I’ve been debating to myself whether or not voting for a third party candidate (Either PSL’s de la Cruz or Green’s West, regardless of my criticisms for both) would be the most “effective” use of my time in election season this year. The argument for “not” is that maybe voting at all is bad because it legitimizes...
I don’t think there’s any harm in voting third party. Turnouts rates are already abysmal and nobody seems to care at all, they’re just entirely ignored. But voting for a third party that cares a bit at least puts it in the record that some people care, and though very unlikely, might actually lead to them wielding some minor influence for good.
I’m surprised there aren’t more accusations that the whole thing is a psyop and all the ‘normal’ citizens and cars are just props for the elaborate theatrical stage of NK propaganda. This seems to be the most common reaction whenever video comes out of NK being just a normal place.
Can anyone explain to me what the actual purpose of the Houthi attacks are? My news outlets just basically paint them as angry rebels attacking ships because who knows??
Wayland is the fancy new standard that never seems to stably work for me on any of my machines :( Thanks for letting me revert to X in the login screen, GNOME.
A fair criticism. Though I think the hating on PEDMAS (or BODMAS as I was taught) is pretty harsh, as it very much does represent parts of the standard of reading mathematical notation when taught correctly. At least I personally was taught its true form was a vertical format:
B
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DM
AS
I’d also say it’s problematic to rely on calculators to implement or demonstrate standards, they do have their own issues.
But overall, hey, it’s cool. The world needs more passionate criticisms of ambiguous communication turning into a massive interpration A vs interpretation B argument rather than admitting “maybe it’s just ambiguous”.
The Epic vs Google court battle has come to a verdict, with a jury unanimously voting in Epic’s favor, and declaring that Google has an “illegal monopoly” with the Play Store and Google Play billing....
Top marks to Epic for fighting that battle. But are they now going to fine Google for all the profit they illegally gained in the last ten years? Or just a slap on the wrist and require them to put in some weak-choose-another-store option in some phones moving forward?
In anticipation of Lemmy’s upcoming 0.19 release, and to work out any final issues, we’re going to deploy a test release on lemmy.ml within the next few days....
Yeah sure, clear more land for development, Australia, it’s not like the lack of trees will dry everything out and raise temperatures in a place that is already dangerously hot. What’s a heat island? Oh, look, fire!...
I dunno about you guys but I’m starting to reckon we should give a little thought to alternative societal structures that might have the potential to avoid these issues…
2020 was… truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn’t get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision...
Things will get inevitably worse. Voting might slow that decline slightly if we’re lucky.
The only hope for any kind of improvement, to reach a slightly tolerable world, is mass action outside of voting, and that just doesn’t seem to be happening. So it’s hard to care too much.
This is the argument every single election. Every time, for decades, and yet things get continually worse.
I’d argue the belief that voting for an establishment party is any kind of a long-term solution is the biggest threat. By all means do it if it’ll help a little in the short term, but the ship’s still sinking.
Mainly that it’s specifically calibrated for running games on Linux. I’ve tried the Steam Deck and it works pretty damn well out the box, compared to any other distros, so a PC version would be cool.
The ‘personal belongings of one of the terrorists’ was in a child’s bedroom which was being used a Hamas base. Which was it? A store of ‘personal belongings’, a ‘child’s bedroom’, or a ‘Hamas base’? Because I somehow suspect no more than two Hamas members would have standing room in a child’s bedroom, not even including the fact that it’s apparently also storing the contents of bookshelves of all those Hamas members.
Just such a nonsense story jamming as many keywords into one narrative as possible. Sounds a lot more like “we killed everyone in a normal home, including the children, but I swear guys we found a book with Hitler’s face so it’s okay”
Queen did exactly the same thing 10-odd years ago. Crown, golden throne, surrounded by hundreds of millions of pounds of gemstones alone, and declared that families must tighten their budgets and spend less and stop spending ‘beyond their means’. Nobody batted an eyelid.
My fiance has been struggling a lot lately with this and it’s taking a toll on me. I’m doing all I can and all I know how to do but it’s getting really hard and exhausting to deal with the constant cycle of abuse and then apology and then abuse and then apology over and over and over again for months. Usually day by day. I...
Though I’ve not dealt with alcoholism specifically, I’ve experience with very serious relationships that were ‘good when they were good, but abusive when they were bad’. Relationships I stayed in for many years too many, because I loved her and I thought things could change. From my anecdotal experience, I don’t think there’s much you can do but tell her how her behaviour affects you, support her insofar as you’re able, and hope that can inspire change.
Past that, I just want to say make sure you take care of yourself. It’s a certain possibility that she will not meaningfully change. No matter how much you love a person, you should never feel obliged to put up with being abused, no matter how infrequently nor in what context. And doing so will help neither you nor her. Best of luck.
Some months have passed on since the Reddit blackout this June. It led to an explosive growth in Lemmy users, and lots of urgent work in scaling, bug fixes, user onboarding and more. Since then things have calmed down significantly, giving us breathing room and time to get more long-term work done....
It’s cool that you cam here in good faith to discuss, and I hope you do go ahead and read and learn more. The Jakarta Method alone rather elucidates the horrific crimes done by well regulated capitalist systems…
Labourers sell their labour, but they effectively have bodily autonomy, they get to walk away if they want to. That’s largely not true for hired murderers.
‘Spend billions of dollars on terrorism’ is such a weird and funny sentence, like Palestinians are budgeting for and paying a Terrorism tax instead of supporting local business. Libs really can’t understand how anything gets done outside the framework of money within a capitalist state.
The world’s setting is centred around how capitalism and industry affects society, how it pushed aside feudalism, how racism remains endemic and easily seen as normal, how history is swept away to hide attitudes, all sorts of complex things. Early on in the story, you get involved with a strike by exploited half-orcs and the wealthy factory owner who would rather they all died. Thinking back, it was a big part of how young me started to realise industrial relations are fucked up in capitalism.
One moment (of the many cool things) that really hit me, is that there’s an entire sub-plot across the whole continent that’s never explicitly mentioned, but is entirely noticeable if you actually pay attention and listen, not to the quest-givers or the industrial leaders, but to the servants of the powerful men you meet. If you’re lucky, near the end, you suddenly realise you just… swept all these weird characters and remarks under the rug as you had ‘important’ people to talk to. I had relegated servants and whole in-game races to an ‘unimportant’ role, when actually their stories are key to a whole second sub-plot of their own that affects everything in the world.
I know a lot of that behaviour is because I’m playing to typical game design, but, I dunno, having a real moment where you think back and realise you’ve been ignoring what should have been an obvious pattern of so many exploited people, and I just glossed over it 'til that moment, it affected me.
Americans: Are you going to vote third party or refuse to vote at all?
I’ve been debating to myself whether or not voting for a third party candidate (Either PSL’s de la Cruz or Green’s West, regardless of my criticisms for both) would be the most “effective” use of my time in election season this year. The argument for “not” is that maybe voting at all is bad because it legitimizes...
Here's a real GoPro on the streets of Pyongyang (www.reddit.com)
Redditors react to a video of a bike ride around Pyongyang...
NJR with a good point re: Houthis blockade. [Also a personal reflection on him, parasocial relations, dunking, and Hexbear] (hexbear.net)
Source....
Public schools are, according to conservatives, based af (hexbear.net)
What is wayland?
I know I could duckduckgo it, but I think we’re at the stage at lemmy where there’s space to ask basic questions....
Google to make sideloading easier, allow third-party payments for in-app purchases (www.androidcentral.com)
Google announced the terms of a $700 million settlement that alleged it overcharged customers due to Play Store policies....
6÷2(1+2) (programming.dev)
zeta.one/viral-math/...
Manager: This task only takes 30 minutes. Why did it take you the whole day? (programming.dev)
Google has an 'illegal monopoly' with Play Store and billing, jury finds in Epic case (9to5google.com)
The Epic vs Google court battle has come to a verdict, with a jury unanimously voting in Epic’s favor, and declaring that Google has an “illegal monopoly” with the Play Store and Google Play billing....
OpenSSH is about to change. (For the better.) (youtu.be)
OpenSSH’s ssh-keygen command just got a great upgrade....
Lemmy.ml `v0.19` upgrade issues and downtime.
In anticipation of Lemmy’s upcoming 0.19 release, and to work out any final issues, we’re going to deploy a test release on lemmy.ml within the next few days....
Anyone else get mild panic attacks from the fact that the people in charge are all fucking idiots?
Yeah sure, clear more land for development, Australia, it’s not like the lack of trees will dry everything out and raise temperatures in a place that is already dangerously hot. What’s a heat island? Oh, look, fire!...
Americans of Lemmy, what is your approach to next year's election?
2020 was… truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn’t get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision...
SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' (www.pcgamer.com)
What really makes this post is the "the child's bedroom is also Hamas" bit (hexbear.net)
The English are the most cucked people in existence (twitter.com)
How is this guy not divided in two at the neck?...
Advice on helping a loved one through alcoholism?
My fiance has been struggling a lot lately with this and it’s taking a toll on me. I’m doing all I can and all I know how to do but it’s getting really hard and exhausting to deal with the constant cycle of abuse and then apology and then abuse and then apology over and over and over again for months. Usually day by day. I...
Join-Lemmy.org Redesign and Funding Drive (join-lemmy.org)
Some months have passed on since the Reddit blackout this June. It led to an explosive growth in Lemmy users, and lots of urgent work in scaling, bug fixes, user onboarding and more. Since then things have calmed down significantly, giving us breathing room and time to get more long-term work done....
Instances with most daily active users right now (hexbear.net)
hexbear-specter we also have the most comments. never stop posting
If programming languages were weapons. Old but gold. (feddit.it)
Source: so old it’s lost
sex work is work (feddit.de)
Sarah Silvermann calls for Genocide (hexbear.net)
What was a profound moment that a video game caused you to experience, and why?
The moment that inspired this question:...