It’s nice you haven’t had to live this. You don’t arrive in this situation because some mean kid doesn’t like your politics: it’s the result of being unwilling or unable to respect boundaries or civil discussion. Nobody gets cut out of regular family interactions because someone saw how you voted over your shoulder, it’s from being a raging, crusading, evangelizing toolbag.
Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability....
Step 3: unfuck the SIP settings, then email both HR and their supervisor to throw them under the bus. Also covers your ass for step 4.
Step 4: Route the manager's calls to a disconnected number. When they come knocking about their phone not working, tell them, "No, you should be able to dial out, unless someone changed the SIP trunk settings and didn't tell me."
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Ignoring the lack of updates if the game is buggy, games back then were also more focused on quality and make gamers replay the game with unlockable features based on skills, not money. I can’t count the number of times I played Metal Gear Solid games over and over to unlock new features playing the hardest difficulty and with...
The reason it’s throwing your vote away is multi faceted but these are the two that immediately spring to mind.
Because third parties do jack shit for 3.5 years then every candidate whines come the general election complaining no one gave them a chance and they inexplicably have virtually no voters. Then the people who say “we only have two bad choices“ are generally revealed to be people who are completely politically disengaged those 3.5 years as well. They don’t vote in local elections, they don’t vote in primaries, etc. So to expect results when nothing is done for 85% of the cycle by anyone makes no sense.
In a winner takes all electoral system where are a candidate gets nothing unless they take the whole state, yes, it is literally throwing away your vote.
The deck is stacked against third-party candidates, we all know this. Yet they somehow keep putting all their eggs in the moonshot-basket that is the presidency. That indicates to me that they are not serious people. They are simply using the election as a platform to talk about what they want to talk about. Which is a valid thing, I don’t begrudge that, but it is not a serious presidential run. So pretending like it is does nobody any favors.
Edit: formatting/typos
Edit 2: it behooves me to mention that, as much as I loathe them, the libertarian party is the only party that actually tries to win local and state elections. And because they have put in the work, they have actually seen some success. Though it certainly helps that they can make themselves attractive to Republicans in specific races.
4th Circuit to cops: arresting someone for following your instructions means you don't get any immunity (www.techdirt.com)
Which are the most fucked up books you've read?
Do ya gotta do it? Do you really? Nah. (lemmy.ml)
Just putting this up to contrast with this post and because Eli Valley is a great political cartoonist.
Why there is so much communist propaganda on lemmy?
Even from people that never lived in a communist state...
Literacy is a Damyankee conspiracy
Lab mice might be doing their own experiments (www.popsci.com)
The Apple Vision Pro’s eBay prices are making me sad (www.theverge.com)
Big Handsome (lemmy.world)
Old man Hairy. We call him Big Handsome.
Trump seems to get cold feet about testifying in New York hush money trial (www.independent.co.uk)
As Climate Crisis Grows, Youth Environmental Movements Are Radicalizing (truthout.org)
Narcissistic conservative parent Facebook is wild (lemmy.world)
The little smart home platform that could (www.theverge.com)
Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability....
When you get your ideas from the Bards' Guild (ttrpg.network)
This comic follows on from the Previous comic which might help provide context....
Why I Lost Faith in Kagi (d-shoot.net)
follow-up Mastodon thread from the author: hackers.town/@lori/112255132348604770
I’m happy to see this community is bigger than the Reddit equivalent
No billionaire shenanigans to get in the way of having a truly open-sourced phone.
Seems appropriate today... (yall.theatl.social)
Self-hosted IP-phone network
Just for fun, a few associations I’m part of want to set up our own IP-phone network, with our own phone numbers and such....
Jonathan Nolan Still Intends to Finish Westworld Despite HBO's Cancellation - IGN (www.ign.com)
Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan has vowed to "finish the story" they had planned before HBO abruptly cancelled the series.
Quick April Update
Hello everyone, I hope your holiday period passed peacefully. The status page is ready, and I'll soon put it online. I've also made some improvements to the new project website, which will be replaced shortly. Today, by the end of the day, two moderators will also appear, more about which will be in a separate post. You can...
Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. (lemmy.world)
Ignoring the lack of updates if the game is buggy, games back then were also more focused on quality and make gamers replay the game with unlockable features based on skills, not money. I can’t count the number of times I played Metal Gear Solid games over and over to unlock new features playing the hardest difficulty and with...
COOLEST. DOG. EVER! (lemmy.world)
Please, for the love of God, VOTE! (pawb.social)