@bynkii Protest votes are also a sign you live in a solidly blue state. I know people here in Massachusetts who think they’re doing something meaningful by voting for Jill Stein or Cornell West or whoever is the flavor of the month, no chance in hell of winning or even running a meaningful campaign, candidate.
If Massachusetts became a swing state, that fuckery would have to end.
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I met Warren at a friend’s house when she first ran for MA senate in 2012 and liked her a lot. But by 2020, she turned real shady, going back on her pledge not to take dark money and other not so great things.
Which ended up costing her; she came in 3rd in the MA presidential primary, behind Biden and Bernie (who I voted for). It wasn’t a good look.
This is a fucking trip because there’s so many examples showing this to be nonsense.
Kansas, a red AF state literally voted to preserve the right to abortion that the state Supreme Court said was in the Kansas constitution.
Missouri pro-choice supporters were able to get a vote on an amendment to the state constitution that if it passes, will preserve the right to choose. Missouri is so red that the NAACP said Black people should consider it a sundown state. https://h-i.social/@are0h/112508531351616446
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> You hate gerrymandering, go vote for people who will fix it.
In many states, voting to fix gerrymandering is oxymoronic since the goal is to prevent the affected group from electing their chosen candidates.
The latest ruling regarding the outrageous gerrymandering in South Carolina makes it clear the fix is in—by the Republicans in the S.C. legislature and by SCOTUS.
Alito's opinion now makes it close to impossible to challenge race-based gerrymandering.
@ballista11@StillIRise1963 I get what you’re saying but I believe it’s a more complicated problem. Many Gen Z and younger are being indoctrinated in white supremacists and Christian nationalist ideology.
This has been happening for over 400 years and it’s not going to stop anytime soon.
“In a startling concurrence, the justice [Clarence Thomas] faulted Brown v. Board of Education for empowering the court to limit racist redistricting.”
You’d think with the Alito controversy, SCOTUS would keep a low profile for a while.
You’d be wrong.
Justice Alito, writing for the 6-3 majority, essentially said it’s okay to disenfranchise Black voters in South Carolina, disregarding the South Carolina’s Supreme Court that gerrymandering was unconstitutional.
I will say this until I am dead: ignore power users. They cannot be satisfied. Ever. And they will want things that make your platform horrible to use.
@bynkii@angry_drunk “And even though I knew when I bought the iPad it wouldn’t be able to do everything a Mac running macOS does, nonetheless, I’m going to continue to stomp my feet and complain bitterly about it.”
@bynkii My hope is some of those people who are reachable see this and think differently about what it means to continue to allow the sale of military assault weapons.
In two years Prince released two of the most amazing albums ever recorded, both with bands you’d be hard-pressed to match, much less beat, another solid album (Around the World in a Day) and an album that while somewhat weak, had its moments and one enduring hit (Parade.)
@bynkii Damn, we didn’t know how good we had it. Prince was so prolific… Sign o’ the Times was a double album.
I would say Parade was a little eccentric… but it’s always been one of my favorites. Same thing with Around the World in a Day… if Pop Life starts playing, I'm like turn that up!
I love all the people saying creators should have no right to control if their work is used, for free, in AI training so a small number of companies can, instead doing their own work, vacuum up other people’s work, making literal billions from it while actual creators can’t even dream about making a living from their art.
It is zero surprise that everyone with this view is heavily involved in the tech industry.
I have yet to see a single article proclaiming how awful it is that the low end MacBook Pro has only 8GB of RAM with any form of actual data supporting that.
It’s all OMG SWAP.
My brothers, sisters, and enbies in Christ, swap is no longer spinny disk over PATA/SATA.
Modern storage is running at DDR3 speeds in terms of bandwidth. It is slower than actual RAM bandwidth, but it is still really, really fast. And yet you all act as though it’s an 80MB drive on a IIci.
Have you ever noticed that nerds, when shown a piece of useful tech has a shitty interface, won’t fix the problem, but rather create an entire industry to explain how to deal with the shitty interface.
@bynkii BTW, Facebook created a version control system called Sapling that’s compatible with Git but uses syntax that’s been standard since CVS, based on Mercurial which is what I use for personal projects because Git sucks so badly.
