because I’ve heard others claim it runs at near-native speeds for them, but on Windows I only have performance issues on a project file that has every reason to be intensive. Even if I switched DAWs to something Linux native I’d still need FL Studio to work so I can open my old project files.

B. Two of my most used VST plugins don’t work, and I didn’t even test all of them so others might not work. One I can’t install because the installer doesn’t work, but the other is a free plugin, and that one’s GUI just doesn’t render (and last time I tested Linux it didn’t render under LMMS either, so it has to be a problem with WineVST.)

It’s just objectively true that a very specific type of person makes up most of Lemmy, which results in the only active communities being either very broad topics, or the handful of interests common to the kind of people who use Lemmy. I don’t fit into any of these.

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Graf Zahl has always been a bit of an ass, but did he just stop caring about the quality of his work?

Dating apps as a business model are incentivized to not actually be good at matching people so they keep paying the sub fee.

For example, when Match Group (a company that would absolutely be a part of the trust busting wave, might actually be the most blatant monopoly in the US) bought OKCupid, they got rid of a whole host of features that made it easier to find someone who shares interests with you.

And I think Red Pill getting popular is part of the end result of this: they encourage a monolithic view of how humanity and human attraction work.

• Electoral reform. Abolish the electoral college, end first past the post, and make SCOTUS an elected position with term limits, as well as term limiting Congress and instituting universal mail in voting nationwide.

• Top to bottom education reform. Straight up completely change how education works.

• Trust busting wave. Google, EA, Uniliever, Disney, and so many others.

• Crackdowns on elements of social media and dating apps that encourage sensationalism or otherwise harm society. (Dating apps I might go as far as nationalization.)

• Fund third spaces, in a similar manner to how other countries are involved in arts funding.

Subject matter experts would be involved in all of course.

I know there’s like, actual cultural appropriation…but at this point I wish it never entered the cultural conversation at all tbh because I feel like it became weird bioessentialist shit. Like, just actively telling people what they’re allowed to be interested in is based on genetics. Not to mention cases where mixed race people have been assaulted over perceived hair appropriation (the idea that you can tell what race people are by looking at them is monoracist.)

At my most charitable, I think people are forgetting that most people aren’t influencers or public figures?

I think she’s simply a true believer, and all the other MAGA politicians are grifters; I think she has closer genuine beliefs to what most civilian MAGAs believe than the others within the government.

I don’t want her in power, but I’d take her over the grifters.