mcherm

@mcherm@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If presidential immunity is absolute..⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that is exactly what he is saying. Yes, it is completely absurd and would undermine the bedrock principles of our legal system. However, apparently somewhere between 3 and 6 members of the US Supreme Court may be seriously considering it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is my perspective on the answer to your question:

  Our government is not functional. It is not that it doesn’t “want” a healthy work force, but that it isn’t capable of setting any sort of a policy.

  The last time the US made any meaningful change in healthcare policy was under Obama. My impression of what happened is that there was a brief (2 yr) moment when the Presidency, House, and Senate were all controlled by the same party. The Democrats passed “health reform” which was basically the Republican health care reform package from 4 years earlier.

  In the 13 years since then, the only Republican position on health care has been that Obama’s “ACA” law is “bad”. There is literally no suggestion of what else would be better. (I’m not counting the anti-abortion laws as “health care” – they are seen here as a moral issue, not a health care one.) The Democrats’ position has been a mix of “we shouldn’t let the Republicans take us back to something WORSE!” and “the whole system is broken and needs to be replaced”.

  We have two problems. First, our government is structured so that it cannot easily accomplish anything, at least without cooperation between the two opposed parties. Secondly, one of the two parties is insane and wants to destroy the government (and has enough electoral support to win almost half the time).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcing freenginx.org⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcing freenginx.org⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How concerned should I be?

  What are the unspecified policies the developer claims that the company has failed to uphold? Who is this particular developer, and how much should I trust them? (I don’t follow nginx development at all.)

  I celebrate the fact that open source licenses exist specifically to allow people to make a fork like this when they have disagreements! But I don’t know enough about this particular case to decide how it should affect my own plans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s what I use:

  • LGBT+ most formal (and old fashioned)
  • LGBTQ+ less formal
  • "people" most inclusive