deweydecibel

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Both Hillary and Biden are closer to the country as a whole and more likely to pull moderates, who you need to win if you want to actually win a national election.

The internet has allowed leftists to delude themselves into thinking the only people that need to be appealed to is them.

They fundamentally do not understand the kinds of people that make up this country. I'd love if we were a left leaning population. We aren't. Continually lying to ourselves about why Bernie didn't win is a type of paralyzing ignorance that only looks more and more absurd as the years go on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (12 children)

I love how the narrative focuses on 2016 and not 2020, where he lost all on his own.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Legitimately, they have an entire video sub where the spam garbage.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Please stop dragging her into this.

She'd never want to be President. I'd argue we wouldn't like her very much if she was the kind of person that did.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

iPhones will report it too if they have Maps open.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Except no serious regulatory laws will ever make it through Congress so long as it's as broken and paralyzed as it is now.

That's the point. That's the strategy. Congress is frozen, the Court is captured, and now the Executive is diminished. The government is paralyzed to regulate capitalism now. This has been the plan for a long time, only now do people grasp it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The placement of that text is deeply frustrating. Just a black text box placed without any care? No craftsmanship at all?

And a watermark? Still, in 2024? Uggh.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This article is giving them too much credit, frankly. Saying Republican support dropped from "majority to minority" is misleading, bordering on clickbait.

All that happened was support dropped from 55% to 46%. They were only ever barely a majority.

Saying "Nearly half" or "over half" of all Republicans don't support gay marriage is splitting hairs. They all support the candidates that are against it.

The real story here is that even support among Democrats and Independents dropped a bit in the last 2 years. Meaning the fear mongering is pervasive enough to affect everyone.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can see their strategy at work here.

It is possible to keep individual files on the local hard drive with different settings (that in my experience never seem to stick past updates).

The default, though, is to take everything on your computer off of your computer, put it into the cloud (their computer), and recommend you pick and choose which ones stay on your computer. In essence, they want you to think of your computer as secondary to their computer. An extension of it.

There is no "your computer", it's just the computer you happen to be logged into at the moment.

The cloud is not something you take advantage of, the cloud is where you live now.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

Or the fact that once it's off of your hard drive and sitting comfortably on their cloud (their hard drive), they can scan it and harvest it for data.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Ok but...he's gotta wear the aviators.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago

At least that can be turned off in updates.

All these hardware additions, the AI buttons, even Windows taking away the right CTRL key for Copilot, are ugly appendages that, in 20 years, when were clearing out the equipment closest, we'll see some of these and go "oh yeah remember when that bullshit was as a thing for a few years?"

 

Looking for any Lemmy app that provides a setting to hide or collapse inline images in comments, like RES let you do on Reddit, or like RIF, to re-create the text-only comment experience. I've been using Boost, which I really like it and want to keep supporting, but this setting is still a WIP I think, and it's a must for me. I wanna try others until it's added.

Thanks all

Update: if you're looking for the same thing, I eventually landed on Summit.

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