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wagesj45

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Great American humorist. C# developer. Open source enthusiast.

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I'm still salty that we never got a proper sequel to the original Prey.

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Nice app, you have there. Would be a shame if something were to happen to it.

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If I'm being honest, I can handle an ad in my pause menu as long as it doesn't interfere with the rest of operating the device. If I can unpause and reach the closed captioning or audio menu, fine, whatever. What really gets my goat is pre-roll and mid-roll ads. Can't stand them.

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No I get it. I don't like them, but I can live with it if I have to. Luckily my local library has enough DVDs to fill my Jellyfin server. :3

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It's rage bait. It just a polarizing content meant to rile up the masses and make us argue and bicker. It takes some societal grievances and amplifies them needlessly.

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Calculation Helper
wagesj45 committed Apr 23, 2024

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If we get Trump in again, I wouldn't put money down betting on us getting another Democratic president ever. Which is why I'm really hoping he listens to the criticism and gets his shit together. And if he gets his shit together, I'm hoping people are willing to allow themselves to be won over. If we just stay mad cause he didn't do something sooner/enough, we are also fucked.

There are too many potential paths in which we are fucked for my comfort.

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Newer versions are Homekit compatible and can be controlled over the local network.

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It is a standard. I don't know how you can make it not be a thing once it is implemented.

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I wonder how many people have indexing disabled. I bet a higher than normal percentage given the user base.

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Polarization doesn't help anyone. Both groups are suffering as they retreat further and further into their own in-groups. It sucks and it takes a lot of conscious effort on all parties' part to overcome. And unreciprocated effort feels awful and risks pushing people away at an even faster rate.

I'm not sure we're really equipped, as a society/species to overcome that effort barrier given our current information diet (infinite) and our stupid monkey brains (very limited).

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By who? What lie? I think you'd have a hard time arguing that polarization isn't harmful to all groups. Did you think I was arguing that men really are monsters? Because I hate that characterization.

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It also helps when we can learn to not take things personally. I know it would help because I have such a hard time with that. It is one of my fatal flaws. It is something I suspect I'll always struggle with because no amount of self rationalization ever prevents that next episode of being generalized negatively and feeling personally attacked.

We're all just pushin' our boulder up a hill, eh?

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LOCAL MAN REMAINS CALM, HAS PRETTY GOOD DAY

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Yes. What about that do you think is non-political? Abhorrent politics are still politics.

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You sound like the selfish one, demanding someone live just so that you can be comfortable and unbothered.

House Approves $95 Billion Aid Bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan (www.nytimes.com)

The House voted resoundingly on Saturday to approve $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as Speaker Mike Johnson put his job on the line to advance the long-stalled aid package by marshaling support from mainstream Republicans and Democrats....

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And I suspect a non-trivial number of young voters are going to be disappointed and less motivated to get out and vote. If democracy and Western Liberalism™ really is on the ballot this year, Biden and the democrats need to be a lot more careful about alienating voters.

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Usually any ideological overlap I have with the GOP is made in bath faith on their part. That, or the reason they arrive at the "right" conclusion involves reasoning much different than my own.

But hey, sometimes you just gotta take the win in life.

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I don't give a shit what fascists do. If you give in to them, they'll "appropriate" everything you love. Don't give in to them.

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Ok, but who are they going to vote for? My bet is that they all fall into line in the end.

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And I don't believe any Republican that says they're going to vote for anyone other than a Republican. They always fall in line.

jfc

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I think so. It isn't about American partisan politics, but rather what civil war does to a country, its population, and its national spirit.

96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds (www.theregister.com)

Academics at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed a nationally representative sample of 100 non-federal acute care hospitals – essentially traditional hospitals with emergency departments – and their findings were that 96 percent of their websites transmitted user data to third parties....

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So enough to cross reference with a bazillion other data-brokers online and absolutely pinpoint most people.

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