scoobford

@scoobford@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Americans win their country back?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So the way it looks now, Trump has won the presidency, and his allies will have the senate and house of representatives, and they already had the supreme court. The three branches of government will not be working as checks on each other’s power, unless we get very lucky and the various factions that make up the GOP split. This is obviously very, very bad, but there are still some checks on presidential power.

  1. Trump’s last term was a clusterfuck. Things may just be so disorganized that he struggles to actually get what he wants done.

  2. The states have limited power to defy the feds. While case law does state that federal law supercedes state law, that doesn’t mean all States will immediately cooperate wholeheartedly. Obviously a court battle will eventually get to the supreme court, but that takes time and requires a single panel of judges to beat multiple states into line on each new policy.

  3. Governments do have a small amount of caution when it comes to their people. One thing the crazy conservatives had right this whole time was that fundamentally, nobody was ever going to come for their guns because nobody wants to force a confrontation with a bunch of armed lunatics. In the same way, they’ll probably try to avoid massive riots and general strikes simply because it isn’t worth the fight to whoever is responsible.

  4. Citizens can resist. Go to protests, donate to political advocacy organizations (the ACLU will have its work cut out for it), and for Christ’s sake, go vote! Show up every year, just not every 4 years. Without the cooperation of congress, his power would be significantly curtailed.

  5. If nothing else, terms are limited. In 2 years we can swing congress. He isn’t going to be able to pass a constitutional amendment to do what he likes before that. If we swing congress in two years, it will slow him down significantly, and then we can replace him in 2028. Hopefully people will actually keep showing up long enough after that to reverse all the damage he’s likely to do in the next 4 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eli5: your PC has different access levels a program can run at. This prevents a malicious or badly coded program from completely fucking your computer. Kernel level anti cheat runs at the lowest level access that exists under windows. It can do basically whatever it wants to your PC, and if a backdoor is coded in (happens way more than you’d think), it gives malware basically total access to your PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had one boss comment on it, but that job was weird. They also only hired white people at that office and a secretary on another floor tried to get me fired because she thought I was gay.

  Generally…keep it away from customers and don’t be aggressive. Other than that it probably isn’t a good habit, but I doubt anyone would normally care enough to say something about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m another maybe-autist. I don’t care at all about babies or whatever, but a vacation might be interesting. Not if their vacation was just to a resort though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know who⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone eli5? Are people out there running over their own feet on razor scooters? Its difficult for me to imagine how that might be a common issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With a budget of $120 million, Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" grossed only $4 million on its opening weekend, making it one of the worst box office openings for a $100M+ movie to date.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve actually been looking forward to this, ans this is the first I’ve heard if it actually releasing.

  I don’t know what’s up with film marketing these past few years, but I miss almost all of it, despite being interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was up to 14 at age 25. When you’re young and inexperienced, any schmuck that will pay you and be slightly less abusive than the last guy is worth working for, and you never owe the last person anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black mold growing on the dispensers at my local McDonald's⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most CFA locations are franchises, meaning employee treatment varies wildly. I was paid $8/hr and worked 73 hour weeks. By contrast, the location down the street from me advertises $18/hr.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Many of them, yes. They’re among the most radical of the leftist instances, which means that they attract a lot of propagandists and tankies. They have some perfectly reasonable people too, but you know, vocal minority. Its the main thing most people notice about those instances.

  Many people block hexbear, Lemmy.ml, and lemmygrad for these reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of laptop should I get?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is your budget and needs? Used thinkpads from a certain time period are very hardy, but they’re getting old enough now for performance to be an issue for anything beyond basic web browsing and word processing.

  Framework also makes laptops with the explicit goal of being more repairable. Even if you decide not to work on it yourself, it would be trivial for a repair shop to fix most things that could go wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Texas residents afford electricity?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of us do. A few people do sign up for variable rate plans, and they did get astronomical bills during the snowpocalypse. IIRC they didn’t get any aid or anything, it was a small enough number of people that they just got hung out to dry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Setting the record straight⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say closer to 400. Quarter pounders have only ever been common as smashburgers or at shitty burger restaurants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon smashes his head⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, birds fly, fish swim, and I spread my cheeks for the state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon smashes his head⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, they may be brain damaged.

  People say all kinds of crazy shit after a good head wound. My partner fell off a staircase a few months ago and asked me why I was letting the government put roaches under the bathroom sink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon meets his gf's parents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this is legal basically anywhere. In the US, this would be brandishing or threatening with a deadly weapon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do 9-5 jobs still exist in the U.S.?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  9-5 is definitely no longer standard, although traffic does get noticeably worse here after 8am.

  That being said, what is their justification for 7-5? Unless you’re taking a 2 hour unpaid lunch, that’s mandatory overtime, which most companies aren’t super fond of paying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The democrats are the liberal party. They support abortion, religious freedom, police reform, civil rights (sometimes), drug decriminalization, etc.

  That being said, they are trying to encapsulate and entire half of the political spectrum. There’s going to be gaps, disagreements between individual party members, and places where one policy or value has to override another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congrats to all 2024 college graduates!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a retirement vehicle in that it prevents future rent raises from threatening your retirement, not in that you can/should live off of your home’s equity. Nobody wants to go back to work at 85 because their rent doubled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shares their highschool mascot⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure that was illegal at the time…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people excited for Furiosa?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not, but I’ll probably see it once it hits the internet.

  I just don’t have high hopes for a Mad Max movie without Mad Max. I don’t think the studio probably does either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are SMS messages so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, TIL. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are SMS messages so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SMS piggybacks on existing signals to and from your phone. They are entirely free, and have been in a lot of places for a long time.

  You’re getting screwed. At least it’s a good reason for your contacts to switch to signal or simpleX?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had me for a while there⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See, I know what you’re trying to say, but that would unironically be an improvement for most of us…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I learned so much⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had exactly two English teachers who were good, which was all I needed.

  One when I was young, taught me how to communicate and understand complex ideas properly.

  Another my first year of college, who taught me that deeper meanings and subtleties in fiction wasn’t entirely bullshit. Surprisingly, she did this by making us read Frankenstein and watch Blade Runner.

  Everything in the middle though…woof. Learning to write academic papers has no value unless you’re an academic, and the other 10 literature courses I took all just made me hate reading, even the year where we just read my 4 favorite books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunday⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Salads are just cold foods chopped up and mixed together with some kind of dressing. I.e. fruit salad, caprese salad, egg/chicken/tuna salad, etc.

  Using gelatin as the “dressing” is a regional thing. This would be called strawberry cumfart jello here, not strawberry cumfart salad.

  I also think only very old people still eat this shit. Gelatin in general is much less popular among young people, who want their food to vaguely resemble food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google maps doesn’t account for breaks. They’re assuming you can walk at 3mph, and however much time you need to rest and eat is up to you.

  Just like 1 day and 23 hours is only drive time. They’re not accounting for the naps that you will definitely need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This happens to varying levels during most economic crises. Basically it results in contraction of the economy as companies cut expenses, I.e. wages. Usually there is some consolidation so that fewer, stronger firms can survive the downturn.

  Then things get better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We see what you're doing⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but that’s bad too. Legitimacy of government is important, Biden sending out kill squads is only marginally better than Trump sending out kill squads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americans measure everything in cups?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Volumetric measurements, like the imperial system, is largely in place due to tradition.

  But no, most people do not own good food scales. They aren’t pricey (I think mine was $25), but they are very uncommon. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in a store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Mail delivery fee” implies this order will be sent via post.

  Fuck em.