pronouns: she/her
i think the way they want it to be understood is “if elected, i will so thoroughly address all of the issues you care about that you don’t have to vote on them again”, which is kind of reasonable until you try working out how that would happen
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that’s an ergonomic nightmare. the keyboard is too high and the screen is too low. if you use that for more than a couple minutes at a time your shoulders will hate you.
youtube makes a lot of money off of nazi(-adjacent) content. it’s a core part of their business model at this point
our possessions tie us to our past, and it’s to our benefit to choose those ties carefully. how does having those big troves of things you will never look at again make you feel?
i mean, the way the supreme court has operated historically (and especially in the last few years) means they can delete basically any law they don’t like, but you are correct that the decriminalisation of homosexuality is only based on a court verdict. many states never removed the relevant laws from their books, so they could in theory be enforced again if the court changes their precedent.
people who love keeping live fish in their house
i know you probably know this, but in case anyone has not made the connection, 23andme (and related services) are trying to make real the link between ethnicity and biology which is the fundamental project of (psuedo-)scientific racism. once you have tied ethnicity to a certain set of DNA markers, it is much easier to argue that certain ethnicities are inherently certain traits, which is doing racists work for them.
ethnicity has always been a social and cultural construction with only incidental correlation with biology.
i’ve only been playing factorio lately. this is my current seablock map. trying to get the train based city blocks going. i’ve got basic resources going and about to start science blocks.
it’s white supremacist settler colonialism with a healthy dose of anti-semitic conspiracy theory
to go back to the original post, where she is getting angry at zionists (presumably about the genocide israel is doing), i care much more whether you are doing anything about it than what emotions you have about it. different people work differently. i’d rather someone contribute to a local org and be ignorant of global struggles instead of spending all of their time getting angry at people online so that they contribute nothing.
i’m talking about trying to break a habit that you find negative in your life, and some specific things that can help with that, not saying that you should do these things on this site.
the general advice people have given here has been pretty good, but i want to share a couple things that have worked for me to disrupt these kinds of negative habits:
If only 1% were sampled to vote and it was done so in a reasonably unbiased way, your results would be 99.999% in line with the average American’s opinion/wants.
you are vastly overstating the accuracy of polling, and making a system with a hugely glaring way to game the system. if you thought the voter suppression in the us is bad now, wait until you see the stupid fucking political games being played with the sampling rules in your proposed system.
this is only barely a story. i have very little confidence in western news reporting on anonymous sources out of china. i am very willing to believe that this official is getting removed because of the backlash to this, as china does have a reputation for having actual consequences to fucking up their economy, but anything beyond “we aren’t going to do the regulations exactly like that” is completely unfounded speculation
The term “tankie” was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.
is a reactionary trans person not lgbtq+? there are a whole bunch of lgbt people who will fight for just enough change to make themselves comfortable and then nothing else. that doesn’t sound like praxis to me
ok, now that we have that out of the way, i think you are fundamentally misunderstanding the critique. how is being a reactionary trans person praxis?
i think you misunderstood. if someone is trans, they are queer, but just because someone is queer doesn’t necessarily mean they are trans. some non-trans queer people turned reactionary once they got just enough social acceptance to be comfortable. this can also be seen in some trans people, too.
the lead dev has gone on the record that using singular they in the documentation is putting politics into his project, so i expect it to be possibly technically interesting (emphasis on possibly), but no effort put into accessibility and with a fucking horrendous dev community.