drthunder

I feel similarly. Javascript was made to add some functionality to documents and now we’re basically running Doom in a word professor. I don’t know what a better system would look like, but I’d draw a line between document-type pages and pages that you want to do more on.

And their website won’t let you order anything on the Sabbath, which drives me insane. I’m not expecting anyone to be working on the weekend, but computers don’t need to take breaks!!

Midwest US reporting in!

I also use it on an LG TV and sometimes it can’t run at its normal framerate with subtitles on. I haven’t figured out why yet, but it might be embedded files like someone else says in this thread. Other than that it works like a charm.

Claiming that Israel and Netanyahu’s government speaks for all Jewish people is exactly what Zionists do, too. Jewish people have been co-leaders of every action for Palestine and against genocide that I’ve been part of.

The US has enough money for both universal healthcare and our obscene military budget, we just choose to only have one.

More than that, the numbers I keep seeing thrown around are that Harris got 75m votes, Trump got 77m, and 90m didn’t bother voting.

You don’t think the peaceful protests were backed by the threat of union violence that had been regular up until the New Deal?

The media tried so hard to make people hate Luigi in December and it didn’t work because everyone knows insurance companies murder for profit. Voting hasn’t helped, the media is owned by oligarchs, most social media is too, and if you protest you either get ignored or beaten up by the cops.

It’s not my first choice of action even now, but probably-Luigi killed a guy who was otherwise untouchable and the oligarchs flipped their shit. Abraham Lincoln’s death gimped Reconstruction, MLK’s death hurt the civil rights movement (and spurred nationwide riots causing passage of another civil rights act), Panthers leadership hurt their organization too.

We have a 40-hour work week because unions literally fought for it. I’d guess most people don’t want more violence but working through the system was pretty impossible even before fascists took complete control last month.

I didn’t realize Weird Al’s line about “me too’ing like some brain-dead AOL’er” was referencing Eternal September, he would make that reference.

No, but pretty much everyone with a shred of power here is either fascist or too chickenshit to stand up to them.

The worst part is that we’re rich enough as a country to have our obscene military spending and civilized healthcare and education, we just choose not to.

Gil desperately trying to sell Colecos convinced me as a kid that they were bad computers, and the association hasn’t completely gone away.

Agreed on everything except your last sentence. I argued with people all of last year saying what you’re saying. There were pretty quickly protests and rallies, off the top of my head I remember going to rallies in November 2023, January 2024, and June 2024, and people are still talking about it. I went to an event last weekend too.

I do see idiots both in real life and online who are clearly more interested in fighting the Democrats than actually helping the cause though; right after the election I went to a rally at which someone said she’ll work with anyone who wants to fight the Democrats, no mention of the impending dictatorship, and got applause, and it really put me off of my local activist scene.

There are idiots in the Palestine movement who didn’t vote, but there are plenty of people who voted for Harris too, myself included. It doesn’t take a psyop to see that a genocide that’s being live streamed is a genocide.

ICE told the government two or three weeks ago that they’d need like $26 billion to enforce the Laken Riley act, I think.

And it’s one of the most useful government offices if you’re a billionaire who travels by plane everywhere. Plebs who have to drive everywhere are a lot less affected by overworked, overstressed, underpaid ATCs than guys like him.

I want to see some Nazis get hadoken’d

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Not having to tear things down would be great, but how do we do that at this point? The president is above the law, and has Congress, the courts, cops, a newly-freed legion of brownshirts, and an actual cult on his side. His party’s been getting away with ratfucking elections for at least 25 years.

I certainly think we can tear things down nonviolently, but we’re out of ways to do this politely. I don’t know how we get past the right-wing propaganda machine or government not being very democratic in the first place. We need to hugely expand the House, get rid of the Senate, and limit federal judge terms at the very least, and none of those are going to happen as long as the federal government is stacked in fascists’ favor. The last meaningful amendment was passed in 1971.