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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stay Mad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems pretty obvious to me at this point that the DNC would rather lose than have an actual progressive win. None of the shitty things that Trump wants to do will hurt them, (stupid take if they cared at all about their descendants but they’re either too arrogant or too ignorant to worry about that) but actual progressive policies that helped average people WOULD hurt their way of life. Marginally. Like, the tiniest little amount. Like, your yacht can only have one master bedroom instead of four. But why give that up when you don’t have to?

  “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it”

  I’m voting for Biden though, and I’ll keep voting as progressively as possible in the down ballot elections. If a progressive movement from the bottom up can start by doing things like getting rid of FPTP, we still have a chance. And to anyone thinking about not voting, please do. The president is one person. They are the single most powerful person individually, (taking aside impact on the judicial system) but the collective impact on your day to day life is far more influenced by down ballot positions. Research your down ballot candidates and vote. Many of those races are decided by only a handful of votes. Yours matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW I didn’t downvote you for this. I read the Ars article and saw the bit about them making it unlimited during the early pandemic days, but it seemed to imply that is was above board during other times. So if the whole case hinges on their actions during lockdown when people lost access to their own local libraries it becomes a letter vs spirit of the law thing to me personally. They broke the letter of the law, did they break the spirit of it? Was what they did immoral? The justice system isn’t perfect and as a society we continually refine and redefine our laws and have been forever. The state of Louisiana just signed a law into effect that requires poster sized copies of the Ten Commandments be posted in every classroom, kindergarten through college. If someone breaks that law, what side of history will they be on?

  If unlimited lending was something that IA was doing all the time, I can see it both ways. If it was for a few months during lockdown, then I think the court got this wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  (citation needed)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2878: Supernova⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair. It’s also a little misleading because there are other cosmic events that could happen that are both closer to us and potentially further away, and have in the past. I wouldn’t say we are immune from the hazards of space but my comment could have been construed that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2878: Supernova⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  None. Space is big, and stars that can potentially supernova are rare. …m.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_supernova_candidates