crusa187

@crusa187@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe someday 😌⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I strongly suspect this is conservative persecution complex. Sometimes I wish these types of users would go back to Reddit, but Reddit is such a hellscape now I wouldn’t even wish that on condescending .world users. Rather them stay here and bolster lemmy numbers, even with their shit takes included.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  His dad introduced modern computer voting

  Ah yes, the now infamous Diebold voting machines. Manufactured by… drum roll… Dick Cheney‘a Halliburton, a company with every intention of getting us into forever wars for them to profit off of. Certainly nothing fishy about that, nor the countless reports of the machines glitching and flipping votes. This was the precursor to the refined technique which made news for allegedly swinging the vote for Biden and cost Fox all that lawsuit money, but if you ask me that’s just classic Republican projection. They know what they did to get Bush in office.

  Glad you’re still here in the US, sorry it’s still tejas though. Such a mix of amazing and terrible things in that state. Politics is so frustrating there…it’s far more purple than Repugs would like to admit, but they gerrymander it like crazy and exploit people’s religious beliefs to keep the state turning blue seemingly perpetually out of reach. I was lucky to escape to one of the coasts in the aftermath of the pandemic, but not sure it makes much difference given the current socio-political landscape. Summers aren’t quite so brutal though so there’s that.

  I do think there are better ways of doing ballots digitally, and yeah even old school methods like you described can work well. The states you mentioned use a type of scantron, very clear what you circle in but still subject to the same type of partisan nonsense as the hanging chads (eg, look they only filled in 90% of this circle, clearly we have to toss this vote.) speaking of tossing votes, that’s the other thing about paper ballots…they can literally just dump them before dropping off at the county election centers, and we had several cases of that in the ‘24 election. I think a permanent record that is a verifiable source of truth for election results is quite feasible, can still be anonymous, and provably non biased, but it has to be built that way and neither party can be trusted to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like you were politically active in TX around the same time I was, during GW era, based on prior comment. But this reads as if you are an expat now. Did you leave?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What conspiracy theory? Dems are bought, for just one example look at how they lick Israel’s boots and eagerly spend our money on killing Palestinian babies because their AIPAC handler pays them to do so. That doesn’t help us at home, and it doesn’t resonate with the voter base, yet they still collect the money and do the donor bidding every time.

  I want actual representation, by stark contrast.

  There is no conspiracy here other than the apparent belief that Democrats have democracy and the American people’s best interests in mind. Sure, there’s Bernie, but he won’t call himself a Dem - the reason why is no conspiracy, and that should tell you a lot about the Dem party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed we need much better voting protections and a complete overhaul of the system. I think there is probably a more modern solution available that would satisfy the requirements you’ve laid out, but would be happy to start with paper ballots if that’s all we can muster. Eventually I’d like to see something like a 1 way hash that can be combined with some of a voter’s PII to publicly verify votes cast and results while protecting voter identities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad we have some agreement at least.

  I’d just like to remind you that we’ve voted Dems into a super majority 3 times in the past 25 years, and every time they find some excuse to do nothing. It’s infuriating, until you realize that they are controlled opposition in an oligarchy, and the point of modern American government is to help the richest people in the world exploit and rob vulnerable Americans for everything they’re worth. Then it’s just sad to see people continually going to bat for them.

  Dems are a pressure relief valve and a fundraising organization, nothing more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Dems are also fascists. I’m not saying support republicans, I’m saying support a new party altogether. The establishment has been screwing us for over 50 years now, and helping the Dems inevitably leads to more of the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Should have begun charging Trump immediately after Biden took office, instead of taking over 2 years to even get started. Voting rights act on day 1? Not a priority. Could have done things for the working class promised during campaign season, instead got stopped by the almighty senate parliamentarian…even while in power just nothing the poor Dems could do, except collect donations from rube voters of course. Could have held a primary election for ‘24 in good faith to energize the base by letting them choose their party leader (inevitably would not have been a corporate stooge) - didn’t, tried to run a known advanced dementia sufferer, and when that didn’t work, just anointed another corporate stooge.

  The Dems are complicit, and voting for them is not going to combat this fascist regime one bit. Pull your head out of your ass and wake up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fiber is just better, period, and these Comcast fucks have been tearing up with the likes of ATT to fight it every step of the way. Organized regional monopolies, incredibly subpar service, inevitable price hikes, and terrible customer service - fuck em.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds love⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Omega OOF

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deadlock, and too much of it at that.

  In PoE 1 new league waiting room (at last!), drops 6/13

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world is falling apart! Send us your money!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that the incessant fundraising texts are annoying, but you should consider learning more about Ro Khanna. He’s the leader of the progressive caucus in the house, and often the only one in committee to vote against things like increasing defense spending, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you are now witnessing the peak of online discourse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’M FAARRTTIINNGGGG!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  lmao at the idea of any foreign national coming to the US for a medical procedure they could have performed for free at home.

  And this dolt is all “yeah, fuck those guys!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Criminally underfunded, plus capitalism as a value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking google did it again, they "fixed" something that never broken. This time they make thumbnails way too big even with 70% zoom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Works great, unlike the one I found on Reddit posted about a year ago.

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Cyber Trucks aren't lame!"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Leaf fElon a gnome!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you actually nailed it:

  Redditor like comments

  or, those who have never set foot inside a gym of any kind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Translation:

  Imagine telling the average person what the guys on the right (Diaz brothers of MMA fame) would do to the guys on the left (jacked bodybuilder bros who likely have never stepped foot into a fighting gym).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even his doctors are full of it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  leaking, too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns the truth about "The Art of the Deal"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually one needs to be able to read before they can successfully write. Trump does neither.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ain't your buddy, pal!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seattle Freeze is REAL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listening to some old albums while reviewing my retirement savings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  7-11 girls stay up all night

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey that’s pretty cool, I happen to be on x11 still but plan to switch to Wayland once Cosmic is in beta.

  This is great info, will look into this further. Ty!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m aware of openrgb, it has limited compatibility but seems to work ok for most of my stuff. Still haven’t found a great way to run my favorite corsair keyboard reactive lighting theme I had setup with their software in windows, but what I came up with in openrgb is good enough.

  However, I didn’t think it was possible to run autoIt or autoHotkey at all in Linux. Are you suggesting a Python script to replace it, or something else? AHK has a very peculiar syntax which I don’t believe would translate well to other languages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Switch to Linux. As a big-time gamer, I did it last year and it’s been fantastic. Only issue is if you main games with root kit anticheat…but with enough momentum in Linux direction, game studios will be forced to abandon those dubious detection methods anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For gaming, It’s mostly niche windows things in my experience. In my case I opted to stay on linux anyway. Also worth noting, I find that outside of gaming linux is superior for work and general pc use.

  Some manufacturer programs for doing things like mouse macros or controlling LED lighting, auto hotkey scripts, some types of overlays tied to directx apis (yolomouse), etc. These things don’t and probably will never work. I think some of them might if you really know your stuff with wine, but that usually ends up being dependency hell for me and I give up more often than succeeding when trying to force a windows native program to run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s windows users were talking about here, data security is not exactly top of mind. But maybe many of them are about to find out it should be…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good to exercise at home instead of gym?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very reasonable approach to start at home. You can get absolutely shredded doing just a small handful of body-weight resistance exercises: pushups, pull ups, squats, lunges, and maybe sprawls. That’s literally all you need. Add in some yoga or pilates routines occasionally to strengthen your core further, a ton of material for that on YouTube. Congrats on the big step of starting your fitness journey!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cathy, do the math.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  God Bless Nina Turner