bloup

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[–] bloup 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I definitely don’t have it all figured out, but I wanna know do you ever think about stuff like what it took for the civil rights movement of the 1960s to succeed? Do you think it was a matter of pandering to the interests of centrist liberals or do you think that a big part of it was criticizing status quo liberalism and refusing to settle? I really think that you should read theletter from Birmingham jail by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. because the archetype that he addresses in that work is replayed out every single time somebody ever deigns to criticize the Democrats for their political strategy.

[–] bloup 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You know it’s pretty outrageous to insist that you know what I think better than I do, especially after exchanging only a few sentences

[–] bloup 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

Take a marketing class. If you think that politics is about pandering and not about convincing people, then you’ve lost the game already

[–] bloup 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Do you wanna explain to me where you’re seeing me “advocating against a united left and democracy“?

[–] bloup 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (43 children)

Can we stop pretending like voting for the Democrats as they exist now stops the Republicans from winning? It only makes them win more slowly. It is literally why everyone is so disillusioned and why the Democrats were unable to sell their message to enough people. And can we also take for granted that me saying this doesn’t mean that I didn’t vote for Kamala Harris?

[–] bloup 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don’t wanna blame anybody. I want to criticize the people that I think have the best chance of actually being influenced to do the things we need them to do. And guess who that is?

[–] bloup 2 points 1 week ago

You’re right, and I didn’t notice the first time I skimmed the article that this is only mainly affecting commercial roofing, so thanks for the perspective!

[–] bloup 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That’s great, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s easier to sell a roof to a person when you can point out all of its flaws from the ground.

[–] bloup 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

You know I just thought about this for a second longer. Maybe you could just get them to stop by convincing them that people are more likely to replace a lighter colored roof sooner because defects and wear are more visible

[–] bloup 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Maybe they’re also selling HVAC systems lmfao

[–] bloup 23 points 2 weeks ago

Cows are so cute, it’s a real shame what we do to them

[–] bloup 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I actually think this is a great idea. It really smooths out a lot of the graphical jank that makes the game really hard for me to play in 2025

 

I would see this squirrel from time to time in my parents’ neighborhood about two years ago. I was always struck by its crimson tail. I remember being very young and all squirrels were just gray. When I started to get a little older, I noticed the odd black squirrel every now and then. By the time I was fully grown, black squirrels seemed to be just as common as gray ones. And now apparently there’s the odd squirrel with a red tail. Makes me wonder if in 30 years a child will have grown to notice the odd calico squirrel.

 

Musk says for-profit OpenAI harms public interest—and his own company, xAI.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17556433

This controllable prosthetic, the Third Thumb, attaches to the right hand, granting wearers the ability to perform a slew of one-handed tasks such as grasping objects, opening bottles, sorting cards, and even peeling a banana.

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