SolacefromSilence

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

They couldn't get it right before enshittification has gripped everything.

The companies involved, the industry, and the regulators currently can't be trusted; this project should be killed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The word from NCD, is that Zelensky wasn't bluffing about the nukes. He doesn't think Putin can radiologicaly retaliate after his generals looted the maintenance budget.

Israel has been taking part in a technology transfer. Any escalation in Eastern Europe takes eyes away from what's going on in the Levant.

Iodine pills all around!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

It's all politically motivated judges who try to appear above the fray, but they're not. It's an inherently political position as a judge and we'd be better off seeing things how they are.

My moment was looking back to how the federal government passed a law to strip highway funding if states didn't raise their drinking age to 21. The same logic was used to force states to expand the ACA in each state, where other federal medical funding would be cut if states didn't take advantage of the ACA in their state. Ooopsies, as we know now, Republican judges struck that down and we have a half-baked medical solution. It's still better than before though, albeit hobbled.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I use AliExpress for all the little items in my life that can fail without any real problem.

I need a comb and get 2/$1 to my door. $3/4/5 each in a physical store for the same. I don't think you're appreciating how often these are literally the same products.

The retail sector has long ago entered enshittification. I'm not blind to the real people working in the field, but paying more for a product does not increase the chance of any positive environmental or social outcome. Feeding the beast, feeds their investors.

There is no ethical consumption.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Quad cities" bordering Illinois and Iowa.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

DNC tried to rally any sane Republicans, I think the results showed they reached all 3 million of them.

It's just that they needed to rally their base and present a plan on how they could make their lives better. They needed to remind the electorate, all that they've done. This all seems so familiar...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It worked four years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

You got me, it seems I have not educated myself thoroughly enough.

Really though, if only the enlightened can see the light then it seems like it's just an academic exercise or trolling people to advocate for ineffectual fringe theory.

You may be right, but also powerless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Sounds like a theoretical Libertarian trying to raise an army. Do you hand a copy of the NAP to just the volunteers or also to those you fight?

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