assaultpotato

@assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works
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But that's also not Arnold - he's publicly said that he arrived with like $20 in his pocket but he is not a self made man, he's a community made man. He's not a "bootstrap" believer, he's very vocally against that mentality too.

He's true old school Republican, where they have some misguided beliefs about national debt but aren't absolute loons.

E: quick Google gives this https://youtu.be/DOldEbWxgdQ?si=uJ8_CsHzoUBHTbH4

Theres better vids of it, but still - Arnold has been pretty consistently a level headed guy politically, even if he's not right all the time.

Approval voting is also good. Really any of the alternatives create more representative outcomes.

They're voting Jill Stein because Daddy Putin says vote splitting is a communist conspiracy

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You need to do it because it's an unnecessary blocker. That's the point. Poor people disproportionately struggle to jump through the hurdles in place for voting, and Poor people disproportionately vote D. R loves to make voting harder under the auspices of "fraud prevention".

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I can't remember a period of time with so many anti-trust and other consumer protection lawsuits from the FTC and DOJ.

Shame we got to this state, but Biden admin is deeply based.

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I think it's because the meme itself is the wrong way to try to make that argument. Instead of just saying "the US has 22% of the world's aggregate prisoner population and that's a problem", it's making that argument by directly comparing it to a MUCH WORSE regime for that exact violation of rights.

The whataboutisms tend to be bristling at the bad comparisons more than a direct refutation of the underlying point being made. I think complaining about the whataboutisms misses the point of those replies, which is valid.

As the other poster said, why not compare with Scandinavian countries that genuinely do have better justice systems rather than comparing with USSR or CCP which have much worse justice systems?

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I was just in Göcek and Ankara and I had some wildly interesting interactions with locals when they asked me how I liked Turkey.

"I like it, very beautiful country, lovely people, great food."

"So you'd move here?"

"Uh... perhaps not"

"So you don't like Turkey"

👀

lol

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New account pushing a confirmed-to-be-false narrative only backed by Russian orgs and far-right politicians? It's more likely than you think!

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What's wild to me is that legal segregation was like, not that long ago at all. It always feels like it's taught as ancient history but it was only half a lifetime ago, really... and still ongoing. It's not like this happened a thousand years ago and "you should really be over it by now", this was the experience of some people's still living grandparents and parents.

The idea that an entire demographic of people should magically recover and be equals again after like 30 years of half-assed "equality" after literal generations of slavery is fucking wild.

Absolute goblin energy to not recognize the ongoing effects of such a recent thing.

I've read this 4 times now hoping I was just missing something, but nope... it's just entirely incomprehensible.

What the fuck?

My brother in christ you have less than a TB of storage. you're very far from being a hoarder.

I still have my first 512GB HDD from when I was in high school and I've got over 32TB on my latest build, plus my archive of old drives I leave off until I need to access them. Join us, it's better.

Igor Shushko should not be trusted for OSINT. He has claimed repeatedly that the FSB was going to stage a coup, etc. since the beginning of the invasion. He also just makes stuff up pretty frequently.

He's in the "completely ignore" category in the OSINT community.

The reality is, as always, "it depends".

If you're a smaller team that needs to do shit real fast, a monolith is probably your best bet.

Do you have hundreds of devs working on the same platform? Maybe intelligently breaking out your domains into distinct services makes sense so your team doesn't get bogged down.

And in the middle of the spectrum you have modular domain centric monoliths, monorepo multi-service stuff, etc.

It's a game of tradeoffs and what fits best for your situation depends on your needs and challenges. Often going with an imperfect shared technical vision is better than a disjointed but "state of the art" approach.

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It doesn't even make me mad, I'm just scared and confused

Incredibly based scientist

Both. 1980s Era civil/traffic engineers in NA were all trained for car=future=build road. Nowadays most traffic engineering/city planning schools teach multimodal transportation as The Way, but decades of car washing our cities has resulted in an almost total collapse of public support for anything except another lane. Luckily, most people sub-30 are aware of this and are slowly becoming politically active. Public opinion will shift slowly over the next decade or two and eventually the traffic engineers will be allowed to do the right thing.

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Majority of lemmy users are US based, and the overwhelming majority are western. Similarly, the majority of lemmy users are pretty leftist compared to the average citizen.

It shouldn't be surprising that we're not hearing much about bad stuff happening in China. And that's not even accounting for the difficulty in getting trustworthy information out of China.

If you want examples of semi-recent stuff from China that largely got passed over, take a look at the civil unrest regarding the apartment fires during China's COVID lockdown, the forcible repatriation of Chinese citizens abroad, suicide rates in major manufacturing hubs, the huge economic hits in real estate and public/private transportation infrastructure, etc.

There's a lot going on that we simply don't hear about because people tend to share what relates to them.

That's not really what "national debt" refers to... national debt is literal borrowing: "hey who wants to buy some bonds from my national government so we can invest in our economy?" Someone buys those bonds with the expectation of getting the invested amount + interest back.

What you're talking about is most closely represented by "reparations" which is money owed by an aggressor to a victim state, and is only enforceable really by a stronger third party or by the aggressor losing the war.

As to why cities don't take on debt the same way: they do take on millions of dollars of debt for infrastructure, but usually they're loans from the federal government as opposed to bonds. The difference between city debt and national government debt is the national government controls its own monetary supply, meaning is defacto cannot default on its bonds. Cities can default on their loans, but typically the lender is the higher level government anyways so the repercussions tend to be political only. That's why worrying about "the national debt clock" is typically not meaningful, but your city borrowing 300 million for a new highway definitely is.

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I think you misunderstood.

  1. Shame we have so many horrid companies with so much power.
  2. Biden's admin is amazing because I've never seen so many pro-consumer cases get filed.

Medicine price negotiations, antitrust lawsuits, price gouging lawsuits, unfair fee lawsuits, etc. Biden admin FTC+DOJ have more teeth than I've ever seen.

Yeah... he was an idiot for choosing to bring a firearm near known civil unrest, but it was pretty clearly self-defense. I mean they ran after him and attempted to seize his firearm...

Pretty good case for gun control as a concept, though. Ultimately both parties were endangered and forced into action by fear for their lives by the fact that the firearm was in the situation to begin with. As a protestor, I'd fear for my life if an armed counter protestor showed up, cause you know the cops aren't gonna keep you alive if that guy chooses to start shooting. But any action I could take to prevent that puts the firearm owner in a position to reasonably fear for their lives. The mere appearance of the firearm puts the situation on a path to escalation. Maybe lethal weapons shouldn't be allowed casually in public.

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Yea the US could sacrifice zero dollars in defense budget and still provide adequate service to the population. Healthcare is cheaper when it's not being profiteered by insurance middlemen, and private companies pricing is really hard to influence directly without something like a price fixing lawsuit.

But hey gotta maintain the "democrats are just as bad" image.

I do the same thing, and I've noticed my modem has been absolutely bricked probably 3-4 times this month. I wonder if this is why.

I think anyone who claims open carrying a firearm doesn't escalate a situation is either incredibly unaware, or intentionally ignorant. There's a reason they teach about this sort of dynamic in policing and self-defense classes.

Rittenhouse defended himself reasonably, but absolutely escalated the situation by bringing a firearm to defend a local business, per his own testimony.

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"Based" is pre-zoomer (Gen Z/Alpha) gamer slang for "great", with a slight connotation of oppositional greatness.

Original gamer use may include describing use of the N word for memes as "based" as its a counter-cultural thing that gamers saw as good. Nowadays it's pretty "normie-core" and any time something upsets the status quo in a positive way that might make opposition upset, is based.

For example, Dark Brandon, a reimagining of the "let's go Brandon" MAGA meme to be a progressive, anti-MAGA meme used as kind of a soft middle-finger to the right-wing internet, was incredibly based.

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The who's who of nefarious countries: "Hey US? Yeah some of us have concerns that maybe your currency can be used as a weapon against us, so we're gonna do a whole bunch of political showboating to try to make a point. We're not motivated enough to actually do something, though."

DJT: "I'll give you something to be concerned about. Our currency that I'm ostensibly protecting the use of will be totally useless for you!"

It's like he doesn't realize that the US dollar is the world reserve because of the stability and reliability of it. We got there using carrots, mostly, and he thinks the stick is a good idea...

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If you're curious about the mechanics behind ELO and ELO confidence distributions after X matches, chess ELO is actually a well studied way to learn about the algorithm used by almost all SBMM. After a shockingly small number of matches, your ELO is going to end up being in the right neighborhood for you have +/- 50% WR.

As much as that may be true for you, on average people enjoy MP games with SBMM more than without by a decent margin. Studies have shown that people play more matches and play longer sessions when SBMM creates more balanced matches.

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Not to mention this is essentially the same line of reasoning Repubs keep using to make voting worse for everyone. Can't give out water in line to vote because you might be "buying votes", so you gotta wait in line 6 hours in the hot sun if you're in a poor district.

But hey, totally cool when it's ol Musky doin it for cash not for health!

Agreed. We've lost a lot of ground to the barons of the new world, but the swell of support for unions is a light in the darkness. As much as I have bad things to say about our society, I'm happy we live somewhere where we can push back without going to jail.

My girlfriend and her sister are also in the brain drain. Definitely a sad state of affairs, so many of her friends and friends family's have been either political prisoners, or had ongoing court cases, etc.

I've been trying to learn Turkish so we can move her family over here too and I can actually chat with them, but I fear they'll need to work on their English so they can get around.

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If you're going moderate or short distances in a city, odds are it will literally be faster to bike, even at a no sweat/leisurely pace.

Average speed of commuter traffic in cities is sub 20 kph.

Loving that the only dude who posted valid legal precedent in the same jurisdiction is getting down voted.

And then Lemmy users will complain how ass Reddit is for exactly this lmao.

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I pulled that number out of my bootyhole because I knew it was a safe bet for a stable ELO.

US Chess Federation uses 25 games as your provisional ELO stage, many video games will use 10 matches. Assuming a large enough variety of ELO in the player base, you can be confident your ELO is mostly accurate after a shockingly small number of matches.

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If the average case is 20 minutes and you saved 21 minutes doing a less good solution that still worked, you made the right choice.

"It's Brittany, bitch"

Can't relate tbh.

Based reality

Our ROI in terms of $/patient outcome is insanely bad lol

These are the "right by accident" people that make it so hard to have meaningful discussions.

You're absolutely correct and we shouldn't ignore genuine acts of antisemitism just because Israel's government is doing terrible things.

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lol

That's not true. Tankies love to shit on the US for "meddling" in Africa when a lot of the time its providing funding and weapons for regimes where the opponents are funded by Russia/Wagner/China. Depending on which way the wind blows, the US is either "overthrowing a legitimate regime" or "restoring the democratic process".

It's a no win. Africa is too weak to stabilize by itself after centuries of meddling, and if the US goes hands-off, Russia and China will just economically enslave them via predatory loans, like how neoliberal policies economically enslaved South/Central America to the US. I'd trust the US installed people for their own populace over Chinese/Russia installed people, given the respective human rights records of all involved.

Anyways, while 2003 onwards was a huge fuck up and absolutely abhorrent, Desert Shield/Storm was incredibly justified defending an ally under armed occupation and still gets shit on by Tankies.

One man's humanitarian mission to shut down a warlord is another man's mission to overthrow a regime and install US-friendly government.

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Only thing I'd say (as a cyclist) is that "skill issue" is not a great reply for all cases. My city swings from +40 to -40 and it's not uncommon to see wind chills down below -50. Winter cycling is not always viable, which is why a robust transit network needs to include a variety of options.

Otherwise, this is a good comment.

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