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- Comment on Ironing 5 days ago:
Who said anything about getting wrinkles out?
- Comment on Common printing questions 5 days ago:
Hey, thanks for the advice. If I have some free time and spare gumption, I’ll definitely give it a go. If that happens, I’ll let you know what comes of it.
- Comment on Common printing questions 6 days ago:
Not op, I got a free Ender 3 from a frustrated co-worker, and am now the frustrated co-worker. I’ve tried getting a new glass print surface, tried using glue sticks, tried changing print temps and speeds, tried levelling and re-levelling and re-levelling the bed, but I just can’t get the print to stick for love or money. It’s now been re-homed to the garage, as a parking obstacle for my bicycle.
- Comment on The 1950s were wild... 1 week ago:
Paramedic here, this is still half of how it’s done for choking in small children and babies. Five back blows, flip, five chest thrusts.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 1 month ago:
Okay?
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 1 month ago:
Look, it makes them happy, it’s free, and it doesn’t cost you anything. It just kinda doesn’t seem like a big deal.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 1 month ago:
Thanks for this. I wasn’t aware of that. All of my experience around Roe was seeing republicans wanting it dealt with in the legislature/executive.
Gotta love Pelosi, just when the Democrats are in danger of not spilling the spaghetti, she reliably shows up to make a disaster of it. She’s got, like, the anti-McConnel*.
*McConnel is, imo, one of the most talented statesmen of my lifetime. It’s a goddamn shame he’s used his talents for evil. It’s a little bewildering to imagine how different a place the US could be if he’d been on the side of the people. It’s also a powerful statement of what a wreck the GOP has become that Mitch couldn’t control the MAGA/freedom caucus members anymore.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 1 month ago:
This is it. Trump didn’t give a flying shit at all if anything he did was legal, he just went for it, and it worked.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 1 month ago:
So, I don’t think there’s a good single answer to this question.
Obama isn’t and wasn’t as progressive as he was (and sometimes is, mostly by Republicans) framed. The democrats only had a filibuster-proof majority for a few months, and even then, Joe Lieberman gummed up the world’s big time on getting the ACA through. Somebody mentioned that they wasted a lot of time trying to get bipartisan support for the ACA, and it’s true. They spent months negotiating against themselves with the republicans, whose answer was always “no”, and by the time they were done, the ACA was a shell of what it could have been. After the ACA, which I must add is basically comprised of all the non-insane (read: mostly pointless) reforms the Republicans were proposing as well as some more rational reforms, the right-wing hype machine started red-lining (as in tachometers, not the racist housing policy though I guess that could also work since they really didn’t want that black man living in that house) and you’d have thought we had an actual communist overthrow of the government on our hands. The democrats absolutely bungled the PR (the more things change, the more they stay the same, huh) and pissed off everyone outside the party and made everyone inside the party facepalm. After the supermajority disappeared, the republicans started cynically abusing the filibuster and turned the rest of Obama’s presidency into anything from a lame duck to just one (republican caused) crisis after another.
Tl;Dr a lot of the democrats aren’t progressives, and we had a lot more of the old cold-war blue dog crowd Biden is from than we do now, mixed with absolutely bunglefucking both the political strategy and PR around the ACA and not being able to get past the filibuster once the supermajority disappeared.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 1 month ago:
Still going to poison the results and be embarrassing when the LLM starts putting creative commons licensing in its output.
- Comment on Senate study proposes 'at least' $32B yearly for AI programs 1 month ago:
I think this is something that private investment can and is handling quite well all on its own before Uncle “Sorry, no money for social security :(” Sam gets involved.
- Comment on Senate study proposes 'at least' $32B yearly for AI programs 1 month ago:
Oh come on
- Comment on Trump: "NO CASE AGAINST ME. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!" 1 month ago:
This is based? You must be pretty easy to impress, OP.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 month ago:
Oh, I did. I ended up installing Linux mint and used it on my personal machine for about six months before re-installing windows. I would still be using Linux, I liked it a lot, but I found I had a lot of trouble getting multiplayer to work between my daughter and I. Gaming is 98% of the way there, but that 2% is really annoying and it’s most of what I use my personal machine for. I’m sure I could have figured it out if I’d had a solid 12-36 hours to fine tune configs and Google hyper specific issues, but I just don’t have that. I’m confident I will return to Linux in time, but Windows still has the edge in terms of out-of-the-box gaming, sadly.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 month ago:
And an incomplete product; windows 11 was less functional at launch than windows 10. I’ve been a windows user since 98 and that’s the first time I can remember having said that. Sure, there were off editions that were weird and unpleasant, but I wouldn’t say less functional. Windows 11 just flat out was an incomplete product at launch.
And the live service dependencies: windows 11 pooping its diaper and having a fit about every other thing because it doesn’t have an Internet connection even though an Internet connection isn’t strictly necessary is a terrible UX choice. Anyone with half a brain knows it’s because MS has decided that if you won’t let them slurp that tasty, tasty data, then you shouldn’t be able to use the product you paid for.
And the plans to stuff ads into your operating system
And them basically doing the same shit that landed them huge anti-trust lawsuits in the 90s, but we’re doing it again because they figure they can make more money than the lawsuit will cost them, so fuck it.
There’s a lot to not like here.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
They do know, but they honestly, sincerely believe that a government of for and by the people isn’t possible for them.
Source: hosted a Russian exchange student. We had this talk, I suggested that Russia could have a state that works for its people and got laughed at and basically told “we don’t do that here.” And honestly, as an American in 2024 watching our democracy implode in real time so that billionaires can have lower taxes, I get it.
- Comment on Whoops 2 months ago:
Millennial here, too. Phillips screws have been made of fucking cobwebs and wet tissue as far as I remember too.
- Comment on Whoops 2 months ago:
My dad was a boomer, he insisted that Phillips heads didn’t used to strip out this bad and it’s just that everyone switched to making shit cheap screws out of shit cheap material. He also lived to see the enshittification of appliances from something you buy once in your life to something you buy every five years (at least, according to the warranty) with a nifty galifty payment plan. Walking into home Depot instantly radicalized him.
- Comment on Google Podcasts is shutting down soon, users urged to move to YouTube Music 2 months ago:
I don’t care who they send or kill, I’m not fucking using YouTube music. I’ll just do without, thanks.
- Comment on Google Just Quietly Changed Its Search Results For "Bloodbath Definition" And We Have The Screenshots – Right Journalism 3 months ago:
- Comment on Dumb Conservatives 3 months ago:
Damn, this is a lot more of an informed and nuanced take than the meme. Your meme kinda sucks at getting this point across, dawg.
But I’ll point out that literacy rates will probably show more interesting variations that could support your points if you did look at literacy rates by sqkm on a map. Maybe I didn’t do a good job communicating that, but that’s the idea: look at literacy rates across each sqkm in the US. Supposing you’re right, you’d expect to see literacy rates in metro areas drop acutely compared to the outlying areas.
- Comment on Dumb Conservatives 3 months ago:
Why not? We’re already measuring by geography when measuring by state. Let’s turn up the resolution a little.
- Comment on Dumb Conservatives 3 months ago:
I suppose you don’t realize that California isn’t just skyscrapers and beaches. The overwhelming majority of the state, by geography, is pretty rural. In fact, if the state election was won by geography instead of by popular vote, California would be reliably republican. This is a lot more of a self-own than you think.
- Comment on The US government seems serious about developing a lunar economy 3 months ago:
Nope. No. Nuh-uh. Stop fucking up this planet, then we can talk. I’m drawing a line in the sand, I’m going to become an eco-terrorist if I see a fucking Coca-Cola ad when I look into the night sky.
- Comment on UK starts early trials of World's first pothole preventing robot 3 months ago:
Good point, thanks for holding me accountable to the truth. We can’t set things right if we’re building it on a foundation of bullshit; that’s what got us here in the first place.
- Comment on UK starts early trials of World's first pothole preventing robot 3 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on UK starts early trials of World's first pothole preventing robot 3 months ago:
You mean trains, bikes, and good public transit? Because those all mean less wear and tear on the roads overall. Trust an American because we’ve been at this for seventy years. If you guys go all in on car dependency, it’s not only going to break the banks of government from local to national, but it’s going to break your bank and destroy what small businesses you have left.
- Comment on Cable And Satellite Providers Required To Disclose “All In” Pricing Under Newly Passed FCC Rules 3 months ago:
Glad to see this as part of the Biden administration’s broader attack on hidden fees.
- Comment on Israel broke international law with tank shelling that killed journalist, UN finds 3 months ago:
Why should they GAF? There’s never any more consequences than chagrined finger wagging, and even then the Israeli government starts screaming “antisemitism!” It’s crazy to me, because the Israeli government is pretty goddamn anti-Semitic to be out there implying that Jews simply must be allowed to murder anyone they wish without consequences.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 3 months ago:
Incredibly train-pilled