Putting Trump in charge doesn't hold Democrats accountable. It would move them further to the right, which is the exact opposite of you want. They don't care about disinterested non-voters, they only care about courting those that do show up to vote.
Change needs to come from within. Organize within the DNC. Primary their candidates. That's how you get people like AOC elected. Once the primaries are over, there's no shot at moving them further left.
In a 2 party FPTP system, the people don't have that power. That's the point. The DNC can just shrug it off and say "okay, then Trump wins, and that's even worse". The DNC can survive a Trump term. Gaza may not.
You're in a 2 party FPTP system, it doesn't give you reasonable representation by design.
You get someone you dislike and someone you dislike even more. Voting 3rd party is literally voting against your interests. That's not an ideological choice, or a political choice, it's a deeply saddening mathematical reality.
The only way you get your position heard is by fighting candidates for your least-disliked party during the primaries. Get someone you like as the congressional or senatorial candidate. Help them get elected. Even a small number of senators or congressmen can make the difference (see Synema and Manchin for example, or hell even Boebert and MTG who all wield(ed) significant political power well beyond what their voteshare should give them).
By fighting the fight you can't win (e.g. the vote for president), you only weaken your least-disliked choice. So whoever you really don't want ends up getting elected. Why? Because the US election system sucks balls.
Voting for the Green party makes it less likely that climate change legislation goes through. That is the sad, paradoxical reality. Being an ideological crusador in this matter doesn't help anyone and is due to the reality of the shit voting system, despite the best intentions, immoral.
Definitely do! uBlock Origin is the best one around, and it's completely free. Even without configuring anything the defaults block 99% of annoying ads.
Android has a garbage collector, meaning it requires an additional 2GB of RAM of overhead to keep things smooth. iPhones run significantly hotter than Androids, and consume more energy to achieve their performance gains.
It’s not true to simply state “one is better than the other”. There’s various metrics in which either one may be better.
Well, more RAM will always help. An iPhone with more RAM will allow it to perform better than one with less RAM. Similarly, too little RAM will hamper performance regardless of the device.
Because the Kremlin would protect him and help him broadcast his message. It harms the US government, so the Kremlin sees providing Snowden with protection and a platform as an absolute win.
Most other countries that are remotely aligned with the US might be pressured to keep Snowden quiet.
Muhammad is a real warlord, we have historical evidence of the empire he conquered together. The main split between Sunnis and Shiites came to be because of who was supposed to succeed him.
That’s been the assumption, but there’s surprisingly little actual evidence of him existing. The first bits of writing that seem to mention him are from a century after he supposedly lived. We also have no evidence that the NT contains eyewitness accounts, but we do have limited evidence that it might not be.
Probably wise to help shoot as much as possible down. If they manage to get all of it and the attack causes no deaths, then it doesn’t give Netanyahu much political manoeuverability to opt for retaliatory strikes. That could deescalate things a bit, hopefully.
The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Brian Dorsey for the 2006 murders of his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Benjamin Bonnie, after an effort to have his life spared failed in recent days....
You’re ignoring that the state should rectify unacceptable situations. With wrongful imprisonment, the state can rectify the situation and compensate the innocent. With the death penalty, this is never possible. And even if such a rectification is not done, at least the prisoner was still able to live somewhat of a life.
This makes life imprisonment infintely more acceptable that the death penalty. There’s no doublethink in admitting there are different gradations of unacceptable.
We’re warming faster than every climate model, that’s the point. It’s going faster than the most pessimistic model right now, which is confounding. We can explain most of the warming, but there’s a bit that we can’t attribute to any known cause/.mechanism just yet.
I wonder if Meta implemented a very basic “no porn keywords” filter. “Interracial” is quite a common keyword on porn websites, perhaps that’s why it won’t pick up on it well or wasn’t trained on images like it?
When asked by CNN to simply generate an image of an interracial couple, meanwhile, the Meta tool responded with: “This image can’t be generated. Please try something else.”
I don’t like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...
Democrats are unable to go further left because that risks losing votes to the GOP.
In a 2-party system, you don’t get the choice you want to make. Instead, you have to vote against what you like least, in order to motivate that party to move. You vote dem, so the GOP is forced to change. The parties grow closer together, giving the democrats room to move further left.
It’s a terrible system. The first candidate that wants to do election reform should be voted in ASAP.
Obama was not exactly a progressive, was he? The GOP moved right because Trump pulled them there, and there was a voter base to use. They also had the opportunity, given that Clinton was not as popular as hoped. The media has been shifting rightwards as well. And they will keep moving right as long as they believe it will win them elections.
Assailants burst into a large concert hall in Moscow on Friday and sprayed the crowd with gunfire, killing over 60 people, injuring more than 100 and setting fire to the venue in a brazen attack just days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on power in a highly orchestrated electoral landslide....
my apologies for the long screenshot. i had purchased adguard’s vpn service for five years since its primary adguard service is well know in the iapple ecosystem....
It’s additional space around components showing what’s behind it. So you’re seeing more stuff in between windows, making it look less organised imo. The “whitespace” isn’t really white here. It looks like another unnecessary element crammed inbetween two windows that might as well just sit neatly next to one another, making the windows slightly larger. I also like being able to move my mouse to the edge of things (e.g. the taskbar) without ending up in the whitespace, which causes misclicks for me.
Again, my opinion. Not stating absolute truths here.
It absolutely is enforceable, and the EU has already enforced it several times.
The EU can of course try to seize assets, but in many cases they have signed a treaty with other countries stating they have the right to enforce the GDPR within their borders. Think a bit in the sense of an extradition treaty. For the US, this is the EU-US Data Privacy Framework for example.
This means the EU absolutely can, will and has the means to enforce the GDPR abroad.
GDPR applies regardless of any “business”. It applies to any entity processing personal data.
Which is incredibly broad by the way. IP addresses and email addresses are personal data too. Same goes for “account data” in a broad sense. So Lemmy does collect personal data, and has to be compliant with the GDPR.
Of course, for a fine there needs to be an investigation and the entity has to not comply with GDPR requests after a warning. And you’re absolutely right that devs can’t be sued for this, but the sysadmin running the instance can be. But that would only happen after GDPR noncompliance.
Iran's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site ( apnews.com )
Half Of PlayStation Players Still Haven't Upgraded To PS5 ( kotaku.com )
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" ( www.eff.org )
Qualcomm goes where Apple won't, readies official Linux support for Snapdragon X Elite | Tom's Hardware ( www.tomshardware.com )
Most of the functionality is present but many important bits are still being developed.
GOP introduces bill that would send anyone convicted of unlawful activity on a campus since Oct. 7th, 2023 to Gaza. ( www.thedailybeast.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15286301...
What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign: Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy & more ( wapo.st )
The corruption is really open at this point....
The Bitcoiners were wrong: a blog post about privacy and bitcoin, and how they failed to design a cash alternative ( unfathom.ing )
xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas ( imgs.xkcd.com )
https://xkcd.com/2929...
May 13, 1985 ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15035901...
Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries ( steamdb.info )
Looks like Arrowhead might be moving forward with PSN despite "internal discussions".
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How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone ( www.cnet.com )
How do I use uBlock to hide threads with certain urls?
The filter I use to hide threads based on keywords doesn't seem to work for urls but I'm sure this is possible aswell.
Shouldn't most religious people in theory be excited to die because then they get to experience the afterlife?
esp if you're one of the devout ones who think they've been really good
CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences ( futurism.com )
Trump denies the affairs at the heart of the hush-money case. Almost no one believes him. ( www.motherjones.com )
Thank you Raymond Hill ( programming.dev )
Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse ( www.pcgamer.com )
NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden ( cointelegraph.com )
Know the difference ( lemmy.world )
Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel has begun, over 100 attack drones launched ( www.nbcnews.com )
Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt ( infosec.exchange )
Missouri executes Brian Dorsey for 2006 double murder after mercy bid backed by 72 correctional officers ( www.cnn.com )
The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Brian Dorsey for the 2006 murders of his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Benjamin Bonnie, after an effort to have his life spared failed in recent days....
rule ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists ( www.theguardian.com )
Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. ( mashable.com )
A shocking story was promoted on the “front page” or main feed of Elon Musk’s X on Thursday:...
Meta’s AI image generator really struggles with the concept of interracial couples | CNN Business ( www.cnn.com )
Meta’s AI image generator is coming under fire for its apparent struggles to create images of couples or friends from different racial backgrounds.
Please, for the love of God, VOTE! ( pawb.social )
I don’t like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...
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Russia says 60 dead, 145 injured in concert hall raid; Islamic State group claims responsibility ( apnews.com )
Assailants burst into a large concert hall in Moscow on Friday and sprayed the crowd with gunfire, killing over 60 people, injuring more than 100 and setting fire to the venue in a brazen attack just days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on power in a highly orchestrated electoral landslide....
[Map] The Netherlands in 1300 vs 1900-2000 ( dormi.zone )
adguard vpn selling user data to third-parties? ( lemmy.world )
my apologies for the long screenshot. i had purchased adguard’s vpn service for five years since its primary adguard service is well know in the iapple ecosystem....
What Do People Think of Apple's Vision Pro Headsets? ( thenewstack.io )
KDE Neon shows that the Plasma 6 Linux distro is something truly special ( www.zdnet.com )
PSA: You can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude ( tech.michaelaltfield.net )