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- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 1 week ago:
My wife and I think it is. I took her last name since it meant more to her.
- Comment on For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? 2 weeks ago:
In absolute terms, they aren’t the majority. 73m voted for him out of the 161m eligible voters in the US, or ~45% (Harris has ~43%). Still a frighteningly high number, but it also means it’s possible to find support for resistance, at least if things start to get bad enough. Unfortunately, there are a lot of Americans that like to think that politics don’t concern them and that we should just be apolitical. So they’re going to need a wake-up call first before they would lend their support. Trump will likely give it to them in short order as his fascist policies start to directly affect them.
Also, keep in mind that the total population (~334m as of 2023) is much larger than the population that is eligible to vote. There are many young people that are too young to vote now but still old enough to fight tyranny, former felons who are ineligible to vote but eager to fight oppressive systems, not to mention the scores of people not counted among eligible voters due to not being registered to vote, either through complacency/disillusionment (see above) or active sabotage and disenfranchisement by Republicans (and in many ways, you could say these are one in the same).
Fascists may have power and have won the popular vote, but it doesn’t mean it’s the will of the people. It means they’ve successfully gamed our very broken system. But real, average people living their lives will fight when the oppression comes to them. Maybe it will be too late, but maybe not. Revolution only needs a single spark.
- Comment on Are disabled people and the elderly going to survive another Trump presidency? 2 weeks ago:
Hundreds of thousands did die, fuckwad. Trump is directly responsible for the countless deaths from COVID.
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 4 weeks ago:
How is that pronounced? wow-wow-rohn?
- Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often? 1 month ago:
In Nebraska, I get my ballot by mail way in advance. I fill it out at my leisure, doing research on candidates as needed. I can then either mail the ballot back or drop it off at one of several locations around town (including any of the public libraries). I haven’t voted in person in years. This method is so much better.
- Comment on The Signal 1 month ago:
A synopsis for a great fucking movie.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Sure, perhaps it’s possible that I saw an unusually high amount of apologists, but I’m saying that it happened enough times and consistently enough that it prompted me to block them before I even knew anything about them, which I think at least says something. I won’t claim to know what the majority opinion there is, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that it’s an abnormal amount.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Answer me this: are they or are they not consistently in support of Russia/China? Because I’ve seen it a lot from them (and blocked the instance soon after joining Lemmy when I noticed the pattern).
Is it just some big joke that went over my head?
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I dunno, I ended up blocking the instance way before I knew about their reputation (like, when I first joined Lemmy) because all of the users their kept posting the most unhinged shit.
I have definitely seen blatant apologism for China/Russia from them.
FWIW, I’m much further left than your average Democrat (I consider myself a leftist/anarchist). I personally don’t consider what I’ve seen from them to be very “left”, just authoritarian.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like reddit 2 months ago:
It’s a toss up, for me. Both managed to capture all discussion on major open source projects.
- Comment on if you're not going to let me do this microsoft then let me turn off auto restart all together. 2 months ago:
Obviously there’s a small handful of things that would require a reboot, but unlike Windows, the vast majority of programs in user space don’t require reboots on update.
There’s also the fact that restarting Windows to update is a much slower and more disruptive experience than restarting Linux.
- Comment on Please pick a password starting with ad and ending with min 2 months ago:
The manufacturer obviously also makes the app and can control the encoding.
- Comment on Please pick a password starting with ad and ending with min 2 months ago:
You don’t have to take arbitrary bytes. UTF-8 encoded strings are just fine and easily handled by libraries.
- Comment on NASA Ping 3 months ago:
Yeah wtf, 100ms is great.
300ms is the average reaction time in humans. Less than 100ms reaction time would be insane and I’m pretty sure it’s something no one has actually achieved.
- Comment on Vance’s Links to the Project 2025 Leader Complicate Trump’s Attempts at Distance 3 months ago:
There once was a man named Vance, who couldn’t keep it in his pants. One day he was lookin’ at a pretty couch cushion, and the poor thing never stood a chance.
- Comment on Linguistics 4 months ago:
“Overmorrow” is the word for the day after tomorrow, and “ereyesterday” is the word for the day before yesterday, though both are obviously archaic and not really used (you perhaps might see them in fiction or historical work, though).
- Comment on If it ain't broke 4 months ago:
Speak for yourself. I don’t use LLMs and never will.
It always irks me when people talk about it like it’s universal and inevitable when that’s very far from the case. There are many, many issues with them and many developers wisely choose to ignore the fad.
- Comment on Academia to Industry 4 months ago:
sigh
I’m so tired of repeating this ad nauseum. No, it’s not going to take your job. It’s hype train bullshit full of grifters. There is no intelligence or understanding, nor have we come anywhere close to achieving that. That is still entirely within the realm of science fiction.
- Comment on The 1950s were wild... 5 months ago:
As someone that has recently taken an infant and and family CPR class for my son who started solid foods a few months ago, this is pretty similar to how they teach it today and I’m pretty sure it would have the same effect. You can’t perform a heimlich on a baby or very small child for a variety of reasons. This method or something similar to it is both safer and more effective, since it lets gravity help dislodge the food.
- Comment on Anon figures out how dieting works 5 months ago:
You can have nutritious, filling meals that taste really good without excessive calories, you just need to learn to cook. It’s also a hell of a lot cheaper than eating fast food all the time.
- Comment on Zero to hero 6 months ago:
Yeah, interoperability. Like every software implementation of natural numbers that include 0.
- Comment on Zero to hero 6 months ago:
I just found out about this debate and it’s patently absurd. The ISO 80000-2 standard defines ℕ as including 0 and it’s foundational in basically all of mathematics and computer science. Excluding 0 is a fringe position and shouldn’t be taken seriously.
- Comment on Best BBQ on the block 6 months ago:
I’ve had snake. It’s pretty mediocre and tough.
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 6 months ago:
It’s not a terrible name, since it’s derived from the mathematical construct of vectors as
n-tuples. In the case of vectors in programming,nrelates to the size of the underlying array, and the tuple consists of the elements of the vector. - Comment on This terraforming operator is kinda smooth 6 months ago:
The answer to smooth jazz is to play some real jazz instead.
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 7 months ago:
It wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows. I remember losing hundreds of hours of progress on games due to memory card corruption. Or game cartridges/CDs no longer working, requiring you to buy a new copy. Or consoles getting straight-up bricked.
Hell, a ton of people have memories of blowing into N64/SNES cartridges to get them to work since they had notoriously unreliable connectors. But even though it was something that didn’t work great, everybody has fond memories of doing it since there wasn’t this amalgamation of voices from every direction telling you to be upset about it and clamoring for retribution. If something was broken, you got frustrated about it, complained to your friends, and then moved on with your life since there wasn’t anything else you could do.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 7 months ago:
I mean, it still doesn’t change the fact that no one actually wants this shit.
- Comment on Android users who have a keen eye for design and detail, how is the whole stutter/lag situation? Esp. after a few years of use? 8 months ago:
My pixel 7 pro is perfectly smooth and seamless. Oh and voice assistant is far faster than anything on iPhone thanks to the on-board Tensor chip.