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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Ballot measures have an “arguments for” and “arguments against” sections in the voter guide. I’d say over 95% of measures have an argument logged for both sides.

If one side of an issue decides not to log an argument, it’s my personal opinion that that’s a strong indicator I shouldn’t be taking that position.

There was a long argument as to why we should amend the state constitution to eliminate involuntary servitude as punishment, but no one bothered to defend keeping it as is….

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I don’t think it’s market slowness… more that there’s nothing worth upgrading to.

Now that the x3D came out, and it’s actually better than last gen, it sold out everywhere. People just want good new products.

And yeah 4% is small, just providing insight into why AMD layoffs are a huge surprise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Sure Intel is doing poorly, but AMDs 9000 series was one of the worst selling launches in of new CPU in recent memory. They started slashing prices on them in record time.

There was also huge criticism from reviewers that the performance increase over 7000 series didn’t match what their marketing team had promised. Probably time to let some of those sales and marketing people go.

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

I dunno. If my company launched a new product, and then that product just sat on store shelves unsold, there’d probably be some people at my company who lost their jobs over it…. Regardless of how my competitors were doing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

9000 series was a total flop before the x3D, and their GPUs can’t compete at all. They are also missing out on a lot of the AI boom with many models being locked to NVIDIA hardware.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Don’t blame me! I voted Yes!

The baffling thing is that the other side didn’t even file an argument against the measure in the voter guide… and it still lost!

Like, if your side can’t even be bothered to come up with an argument for or against particular legislation, I’m voting with the other side, full stop.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Wait… only 38% of voters in Texas are registered republican, yet they win every single time?!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Secret ballot helped I guess. Hard for Trump to tell who defied him and didn’t vote for his candidate of choice.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Watching TNG reruns nightly as an 8 year old really gave me some hope for humanity’s potential.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe if cops didn’t break traffic laws all the time, civilians wouldn’t try to follow suit.

People in those kinds of positions of power should be leading by example, not running around like they’re above the law.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Nah, DJT is real AF.

He said he’s gonna round up 20+ Million immigrants, I believe it. He says he’s gonna send the military after the enemy within, like Pelosi and Schiff, I believe it. He says don’t worry, no one’s ever going to need to vote again, to keep him in power, I definitely believe it.

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

I wonder how they taste sautéed in butter and garlic…

 

So lets say my home instance is Instance A, but I'm browsing Community 1 in Instance B. Now in that community I see a comment that I want to reply to with a link to a comment I saw in Instance C, community 2, just because I think it's the most relevant to the discussion.

If I use the URL from the 2 chains "link" icon, that will send users to https://instance.a/comment/####### on my home instance. So that will send anyone from another instance who follows my link, to my instance and log them out of their account....

If I use the URL from the rainbow network "link" icon, it will send the user to https://instance.c/comment/#######, thus logging them out of their account on their instance (unless instance c happens to be their home).

But what about users coming across the conversation from Instance B? Or Instance D or F, or H? Is there a way to format the URL for that link such that anyone can follow it without moving to another instance, and/or logging out of their home instance?

This feels to me like it would be an important core feature of a platform like this.... otherwise when sharing ideas, usability becomes... challenging.

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